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Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

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
Always
Else
Someone
Seems
Best
Done
Work

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