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Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

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William John Locke
Age: 67 †
Born: 1863
Born: March 20
Died: 1930
Died: May 15
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