Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model
Jennifer Beals on yoga (Date unknown) http://jennifer-beals.com/media/press/yoga.html.
“He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”
The World According to Garp (1978), ch. 5
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