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A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

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Maureen Dowd
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 14
Columnist
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Maureen Brigid Dowd
Profitable
Reporters
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Friendship
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