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My thoughts, I guess, are bitter who but the bitter have thoughts?

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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
Bitterness
Bitter
Guess
Thoughts

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