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I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

Elizabeth Berg

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Elizabeth Berg
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 2
Author
Novelist
Nurse
St Paul
Minnesota
Looked
Insect
Looking
Banana
Hate
Cooked
Thought
Bananas
Always
Insects
Like
Suspicious
Bread
Legs

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