Where is the safest place when that place <br> must be someplace other than in the body? - Claudia Rankine

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The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Claudia Rankine

Where is the safest place when that place
must be someplace other than in the body?

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