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Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
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