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You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
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Live
Wells
Well
Something
Sopranos
Depressed
Dies

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The devil, my friends, is a woman just now. 'Tis a woman that reigns in Hell.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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