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I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: April 24
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