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I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

Annie Lennox

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Annie Lennox
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 1
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Ann Griselda Lennox
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