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Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

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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
Nervous
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Parakeets
Tennis
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