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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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