Live your life like you were Joan Collins
Have no regrets and no guilt
Be a star and larger than life
Take another lover, or husband if he’s rich enough
Wear leopard print
Wear sunglasses indoors
Don’t accept compromises
Go on a book tour as if you were Jackie Collins
Be better than that old hag sister of yours
Have the wind in your hair
You are always on a catw…
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