![I thought both she [Gypsy Rose Lee] and her story would be ill-served by a conventional, birth-to-death narrative, and so I structured the book like one of her stripteases: revealing a peek of shoulder, then a glimpse of knee, pulling back a bit before you go a bit further, until all is revealed at the end.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-thought-both-she-gypsy-rose-lee-and-her-story-would-be-ill-served-by-a-conven.jpg)
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