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I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children.

Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern

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Hugh Hefner
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Approximate author period: c. 1971 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Hugh Hefner, based on documented lifetime 1926 to 2017. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194280 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194280 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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