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My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.

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Roseanne Barr
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 3
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Salt Lake City
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