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TIL author William Peter Blatty’s mom’s sole income when he was growing up came from selling homemade jelly on the streets of Manhattan and she once offered some to Franklin D. Roosevelt when he w...
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Original Title: TIL author William Peter Blatty’s mom’s sole income when he was growing up came from selling homemade jelly on the streets of Manhattan and she once offered some to Franklin D. Roosevelt when he was cutting the ribbon for the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, telling him, “For when you have company.”

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