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Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
Women
Find
Must
Way
Temptations
People
Cope
Mature
Temptation
Ways

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