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Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Firsts
Stack
Everything
Overdue
First
Letting
Whole
Otherwise
Career
Careers
Whatever
Else
Flinging

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