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Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

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Marilyn vos Savant
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: August 11
Columnist
Journalist
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St. Louis
Missouri
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Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar.
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