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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

Vidal Sassoon

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Vidal Sassoon
Age: 84 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 17
Died: 2012
Died: May 9
Autobiographer
Businessperson
Fashion Designer
Hairdresser
London
England
Shampoo
Elbows
Kept
Spending
Would
Thinking
Life

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