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The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

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
Drowning
Neurotic
Anxiety
Half
Always
Rescued

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