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Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

Rita Mae Brown

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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
Autobiographer
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Polo Player
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Loser
Fearful
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Made
Lonesome
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