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When You Grow Up In Bel Air And Shop Only In Expensive Boutiques On Rodeo And Robertson, You Develop A Kind Of Allergy To Anything Unpretty -clothes, Cars... Even People... You Start Thinking That If You Hang Around Unattractive People, Their Homeliness Can Be Contagious.

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When You Grow Up

Nicole Richie

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When You Grow Up In Bel Air And Shop Only In Expensive Boutiques On Rodeo And Robertson, You Develop A Kind Of Allergy To Anything Unpretty -clothes, Cars... Even People... You Start Thinking That If You Hang Around Unattractive People, Their Homeliness Can Be Contagious.

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