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If one talks to more than four people, it is an audience and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an audience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Age: 94 †
Born: 1906
Born: June 22
Died: 2001
Died: February 7
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