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->''Cause we belong together now, yeah\\
Forever united here somehow, yeah\\
You got a piece of me\\
And honestly\\
My life would suck without you''
-->-- Music/KellyClarkson, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRM70Jw7F4M "My Life Would Suck Without You"]]
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-->-- Music/TheMamasAndThePapas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ccDdluJpOE "Creeque Alley"]]

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-->-- Music/TheMamasAndThePapas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ccDdluJpOE com/watch?v=qaHyeHbQeNM "Creeque Alley"]]
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->'''[[TheGrimReaper Death]]:''' Hey, guys.\\
'''Cleveland:''' Hey, Death, what are you doing here?\\
'''Death:''' Actually, I'm here for [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow your show]].\\
'''Cleveland:''' Aw, c'mon, man. I'm on vacation.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E13ThreeActsOfGod "Three Acts Of God"]]
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-->-- Music/TheMamaAndThePapas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ccDdluJpOE "Creeque Alley"]]

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-->-- Music/TheMamaAndThePapas, Music/TheMamasAndThePapas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ccDdluJpOE "Creeque Alley"]]
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->''And no one's gettin' fat except Mama Cass''
-->-- Music/TheMamaAndThePapas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ccDdluJpOE "Creeque Alley"]]
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-->-- Music/{{Queen}}

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-->-- Music/{{Queen}}
Music/{{Queen}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKxk4Nr4TU "Khashoggi's Ship"]]
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->''Who said my party was over\\
Huh, huh, I'm in pretty good shape''
-->-- Music/{{Queen}}
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-->-- '''Music/FreedieMercury'''; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50EZ0PTCzcc David Wigg interview in April 1985]]

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-->-- '''Music/FreedieMercury'''; '''Music/FreddieMercury'''; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50EZ0PTCzcc David Wigg interview in April 1985]]
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->''"Oh, I was not made for Main/{{Heaven}}. No, I don't want to go to Heaven. Main/{{Hell}} is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!"''
-->-- '''Music/FreedieMercury'''; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50EZ0PTCzcc David Wigg interview in April 1985]]
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-->-- '''Music/JohnLennon''', who got popped off by some loony, when asked about how he would die

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-->-- '''Music/JohnLennon''', who got popped off by some loony, when asked about how he would die
die.



-->-- '''Music/FreddieMercury'''

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-->-- '''Music/FreddieMercury'''
'''Music/FreddieMercury''', in a 1984 interview, 7 years before his death.
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->''"What will I be doing in 20 years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?"''
-->-- '''Music/FreddieMercury'''
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->''Did this "Adam" care for you? Would he sit in a safe Command Room and order you to die?''
-->-- '''ADAM''', ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', describing his human self's actions in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM''
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->'''Arnold:''' I do believe I've died and gone to Heaven.
-->-- ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', "Movin' In"
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->'''Simon:''' So, that was "Come as You Are" by Music/{{Nirvana}}. Music/KurtCobain is now the top-earning dead celebrity. So, [[TakeThat not Bruce Forsythe]].\\

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->'''Simon:''' So, that was "Come as You Are" by Music/{{Nirvana}}. Music/KurtCobain is now the top-earning dead celebrity. So, [[TakeThat not Bruce Forsythe]].Forsyth]].\\
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->'''Diane:''' And in entertainment, Creator/MaryTylerMoore is 64 years old today.\\
'''Tom:''' Really? 64?\\
'''Diane:''' Yes.\\
'''Tom:''' Now I thought she was dead.\\
'''Diane:''' Nope. She's alive.\\
'''Tom:''' Fantastic!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E8TheKissSeenAroundTheWorld "The Kiss Seen Around The World"]]
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You better run, better run faster than my bullet

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You better run, better run faster than my bulletbullet''
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->''All the other kids with the pumped up kicks\\
You better run, better run, outrun my gun\\
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks\\
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
-->-- Music/FosterThePeople, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ "Pumped Up Kicks"]]

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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily "Alone Again Natura Diddily"]], just seconds before Maude's death.

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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily "Alone Again Natura Diddily"]], just seconds before Maude's death.


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->'''Agent J:''' Uh, Sid, remember those Twin Towers?\\
'''Agent K:''' Yeah. What about them?\\
'''Agent J:''' I don't think they're gonna be so tall anymore!
-->--''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'', "The Neuralizer Syndrome"
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->'''Kent Brockman:''' President [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] dies...his hair, says Gary Trudeau in his new musical comedy revue.

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->'''Kent Brockman:''' President [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] dies...''dies''...his hair, says Gary Trudeau in his new musical comedy revue.
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->'''Kent Brockman:''' President [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] dies...his hair, says Gary Trudeau in his new musical comedy revue.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E8LisaOnIce "Lisa on Ice"]]
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-->-- Within a few seconds, the President was fatally shot and Connally was injured.

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-->-- Within November 22, 1963; within a few seconds, the President was fatally shot and Connally was injured.
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->'''Nellie Connally:''' Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you.\\
'''John F. Kennedy:''' No, you certainly can't.
-->-- Within a few seconds, the President was fatally shot and Connally was injured.

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->''And I'm not even the bomb in Maine\\
On my game, I'm only about as sexy as UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain''

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->''And I'm not even the bomb in Maine\\
On
->''On my game, I'm only about as sexy as UsefulNotes/JohnMcCain''
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->''And I swear that I don't have a gun\\
No, I don't have a gun\\
No, I don't have a gun''
-->-- Music/{{Nirvana}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o "Come As You Are"]]
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->''"This building will stand forever."''
-->-- '''Lewis Schiliro''', Head of the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement FBI]]'s New York Office, after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_bombing 1993 World Trade Center Bombing]].
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!!{{Anime}}
->''"Yup, [[spoiler:Head is Takuto's daddy]]. Now watch [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything their fight in episode 16]] [[ParentalIncest again.]]"''
-->--'''[[http://www.japanator.com/aquagaze-s-anime-weekend-episode-27-hovertext-that--18680.phtml Aquagaze's Anime Weekend]]''' makes ''Anime/StarDriver'' fans suddenly terribly uncomfortable


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->''"I feel in my bones that this [a soap opera about UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily] could be a winner. Princess Diana would be the star eventually, of course. She is at present starring in her own soap opera, and the whole country wants to know what will happen to her next."''
-->--''Literature/AdrianMole'', diary entry of the 30th August 1997, ''Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years''

->''I shall, I think, remember that 11th of September all my life.''
-->'''Captain Hastings''', ''Literature/TheABCMurders'' (published 1936)


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->'''Red:''' Do you know what today is?\\
'''Saul:''' Tuesday.\\
'''Red:''' This is my cat's birthday today.\\
'''Dale Denton:''' I don't see a cat in here. I'm sorry. Did you let it out by accident?\\
'''Red:''' No, because he died three months ago, okay? So now who's the funny guy?
-->--''Film/PineappleExpress''


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->''"You got trapped''\\
''You got broke''\\
''It was only meant to be a sort of joke''\\
''But the joke... isn't funny... anymore."''
-->--[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWYRvrCOFWM "The Joke Isn't Funny Anymore"]] from ''Series/FraggleRock'', "Mokey's Funeral"

->'''Simon:''' So, that was "Come as You Are" by Music/{{Nirvana}}. Music/KurtCobain is now the top-earning dead celebrity. So, [[TakeThat not Bruce Forsythe]].\\
[''audience laughter'']\\
'''Simon:''' If you're watching that on a repeat, and he is dead, [''more laughter''] that is inaccurate.
-->--'''Series/NevermindTheBuzzcocks''', Series 19, Episode 5 [[note]] Luckily, this wouldn’t come to pass until 11 years later. [[/note]]

->''"Let us dive right in this week, with the 2016 election, or, as it's increasingly known, 'America's fucktastic ''Cirque de Dismay''.'. The big news this week surrounded UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, a punchline that is quickly becoming a nightmare. Like if you said: 'take my wife, please', and then she was actually kidnapped by ISIS."''
-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

->Jim, let me tell you something. There's gonna be a ''whole bunch'' of things we don't tell [[{{UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton}} Mrs.Clinton]].
-->-- Creator/PhilHartman as UsefulNotes/BillClinton on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYt0khR_ej0 Saturday Night Live]]

->'''Arnold:''' I do believe I've died and gone to Heaven.
-->-- ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', "Movin' In"

->'''Joy:''' So, what are you, like a hundred?\\
'''[[DeadpanSnarker Elka]]:''' I don't like you.
-->-- ''Series/HotInCleveland'', "Pilot"

!!{{Manga}}
->'''Angol Moa:''' Let's say your actions, uncle, [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs are made into an anime TV series on Pokopen.]]\\
'''Keroro:''' Hmm... yes! We do have a lot of kiddie fans.\\
'''Angol Moa:''' If that were to happen, and the contents were too violent or inhumane, it wouldn't make a good impression, and might violate some broadcast regulations.\\
'''Keroro:''' Hmm... that is possible!\\
'''Angol Moa:''' And [[DiscussedTrope what if, by unfortunate coincidence, a similar incident were to occur around the same time it was broadcast on your show]]?\\
'''Keroro:''' I... I don't even want to think about it!
-->--''Manga/SgtFrog'', Encounter 75: An Invasion of Convenience?


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->''"I'll probably be popped off by some loony."''
-->-- '''Music/JohnLennon''', who got popped off by some loony, when asked about how he would die


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->''"If those radical Muslim fundamentalist terrorists had Ed on their team back in 1992, the World Trade Center would now be referred to as the World Trade Pit."''
-->-- '''Creator/DaveBarry''', in 1996, discussing his fireworks-obsessed mechanic Ed.

->I'm pretty sure if you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. So that, to me, is not a loss; that's a draw.
-->-- Creator/NormMacDonald

->In the old days, they'd go, "Hey, that old man died!" Now, they go, "Hey, he lost his battle." That's no way to end your life. "What a loser that guy was. The last thing he did was lose."
-->-- Creator/NormMacDonald

->When the fucking sickle of death is over my goddamn neck, I'm gonna be so cowardly...I'm not gonna be brave. I don't care how old I am, I could be 94. I'll still be like, "Oh, please, take my grandson."
-->-- Creator/NormMacDonald

->Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it's true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce. That would be sad. If two people were married and they just had a great thing and then they got divorced, that would be really sad. But that has happened zero times.
-->-- Creator/LouisCK

->Divorce just gets stronger, like a piece of oak.
-->-- Creator/LouisCK

->Marriage is just like a larva stage for true happiness.
-->-- Creator/LouisCK


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->''"Hindsight's a bitch, ain't it?"''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''' in his review of ''[[Comicbook/SpiderMan Maximum Clonage]]''

->''"I was going to make some joke about how Urkel could beat us all up now -- but he was recently arrested for domestic battery, so suddenly that doesn't seem funny any more."''
-->-- ''Website/{{Cracked}}'', [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19001_17-images-that-will-ruin-your-childhood_p2.html 17 Images that Will Ruin your Childhood]]

->''"[Marc] Summers himself ends up in [[CoveredInGunge the brown goop]], which, given his real-life [[SuperOCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder]] and [[NeatFreak fixation on neatness]], no doubt [[AndIMustScream eats away at his fragile psyche]]."''
-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''', ''Series/DoubleDare''[='s=] [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/doubledare/ Super Slop-O-Mania]]"

->''"I guess I want it to be good because [[EarnYourHappyEnding that's how this story's supposed to end]]--after 14 years of snickering bullies making the [[FunWithAcronyms Did Not Finish]] joke, the plucky never-say-die Duke Nukem should finally turn around and silence those guffawing shits.\\
Well, Duke Nukem has certainly put an end to all ''those'' jokes, if only because they're now more tragic than funny.''
-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''', on ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever''.

->''Two jocks in letter jackets immediately decide to bully him as part of the ongoing Coat Wars, and Slater responds by pulling out a goddamn gun and firing blanks in their faces. In the next scene, one of the titular Heathers scoffs at the thought of J.D. getting any punishment worse than a brief suspension, and Veronica finds his antics both hilarious and kinda hot. And indeed, J.D. is allowed to return to school without any consequences, which makes it pretty easy for him to murder three students before attempting to blow the whole place up and finally committing suicide via bomb vest. You can probably see why this film didn't age well as a comedy, but aged fantastically as a grim portent of the dark future to come.''
-->--'''{{Website/Cracked}}''' on how the movie ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' has not aged well past the Columbine Massacre.

-> ''"...So, the Notre Dame Cathedral one, where I uploaded the Hunchback part? The thing is-- because of my sponsors, I had a date that I had to upload it, and as I was uploading it... I, like, went to Twitter and I was like "Ah, Notre Dame is--"'' [Church bell sound effect, [[OhCrap eyes go wide]]] '' '''[[BigNo NO.]]''' I was like, "this Gothic-[[VerbalTic ass]]-cathedral has been standing in France for like '''one thousand years''', but it's gotta come down'' today. ''When I'm uploading a Notre Dame joke. Which-- how many of them are out there?" ...[[MemeAcknowledgement Some great memes came outta that.]]"''
-->--'''{{WebVideo/JonTron}}''', [[https://youtu.be/TZ31u3vI934?t=181 recounting]] a particularly unlucky instance of this trope

->''"This is going to be so awkward to watch when Creator/JohnStamos actually dies."''
-->--'''A [=YouTube=] commenter''' on [[https://youtu.be/nE8U2W0LyhQ a clip]] from ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'', in which the titular character drunkenly mourns the death of a hobo he thought was John Stamos


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->'''Elmyra:''' My ultimate petsie-wetsie is almost complete! All that's missing is... the brain! Dizzygor! Give me the brain!\\
[''Dizzy opens a jar and deposits [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain The Brain]] in Elmyra's hand'']\\
'''Brain:''' The obvious nature of this pondering belittles us all.\\
'''Elmyra:''' Ooooooh! I'll play with ''you'' [[WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain later!]]
-->--''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toons Night Ghoulery]]''

-> ''That was the mayor of Paris, who was just as eager as I am to know why ISIS agents were terrorizing Paris!''
-->--'''Malory''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''

->'''[[TheGrimReaper Death]]:''' Hey, guys.\\
'''Cleveland:''' Hey, Death, what are you doing here?\\
'''Death:''' Actually, I'm here for [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow your show]].\\
'''Cleveland:''' Aw, c'mon, man. I'm on vacation.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS12E13ThreeActsOfGod "Three Acts Of God"]]

->(after Marge runs over Ned Flanders with the car)\\
'''Marge:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Oh, my God!]] We killed Ned Flanders!\\
'''Bart:''' [[NotHelpingYourCase You mean]] ''[[NotHelpingYourCase you]]'' [[NotHelpingYourCase killed Ned Flanders]].\\
'''Marge:''' It was an accident! An ACCIDENT!\\
'''Lisa:''' We gotta go to the police!\\
'''Bart:''' They'll never believe a Simpson killed a Flanders by accident. Even I have my doubts.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX "Treehouse Of Horror X"]], "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did"

->(while watching a parody of the famous "I'm Just A Bill" segment from WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock)\\
'''Bart:''' What the hell is this?\\
'''Lisa:''' It's one of those campy [[TheSeventies 70's]] throwbacks that appeals to Generation X'ers.\\
'''Bart:''' We need another [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] to thin out ''their'' ranks a little.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied "The Day the Violence Died"]]

->'''Fry:''' My God! It's the future. My parents, my co-workers, my girlfriend; I'll never see any of them again. Yahoo!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', [[Recap/FuturamaS1E1SpacePilot3000 "Space Pilot 3000"]]

->'''Peter:''' You know, I just finally figured it out. She (Tracy) looks like a really hot Tim Russert. Right? Right?\\
'''Brian:''' (annoyed) Yes.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', [[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E11theFormerLifeOfBrian "The Former Life Of Brian"]]
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'''Death!Dean:''' Like "how did Creator/BettyWhite outlast me?"

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'''Death!Dean:''' Like You mean like "how did Creator/BettyWhite outlast me?"
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-->-- Series/{{Supernatural}}, [[Recap/SupernaturalS6E11AppointmentInSamarra "Appointment In Samarra"]]

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-->-- Series/{{Supernatural}}, [[Recap/SupernaturalS6E11AppointmentInSamarra [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E11AppointmentInSamarra "Appointment In Samarra"]]
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->'''Tessa:''' Just so you know, when people die, they might have questions for you. Well, not you, but [[TheGrimReaper Death]].\\
'''Death!Dean:''' Like "how did Creator/BettyWhite outlast me?"
-->-- Series/{{Supernatural}}, [[Recap/SupernaturalS6E11AppointmentInSamarra "Appointment In Samarra"]]
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->My 100th birthday...I cannot believe it is coming up, and ''People Magazine'' is celebrating with me! The new issue of ''People'' is available on newsstands nationwide tomorrow.
-->-- [[Creator/BettyWhite Betty White's]] [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweet]] from December 28, 2021, just 3 days before her death and 3 weeks before her 100th birthday.

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