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Bobby Tom: You're supposed to be my assistant, not a baby-sitter! Gracie: One and the same.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Baby
Sitter
Bobby
Assistant
Assistants
Toms
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