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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Journalist
Sociologist
Provo
Utah
Laughter
Sex
Childhood
Heartless
Adolescence

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