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Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?

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