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To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time

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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
Film Actor
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Leonard Norman Cohen
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