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"Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk."

Michael Parkinson, British Journalist

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"Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk."

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"Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk."

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