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ZADIE SMITH

By derek_turnbull

Mon, 13 Sep 2004
  • 469 reads
 

Zadie Smith
doesn't exist:
think about it.

Too pretty
too young
too exotic
too good.........

Salman Rushdie made her up
over a Chicken Tikka Masala
with Will Self.

It's the only good thing they've ever done.

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