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It strikes me that whatever advantages there are to being a boy--getting to stay out late and having other people wash your clothes and bring you plates of stuff--get undercut by having to play football.

Mary Karr

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Mary Karr
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 16
Historian
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