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She represents love, beauty, purity, the ideal female and the moon...and she's the mystère of jealousy, vengeance and discord, AND, on the other hand, of love, perpetual help, goodwill, health, beauty and fortune.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Hands
Fortune
Goodwill
Love
Female
Vengeance
Moon
Jealousy
Health
Represents
Hand
Perpetual
Beauty
Purity
Help
Ideal
Helping
Ideals
Discord

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