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The disease is painless it's the cure that hurts.
Katharine Whitehorn
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Katharine Whitehorn
Age: 92 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 17
Died: 2021
Died: January 8
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Middlesex
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn
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As I look around the West End these days, it seems to me that outside every thin girl is a fat man, trying to get in.
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