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Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

Donna Karan

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Donna Karan
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 2
Designer
Fashion Designer
New York City
New York
Donna Ivy Faske
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Still
Children
Hippie
Basically
Flower
Child

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