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So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
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