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I've never known a Philadelphian who wasn't a downright 'character' possibly a defense mechanism resulting from the dullness of their native habitat.

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Anita Loos
Age: 92 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1981
Died: August 18
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Memoirist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Shasta
California
Corinne Anita Loos
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Possibly
Downright
Defense
Dullness
Cities
Resulting
Wasn
Habitat
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Philadelphia
Character
Mechanism
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Boredom

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