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Want to be good at sex? Lose a leg - Gyles Brandreth

Regulars | By Gyles Brandreth

One leg over: Robin Dalton (1920-2022)

The late Robin Dalton, 101, told Gyles Brandreth that one-legged men do it better

‘Which of us is happy in this world?’ Thackeray asks at the end of Vanity Fair. ‘Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?’ I know somebody who is – or was. My friend Robin Dalton, literary agent and film producer, died the other day in her 102nd year and was sending out optimistic, positive emails to the last. ...


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