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Once I Was a Schlepper

Once I Was a Schlepper

Gypsy, 1962

Henry Giardina
Oct 09, 2023
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It's weird, at 8 years old, to have one of your favorite movies be a burlesque performer's origin story. Right? It's surely not normal. It's weird, at the age of 8, to identify not only with the burlesque performer in question, but with her overbearing, awful mother who steals silverware from Chinese restaurants, and also with her mother's cuck boyfrien…

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