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The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

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Christine Quinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: July 25
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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