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Banned! My eyes light up, I think I see stars. Anything that has been banned by anyone must be something I’d like.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel
Age: 52 †
Born: 1967
Born: July 31
Died: 2020
Died: January 7
Autobiographer
Journalist
Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel
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How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus
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