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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Weakness
Strength
Literature
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Often
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Women
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Going
Damned

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