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Speaker 1: The twenty seven Club is the production of I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Janis Joplin died at the age

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Speaker 1: of and she lived a life where a relapse and

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Speaker 1: vice were all too frequent. I can give you twenty

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Speaker 1: seven reasons why that statement is true. Twelve would be

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Speaker 1: the number of months her group, The Cosmic Blues Band,

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Speaker 1: would remain intact before the mediocrity of their playing led

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Speaker 1: them to the same defunct fate as Big Brother. One

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Speaker 1: more would be the number of days she would wait

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Speaker 1: after being treated for heroin addiction before she was out

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Speaker 1: looking for her next fix. Another five would be the

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Speaker 1: number of minutes it would take for a carnival parade

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Speaker 1: to have an unexpectedly negative effect on her fragile, detoxing state.

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Speaker 1: Two more would be the number of unexpected visitors who

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Speaker 1: showed up at her door in order to commence what

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Speaker 1: they would deem the Great Tequila Boogie. And seven would

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Speaker 1: be the number of months she had left to live

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Speaker 1: when she pulled out a bar stool at Barney's Beanery

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Speaker 1: in West Hollywood and suddenly felt strange energy that she

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Speaker 1: was unable to describe. On this our ninth episode of

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Speaker 1: season three, withdrawal, Carnival, the Great Tequila Bookie, and Janice

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Speaker 1: Joplin walking a winding path to liberation. I'm Jake Grennan

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Speaker 1: in this is the twenty seven o'clock. Ye. The shakes

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Speaker 1: were new, They came out of nowhere, and they came

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Speaker 1: at the absolute worst moments. Janice Joplin was on stage

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Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden with the Cosmic Blues Band. They

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Speaker 1: were flanked by two guests, Paul Butterfield on one side,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Winter on the other. It was December nineteenth, nine

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Speaker 1: sixty nine, and that's when the shakes came. Johnny Winter,

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Speaker 1: dressed in black velvet and a black cape that provided

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Speaker 1: a stark contrast to his long shock of white hair,

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Speaker 1: didn't notice. He was too busy playing his gold top

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Speaker 1: less Paul held tight against the middle of his chest.

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Speaker 1: Paul Butterfield, cradling his own or harmonica and between his

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Speaker 1: busy blowing air through the reads of his electrified harp.

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Speaker 1: But Janice noticed. She heard the shakes before she even

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Speaker 1: felt them. She heard all the bracelets and bangles on

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Speaker 1: her wrist jangle in their motley cacophony from down. With

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Speaker 1: her arm hung at her side, she couldn't control the shaking,

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Speaker 1: and she couldn't control the sound of her jewelry, which

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Speaker 1: roll band, and this sound cut right through everything else.

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Speaker 1: It was for her ears only. She was derailed and

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Speaker 1: the band sounded like shipped to her. Johnny Winter, Johnny

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Speaker 1: was all right, man. The dude was dressed in fucking

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Speaker 1: black velvet. Cool as fuck. What the band sounded off

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Speaker 1: felt off to Janice, and she was worried that they

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Speaker 1: only sounded off to her, and the way that she

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Speaker 1: could only hear and feel what was going on with

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Speaker 1: her own body. She was in withdrawal. She needed to score.

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Speaker 1: Her small supply of dolaphine had just run out literally

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Speaker 1: the day before the show, and she was back to

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Speaker 1: feeling that untethered sinking, feeling, back to feeling the weight,

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Speaker 1: feeling the heavy pain that sat on her head. Her

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Speaker 1: throat hurt and her eyes ached and her joints burned.

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Speaker 1: She was irritable as ship. She needed a hit, and

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Speaker 1: she found it easily backstage behind the gardens ominous curtain.

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Speaker 1: Once the show was over and Johnny and Paul had

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Speaker 1: that Dola, fhe bullshit and Grossman's cure. She was a

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Speaker 1: grown woman and could handle herself, always had, always would,

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Speaker 1: and she wasn't necessarily committing to a lifetime of addiction. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she just needed a goddamn fix so that her hands

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Speaker 1: blues guys who were mingling amongst themselves, nursing calloused fingers

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Speaker 1: at all in the moment. She didn't know it, but

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Speaker 1: they had felt what she had felt about the show.

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Speaker 1: They were off. Whether they were off because Janie was off,

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Speaker 1: Just weeks earlier, Janice Choplin was beginning to realize that

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Speaker 1: where one high led to another, one shot of dope

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Speaker 1: She thought of Sam Andrews, he o'deed and nearly died.

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Speaker 1: She thought of Nancy Gurley, she o'deed and did die.

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Speaker 1: Goddamn Nancy in front of the goddamn kid too. Janis

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Speaker 1: ponied up twenty grand to James Gurley's legal defense when

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Speaker 1: Since he was the one who gave her the fatal

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Speaker 1: then what did Janis do? She had her own brush

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Speaker 1: with death. She played a show with another one of

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Speaker 1: She didn't even remember anymore. All she remembered was after

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Speaker 1: her friends were slapping her blue face back to life.

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Speaker 1: And this was exactly what Albert Grossman had told her

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Speaker 1: not to do. No Schmid's he said when he first

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Speaker 1: signed Janis and Big Brother. That was the one caveat.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want Janis getting mixed up in that ship

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Speaker 1: big changes. Janice should take a little time off, and

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Speaker 1: they put the Cosmic Blues Band on Ice. The boys

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Speaker 1: didn't know it at the time, but the Madison Square

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Speaker 1: Garden gig would wind up being their last. In January,

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Speaker 1: Jannie would turn seven. She should show lay off the dope,

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Speaker 1: And this is why Jannastopolin was here, why she made

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Speaker 1: To have nots dressed up like the halves, women and

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Speaker 1: Janis had just turned twenty seven years old. She had

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Speaker 1: She needed this extreme change of scenery. But she needed

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Speaker 1: then shot lightning bolts down her spine. Her hands were vibrating,

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Speaker 1: And then Bob had a handle of Quervo up from

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Speaker 1: then he taught her Sunday Morning Coming Down, his hangover

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Speaker 1: of Chris's lyrics, they cut deep into Janice. She held

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Speaker 1: matter how long she held it off, no matter how

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Speaker 1: Janis Joplin, and there was something about Bernie's Beanery in

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Speaker 1: up to the bar, Chris Christofferson by her side, and

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Speaker 1: Deja Vu took up a deep seated bar stool right

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Speaker 1: next to her. Perhaps it was the look and feel

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Speaker 1: of the place. It reminded her a little of Rio.

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Speaker 1: To be honest, it was an eruption of color in

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Speaker 1: a cramped space, and the ceiling littered with license plates

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Speaker 1: from all over the country, the plates left by patrons

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Speaker 1: Even the backs of the boots and seats in the

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Speaker 1: place were burst with color, like a Crayola box come

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Speaker 1: to life. Or maybe it was the grandfathered intolerance of

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Speaker 1: the place that reminded her of her early life as

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Speaker 1: a kid in Texas. If you looked in the right

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Speaker 1: spot at Barney's, right behind the bar and you're the

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Speaker 1: draft beer taps, you could still see the painted wooden

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Speaker 1: sign that read faggots stay out. And the slur itself

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Speaker 1: was misspelled. Of course, one gene instead of two, and

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Speaker 1: Janice found it fitting that a message of hatred was

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Speaker 1: grammar and the sign had been put there in ninety

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Speaker 1: by the original owner, John Barney Anthony, and the bar's

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Speaker 1: new owner, Erwin Held, had no intention of taking it down,

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Speaker 1: even that's growing gay community. West Hollywood certainly wasn't San Francisco,

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Speaker 1: Janis thought, and Berney's was not. The anxious asp the

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Speaker 1: sign and the attitudes behind the desire to hang the

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Speaker 1: sign and keep the sign reminded Janice of Port Arthur

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Speaker 1: and all the intolerant people she wanted to get away from.

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Speaker 1: And now here in this supposedly liberated state and liberated city,

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Speaker 1: a totem of repression and hate stared her in the face.

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Speaker 1: But that wasn't it. There was something else about the place,

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Speaker 1: this particular bar stool before and that she would again,

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Speaker 1: Something that called to her that kept her coming back.

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Speaker 1: Even though she clearly disagreed with management on basic human rights.

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Speaker 1: The joint was like a car wreck to her personal constitution, loud, tacky,

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Speaker 1: off putting. If you knew where to look, but like

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Speaker 1: a car wreck. She couldn't look away and couldn't not

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Speaker 1: was coming to a close. Janie and Chris both felt

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Speaker 1: it winding down, this intense period of romance and whooping

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Speaker 1: for what would become Janie's new band, the Full Tilt

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Speaker 1: Brad Campbell's the guy who had his blonde mustache painted black,

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Speaker 1: same sort of stack slathered R and B that Janice craved.

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Speaker 1: But the more they talked and the more pines they drank,

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Speaker 1: the more their conversation turned to serious subjects, the way

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Speaker 1: conversation often turns when great spontaneous things come to their

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Speaker 1: inevitable end. She told Chris about the guy on the

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Speaker 1: Harley that she saw in her dreams, the one on

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Speaker 1: a gold bike painted with orange flames, the one who

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Speaker 1: showed up out of nowhere when she was wandering on

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Speaker 1: foot near the Vedanta Society and Alma. Chris raised an eyebrow,

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Speaker 1: just listened. Chris could tell that Janice wasn't happy, and

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Speaker 1: they had had a great time together, but she didn't

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Speaker 1: seem happy about that. Her new band was off to

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Speaker 1: a great start, but she didn't seem happy about that.

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Speaker 1: And in the span of a few short months, so

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Speaker 1: much had happened. The relapse back at Haroin Rio david Nyhouse,

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Speaker 1: the breakup of her second band, and all of it

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Speaker 1: seemed to conspire to making her own happy. Three dog Nights.

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Speaker 1: Mama told me not to come. Thudded from Barney's jukebox

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Speaker 1: and Chris settled up their bar to What's Next? Janice

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Speaker 1: Chris aster in that deep toned, gruff but intimate way

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Speaker 1: he had of talking what was next? She didn't know

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Speaker 1: what was around the corner when someone asked you that

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Speaker 1: She knew that the good would only come with the bad.

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Speaker 1: She knew that much for sure. Around the corner, Janice

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