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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
York
February
Full
Screaming
Start
Yellow
Nothing
Dogs
Like
Holes
Snow
Blackened
Likely
Drilled
Dog
Piles

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