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Apr 2022
50m 7s

Marilyn | Goodbye, Norma Jeane | 110

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If any past celebrity could have pulled more Instagram followers than Kim Kardashian, it would have been Marilyn Monroe. Even without family money or a family, Marilyn knew exactly how to capture the world’s attention. But before she was Marilyn, she was just Norma Jeane Baker, a lonely young girl in the foster care system…

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