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www.cherland.com 20-Mar-2000
by Deborah Wilker
Born in El Centro, Calif. in 1946, Cherilyn Sarkisian was a poor, fatherless kid whose eight-times-married actress-mother struggled by on occasional singing gigs and bit parts. At 16 Cher left high-school and home to take acting lessons in Los Angeles, a plan that quickly derailed when she met 28-year-old producer-songwriter Sonny Bono at Aldo's Coffee Shop in 1963. "It was as if the whole room went to soft focus, like Tony and Maria at the dance," Cher has said often of their chance meeting. Though Cher was instantly smitten, Sonny wasn't. The two lived platonically at
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