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There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

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Tillie Olsen
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 14
Died: 2007
Died: January 1
Feminist
Poet
Trade Unionist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Tillie Lerner Olsen
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Worse

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