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THE HAWKINS/STREET WALKER method?

Again, and I am going to fact check with MARCELA but who sleeps with somebody’s husband then moves in AFTER A FIRE to pretend she’s the girlfriend and I didn’t recognize her WHEN I PICKED HER FROM THIS…I am in trauma and she’s fat and I wish I had paid attention he likes to come in the line we call CLEAVAGE since MRS JEFFERSON aka WEEZIE she probably doesn’t know that hottie RIP was 18 years older than SHERMAN not WAYNE Hemsley you dumb cunt…COME 4 ME again 2 fast 2furious 4DOS I will let you feel the full wrath of VEGAS and the PALISADES set alight…SCRIPT WORK OF FUCKTION

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Who’s gonna drive you home tonight?

Sometimes, I feel like I should get a new car. This wasn’t a choice; it was a post fires compromise and my days of compromising are over…I’m 55 not 25

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Maybe, that’s really it..

He was so beautiful at 19 to my 21 and said just hang with me for five years and I will marry you when I grow up…Man of his word, he proposed at 24, my mother worried if we were making a mistake,. She would say, You have nothing in common, what will you talk about over the lifetime of a marriage and I would reply You think I am marrying him to talk?? She thought I was quite a smart ass in my youth…

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Dear Hass,

Happier times…

I was so smug. When I would see other families falling apart and suing/demeaning each other, I would shudder and say to my late mother, well that will never happen between my brothers and me…How ignorant I was…

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What can I say, Tom Brokaw?

Even though I was born in Toronto, I rarely lay claim to being a Canadian American. But, my new designation is Canadian Palisadian for sure…

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How 20 years passes, Mom

My mother was such a magical thinker even in her teens…She married at 18 and insisted on a flat on ABBEY ROAD in London a la The Beatles. She was 20 receiving congratulatory telegrams on the birth of my brother at that address she imagined for herself…

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John Taylor, John Taylor…

Wow, when The Outsiders was released and people still saw movies in theaters…Man, did I love Matt Dillon. Otherwise, I can’t understand how my darling uncle allowed me to put his picture up on HIS fridge when I was visiting my cousins in Chicago…And that haircut? Literally took John Taylor’s picture to the salon as inspiration…not the smartest move…

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The Significance of Film…

It’s been a while since I wrote a script, but I've committed to finishing one after the fires. I did, however, write a memoir, so that’s something…

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Au Revoir, NextDoor

I need to concentrate on my partnership with Gandia Custom Homes if I am going to build back the home of my mother’s and my dreams…

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A Labor of Love

Inspired by the iconic 1977 image of Faye Dunaway at The Beverly Hills Hotel the morning after she won her Oscar for Network

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