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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.

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Lauren DeStefano
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: October 13
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Novelist
Connecticut
United States
Five
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Women
Fatal
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Flies
Dropping
Males
Twenty
Twenties

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