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Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
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the United States of America
Suburbs
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Cities
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Tolerable

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