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When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.

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Evangeline Lilly
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: August 3
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Nicole Evangeline Lilly
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