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New York: Even close friends were unaware that brazen, confident Cosmo girl Helen Gurley Brown relied on psychotherapy — with good humor — for 68 of her 90 years, according to “Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown,” by Gerri Hirshey, to be published in July by Sarah Crichton Books. “Even in 1947, I knew it was okay to sleep with men and not be married to them,” she once said.