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Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Sex
Sound
Everyone
Makes
Sights
Relatively
Sexy
Sounds
Sight

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