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people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
Doctors
Looked
Blacksmith
Usually
Blacksmiths
Minutes
Anvil
Coming
Anvils
Away
Apprentice
People
Session
Fifty

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