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The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

Katharine Whitehorn

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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
Main
Awful
Party
Purpose
Children
Remind
Parties

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