Green played a sailor named Ozzie, and Comden an anthropologist named Claire de Loon.

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She opens her closet, stands on a chair, and pulls down a box with some uniforms inside: one of the green plaid one-pieces she wore when she was little, a sailor-suit two-piece from later on.

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