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When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

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Judith Martin
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: September 13
Economist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Epidemics
Entertaining
Boredom
Healing
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Art
Time
Concede
Epidemic

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