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And Dave Tarrant watches the circus in Anna Smith's hometown of Mexia, Texas: The convoys of TV trucks, bristling with antennae, started rolling into this small town as soon as the news broke last week. Reporters were desperately seeking someone, anyone, with the slightest connection to Anna Nicole Smith.
The 39-year-old starlet, who collapsed and died suddenly, always claimed that the rural East Texas community, 90 miles southeast of Dallas, had played an essential role in the story of her life.
She fled Mexia in her late teens for a new life as a…
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