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She was shy and strong. Honest and outspoken. And incredibly vulnerable and brave. And she was different.

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Today marks the 19th anniversary of the devastating car crash that killed Princess Diana in Paris in 1997. If she were alive, she would be 55 today. Here are 9 things you probably did not know about the Princess.

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“She’s telling me it’s amazing to see how that’s kind of… spread across humanity now. The impact, of being empathic, having empathy. Um, that is the embodiment of who she was.”

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I don’t want to be loved for my ability to abstain from life.

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My dad was dead. I had no dad. I kept saying these words in my mind. ‘I have no dad. My dad is dead’. Stood there in the dirty little phone booth, the smell of piss settling in my nostrils, I fixated on some prostitute’s sex ad stuck to the wall, her face worn out and faded with time.

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1. My list Daniel Day Lewis, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sofia Coppola (or Marilyn Monroe), Shakespeare and Gautama Buddha. 2. Adrienne McQueen Jared Leto, Julian Assange, Sandra Bullock, Alex Proyas and Oliver Stone. 3.

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9/11 was an inside job. Princess Diana was murdered by the Royal Family. A UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. The Apollo moon landing was a hoax. Global warming is a fraud.

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You need to stop saying things like ‘You cannot destroy me. Because I am an art piece’. That line lives next to ‘I’m tired of people not treating me like the gift that I am.’ and you don’t want to end up being Paula Abdul’s next door neighbor.

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The charge was fraudulent advertising: turns out a lot of those calls cost a lot more than 99c a minute. Particularly dismaying was the news, leaked out during the investigation, that the sultry Miss Cleo—née Youree Dell Harris—was in fact born in Los Angeles to American parents, and was not Jamaican, as both she and her accent had led us to believe.