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Represent someone myself -- that's provided for everything (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

personify

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'represent' is the definition.
(personifying is a kind of representing)

'someone myself that's provided for everything' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'someone' could be 'person' ('person' can be a synonym of 'someone') and 'person' is present in the answer.
'myself' could be 'i' and 'i' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'fy' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for personify that I've seen before include "Be the embodiment of" , "Embody in human form" , "Represent; embody" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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