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What do women want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.

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Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Drink
Blood
Women
Human
Humans
Salad
Green

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