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When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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