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Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.

Monica Lewinsky

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Monica Lewinsky
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 23
Businessperson
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San Francisco County
California
Monica Samille Lewinsky
Monica S. Lewinsky
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