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Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
Playwright
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Literature
Sending
Able
Candle
Without
Table
Tables
Flying
Blow
Dinner
Across

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