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I was sick a lot as a kid. I wonder if one of the reasons I was sick all those times was because they smoked seven packs of cigarettes a day between them. Yeah, that could do it. So there were a couple of instances where how they were raising you stuck in my mind. And yeah, I was this bookish little girl. I was very moralistic. I read a ton Gaka grades and my mother was hilarious and very dramatic. She was on TV shows and sitcoms and my dad was in his office smoking. We both smoked a lot. That's right. They had a place in the Catskills as well as their apartment on St. Marks.
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