Roop's big brown eyes widened as she leaned in for a look.

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That one shot where she drove and leaned in on our post and looked like Michael Jordan two feet lower.

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She was already Lady Gaga, and we spoke a little, and she leaned on me, and she said in my ear, 'Did you know that this was my first photo shoot?

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She leaned against a chair in the hall, touching the walls, then stumbled to the open doorway and stood, staring outside.

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Suddenly she reached out and took my face in her palms, leaned toward me, and kissed me.

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She says she sat in a car while they questioned him, as he leaned in through an open window to tell the police officer what he saw of the assault, forcing Gaca to once again relive the experience.

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She went to the top of her stairs, leaned over the bannister, and shouted in the direction of the hall door, asking who was there.

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She was trapped between the garbage can and a counter full of bottles, as a throng leaned in to hear her increasingly weak responses.

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She had a glass-top table and a white leather sofa and we hung in the doorway and leaned against the walls, killing time while waiting for her.

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