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When it's your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Faith
Superstitions
Fourth
Tend
Marriage
Lose
Loses

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