"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
-Carl Sandburg
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"I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.“
-Carl Sandburg
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