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My whole life has been spent with people who have taken every knock in the world. No advantages. Yet they greet you with a big smile, they give you what they have, and they keep coming back. They are the fighters.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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Jacqueline Novogratz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: March 15
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