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Q&A: Back to School Edition - Take a peek into Paula Deen's personal life, as Paula answers questions and reminisces about her time in school.
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- [Speaker] Back to school season.
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- Can you believe it?
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- [Speaker] I can't believe it.
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Are your grandchildren excited to go back?
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- Yes! Yes.
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- All of them? All 11?
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- Yes! But you know what they're excited about?
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Same thing I was excited about. Socializing!
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(laughs) You know, gettin' back with your buddies?
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- [Speaker] What's your earliest memory of school?
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- My earliest memory of school, I was in the first grade,
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and my teacher was named Miss Hooks.
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And she wore these black, ugliest shoes.
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The heel was like that high, and it was like a big block.
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And she was old, had mostly gray hair.
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And, she didn't smile much, and she kept her ruler with her.
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- [Speaker] Did you get hit by the ruler?
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- Mm-hm! - [Speaker] You did?
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- She'd come over and she'd hit my hand,
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and dadgum, it hurt.
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- [Speaker] Why did you get hit?
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- For talking. (laughs)
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- [Speaker] What was your favorite grade?
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- My junior year. I had so much fun, my junior year.
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In high school. Oh, it was so much fun.
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You know...
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I did half of a year,
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in the first grade, in town,
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and then we moved out, back out to River Bend.
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And so I had to go to Baconton Elementary.
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And, oh, they had good school lunches.
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But, I finished the first grade there,
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and in my second grade...
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in our room on this side of the room, were third graders,
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and on this side of the room, it was second graders.
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So, the teacher would go back and forth
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teaching second grade, and third grade.
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And, uh...
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I remember one day, Les,
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the man that helped mama in the service station,
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was unable to come to work,
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and so she had nobody to watch Bubba.
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And I said, "Well, he can go to school with me.
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I'll take care of him there at school."
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And he was probably two, two years old.
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Which would have made me nine? Yeah, probably.
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And he, I put him on my lap in that school desk,
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and that little fella sat right there with me. And-
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- [Speaker] What did the teacher say when you brought Bubba-
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- Nothing, I mean, this was country. This a country school.
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You know, families did what they had to do.
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And, oh my gosh, he was so sweet,
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and I remember taking him out to recess,
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and him having the best time playing. You know...
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- [Speaker] You had your own baby doll.
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- I had my own baby doll, and I miss my baby doll.
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- [Speaker] So, go back to your junior year.
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That was your best year why- - Oh my gosh.
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- [Speaker] other than fun. - I don't know.
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It was just so, dadgum, much fun!
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- [Speaker] Your senior year wasn't fun?
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- Oh, yeah it was fun too,
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but then I had to worry about "Was I going to graduate?"
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(Paula cackles)
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- [Speaker] How were those grades?
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- My grades that I earned? (giggles)
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They were not good. (giggles)
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- I can't imagine, that they were really that bad.
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You passed!
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- Oh, they were. No, no. I graduated on a certificate.
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Daddy had to pay for summer school, (giggles)
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after graduation so I could get a diploma.
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Trade it in for a diploma. But I just had a real good time.
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- [Speaker] You were very social
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- And I was friends with everybody.
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You know, it didn't matter who you were, what you were,
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how much money you had, I was just,
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I was friends with everybody.
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- [Speaker] Do you see yourself
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in any of your grandchildren? School-wise?
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Let's talk school, okay?
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- No, not yet. Thank goodness! (cackles)
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Thank goodness, no!
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And, not even my own children, I didn't.
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Because I was so social, and they were not really,
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they were social, but in a smaller group. Ya know?
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- [Speaker] Were they good in school?
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How about Jamie and Bobby?
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- No, they're grades, they followed their mother.
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Pretty much. (laughter)
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No, they did better than I did.
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But...
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You know, some, some people are just meant
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for school and some are not.
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- [Speaker] Book smarts and- - Yeah.
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- [Speaker] street smarts. - Yes.
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And you just hope that those that're not...
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there to really crave and love, the art of loving,
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of loving school...
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- [Speaker] Jack loves school, right?
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- Jack? Jack adores school, he's never made a B in his life.
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And he's a sophomore.
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- [Speaker] Eddie probably never made a B, either.
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Look at him, he- - [Eddie] Yes, I did.
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- [Speaker] What- - You did? In what subject?
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- [Eddie] I made, no I definitely made B's. I was-
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- [Speaker] Please. - In what subject?
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- [Speaker] What was it? P.E.?
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- [Eddie] I was not a math person.
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- Me either, that's why I had to go to summer school, for-
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- [Eddie] I, well, I did all that.
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All the extra classes, felt so good about it,
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went back in the next day to take the test.
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(Eddie blows raspberry) - You failed it?
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- [Eddie] I never "failed it" failed it.
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But, I may as we, you know, it was definitely a D.
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It was def- (chuckles)
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- [Speaker] Some people just don't test well.
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I didn't like test day, I - That's exact,
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- [Speaker] panicked in test- - Some people don't, uh-huh.
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- [Speaker] In tests.
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- Some people don't,
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what kinda grades did you make, Theresa?
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- [Theresa] Not good. Not good.
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- Oh, I can't believe that - [Theresa] No, no.
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- You're so smart. - [Theresa] No,
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I was soci, I was a social.
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(Paula cringes) - My mouth got away with me.
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- See, you and I woulda - [Both] gotten along.
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- Real good. - [Theresa] Very much so.
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(Paula cackles)
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- [Eddie] I did good on the English, English-
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- And History, I bet. - [Eddie] History,
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and Art. - Geography?
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- [Eddie] Yeah.
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- [Theresa] Yeah, school was, school was a tough thing.
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I can't, I mean, I can't believe they go back in August now.
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- I know. And-
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- [Theresa] We went back on Labor Day.
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Day after Monday. - Yes.
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We, we got outta school, like, June the 2nd or 3rd.
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- [Theresa] Memorial Day weekend,
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usually somewhere in that area.
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- And went out, went back, after Labor Day.
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- [Theresa] These kids are gonna be-
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(both speaking in conversation)
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What do you want to tell your grandchildren,
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now that it's time to head back to school?
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- To just study, and do the very best that they can.
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But you know, those that are not interested in school,
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Theresa, I hope that those children will
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at least go to trade school. (bird chirps)
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- [Theresa] I think trade school is such a
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great opportunity, - Trade-
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- [Theresa] I think it gets such little exposure,
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- Right - [Theresa] I tell you what,
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- I mean, to know a trade is a million dollar,
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it's a million dollar prize. To me.
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- [Theresa] I agree. Totally agree.
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- Because you can go into electrician,
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or something like that.
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And before it's over, you own
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an electrical contracting company that's worth millions.
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So, the sky's the limit, there.
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You know, if you have that trade. So...
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- [Theresa] So what do you wanna say,
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- Thinking- - [Theresa] to all-
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the children going back to school?
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- Oh my goodness. - [Theresa] Even the parents?
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Some parents and, you know, some people are older in life,
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- Yeah, yeah. - [Theresa] that go back
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to school too. - Yes, yes.
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Ya know, I feel sorry...
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for today's parents,
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because y'all have to be on top of things so much.
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You know? I thank goodness, that there was not computers,
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and iPads, and telephones that you toted around,
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when my children were coming up.
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Because these parents really do have to educate themselves.
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It's just a lotta stuff out there, innit?
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- [Theresa] As technology grows-
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- But you children just, y'all be good...
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Choose your friends wisely.
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You know, I think that's about some of the advi-
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best advice I can give 'em. Choose your friends wisely.
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(Paula clears throat)
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- [Theresa] Listen to your parents,
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even though you think they don't know what they're talking
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about. - Oh, absolutely.
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I remember Daddy telling me, "Blue,
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I know you think your mother and I are real dumb today.
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But you gonna be so surprised when you go to bed one night,
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and wake up the next morning and say,
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'How did my Mama and Daddy get so smart?'
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Just over one night."
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(Paula cackles)
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Good luck at school. Be good.
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