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Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

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Lorna Luft
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 21
Film Actor
Film Actress
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Birth
Instead
Looking
Fatalistic
Death
Joyfully
Mother
Systematically
Preparing
Began
Forward

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