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Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
Sophia Loren
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Sophia Loren
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: September 20
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The Eternal City
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