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What I think, Chatty says, is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
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Woman
Even
Men
Think
Thinking
Chatty
Loves

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