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It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

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
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Must
Children
Much
Always
Infuriate
Everybody

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