Jacob M. Appel (1973) American author, bioethicist, physician, lawyer and social critic
Sphinx Society lecture, Brown University, April 3, 2003 (as reported in the Brown Daily Herald
“The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of sexual exertions in the arms of his mistress.”
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