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I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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