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" One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. "

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" When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. "

" I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it. "

" People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. "

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" I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. "

" My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. "

" My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. "

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" The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. "

" Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. "

" My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. "

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" Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. "

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