"Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.“


-Francesca Annis

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Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women I think men revere older women.

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