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“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”

Maya Angelou

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She could add a 4th. How someone handles being sued by a mad homophobe who's actually secretly gay and all his kids know it, Topeka Pastor,
Every journalist in the region spent their share of time searching for the lost police report of Fred in the park bath house, either giving or receiving,
 
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She is spectacular
Never met her, but I did correspond professionally with her husband, Paul du Feu. (As the newest journalist, and the only one on the mag who hadn't already told him 'No chance', I was given the job of signing his rejections.) He was a character, the first nude cover model for Cosmo UK, and briefly married to Germaine Greer.
 

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