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Your questions regarding that gentleman are very delicate, very subtle, very much like being smacked in the head with a mallet...it's a tuba among the flutes.

Mary Ann Shaffer

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Mary Ann Shaffer
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2008
Died: February 16
Librarian
Novelist
Writer
Martinsburg
West Virginia
Subtle
Mallet
Questions
Tubas
Among
Tuba
Head
Smacked
Much
Flutes
Like
Regarding
Delicate
Gentleman

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