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All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Alan Jay Lerner

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Alan Jay Lerner
Age: 67 †
Born: 1918
Born: August 31
Died: 1986
Died: June 14
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New York City
New York
Alan Jay Lerner
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