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All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Age: 67 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 14
Died: 2002
Died: April 24
Essayist
Journalist
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New York
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