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When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun

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Anita Roddick
Age: 64 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 23
Died: 2007
Died: September 10
Businessperson
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Littlehampton
West Sussex
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