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" If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction. "

Elizabeth Berg

Humor

White

Political

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Where

Just

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Thought

Mother

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Boston

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Medicine

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