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I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.
Anousheh Ansari
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Anousheh Ansari
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: September 12
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