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It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

Anna Godbersen

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
Girl
Shining
Facts
Biggest
Moments
York
Another
City
Always
Cities
Fact
Cruelest
Moment
Darkest
Bigs
Triumph

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