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Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

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Bill Nye
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 27
Actor
Educator
Engineer
Physicist
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
William S. Nye
William Sanford Nye
William Sanford Bill Nye
William Sanford “Bill” Nye
The Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Abstinence

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