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The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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
Strongest
Fantasy
Real
Even
Fantasies
Unreal
Neurotic

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