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My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Erma Bombeck

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Erma Bombeck
Age: 69 †
Born: 1927
Born: February 21
Died: 1996
Died: April 22
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Journalist
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Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
Kids
Perceived
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Bathroom
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