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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
Professor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Never
Blond
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Hair
Also
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