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Boys wear overcoats in heat like this to keep themselves from showing.
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Girls fill out prescriptions for the tricks that keep their hearts from growing.
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Specialists review the year in tears and call for drastic measures:
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"Send them to resorts for boys and girls to get their whits together!"
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Sad, but true—the facts of life are bound to get you down.
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Oh what's the use, dear Jenny? Anyway, the world is pretty...
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Ashley talks to astronauts back home by way of fax transmission.
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Andy gets a new tattoo each time he gets that bathroom privelege.
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Weary, oh so drearily, we wave our flags into the camera.
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Amber goes the hotline, their all friends but no one ever asks her
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Sad, but true—the truth can turn your smile to a frown.
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Oh what's the use, dear Jenny? Anyway, the world is pretty upside-down...
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The rates are better in the summer.
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The rates are better in the summer.
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Looks like old Jenny's doing better.
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The rates are better in the summer.
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Back at home, the broadcast warning bounces off of an empty table.
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Jenny asks the astronauts to sleep with her behind the stable.
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Christmas hasn't been the same since Dad put in the central heating—
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checks you before bedtime with a battery to keep your new heart beating.
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And the world might turn a million times around before
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they tell you, Jenny. Anyway, the world is happy...
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Sometimes they let strangers in and other times they check their records;
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When they check out in the morning, Dad puts out the lie detectors.
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Jenny prays to gods she's never heard of for a special warning.
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All the walls stay dead as Jenny's head is but shes still observing.
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Sad to know the two of us might really make it through
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oh what's the use, dear jenny? Anyway, the world is happy—world is sappy—world is happy
you...
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The rates are better in the summer....
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Looks like old Jenny's doing better...
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