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The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

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Gloria Steinem
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: March 25
Activist
Actor
Editor
Essayist
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
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Toledo
Ohio
Gloria Marie Steinem
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