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English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve.

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Fred Allen
Age: 61 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 31
Died: 1956
Died: March 17
Actor
Comedian
Journalist
Radio Personality
Screenwriter
Cambridge
Massachusetts
John Florence Sullivan
Wet
Tastes
Coffee
English
Taste
Water
Squeezed
Like
Sleeve
Sleeves

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