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I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way.

Naomi Campbell

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Naomi Campbell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 22
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