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Lies, loser husbands, and loads of debauchery—wait...isn't this supposed to be about a streetcar?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in a streetcar named desire Allah
- 00:06
shmoop sure Maybe it wasn't the smartest idea to crash
- 00:10
at my sister's place when i first laid eyes on
- 00:12
it Well i was positive I had the wrong address
- 00:15
but i had no choice I was plumb worn out
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- 00:18
from taking care of my aylin family and trying to
- 00:20
save bill rev from ruin My nerves were shot And
- 00:24
besides stella owed me big time Can you believe she
- 00:27
had the nerve to leave it behind and take care
- 00:29
everything while she was out gallivanting in new orleans with
- 00:32
that polish husband of his stanley kowalski and don't even
- 00:35
get me started on stanley is nothing but a worthless
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drunk And he was so demanding And my dear little
- 00:41
sister who just happened to be expecting their first child
- 00:45
if you ask me he's nothing more than a cave
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man And why on as she went back to that
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big eight i'll never understand See I told you i
- 00:53
shouldn't talk about him now It was oh rat stanley
- 00:57
riel peach and his friends were no better Mind you
- 01:00
Except of course for mitch That big handsome fellow took
- 01:04
a real shine old blanche that i was ever fun
- 01:07
lated In fact mitch would have proposed to me of
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stanley hadn't gone and stuck his big nose My fist
- 01:12
family was convinced i had absconded with stella's inheritance He
- 01:16
kept carrying on about the napoleonic code and how man
- 01:19
is entitled to have his wife's money one that while
- 01:21
i was settling my nerves with a nest soak i
- 01:24
heard stanley runnin his mouth telling stella terrible lies about
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me Stella bless her heart defended me but she of
- 01:31
course just had two go into labor that tends to
- 01:33
put a stop on mottaki on bad mitch over to
- 01:36
keep me company But stanley had gotten to him first
- 01:39
We fed mitch the same load of baloney He told
- 01:41
stella and mitch Well let's just say mitch didn't think
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i was such a refined lady anymore Those blanche dubois
- 01:49
party of one again And when one's at a party
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it's only polite to have a drink twelve but my
- 01:56
party was over When stanley returned from the hospital i
- 01:59
told him i was leaving I was going on a
- 02:01
cruise with my millionaire bo i was going to blow
- 02:04
This popsicle stand and leave stanley the barbarian behind And
- 02:08
anyone who says that isn't the truth is absolutely crazy
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Then stanley got a sinister look in his eyes And
- 02:15
with that i collapsed Stella wouldn't believe it When i
- 02:20
told you this stanley had attacked me Infact she thought
- 02:23
i was crazy as a loon It was a good
- 02:25
thing that my millionaire but was coming to take me
- 02:26
away on our cruise and when he showed up at
- 02:29
the door well he wasn't a gentleman caller but a
- 02:30
gentleman then bless he looked mass enough and i've always
- 02:33
said a lady should depend on the kindness of strangers
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As we left i could hear mitch saying something Something
- 02:39
along the lines of blanches story was true and i
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could hear stella calling my name but no matter I'm
- 02:46
sure that ate comforted her As for me i'm looking
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forward to love the cruise It should do wonders for 00:02:51.771 --> [endTime] my constitution
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