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" I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that. "

Priyanka Chopra

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" When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in. "

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