A ballet dancer.
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First loved, then laid, then paid.
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More than I can, sadly. I led the softest of lives in the softest of times, and my daughter will face sterner challenges.
“Try this, you’ll love it.”
A painting by Renoir, paid for by demanding a huge fee for a screenwriting deal with a producer I didn’t want to work for. The movie was never made.
The exact median middle-aged black woman in the US. If hard work guaranteed success, she’d be the most successful person on the planet. But she isn’t, yet she keeps on going.
In 1993, making love on the beach of a deserted island in the Bahamas.
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