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What's it like to be raised by the first major TV comedienne?

“You don’t grow up a fan of Lucille Ball. You grow up her daughter,” Lucie Arnaz said when reminiscing about her childhood both in Los Angeles and in the Coachella Valley, where her parents had a getaway home since she was 4.

Indeed, as the daughter of arguably one of the most famous married (and then unmarried) couples in the world, Lucie couldn’t be more daughter-like as she talks about her new book, “Lucy & Desi: The Love Letters” to be released by Running Press Nov. 4.

But why now? Lucie explained that after her mom died in 1989 at the age of 77, she was tasked with doing what so many children have to do: the process of going through their par

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