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I'm sort of doing a lot of the things now that I never thought I would and that I wished I had done a year or so ago.

Mary Tyler Moore

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Mary Tyler Moore
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: December 29
Died: 2017
Died: January 25
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