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The image is of Billie Holiday, with a gardenia in her hair. That image might night tell you that she wanted a husband and children – but it’s the truth. That image might not have ever told you that she could live 100 days in a single night – but that was also, and far too often, the truth.
Billie and the gardenia, singing “God bless the child that’s got…
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