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It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.

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Stephanie Mills
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 22
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Stephanie Dorthea Mills
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