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I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Source: Josephine, 1977.
-- Josephine Baker, (Jun 3 1906-1975), French jazz singer, dancer; She was Folies-Bergere's Dark Star, 1920s who introduced hot jazz to Paris; active in Resistance, WW II and outspoken about civil rights.

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