[photo of Billie Holiday]


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Fillmore memories

Billie Holiday, coatless and weeping, having just wrapped up her dead poodle Mister in her floor-length mink coat and creamated them both. "What do a dog do to you make you feel so bad?" Jimbo wonders.

John Ross, When jazz was the thing, San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 1993

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