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Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

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
Remember
Many
Things
Neurotics
Neurotic
Expect
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