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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

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
Attention
Lips
Dashed
Experience
Exercise
Dashing
Look
Parents
Calculate
Might
Boys
Victorian
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Cups
Way
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Parent
Stopped
Thinking
Though
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