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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

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
Wounds
Broken
Ones
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Heart
Breakup
Ache
Wound

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