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I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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Mary Ann Shaffer
Age: 73 †
Born: 1934
Born: December 13
Died: 2008
Died: February 16
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Martinsburg
West Virginia
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If there is Predestination, then God is the devil. by Remy, Ravensbruck concentration camp survivor
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