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The Shape Shifter. This article contains some swearing. The Shapeshifter, who is the real Georgia Maloney was in an exultant mood while hosting the G7 summit,

a gathering of the world's most powerful nations in the southern Italian region of Apulia.

After days in which she presided over meeting, speaking English, French and Spanish, along

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One evening she danced the Pixica, a traditional pulion dance, twirling and hopping to the

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