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Youth is a mortal wound.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.
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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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