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Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Personal
Drawings
Millions
Strip
Imagine
Comic
Start
Drawing
Enjoy
Mom
Keep
Surprise
Things
Lifetime
People
Teaching
Insisted

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