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A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?

Richard Eberhart

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Richard Eberhart
Age: 101 †
Born: 1904
Born: April 5
Died: 2005
Died: June 9
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Austin
Minnesota
Richard Ghormley Eberhart
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