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We're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

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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
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