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In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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