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If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

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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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Women
Herring
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Trout
Barrels
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Catch

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