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During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

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Florence King
Age: 80 †
Born: 1936
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: January 6
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Washington
District of Columbia
Florence Virginia King
Hard
Eighties
Good
Hug
Men
Seventies
Eighty
Feminist
Caught
Rock
Fathering
Rocks
Hugs

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