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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

Vera Wang

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Vera Wang
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 27
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