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Women wearing men's clothes are chic, men wearing women's clothes make us fall on the floor laughing.

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Cynthia Heimel
Age: 70 †
Born: 1947
Born: July 13
Died: 2018
Died: February 25
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Fall
Women
Make
Men
Chic
Floor
Wearing
Clothes
Laughing

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