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“Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?” quote by Brady Carlson — Download Open image

““Upon hearing that Coolidge was dead, the writer Dorothy Parker cracked, “How can you tell?””

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