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Twitter reminds me of an era in French literature - Emile Zola and Honoré de Balzac - and the beginning of modernity and gossip. They had these fashion magazines of the time on display with all of the Emile Zola references.

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Kim Gordon
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 28
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