If you want to live longer try kissing
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Hair loss: Can the cycle be stopped?
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Festival time! We celebrate the 39th Annual International African Arts
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Her Majesty Motown’s Queen Martha Reeves heats it up with 50BOLD
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Time to grill those steaks!
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Ladies, fire up your relationship!
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We love poetry…When We Get Together and Love Poem #135
When We Get Together
we give it up to the drummer
between silences
stroke the mighty bass with our toes
our nipples
crashing
cymbals
ting-ting-ting-ting-tinging
headboard a sweeping piano
we strum the hell...
Willie J. Clarke claims his crown as the creator of the Miami Sound
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The well-dressed man sports a stylish watch
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