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Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

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Helen Rowland
Age: 74 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 1
Died: 1950
Died: January 1
Humorist
Journalist
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Motivation
Faulty
Stories
Vision
Eyesight
Persons
Four
Arches
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Age
Tendency
Life
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Fallen
Rheumatism

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