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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

Barbara Walters

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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
News Presenter
Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
Maybe
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Changeable
Indecisive
Inscribed
Gravestone
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Lived
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