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This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity of their intentions becomes irrelevant.

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Rachel Cohn
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: December 14
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Silver Spring
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Mother
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