WEBVTT - Ep. 2 Welcome to the Party

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<v Speaker 1>I have this memory from my childhood. I'm at a

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<v Speaker 1>family party at an uncle's house in the Sangebriel Valley

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<v Speaker 1>where I grew up. I'm tall now, but in this memory,

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<v Speaker 1>the adults were still taller than me. Salsa, probably Joe

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<v Speaker 1>Royo or oscarre Leone, blasts through a bulgy speaker that

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<v Speaker 1>vibrated the entire living room. The adults were dancing, focusing

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<v Speaker 1>only on the music and the person in front of them.

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<v Speaker 1>Their moves felt unpredictable to me. They're swaying bodies and

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<v Speaker 1>pointy elbows formed a human obstacle course. I cut through

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<v Speaker 1>them to grab a cup of Inca cola and a

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<v Speaker 1>bowl of chips from a table in the kitchen. I

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<v Speaker 1>saw my mom sitting in one of the chairs lined

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<v Speaker 1>up against the wall, looking up at everyone. She's not dancing,

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<v Speaker 1>age Um, you know no. One of the reasons why

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<v Speaker 1>we had so many rules at home was because of

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<v Speaker 1>my mom. My mom grew up in a conservative evangelical

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<v Speaker 1>household in the seventies and Lima, Peru. My mom never

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<v Speaker 1>learned to dance as a teen. She said she didn't

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<v Speaker 1>go to parties when she was young. She never learned.

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<v Speaker 1>She says she go to parties kind of. They were

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<v Speaker 1>more like gatherings or hangouts. Friends would get together, eat

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<v Speaker 1>and laugh. There was no alcohol involved. At an early age,

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<v Speaker 1>she knew that her family was different. Her neighbors drank,

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<v Speaker 1>they danced, They threw loud parties. Sometimes the parties lasted

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<v Speaker 1>until five in the morning. My mom doesn't really remember this,

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<v Speaker 1>but as a kid at our family parties, she discouraged

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<v Speaker 1>me from dancing. Yeah, I don't know. When I asked

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<v Speaker 1>her about this, she said, but you didn't listen. You

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<v Speaker 1>love to dance now, and she's right, but it took

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<v Speaker 1>me a long time to get here. That memory of

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<v Speaker 1>my mom not dancing at a family party comes back

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<v Speaker 1>to me when I think about my own relationship to fun,

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<v Speaker 1>how I grew to love moving freely in my own body.

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<v Speaker 1>From my heart's Michael to a podcast network Vice and

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<v Speaker 1>Elias Studios. This is Party Cruise, the untold story. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>Jannis Amlca. I grew up in a place called Roland Heights.

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<v Speaker 1>It's east of downtown and La County, in the Sangerbolle Valley.

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<v Speaker 1>That's gb When people stare at me completely clueless, I

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<v Speaker 1>just tell them the other Valley. I remember growing up

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<v Speaker 1>with Chinese kids, Korean kids, Mexican kids. More than half

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<v Speaker 1>of the population was born in a different country, and

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of the kids were like me, kids of immigrants.

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<v Speaker 1>In school, we spoke to each other in English, and

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<v Speaker 1>at home we spoke in a different language to our parents.

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<v Speaker 1>High school for me was defined by music videos. We

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<v Speaker 1>had a black box, basically a rigged up black market

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<v Speaker 1>cable box, which mean I had access to every channel,

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<v Speaker 1>including MTV jams. It was hip hop music video heaven

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<v Speaker 1>in the early two thousands. Video vixens were queens. Buillip

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<v Speaker 1>She was models like Melissa Ford and Vita Gara. They

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<v Speaker 1>were the director's muses and completely outshined the rappers. I

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<v Speaker 1>was mesmerized by their power. But the video that blew

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<v Speaker 1>me away. It was Beyonce's Crazy and Love Yes. When

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<v Speaker 1>the video was jam of the Week, which meant it

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<v Speaker 1>played every hour all week, I watched it carefully and

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<v Speaker 1>copied base every danceman I even try to look like her.

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<v Speaker 1>I bought the white tank top, the denim shorts, and

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<v Speaker 1>red siletto slingbacks, whatever I could find it to swap me.

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<v Speaker 1>It gave me a glimpse into what being a young

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<v Speaker 1>woman could look like. It was sexy, fun and fashionable,

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<v Speaker 1>a type of freedom I hadn't seen in person. Rebellious

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<v Speaker 1>even so different from the modestly dressed women I'd see

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<v Speaker 1>at church, and I knew off a bit of that

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<v Speaker 1>freedom could rub off on me. I could do anything.

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<v Speaker 1>High school was also the time that I started to

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<v Speaker 1>help my parents out. My parents both worked a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>They cleaned houses for a living, so when I got

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<v Speaker 1>my license, my mom made me drive their cleaning crew

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<v Speaker 1>around On the weekends. I chuttle a team from house

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<v Speaker 1>to house in a big white astro van. It was

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<v Speaker 1>the car Elent you drive in. But at night I'd

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<v Speaker 1>have the van all to myself, and I have a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of memories in that van. I remember driving my

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<v Speaker 1>mom's astro van and packing girls in it. Yea our

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<v Speaker 1>little party crew. Yes, so many memories in that van. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't believe I drove my mom was like cleaning

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<v Speaker 1>astro van and drove with girls to parties. That's Sammy

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<v Speaker 1>Selina's She was one of my best friends in high school.

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<v Speaker 1>We've lost touch over the years, but when we catch

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<v Speaker 1>up it's like we haven't missed a beat. We met

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<v Speaker 1>at her home in Morono Valley and gathered around the

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<v Speaker 1>dining table. Her kids watched us, but they probably had

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<v Speaker 1>no clue what we were talking about. Like I remember

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<v Speaker 1>like girls a whole like there was no seats because

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<v Speaker 1>there was like cleaning supplies and then like all the

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<v Speaker 1>chemicals for cleaning, and I was just like going around

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<v Speaker 1>the car. It was fun. So what are we here

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about? Um? Back then, I'm him the two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand parties going now snicking out. When Sammy and I

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<v Speaker 1>first met, we instantly hit it off. I felt like

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<v Speaker 1>we were closed. I felt like with you we could

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<v Speaker 1>top hours on the phone. Sometimes I couldn't express my

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<v Speaker 1>feelings because I was hiding it for so long. But

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<v Speaker 1>with you, she's like we could talk about boys and

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<v Speaker 1>what are we gonna do? And you know live. We're

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<v Speaker 1>both outgoing, both with religious immigrant parents, and we both

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<v Speaker 1>definitely felt the pressures from it. I couldn't do a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of stuff, like you know, watch TV. If he

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<v Speaker 1>was really protective. My dad, he had me a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit older, so he didn't understand, you know, a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit of teenage girl. I guess while saying, you know what,

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<v Speaker 1>we go through. At that time, I was going through

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<v Speaker 1>a lot because my parents had divorce, So I think

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<v Speaker 1>doing stuff was something that was using to kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like keep my mind out of it, you know. Together

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<v Speaker 1>we found an escape. On the weekends, Sammy and I

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<v Speaker 1>would think out of our homes and dance the night away.

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<v Speaker 1>Somehow we'd get back in our rooms before our families

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<v Speaker 1>woke up. I'd always be falling asleep the next day

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<v Speaker 1>at church. I guess you can say we were partners

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<v Speaker 1>in crime back then, like Thelma and Louise Oh with curfews.

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<v Speaker 1>I had friends catching me through my window to sneak out,

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<v Speaker 1>and I mean ten thirties. One of the parties. Third,

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<v Speaker 1>Sammy and I were part of an all girl party

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<v Speaker 1>crew called the Lustful Ladies. Ladies spelled lay d easy.

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<v Speaker 1>I know it's a little embarrassing and the details are

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<v Speaker 1>kind of blurry, but the way I remember it, back

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<v Speaker 1>in our day, if you wanted to join a party crew,

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<v Speaker 1>you needed to know someone or get recruited. And once

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<v Speaker 1>I was in for Sammy, it was a no brainer.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just like naturally with you guys, just you guys

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<v Speaker 1>doing it, I'm doing it too. Then would you ever

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<v Speaker 1>your nickname. I think it was like I wasn't wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>this Caramel. If you were in a party crew, chances

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<v Speaker 1>are you had a nickname like miss Caramel, Giggles or Flacca.

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<v Speaker 1>Sammy pulled out an old picture of us that she

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<v Speaker 1>had on her phone and zoomed in into a big

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<v Speaker 1>laminated card she was holding that was clipped on a

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<v Speaker 1>lanyard that she was wearing around her neck. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a badge, like a name badge, and it had her

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<v Speaker 1>nickname on it. I remember making that badge on Photoshop,

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<v Speaker 1>which I downloaded a flme wire. Oh yeah, this is

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<v Speaker 1>Caramel Diva. Oh Caramel Diva. Yeah it's a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>oh shure, Oh yeah, Caramel Diva. My nickname was Mocha,

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<v Speaker 1>just a short version of my last name, Yamocha. I

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<v Speaker 1>guess you can say I was the Mocha to her Caramel.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you describe the what you're holding? It's like a

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<v Speaker 1>sign that tells you pretty much who you are. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's a girl dress like a I don't know, laundry.

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<v Speaker 1>The girls. She's talking about dress and lagerie. That's our

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<v Speaker 1>logo for the lustful ladies. And then your name under

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<v Speaker 1>me pretty much, just like that's your entry sign, Like

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<v Speaker 1>this is my crew and this is my girls in

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<v Speaker 1>the back kind of way, you know. Yeah, it's how

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<v Speaker 1>we wrapped our crew. You know, just a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>teams at a backyard party with lanyards and badges hanging

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<v Speaker 1>around our necks, looking like tech bros at a networking conference. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>The easiest way to explain a crew is a group

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<v Speaker 1>of friends who are dedicated to throwing and going to

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<v Speaker 1>house parties on a good night. The parties cramped over

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<v Speaker 1>a hundred kids in a backyard. There were all girl

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<v Speaker 1>crews like ours, all guy crews, and co ed cruise

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<v Speaker 1>like Infamous Ladies three two three, Alcoholics and Huggies productions.

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<v Speaker 1>Some crews were about dancing. Some are really stylish, but

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<v Speaker 1>some are really competitive about throwing the best parties. And

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<v Speaker 1>in our world, the best parties had to have certain elements.

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<v Speaker 1>Imagine this. You get handed a flyer at school or

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<v Speaker 1>at the mall on a Friday. It's a glossy, baby

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<v Speaker 1>pink flyer. The all girl party crew, the Sweethearts is

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<v Speaker 1>throwing a party and you're invited. On the back, there's

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of phone numbers to call for the directions

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<v Speaker 1>to a secret location. Once you and your friends make

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<v Speaker 1>it to the location, which is usually an empty house

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<v Speaker 1>or a warehouse, you pay a few bucks to get in.

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<v Speaker 1>Immediately you're surrounded by fog and lights, and you're tingling

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<v Speaker 1>from excitement because you hear the DJ play the first

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<v Speaker 1>few notes of your current favorite song, Little John the

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<v Speaker 1>Side Boys didn't Yankee, You're a song that stand out

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<v Speaker 1>from that era. Yes, every party had the best music.

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<v Speaker 1>It's two thousand and four, so thaying early hip hop

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<v Speaker 1>music you can grind too. In the dark, fenced in

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<v Speaker 1>backyard was always just bodies and bodies just like you

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<v Speaker 1>don't think about anything. You just close your eyes and

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<v Speaker 1>just listen to the music and just dance away with

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<v Speaker 1>your friends. It's like, yeah, one of those feelings on

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<v Speaker 1>a concrete dance floor in the muddy backyard of someone's house.

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<v Speaker 1>We made the rules. Alcohol was provided for a fee,

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<v Speaker 1>and sometimes the cruise will get fancy and make jellowshots

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<v Speaker 1>or provide smernovices, and of course the party wasn't a

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<v Speaker 1>party without a nov tank in the corner, the big

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<v Speaker 1>old tank and balloons. It will sell those. I think

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<v Speaker 1>a dollar too, and then I don't remember how I

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<v Speaker 1>Gotama would just get them. No, it's nitrous oxide. It

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<v Speaker 1>gives you a quick head high when you inhale it.

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<v Speaker 1>I passed out a couple of times with that. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's hard to describe the feeling. But it was one

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<v Speaker 1>of those feelings that it felt good kind of way

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<v Speaker 1>at that time. But like my friend Sammy said, for us,

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<v Speaker 1>it was about showing up with our girls, the lustful ladies,

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<v Speaker 1>to let it all out on the dance floor. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>lots of grinding and lasts of boody shakings twerking while

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<v Speaker 1>we were dancing. It was the first time I was

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<v Speaker 1>discovering how my body could move and see how others

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<v Speaker 1>reacted to me. It was the release I was yearning

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<v Speaker 1>for doing handstand twerking and I don't know freaking, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know. I don't appropriate dancing. I remember the handstands

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<v Speaker 1>and literally I was like you guys had to be

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<v Speaker 1>there too to believe it. But I have no idea

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<v Speaker 1>how we were so limbered strong. How do the parties

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<v Speaker 1>like make you feel when you were like dancing, how

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<v Speaker 1>are you feeling? It's just like you're free, free, is

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<v Speaker 1>how I would describe it too. Free from parents, free

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<v Speaker 1>from judgment, free from expectations, free to move your body,

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<v Speaker 1>free to express yourself any way you wanted. But sometimes

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<v Speaker 1>that freedom came at a price. House parties UNSIL would

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<v Speaker 1>usually be broken up by the cops or by gunfire,

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<v Speaker 1>which was crazy to think about it now. These underground

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<v Speaker 1>parties move from site to site, and how all too

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<v Speaker 1>often they attract drugs, alcohol and jiang violence. The moment

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<v Speaker 1>where I thought safe for the shooting, when we were

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<v Speaker 1>just like in the house and we just didn't know,

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<v Speaker 1>like what was going to happen next, and we're just

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<v Speaker 1>like waiting for the cops to cop for one day

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<v Speaker 1>to the next, you just whispers you know, some mutual

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<v Speaker 1>friends and be like, damn so and so, gosh, no

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<v Speaker 1>longer here. That's after the break. So many memories of

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<v Speaker 1>my party crew days are blurred, but I do have

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<v Speaker 1>this picture in my head of some thing that happened

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<v Speaker 1>One night I was sixteen and a huge group of

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<v Speaker 1>us were going to a party that our friend's crew

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<v Speaker 1>was throwing. It was the party of the night because

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<v Speaker 1>everyone I knew from the scene was going to be there.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember the street was lined with cars. We had

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<v Speaker 1>a park a few blocks down. There was a line

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<v Speaker 1>in the front and you could feel the base bumping

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<v Speaker 1>from the speakers as you walked closer. I remember the

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<v Speaker 1>rush of excitement, and I remember walking in and there

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<v Speaker 1>was a thing that crews would do. They would call

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<v Speaker 1>their names when they would walk in a party. I

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<v Speaker 1>remember leading my friends through the crowd, who formed a line,

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<v Speaker 1>each one of us holding each other's hands. I led

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<v Speaker 1>them straight to the dance the blush. I felt like

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<v Speaker 1>we danced all night. My legs were sore in my

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<v Speaker 1>hair was drenched and sweat from all the moving and

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<v Speaker 1>shaking I was doing, and from all the body heat

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<v Speaker 1>surrounding me. Then suddenly my friend threw his body on us,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's how I realized something happened. Shots had been fired.

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<v Speaker 1>We all dropped to the floor. I can't exactly remember

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<v Speaker 1>if the music stopped, but in my head, the whole

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<v Speaker 1>place went quiet. Everyone scattered, the party was over. None

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<v Speaker 1>of my friends got hurt that night, and to be honest,

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<v Speaker 1>we were young, and we felt invincible, like nothing could

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<v Speaker 1>touch us. That wasn't the only time I was at

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<v Speaker 1>a party where someone got shot. Shootings did happen in

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<v Speaker 1>an instance, a party she can turn into a war tonight,

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<v Speaker 1>A look at a few casualties for them. The party's

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<v Speaker 1>over shootingstead have left a half dozen partygoers dead or

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<v Speaker 1>wounded in the past three months, and police raided these

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<v Speaker 1>parties often. Law enforcement officials say they're coordinating on every

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<v Speaker 1>level to attack the problem. It was very high on

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<v Speaker 1>our priority list. People drank and did drugs and then

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes got behind the wheel or got into fights. Despite

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<v Speaker 1>the dangers, I felt like my friends and I were invincible.

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<v Speaker 1>But then in two dozen and six I got a call.

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<v Speaker 1>I was told whee our good friends Hector got shot

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<v Speaker 1>at a party. Hector was tall and thin, with jet

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<v Speaker 1>black hair and thick eyebrows. I always thought he looked

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<v Speaker 1>like Kevin from the Backstreet Boys. He worked with a

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<v Speaker 1>small group of disabled adults, taking care of them for

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<v Speaker 1>the day. I'd see them at the court having lunch together,

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<v Speaker 1>or browsing books at the bookstore that used to be

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<v Speaker 1>inside the mall. I remember him being really proud of

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<v Speaker 1>his job. He was part of a crew called Wicked Productions,

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<v Speaker 1>and he went by the nickname Hectic. He died a

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<v Speaker 1>few days later. He was twenty one, and when I

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<v Speaker 1>look back at my teenage years, I realized I made

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<v Speaker 1>it out in one piece, and in some ways I

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<v Speaker 1>feel relief, but mostly I feel guilt, guilt for surviving

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<v Speaker 1>the scene when others didn't, like Hector and Emory. That's

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<v Speaker 1>why Emory's case hit close to home. I also felt

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<v Speaker 1>shame because I put myself in danger and hid it

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<v Speaker 1>all from the people who wanted to protect me the most.

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<v Speaker 1>My parents had no idea I was going out at night.

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<v Speaker 1>That's why for so long I haven't thought about my

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<v Speaker 1>party crew days. I stored those painful memories away, like

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<v Speaker 1>handwritten notes from high school in a box under my

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<v Speaker 1>childhood bed. For me as a teen, the party crewscene

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<v Speaker 1>was fun and exciting, but at the same time it

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<v Speaker 1>was scary and learning about Emory all these years later

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<v Speaker 1>it brought back all those memories. Emory's family told me

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<v Speaker 1>that when she died, they not only had to deal

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<v Speaker 1>with her loss, but also a kind of judgment that

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<v Speaker 1>she was involved with a party crew. Sine upset because

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<v Speaker 1>it's not what we were expecting. This is her aunt

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<v Speaker 1>Becky again. And then I started getting calls from France

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<v Speaker 1>or just people are saying, well, I didn't know Emory

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<v Speaker 1>attended those parties. I didn't know she was that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of person. So that made me very upset. So I

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<v Speaker 1>just told my husband when the phone rings, I said,

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<v Speaker 1>don't answer it or I'm not here. It irritates me.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's Crystal Emory's sister again, describing the news coverage. I

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<v Speaker 1>know under that video specifically, there's someone who commented, that's

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<v Speaker 1>what you get for going to those parties. And I

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<v Speaker 1>remember I commented the bag, and I was like, that's

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<v Speaker 1>my sister that you're talking about. You don't know who

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<v Speaker 1>she was, You don't know what's going on at the time.

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<v Speaker 1>Stay out of it. I mean, like I said, they

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<v Speaker 1>made it more about the parties than her actual murder

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<v Speaker 1>and disappearance. The thing is, Emory wasn't shot or found

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<v Speaker 1>dead at a party. She was found alone in an

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<v Speaker 1>abandoned warehouse days after disappearing. So this raises another question.

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<v Speaker 1>Did Emory's death actually have anything to do with the

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<v Speaker 1>party crew scene? We don't even know really where the

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<v Speaker 1>crime scene is. We're calling the crime scene where the

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<v Speaker 1>body was found. I think we couldn't even verify that

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<v Speaker 1>she even went to a rape party that night. We

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<v Speaker 1>had conflicting information on that So did she go or

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<v Speaker 1>didn't she go? That's next time. This episode was written, reported,

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<v Speaker 1>and hosted by me Janeyamoka. Our show is produced and

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<v Speaker 1>reported by Sofia Pelissa car, Victoria Lejandro, and Kyle Chang

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