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The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.

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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
Writer
Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
Rule
Talk
Less
Money
Much
People
Insightful

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