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Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern

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Marilyn Monroe
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Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1926 to 1962; Wikidata Q4616, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4616 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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