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I think I'm a fairly average person, I think I have only a medium IQ. I didn't go to college, obviously.
Helen Gurley Brown
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Helen Gurley Brown
Age: 90 †
Born: 1922
Born: February 18
Died: 2012
Died: August 13
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Arkansas
Helen Marie Gurley
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