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Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
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Film Critic
Journalist
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Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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