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A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

Mary Astor

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Mary Astor
Age: 81 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 3
Died: 1987
Died: September 26
Actor
Film Actor
Film Actress
Novelist
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Quincy
Illinois
Lucile Langhanke
Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
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