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It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Whatever
Hardly
Away
English
May
England
Firsts
Walk
First
Walks
Think
Stand
Thinking
Food
Possible
Bent

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