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Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Maureen Johnson

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Maureen Johnson
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: February 16
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Philadelphia
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These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.
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