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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.

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Anna Quindlen
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 8
Author
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Journalist
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Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Anna Marie Quindlen
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Incompatible

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