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Neurotic: someone who can go from the bottom to the top, and back again, without ever once touching the middle.

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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
Back
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