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It's very expensive to be me

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HOUSTON -- The spectacle of rich people fighting over money ranks just below football as a favorite spectator sport in Texas, so it seemed fitting that Anna Nicole Smith took the stand in the lawsuit over her billionaire husband's estate on the day after the Super Bowl. |
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