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Iguana featured fictional stories with characters, experiences, and settings that are familiar to the targeted readership. Additionally, it presented biographies and interviews with personalities that influenced the lives of
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Despite a privileged upbringing, attending private school and ballet lessons, with domestic servants managing childcare, cooking, driving, gardening, cleaning, laundry, and ironing. Her childhood was not without hardship. Food was rationed, with the family's card granting only "one pound of beans,
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