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Speaker 1: Two ossie lesbian lovers touched down in nineteen nineties London

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Speaker 1: and become the toast of British high society. They're rich,

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Speaker 1: they're colorful, red hair, masses and masses and masses of

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Speaker 1: red hair, and they're outrageous. She would keep a stash

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Speaker 1: at fifty pound notes down her bra One of them

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Speaker 1: starts touting an exclusive investment opportunity.

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Speaker 2: That money, if you give it to me, I will

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Speaker 2: turn it into mega money.

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Speaker 1: And soon the money starts rolling in. Rich businessmen and

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Speaker 1: England's horse loving elite fall under their seductive spell.

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Speaker 2: It was intoxicating stuff.

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Speaker 1: They even meet Queen Elizabeth. But the millionaire duo are

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Speaker 1: concealing a dark past and dastardly intentions.

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Speaker 2: My husband turned around and said, we either get that

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Speaker 2: money or we're going to exposure for what you are.

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Speaker 1: I remember my mother saying to me that the ramifications

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Speaker 1: of this were huge. I was terrified, absolutely terrified.

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Speaker 2: Evil. They were bad, bad people, as bad as evil, Yes, definitely.

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Speaker 1: Before long, a small town detective gets wind of the

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Speaker 1: duo's exploits and vows to stop them.

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Speaker 2: She was a thief.

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Speaker 1: She was a thieving scumbag. Only problem is these two

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Speaker 1: are exceedingly hard to catch. Decades later, one of them

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Speaker 1: is finally ready to tell all.

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Speaker 2: I solved my soul to the devil.

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Speaker 1: This is the story of Lilah Andre and Evelyn Burton.

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Speaker 2: She was the love of my life, absolutely the love

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Speaker 2: of my life.

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Speaker 1: is Royal Swindle.

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Speaker 2: Oh look, I would say I'm very sorry, but whether

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Speaker 2: I've mean or not, that I don't know.

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