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Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.

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
Nobody
Trouble
Seen
Tell
Keep
Trying

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