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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
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Widening
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Love
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