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My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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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
Orphanage
Seven
Left
Mother
Years

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