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Thursday, April 6, 2006 12:00 AM

Teen boys buy lady-luring spray

Axe deodorant spray successful with hormonally charged boys.
Tracy Clark-Flory

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  • Thursday, April 6, 2006 01:08 PM

    All this really tells us

    ...is that twelve-year-old boys are both sex-crazed and gullible. Who knew? They're probably the same ones who, decades ago, saved their paper route money to buy gadgets **GUARANTEED** to increase the size of their pectorals and biceps in three weeks!

    Sadly, these are exactly the kind who will grow up insisting that women don't want to date "nice guys." Or, at least the women they want to attract.

    —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters

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