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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.

Fran Lebowitz

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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Pleasurable
Romantic
Illness
Mental
Love

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