But she was closer to her mother. I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was so full of fun when you got to know her. ... Because she was really like me, without the cover. You know when you take the shell off a tortoise There's my mother. I live a lot the way she lived. I have a very formal home and my daughter was brought up strictly and all that.
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