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ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'
Douglas Coupland
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Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
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