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Rose-colored glasses are never made in bifocals. Nobody wants to read the small print in dreams.

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
Never
Dreams
Nobody
Wants
Bifocals
Small
Colored
Read
Print
Success
Optimism
Dream
Glasses
Made
Rose

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