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It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

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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
High
Riding
Potential
Discover
Somehow
Realize
Upside
Talent
Bicycle
Realizing
Wire
Greatest
Awesome

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