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You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.

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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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