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July 26, 1998 – People Magazine
AS THE YELLOW TAXI THREADED its way up New York City’s Bowery on a cold Saturday afternoon in 1968, the privileged little girl inside, headed for a marionette show and dressed in her velvet party dress and shiny patent leather shoes, peered out the window at something she had never seen before: a shabbily dressed man sleeping on a sidewalk grate.