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If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

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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
Gifted
Eggs
Price
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Coquetry
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Flirtation
Talking
Flirty
Wells
Flirt
Well
Flirting

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