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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

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Sally Phillips
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: May 10
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Sally Elizabeth Phillips
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