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Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

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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
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Every
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Thirty
Asking
Inside
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