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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
Rejected
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Nobody
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Alive
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Pest
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