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Everybody in America grew up without a father even if they had one. It was the fifties. They were working.

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Mona Simpson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 14
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Green Bay
Wisconsin
Mona Jandali
Grew
Everybody
Working
Father
America
Without
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Fifties

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