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What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

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Russell Baker
Age: 93 †
Born: 1925
Born: August 14
Died: 2019
Died: January 21
Autobiographer
Journalist
Writer
Morrisonville
Virginia
Russell Wayne Baker
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Week
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Humans
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Sweeter

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