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Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Endicott
New York
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