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Josephine Baker

You're Dead to Me

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Ai, Ok, We're Grown Up Now

At 13, Ai-jen Poo works as a waitress in saint louis. She eventually hooks up with these turn acts. First its the jones family band, and later it's the dixie steppers. Eventually someone gets sick, which is what happens with your lucky breaks. And so she joins the chorus. A someone gets si, a crowbar to the backwe don't know, arsenic poisoning. Som taken ill oahading ind ther yes. The seco ets a big break. Her mam called her tumpy, an accidental variation on humpty dumpty. Ah, yely. Part of that early trama had really affected her physique, and that

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