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" I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in. "
Elaine Stritch
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" I have not had any of that surgical stuff. I am too curious to find out exactly how I progress every day of my life naturally. That is what fascinates me. "
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