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I'm not sticking up for white kids - I'm going to have a barrage of hate mail - but it's true. If you're poor, you're really poor.

M.I.A.

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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Ventura County
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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