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A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

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
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