“Miranda in Miranda's sight
Is old and gray and dirty;
Twenty-nine she was last night;
This morning she is thirty.”

— Ogden Nash

Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty

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American poet 1902–1971

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