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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Ann Landers

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Ann Landers
Age: 83 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 4
Died: 2002
Died: June 22
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Sioux City
Iowa
Ann Landers
Esther Pauline Friedman
Understanding
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Caught
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Times
Perfection
Weaknesses
Makes
Weakness
Sharing
Human
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Friendship
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Quiet
Loyalty
Allowances
Good
Fire
Forgiveness
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Love

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