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I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. Survivor is the more healing way to look at it.

Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho
Age: 55
Born: 1968
Born: December 5
Comedian
Fashion Designer
Film Actor
Musician
Television Actor
Voice Actor
San Francisco County
California
Margaret Moran Cho
Moran Cho
Cho Moran
Jo Moran
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Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
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