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All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Ethel Waters

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Ethel Waters
Age: 80 †
Born: 1896
Born: October 31
Died: 1977
Died: September 1
Film Actor
Jazz Musician
Singer
Stage Actor
Vocalist
Chester
Pennsylvania
Epidemic
Epidemics
Epic
Two
Things
Men
Life

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