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Cigars should be like onions, she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

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Robin McKinley
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 16
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Ohio
Jennifer Carolyn Robin McKinley
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