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Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

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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
Surrounded
Attitude
Love
Life
People

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