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Speaker 1: in two thousand twenty one. Ever since I started this project,

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Speaker 1: massive majesty in this maze of mystery. Scottsdale, Arizona. This

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Speaker 1: But it's also the place where spent Lana Allelujeva's life

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Speaker 1: go first, time for everything. I'm deak Atrocer and this

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Speaker 1: is spent Lana. Spent Lana. You wake up in the morning,

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Speaker 1: and over and over again and over again and act one.

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Speaker 1: We are waiting for you here now, before we all

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Speaker 1: go with set Lana to Arizona, I need to tell

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Speaker 1: you one small detail. I want you to remember that

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Speaker 1: spet Lana's grandmother's name was Olga. Everybody got that, Okay,

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Speaker 1: put in your pocket. Forget about it. We'll come back

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Speaker 1: to it later. When we last left set Lana, she

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Speaker 1: was in Princeton, New Jersey, reeling from a broken relationship

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Speaker 1: Lana's terms. It was very happy settled in Princeton. I

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Speaker 1: was planning next book. I was planning to go to

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Speaker 1: Here she is that fall. Well, I got several marriage

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Speaker 1: proposals and companied by photographs. Yes, yes, accompanied by photographs

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Speaker 1: and the have you ended it? Replied to any of these, Oh, well,

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Speaker 1: funny about the idea. But then there's one letter that

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Speaker 1: it extraordinarily powerful. We found a copy of this letter

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Speaker 1: I read your beautiful book only one year. It is

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Speaker 1: hard to believe that after so much sorrow you have

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Speaker 1: The letter, one of a series of letters, phone calls

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Speaker 1: Here's what Olga Vanna actually sounds like. Talking to a

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Speaker 1: TV news interviewer in nineteen sixty six, I was born

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Speaker 1: Olga Vanna Lloyd Wright is adamant that's that Lana Alla Lujeva,

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Speaker 1: What is this? Lord of the Rings? Was Gandalf there

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Speaker 1: like Adam and I were looking we're looking into our future.

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Speaker 1: We're so excited. Just you mean Old, you know, just

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Speaker 1: how Old and Roger a lot throughout this podcast, as

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Speaker 1: well as an interview they recorded with spet Lana in

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Speaker 1: two thousand while writing their book how did you feel

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Speaker 1: about Mrs Right? Mrs Right bombarded me. She bombarded me

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Speaker 1: with letters, finally telephone calls. When are you coming? You

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Speaker 1: spet Lana hard. She sent press pieces and literature about

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Speaker 1: her community of like minded architects and artists who lived

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Speaker 1: and worked together, supporting Frank Lloyd Wright's vision during his

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Speaker 1: life and carrying it on after his death. Speed Lana

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Speaker 1: didn't know much about architecture, and before I started this project,

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Speaker 1: I didn't really know much about architecture either, Like I

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Speaker 1: named his Wisconsin home the Fellowship's headquarters, tally Yessen, which

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Speaker 1: in his ancestral Welsh means shining brow. As a bald

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Speaker 1: sure to impress upon stet Lana is that tally Essen

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Speaker 1: But part of their life with tali Essen, students sometimes

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Speaker 1: of misfits are those gonna be? Jared's? So in case

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Speaker 1: and protractors cost money, and with Frank Lloyd Wright dead

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Speaker 1: new students are admitted each year. Candidates are accepted only

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Speaker 1: after Mrs Wright decides stabled all Olga Vanna was the matriarch,

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Speaker 1: the queen, the CEO. Hashtag girl boss. So this is

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Speaker 1: they even sent her a silver necklace. But it wasn't

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Speaker 1: was something deeper, something richer, something profound. Dear, here's fent

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Speaker 1: Lana again. Cis Lana? Something goes about my name? Clana

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Speaker 1: was some kind of a mysieur is thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: all jokes working podcasts, But here's the team. Olga Vanna

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Speaker 1: And now in seventy Olga Vanna seems to believe that

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Speaker 1: some weird cosmic way, a reincarnation of her dead daughter.

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Speaker 1: actually Olga. And do you remember when I told you

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Speaker 1: to put spet Lana's grandmother's name in your pocket, Well

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Speaker 1: Grandmother's name Olga? So spent Lana's Grandmother's name was Olga,

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Speaker 1: and Olga Vanna's daughter's name was feed Lana. There are

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Speaker 1: with her, and you know what, His name was Daniel,

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Speaker 1: and that's my name. Coincidence, not if you're gay. So

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Speaker 1: what does all of this mean. It means that an

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Speaker 1: Olga Vanna's mind. Because feed Lana had a dead grandma

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Speaker 1: was destiny. And this, this story of multiple Olga's and

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Speaker 1: By early March, speed Lana finally accepts the invitation. She

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Speaker 1: because she's so persistent. So finally, on March fifteenth, seventy's fed,

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