Julianna Margulies' Aha! Moment

O, The Oprah Magazine | From the November 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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Emmy award-winning actress Julianna Margulies recalls how it took an exhausting night, complete with crying baby, to understand in an instant what her mother had been telling her for decades.

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