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I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

Peggy Noonan

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Peggy Noonan
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 7
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Journalist
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Brooklyn
New York
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Torpor
Tedium
Apathy
Sailing
Trip
Boredom
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