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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.

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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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