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This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.
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