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“I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.” quote by Jami Attenberg — Download Open image

“I was fat because I lived in the Midwest in the 1970s, and everyone was a little fat then and only getting fatter.”

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