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We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full measure of it--we're slow learners, we women--we dry up in disgust and sensibly halt production.
Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
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