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Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

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Gore Vidal
Age: 86 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 3
Died: 2012
Died: July 31
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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