"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.“


-Benjamin Franklin

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I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

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