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Philip Larkin once said, “Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three.” To which Christine Keeler, ever more knowing in such matters, would retort: “Nonsense.”

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Fair enough.
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Philip Larkin once said, “Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three.” To which Christine Keeler, ever more knowing in such matters, would retort: “Nonsense.”

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Fair enough.
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