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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
Portia de Rossi
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Portia de Rossi
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 31
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Amanda Lee Rogers
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