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Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.

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Hugh Hefner
Age: 91 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 9
Died: 2017
Died: September 27
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Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.
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My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.
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I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.
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