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Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

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Julia Child
Age: 91 †
Born: 1912
Born: August 15
Died: 2004
Died: August 13
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Pasadena
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Julia Carolyn Child
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