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Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

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
Nothing
Much
Neurotic
Suffer
Either
Suffering
Doe
Anything

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