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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Janet Fitch

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Janet Fitch
Age: 68
Born: 1955
Born: November 9
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Journalist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Janet Elizabeth Fitch
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Beauty

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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.
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There is no God, there is only what you want.
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