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OK.

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Let's go to the second
of thirty volumes

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that I'm going to read from--

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[LAUGHTER]

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All right.

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I lived in a small town
where gossip is gold.

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OK.

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And if you've never
lived in a small town,

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you probably wouldn't
appreciate or understand

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what the kind of
currency gossip holds.

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I mean, if you have some
gossip people surround

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you, they like
you, they love you,

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because you have something
they want to know.

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OK.

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And so there's even
extremes among that there's

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people who live to have
all the scoop all day long.

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And all night long.

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"Mitotero" Mitote means gossip.

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So this is a lady I knew.

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"Mitotera".

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"Even in that town
whose business

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is finding out everybody else's
business, she is extraordinary.

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Nothing is secret: fires,
arrests, affairs, madness,

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murder, even as it occurs
or not too long after.

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She combs the newspaper
with only chisme in mind,

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calls all over town,
trades stories.

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And of course, that tremendous
radio in her parents' house

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tuned to the police
band night and day."

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