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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Simply
Used
Intercourse
Estate
Estates
Honorable
Legal
Excuse
Marriage

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