Audrey Hepburn
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Lucy, Is She a Baron or a Burger Master?
She has a very unusual background, Lucy. Some of its details have only come to light quite recently. But we can do genealogy in class here, I think. She's sort of descended from barons and burger masters. It's interesting because this European chic thing that she stands for is associated with the iconography of Paris. There's a reason she was born in Belgium. And it wasn't until she moved to America for work that she became experienced on that side of the planet. So her roots were European. But then she had something vital in the formation of her,. Everything, her physique, her mental, her psyche, everything, was her war experience.
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