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Uh, I've come to understand as an adult—

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with the help of Laurie,[br]my beautiful wife—

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that there had been abuse in my family,

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but it was mostly musical in nature.

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My father used to lock me away in a[br]room with nothing but the, uh,

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Percy Faith recording[br]of "Bim! Bam!! Boom!!!"

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and then send me to bed[br]with nothing but dessert.

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And one of the records he put me in[br]there with was "Sunny Side Up,"

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Main Street Singers, 1968.

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And I tell you, my head opened up,[br]my heart opened up.

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I listened to that record over[br]and over and over.

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I knew right and left[br]and every way to Sunday.

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I feel like I knew those people.

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And I wanted to be in that group[br]so badly that,

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at the age of 8 years old,

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I went down into the basement[br]and I made cardboard cutouts

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of everybody in the group so that[br]I could sing along with them

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and be one of them.

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These were my friends,

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and they were made out of a gin boxes.

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It's odd, that, you know, Laurie[br]came from such a different—

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Right, a completely different path.

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I was brought up in a very small town[br]just south of the Chicago city limits,

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and just far enough away to have[br]been peopled with pure,

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unadulterated white trash.

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And because I was one of so many children,

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I don't believe that anyone noticed[br]when I blew town at 15

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and ended up in San Francisco, California.

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And it's at this point in my story[br]that the dark clouds part,

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because I met a certain Mr. Wiseman,[br]who gave me a job in his shop.

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And before long, he tapped me to do[br]some small roles

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in some of his short films for more[br]mature audiences.

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And before long I had landed,[br]if you will, some leads.

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And then I started to do some cameos.

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Well, I was known for doing a certain[br]thing that many of the other girls

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wouldn't do.

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And of course, I love to sing,[br]ever since I was a little girl.

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And I learned to play the ukulele in[br]one of my last films, uh,

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"Not-So-Tiny Tim."

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And based on that, my world opened up,

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because I was invited to join the[br]reformed New Main Street Singers.

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And that's where I met my man.

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And before long,[br]I was the new Mrs. Bohner.

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[both laughing]

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Isn't that somethin'?

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Beautiful story.