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Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
Journalist
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Hendon
Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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Baskets
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