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It is safest to shut up and pay, which is what I shall eventually do, though I shall hate having to sell the children.

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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
Sell
Eventually
Sells
Pay
Shall
Though
Hate
Safest
Children
Shut

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