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We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth floor walk-up.

We watched some of the movie. It was shocking. Sex is apparently hard labor. Various persons supported crushing weights in agonizing positions for what seemed like endless blocks of time. Exhausted men grunted and toiled like movers trying to get a refrigerator into a fifth floor walk-up.

Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern

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Russell Baker
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Approximate author period: c. 1972 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Russell Baker, based on documented lifetime 1925 to 2019. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5549244 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5549244 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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