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So if you can manage it, you shouldn’t touch your partner, except for the sake of having children.
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278:9:3. The works of Saint Augustine, John E. Rotelle, New City Press, 1994, ISBN 1565480600 ISBN 978-1565480605 p. 55.

 

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