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When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

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
Writer
Bellbrook
Ohio
Erma Louise Bombeck
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Teenagers
Hostility
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