If you're in doubt about her tastes, take something of hers to a retailer so a salesperson can help you "fill in the gaps, " Ms. Coleman says.

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This is in the middle of an excellent response to critics of hers who take issue with her critical posts on Donald Glover and Charlie Sheen.

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This down-to-earth girl that smelled good and wanted to be a nurse would take and hold one of his hands in both of hers to unfreeze him and make him look at her, and she would say that she cannot do it.

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