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...singing and art, sent them to camp each summer. In 1951 the family moved from their Southwest-side flat to a $20,000 one-family house in the Northwest area. Marilyn's own lot began brightening when she was about twelve. She found a big welcome in the Fairteen Club, a teen-age group sponsored by a Chicago department store, won modeling contests there, was soon modeling for Slenderella, department stores, dress shops. Marilyn and boys discovered each other. "I was getting quite a nice little shape on me," she says. "I got whistles...
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