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The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.

Jane Fonda

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Jane Fonda
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 21
Actor
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New York City
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Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda
Hanoi Jane
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I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.
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