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If sex isn't an important part of your marriage, you can't beef if your wife or husband does this unimportant thing with somebody else every once in a while, if you have no interest in it.

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Dan Savage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: October 7
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Daniel Keenan Savage
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