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Ma-ma does everything for the baby, who responds by saying Da-da first.

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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
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Everything
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Baby
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Doe

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