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I don't see decadence really as what you do, because I don't do much at all that is decadent in my life. But I still am decadent. It's a state of mind, I think.
Marianne Faithfull
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Marianne Faithfull
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 29
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Hampstead Village
Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
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