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If you want me, you'll have to earn me. And, mister, I don't come cheap.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Mister
Cheap
Earn

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