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If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

Linda Ellerbee

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Linda Ellerbee
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: August 15
Actor
Journalist
News Presenter
Writer
Bryan
Texas
Linda Jane Smith
Heart
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Believe
Fight
Way
Dead
Stream
Time
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Swimming
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Right
Fish
Must
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