Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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- All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was. – Paula Heller Garland
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