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The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

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
Locked
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Doors
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