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1908–1992 United States

Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher Parrish Friede (née Mary Frances Kennedy, published primarily as M. F.

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I never set out to be a writer. I write compulsively. I am like a drug addict. I can't help it. I do what pleases me.

... When I am alone and perhaps a little low, it is good to heat a can of cream of tomato and some milk or water, pour them into a warmed bowl with a sprinkle of cinnamon in it, and go to bed with it.

Fortunately, good and premium wines are at the command of almost anyone in America who wants to drink them. Also, they are almost always dependable—a far cry from the old idea that "gentlemen" had their own wine cellars and their resultant giddy high life, and that the rest of the world lived on beer and skittles.

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