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What happened to the good old days of Woman as passive recipient? What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Cathy Guisewite

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Cathy Guisewite
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 5
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Dayton
Ohio
Cathy Lee Guisewite
Chance
Courted
Woman
Granting
Someone
Recipient
Back
Passive
Trying
Sitting
Good
Days
Happened
Parasols
Winning
Parasol

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