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Sugar Ray Leonard

(1956--)

U.S. boxer

We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

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[sugar daddy] {n.}, {slang}, {semi-vulgar}, {avoidable} An older, [well-to-do] man, who gives money and gifts to a younger woman or girls usually in exchange for sexual favors. * /Betty Morgan […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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