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I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
Autobiographer
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Former Mayor Of London
Politician
Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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