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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

Anita Hill

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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
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Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
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