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Woody Overton
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Woody Overton
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have a right to an attorney prior to enduring any question. If you can't afford one, the court of appoint one for you. Do you understand your rights and the wolf is at your door Know you.
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Styles MacKenzie
Running over that's for sure you already know all about you.
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Woody Overton
Cut you down.
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Styles MacKenzie
No matter by you.
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Woody Overton
Now you better walk alive. Warning this episode of Real Life, Real Crime. The podcast may contain descriptions of acts of violence or that of a sexual nature and should be people that are 18 years or older. He my warning people, I do not get the facts of these cases off of the Internet or for some television show. The facts I'm retelling you were presented to me by the victims of the crimes or the perpetrators who committed the crimes against the victims. My descriptions of the crime scenes, what I saw with my own two eyes. If you're gonna get offended, please turn this podcast off now. Thank you. Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of Real Life Real Crime, the podcast. And as always, I'm your host, Woody Overton. Today we are continuing and hopefully going to finish Scorched the state versus Scott Peterson. First of all, shout out to walk ons for hosting us for the Kevin Gehrig and I for Lopa Bartender event where they donate the tips and we raise good money for Lopa. Shout out to all the lifers who came out. I appreciate it. It was love Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency. All you know it's my jam if you can sign up to be an organ donor and save lives. Also, the live shows Saturday, July 19 Real Life Real Crime original Woody Overton on stage acting a fool at Southeastern Louisiana University in the Student Union Theater. Alcohol and food and stuff sell ahead of time. The VIP event afterwards, going to be there all weekend, have hotel rates. You've heard me talk about it before. Go search in your social media and find it. All right, so where we were at, y'all? We're in the death penalty phased on Scorch and we have one more witness for the defense, which is so crazy all the shit they try to put up there. Well, actually we have the one more witness for the defense besides Scott's mama. And you know that's going to be probably long and lengthy because they brought in everybody from somebody walking his dog one time to somebody he said hello to one time in kindergarten, right? And then of course I'm being facetious, but it's Been slow and painful, if you will. But let's go to Wednesday 8th December, 2004. Defense witness number 38, Brittany Peterson, who is Scott's niece. And we are going to have Ms. Brittany Peterson on the stand. And Mark Garagos is the defense attorney asking these questions of her. And y'all, this one is actually very short before we get into Scott's mama, which I'm sure is. Is going to be long af. All right, Garagos. Good morning, Brittany. Brittany Good morning. Garagos, you're the oldest of the nieces and nephews on the Peterson side, is that right? Uh huh. And Scott is your uncle? Yes. Okay. Who is your mom and dad? BRITTANY Joe and Janie Peterson. Garagos. Okay. Ann. Judge, we can hardly hear you. Can you move a little closer? The jury needs to hear you. Gary goes, you want it? Obviously, you've known your uncle your entire life. Brittany uh huh. Garagos, you gave me a picture of the two of you together. That is you at a slightly younger age. BRITTANY yeah, I think I was three or four. Judge that's marked. Gary goes. D9P1. Judge D9P1. Gary goes. Brittany, you wanted to testify here today, didn't you? Yes. We didn't ask you to. You volunteered. I don't know that when they turn the lights off, you can really see probably better with the lights on. Gary goes. Brittany, you wanted to testify, is that right? Brittany huh. Gary goes. Is there a particular reason why you wanted to. BRITTANY I just. Well, my mom and dad have been talking about it for a while, and I just felt like I needed to help because the situation is just. It's extremely tragic, and I can't stand back and watch my innocent uncle go through this. I want to help. Gary goes, he's meant a lot to you over the years, is that right? Brittany yes. Gary goes. I take it he was the uncle that was closest to you in age? BRITTANY yes. Gary goes. Taught you to drive. Yeah. Would take you places? BRITTANY yeah. Me and my cousin Danica went driving one time. Scott let me drive in the parking lot, and he was gonna let me drive home, but didn't realize how bad of a driver I was. And he didn't want to get us killed, so he wouldn't let me drive. GARY Guys, over the years, would you say that you become extremely close to him? Brittany yes. Garrigo's. Since he's been arrested and been in custody, has that relationship evolved even more? Brittany yes. Through a lot of letters. Garrigo, those letters you get back and forth. What do they mean to you? BRITTANY I just get so excited when I get them and I just go in my room and I read them and sometimes I read them over again and they just contain so many things that mean so much to me. GARRISON Scott Peterson, that, you know, your uncle, you call him Scott, I take it? BRITTANY Gargis specifically, you know why we're here today. BRITTANY yes. Garrigo's and I assume from the bottom of your heart you want nothing more than for him to live, is that right? BRITTANY yes. Gary goes I take it that if he were to be put to death, that would have a horrible effect on you. Brittany nods her head. GARY goes your letters that you get and that you write back and forth, you consider those private, don't you? BRITTANY yes. Gary goes they mean something to you? BRITTANY huh? GARAGOS what do they mean? BRITTANY I just feel so loved and important when he writes because I write stupid things about high school boys and stupid things that nobody cares about. But when he writes back, he actually cares about it. How I love those letters. I just love them. They help me out. Without those letters, I don't have him too. I don't have him without those letters. That's the only way that I get to correspond with him. GARAGOS thank you. I have no further questions. Praise the Lord. All right, so we are done with everyone except for Scott's Peterson's mom. Now look, y'all have heard me say why I think this part is so scorched and it just is the the fact that parts of it I get the the majority of it is just so stupid, from everything like fishing to, you know, you saw him one time at band camp and whatever the they don't ever it's just meaningless. And I know they're throwing mud against the wall, praying to God that something will stick, but again, if I was on the jury, holy shit, I would be so sick of Scott looking at Scott Peterson. And the 1 99% of the prior witnesses never talk about is Lacey an unborn baby? CONNOR so let's go to December 8, 2004, death penalty phase. And this is going to be the examination of Jacqueline Peterson. And it's done by the attorney, Mark Gerrise. And y'all, I'm actually going to say Peterson. Like on Britney's I was supposed to say Peterson and then her statement. But when I say Peterson, it's not Scott Peterson. We are specifically talking about Jacqueline Peterson at this point here. Guys. Good morning. Jacqueline PETERSON Good morning. GARG as Pat did with Lee. I'm going to ask you a little bit about your background before we go to Scott Peterson okay. Gargos show that the jury understands they've heard some of it in here throughout this trial, correct? PETERSON yes. And it's been difficult, I suppose, for you to sit here during this trial, is that correct? PETERSON yes, extremely. Probably the most difficult day was the day that Sharon was up here during this penalty phase and I had warned you about that. But you said you still want to be here. Why? PETERSON it was. It would have been disrespectful not to be for we all lost Lacey and I have empathy for her and I know how much we all loved her. Yeah, guys, you got a condition and I don't want to dwell on it, but obviously you wearing oxygen something to assist with your breathing. Peterson yes. GARY goes why is that? Peterson because my lungs. GARAGOS why is that? PETERSON because my lungs don't function that well. I have 20% lung capacity, too many pneumonias. GARGO My understanding in talking with you and knowing you for the last couple years, is that a product of having had pneumonia at an early age? PETERSON yes. My lungs are scarred and don't function. GARAGOS you've been on a waiting list for a lung transplant for a number of years. Peterson yes. Garagaise the problem is that you need both lungs. I begass I guess because of your you've got a rare blood type. PETERSON Two lungs, small lungs. And that's usually the first thing to go when people die. They're hard to come by. GARGIS has the condition gotten worse in the last two years? Peterson yes. I'm supposed to avoid stress. Here it is. We haven't done a very good job of that, have we? WOMEN have you ever had one of those days where everything just feels off? Like you're stuck in the middle of a mystery and you can't solve it. 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Styles MacKenzie
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Woody Overton
Wayfair Every style, every home. PETERSON no. Garrigos we heard where your father, I guess, was murdered. You never really knew him, did you? Peterson no, I didn't. Gargo you understand after the fact that apparently it was, I guess at the time they didn't know why or who. But he was found dead outside of his business. PETERSON yes. GARAGOS when that happened, it took a number of years before they were able to catch the person that was eventually convicted. Is that right? PETERSON yes. Garrison okay. And that person was sentenced to prison, is that right? Pearson yes. And I've only read it in the paper, in old papers. My mother couldn't speak of it and never spoke of her father. I thought I really didn't have one at times. GARY goes, you've told me that since you have no real memories of your father, you've looked or tried to find pictures of him. PEARSON yes. GARY goes either through yearbooks or other things to try at least explore that portion of your life. PETERSON yes. GARAGOS have you done that? Is that correct? Peterson yes. In my early adulthood, I was able to find an album from where we thought he went to school. And those are the pictures that I have here. Guys. As a result of his murder, one of your brothers, I think, described briefly the fact that your mother had a debilitating disease. Is that right? PETERSON she developed scleroderma, and we were told it was because she didn't release the feelings she had when my father died because she kept it all inside. She had four young children to raise and could not and could not break down. And so her organs broke down, they calcified, basically, until she died a very horrible death over the years of being bedridden here. I guess she you didn't live with her after your father died, is that correct? PETERSON no, she couldn't take care of us. GARY goes part of the reason for that was because I guess your other brother, who hasn't been here, describes this disease as kind of turning into stone. Is that right? PEARSON yes. Garrigo's that the skin falls off or calcifies the organs. Calcify. PETERSON Garriga's Basically. PETERSON Everything you eat becomes calcium, and I don't know, people refer to it as a lost wife in the Bible in the body. So I think it's a very old disease and there's not a lot known about it, but it's very debilitating in a long process here. GUYS As a result of her disease and your father's murder, you were placed in a facility that was called the Nazareth House. PEARSON yes. Here. Guys and were you were you taken there with your brothers? PIERCE yes, it was the old mission school for Indians, and it was in the early well, the late 40s when there were less Indians there and there were just a few and orphans. And we were probably the first children to come in that had actually one parent. And over many years it became more divorced parents and that kind of but when I was there, it was very sheltered. GARY goes yet you and I have talked about it. You have some memories of that place and growing up there, and those are your earliest memories, is that correct? PETERSON yes. GARAGOS Tell me about the I guess they were called the Poor Sisters of Nazareth. PETERSON Nazareth, Garagos and they were the ones, the nuns who would run this orphanage? PETERSON yes, they were Irish and English nuns, and most of them, I learned later, were just poor young girls. They had too many children in Ireland and the parents would put them in a convent. So they were just kids that took care of all the other younger children that could take care of Children and a few teachers. Garrett goes, how did they, I mean, how did they solicit? Peterson they begged from door to door for their food for us. And like a big companies would give them their outdated cereals and their outdated breads. And we had chickens, we collected eggs and we got eggs maybe once a week per treat here, guys. Every time I talk to you about this, well, you would tell me that you would be quarantined periodically for TB and things of that nature. You tell me about the discipline of cleaning toilets and kneeling on the floor. Peterson yes. Garagos and ear flicks en masse. Peterson Here, guys. And every time I've tried to characterize that as being a rather tough existence, you've always told me our needs were met. What do you mean by that? Peterson What I mean is I felt fortunate. I had a roof over my head and three meals a day and was educated. There was no hugging or anything like that. But my mother, somehow she got that through to us. I don't know how, but we knew that God loved us and that just took over everything. GARAGOS is there none there that you have a particularly fond memory of? Peterson yes, Sister Vincent, who I met 25 years later when my son visited the school, the old folks home. She became the principal and she had been my fifth and sixth grade teacher and was actually a nurse. So she took care of me because I had asthma and I had to have special shots and the doctor would come once in a while and she would administer what he left. And I saw her when I went to see what he was up to and she was all crumpled down and I hadn't seen her in 30 years. And she looked at me, she said, how's your asthma, dear Garge It's a memory. Peterson Sweet, blessed woman. And this was in connection with some of the stuff that Scott was doing in connection with Sister Kylie's community service program. Peterson he had Grandparents Day at school, and we didn't have any grandparents until he told me he was going. And I said, you don't have any grandparents. Do you want me to go with you? And he said, no, I adopted this old lady at the old folks home and I've been visiting her for months. And she said she would come to lunch with me as my grandparent. So that's when I wanted to go to the school and see what he was doing because I realized I knew he was in community service, but I didn't know what he was doing. How old were you when you finally Left this? Peterson 13, 8th grade well, you went through the 8th grade and you had to leave and go to high school somewhere. Here it goes. And when you left, did you go at that point, did you go back and live at your mom's house? PIERCE yes. And I got a scholarship to the Catholic Girls High school, which was 20 miles across town on a bus. And I got to live with my mother and took care of her because she was bedridden, and my brothers each, as they came out, two years out apart, took care of her. And when I came home, it was like, you're the girl. Now we have somebody to do everything. We were taught that way at school. We cleaned and we learned to sew and we learned to cook. And I was able to do that and happily because my mother was just a good, kind person. GARGAS how long did your mom live after you moved back home? PEARSON Just until after I graduated from high school, yes, a couple years. PETERSON her last outing was to my high school graduation, which was very painful for her. But no, she died the January following my graduation. Yeah. And I take it that at times your friends would come over to the house. Here's some My friends loved her and they would come and sit on her bed because she was the mom that was at home and had time for all the kids, boys and girls care guys One of those friends was Joanne Farmer. Joanne FARMER, Yes. Her mother worked, so she would come home with me. But the high school you went to was the Rosary High School for Girls. PETERSON Yes, Our lady of the Rosary Gargis. After your mom died, it's my understanding, just from the testimony and the witnesses here, that your family kind of spread out at a certain point. PEARSON yes, my brothers. It was the draft era, and my brother John had already moved out to make room for the for the rest of us to live in the house. My mother was still there and my younger brother got drafted and I got an apartment on my own with a girlfriend and PETERSON and so they were all gone. You went to work on your own. I mean, you were obviously not married. PETERSON I went to work with the airlines PSA in their hangar. The nuns trained me with office skills because they told me I couldn't go to college because I'd have to take care of my mother. And so that just made me want to go to college. So I went to school at nights and I worked days. But because of them I had good skills and got a good job to support myself. GARY goes, well, you heard about the fact that you had become pregnant with your first son Don Pearson Yes. Gary goes, you were 19. You had given him up for adoption, is that right? Pearson Yes, I did. Gary goes, why? Pearson Because I couldn't care for him. I was just existing and I was naive and young and I got with someone that told you they loved you and wanted to marry you, and that's what they meant, and it just wasn't so. And I think I got involved because I wanted a father and a family. I look at that now. But at the time, I was just clueless. I was brought up very naive and not smart. Here, guys. After that, you left psa, is that correct? Because of Don Pearson Yes. My in those days, my boss came and stood by my desk and said, you have to leave. And I said, why? She said, because you're pregnant. And I thought nobody knew. So I was about six months pregnant. And it was just what you didn't if you weren't married, it wasn't acceptable and you couldn't draw unemployment if you were pregnant in those days. So it was a very hard time. But it was my own makings and I got through it. And my son was adopted by a very nice family, and my doctor had people waiting and wanting a child, and he talked to me and counseled me and told me that was the best thing to do. Gargoyles when you left, then you went to work as kind of a temp person at an office? PETERSON Yes, I went to work for Kelly Girls and I took jobs when people were off or work or injured for a while. And I moved around in different companies, learned a lot of different things, and I was always employable here. Guys, you later had a second child who the jury's heard about. Ann Bird. Peterson. Yes. Garrigo. Okay, what happened in that situation? Peterson? You mean, why do I have her? Or Garagos Yeah. Pearson the adoption. GARGO Just tell me about the whole piercing. Well, it was my brother's best friend and I met up with him and I suppose now he was like someone I trusted. And we went together for a long time and we were in love. And he graduated from college with his teaching credentials and couldn't find a job in San Diego, so he moved to Los Angeles and came down every weekend. And then, I know this sounds like a broken record, but he then, then it was every other weekend. And then he came down to tell me that he had fallen in love with another teacher he had just met. And I was going to tell him that I was pregnant, and I didn't because I didn't want to. I knew he would have married me and I didn't want to marry someone that was in love with someone else. GARAGOS so the and also you had that pregnancy and you gave. PEARSON yes, my doctor. GARY goes same doctor, I guess, arrange for her to be adopted. PEARSON yes, it was a private adoption. GARAGUS you've reunited with both of them since, is that correct? PEARSON yes. Her parents, unbeknown to me, she lived very near to me and her parents are her mother can be my sister, eight years older and her father's very much like my husband. It's just an amazing match. She's very sweet, she has hands like me and likes all the same things I like. It's just incredible. But we all get along. Her parents and she and I get together. GARAGUS and along came John, who the jury's heard from, and he was born in 1966, is that correct? PETERSON yes. GARRIGUS and by that time you were more self sufficient? PETERSON yes. Well, not that I think I wanted a family and I was trying to make a family and I finally had my I was a single mom and Gary goes you raised? PETERSON I enjoyed my life. GARAGOS did you raise John at least for the couple years as a single mom? PETERSON yes, until he was four and I met my husband. GARAGOS okay, when you and we heard the story that you enrolled or came back to San Diego and a bit of a trip around the country and then come back with John and you met Lee at community college? PETERSON yes. And did that give you an instant family, so to speak? PETERSON yes, it gave me the family I always wanted. We used to call ourselves the Brady Punch because there were so many of us. GARY Guys, tell me, how long after you married Lee did you have? Scott? PEARSON A year. GARRISON and he had pneumonia just like you when he was born, I guess. PETERSON yes. Gary goes early times? PETERSON yes. Gary goes the Will you tell me a little bit about Scott as growing up? I'll show you. PEARSON well, if you ask me about Scott, I would always say he was a joy from the moment he was born. Gary goes I've got a picture that's marked D9Q1. How old is he there? Peterson under 2. There it goes. At that point, am I understanding that Lee had already started with the Kraton Company?
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Woody Overton
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I mean we put a daybed in the room behind my office and he went with my husband on jobs and he stayed with me when he couldn't and he took his naps and played. He was like the official greeter. He had a smile for everybody that came in. People enjoyed him. Garagos the attempt to do what the older boys were doing, things like that. Peterson yes, always. Garagos the D9Q5 that's also a picture of him. Where is that? Peterson Watering his flowers in front of the house. Garrigus as he got older, he became interested in helping others. Is that correct? PETERSON yes. Gareth D9Q6 that Scott as what, crossing guard or safety guard? Pearson he was a crossing guard and that was you had to be recommended by the teacher to do that. It was a special thing for him. So I went to when I took the picture, that's the one and only picture I saw him do that. There would be a car three blocks away and he wouldn't let anybody cross. He was so serious and so businesslike and all the kids were waiting and this mother just snatched her kid and said, oh, he always takes too long. And she started across the street and he still holding up his nose, crossing. Finally all the kids followed him and I felt really bad for him. But he got the hang of it after a while. He was just overly cautious. Here it goes. We heard that he was in the Cub Scouts. He also played Little League. Is that right? PETERSON yes. GARY Guys, this is a picture of him and his Little League thing. PEARSON yes, he he got knocked out in between the eyes with the ball and that was the kind of the end of that. GARY Guys, what kind of student was he in those years? PETERSON he was a good student all through his school years. The teachers would tell me, I wish I had a whole room of kids like Scott. From kindergarten to college. I've had teachers say that to me. Garrigo's D9Q9 a picture of Scott also judge what happened to 8 Garrison I'll come back. PETERSON we rescued a black lab. We found him running and we put up a sign at the grocery store. And then this family called us like two weeks later and said that it was their dog. But Scott was so attached to it. They told him that he could have a dog and they knew it had a good home. So he taught him how to swim and he played with him and he took full responsibility for walking him and feeding him and caring for him. Here it goes. The family, when you had mentioned before, it was like the Brady Bunch. I've got this picture. D9Q10 is that your version of it? PETERSON yes, with dogs. We lived in a cul de sac and actually it annoyed people because there were several people that had no children. So we eventually moved to a place that had some room on it so the kids could run. GAR Guys, you live primarily in those years with his brother John, correct? PETERSON yes. GAR GUYS and they have had a good relationship. PEARSON yes, but the kids were there every weekend and in between the week as well. Gary goes the families would get together. I've got D9Q8. Peterson Grandpa's birthday. Gary goes and that's Lee's father? PETERSON yes. He came to live with us when his Wife died. Yeah. Guys, what year was that? Pearson, I think 74. He became like a father to me because I'd never had one. And he was a great grand, great grand grandparent to Scott. And he would play with him for hours and entertain him there. Guys. He went to Santa Fe School where Roger Rowe was the principal. Peterson. Yes, here it goes. Who testified here? Then? I've got the picture. Is that the school? Peterson? Yes. My understanding now, I just found out yesterday it's no longer called the Santa Fe School, is it? Peterson? It's Rancho Santa Fe elementary School. Garrigos. Someone told me it's now the Roger Rowe School. Peterson. Oh, well, he's entitled. He's just done wonders for the community. And he knew every parent. I met him. After we moved in, he came up my walk one day to introduce himself as the principal of the school and brought some paperwork to Misu. I would know what was going on. And I was so impressed. He did that with everybody. Gary Ghost. As Scott was growing up now, the jury's heard a lot about his relationship with Lee. He also would. I mean, you had him around as well. You had a dress shop, is that correct? Peterson? Yes. For the first two years of his life, I kept him in a crib in the dress shop and I didn't want anyone else to get to take care of him and always worked and never got to take care of my children. So we bought a little shop and my husband and I would go out on the weekends up to the mart to buy clothes and I did alterations and he was fine until he got out one day and a bit. Oh, a bit of woman, a bit of woman on the toe, crawling. Then I knew he could crawl and I mean, I knew he might get out under the door crawling, and then I knew he could crawl and I had to have the door open. So finally I had someone take care of him. Here he goes. When he went to this back to, it was called the Rancho Santa Fe School. That's where he became best friends with Britain Shib, who we heard from. Peterson. Yes. Yes. Britain was a nice young woman. Gary Guys. And he excelled. Scott excelled as well, winning the Distinguished Student Award in eighth grade. Yes, he had good grades. He had perfect attendance. I found out later he received an award from the Rotary. I only found that that out two years ago. He was very modest about his accomplishments and never bragged or told us things or went on in school and that we weren't there for. They. There were things he just thought he was just. He just did them Gary goes was one of those things that he just did. Was that the relationship. I mean, it's been referred to as Grandpa Peterson. Peterson, yes. Yeah, I'm a stop it there for today because let me see if that's about halfway as. Yeah, it's, it's, it's definitely a little over halfway. So we are finishing this. Don't know if I'll release this on Good Friday because I don't work on Good Fridays for obvious reasons and or Saturday. So just stand by, you'll get this. But the next one, we will conclude with Scott's mama's testimony and the death penalty phase and then we'll get the jury's verdict and all that. And sum it up for you on Scorch. And for episode 10,000,057, I'm Woody Overton, y'all. Lopa. Always, always, always, always. And thanks again to Wallcorns and everybody that came out and the people who donated online. And thank you for Wallcorns. For match that we got in tips. Awesome experience. Signed up a few organ donors. Be a hero. Save a life. Sign up for organ donation. Okay. Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency. Go to lopa.org you don't have to be a life from Louisiana. You can be a lifer from alaska. Go to lopa.org they will get you taken care of in just a couple minutes. Be a hero. Give the gift of life. And I'm Woody Overton, your host of Real Life Real Crown the podcast. Until next time or ever. Don't let me catch you down on murder by you. Peace. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You gotta write to an attorney prior to it during any question that you can't afford one the court of law. One for you. Do you understand your rights? And the wolf is at your f.
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Styles MacKenzie
You running over that's for sure. Already knows all about you Cut you down no matter about you.
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Woody Overton
Now you better walk alive.
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Styles MacKenzie
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