Cybill Shepherd
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To a man whose heart I broke at 17.
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To everyone who has been out with me and had to deal with my lack of emotional maturity.
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Ice-T
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My kids, for not being around much.
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Any fashion designer whose clothes on me must have made them weep.
Andi Oliver
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To my brother, because when we were kids I didn’t understand his illness and it used to irritate me.
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You suddenly get what people are talking about when they talk about being in love.
I don’t think I’ve ever been close to death but I am a nervous flyer, especially during turbulence, so there have been many times where I’ve felt that I was.
There was a period in the early 2000s when I had been doing celebrity profiles and thought I’d lost my way creatively.
The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.
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