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A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance.

Candace Bushnell

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Candace Bushnell
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 1
Columnist
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Carrie Bradshaw
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Ceiling
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Ceilings
Something
Demands
Discordant
Never
Ball
Insistent
Balls
Spins
Dance
Glittering
Demand
Disco
Heard
Haunting

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