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When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you

Adrienne Clarkson

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Adrienne Clarkson
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: February 10
Autobiographer
Former Governor General Of Canada
Journalist
Musicologist
Novelist
Politician
Writer
colonial Hong Kong
Adrienne Louise Clarkson
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