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Robin Morgan
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: January 29
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Lake Worth Beach
Florida
Robin Evonne Morgan
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Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
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