- Sucky, did you call me Sookie?
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- You know Jersey Shore?
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- Snooki, but Sookie.
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- Deal breakers, deal breakers for me
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would have to be a person who is,
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who has bad energy, who lacks
ambition, who lacks drive,
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and who has bad breath.
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Bad breath is a deal breaker for me too.
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- I'm looking for a best friend,
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someone I can share everything with,
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talk on the beach for hours with.
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I'm just looking for a best friend
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who I can also be physical with,
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and have that fluttery feeling.
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- Your name is Jennifer,
and this is your story.
01:06
You are 25 years old.
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For work you are a graphic designer.
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You grew up in Los Angeles.
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- My name is Ellie.
01:18
I am an owner of a clothing company.
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And I was born in Colorado,
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and grew up in D.C. and North Carolina.
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- I was gonna say Colorado.
01:32
I was gonna say Colorado.
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I should've just went with my first mind.
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- Your name is Cheryl,
and this is your story.
01:37
You are 22 years old.
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For work, you are a waitress.
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You grew up in New York.
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- My name is Britney.
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I am 25, so thank you.
01:51
For work I'm actually
a singer, songwriter,
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but I am a waitress on the
side yeah to pay the bills.
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I grew up in Chicago.
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Why did you think my name
was, what was it Cheryl?
02:04
That's like, am I 50?
02:07
- I definitely thought it
was maybe Sharon or Cheryl
02:10
I felt like it was a Caucasian name.
02:15
- Really? Britney,
Britney is not that far,
02:18
but Cheryl is like 1979.
02:22
- But for some reason it was
just so stuck in my head,
02:25
and I just needed to write it down.
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The waitress I didn't want
to write down because I knew
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that that's not actually
your true occupation,
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but I felt that was you.
02:39
The worst time that I got my
heart broken was probably,
02:45
I was in this really long
relationship for about five years,
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and we were like engaged
and everything was perfect,
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and then college happened.
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And even though it was the
worst pain that I've ever felt,
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it kind of, it really helped me.
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I wouldn't take it back for anything
03:03
cuz it helped me mature,
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and it helped me realize
what I wanted in a woman,
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and what I was settling for
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and what I would never settle for again.
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- Growing up I went to
an all-black high school.
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I was the only white female in my class,
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and so I immediately got pegged
with Ellie the Barbie doll.
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I definitely felt like I learned
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what it's like to be picked on,
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what it's like to be bullied.
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And here you are in adult
life and you still have
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a few people who pick
on you here and there,
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and you just learn to
03:37
channel that energy for the better.
03:41
- If you could pick a new
name you would pick Jade.
03:53
You were voted best dressed.
03:56
And in high school you would
describe yourself as a rebel.
03:59
- Okay, if I could pick a new name,
04:04
it'd honestly be Elizabeth
04:08
because my mom one time told me
04:09
that that was the name
they were going to give me.
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And I like long names.
04:16
And you can always shorten
it to Beth and Bethany,
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and Ellie obviously.
04:20
- You've thought that out.
04:22
I was not voted at all, for anything.
04:25
And in high school I would
describe myself as ...
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Undetermined, or undecided.
04:35
That's how I would describe
myself, as undecided.
04:40
Do you feel like you were
a rebel in high school?
04:44
You come off as a rebel.
04:48
- I always gave my teachers trouble.
04:49
- If you could pick a new name,
04:55
don't kill me, but it would be Sookie.
04:57
You were voted most likely to succeed.
05:04
And in high school you would
describe yourself as shy.
05:07
- If I could pick a new
name I would pick Golden.
05:09
I really love the name Golden.
05:12
- That's a beautiful name.
05:13
- I don't know why, I just love it.
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Suckie? Did you call me Sookie?
05:16
- You know Jersey Shore?
05:19
- Snooki, but Sookie.
05:23
And I was voted most likely to ...
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Actually I wasn't voted most
likely to succeed at all.
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I was voted cutest couple, at that time.
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And in high school I would
describe myself as an outcast
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I was like the only person
who was out in high school,
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- I was the outcast.
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I was the one everyone was like ...
05:47
like whispering about.
05:49
- And you had a partner in high school?
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- Yes, I took my girlfriend to prom,
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and we were the first ...
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- Did you wear the pants?
05:56
- I didn't wear, neither
one of us wore the pants.
05:56
We both wore dresses,
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and we were actually voted cutest couple.
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We were the first lesbian couple
to be voted cutest couple.
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- I'm so proud of you.
06:09
And that's how I told
my mom that I was gay.
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- Yes, through prom.
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It was insane, everyone
was like voting for like
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who they wanted to be cutest couple,
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and I was telling people
not to vote for us.
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I'm like please, my mom doesn't know.
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My aunt worked at my high school,
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so I'm like please they don't know, don't,
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and they still voted for me.
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And my aunt like opened the
yearbook and she's like oh,
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cutest couple, so yeah.
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- So I grew up a Navy brat.
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That meant that we got to travel
around a lot, got to move,
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which meant that I was the
new kid in school, every time.
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My dad was always gone,
he was always working.
06:52
Either six months there
or six months here,
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always traveling overseas.
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When my dad was home, it was
still my mom running the house,
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so she's kind of the boss.
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She's got the pants in the relationship.
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So I'm pretty used to that.
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- Well growing up, my dad was in the Army,
07:11
and he was really strict.
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When we woke up we had to make the bed,
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everything had to be in order,
everything had to be clean.
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But my mom was more like,
you know just let 'em live,
07:21
let 'em, you know, let 'em
figure it out for themselves.
07:24
She really encouraged us
to make our own mistakes.
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Okay, when you die you
believe you will go to heaven.
07:35
At your funeral you
want people to be happy.
07:40
Of all the people who
you know that have died,
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the one whose death
was the hardest for you
07:45
was your grandmother.
07:48
- When I die I do believe
I'll either go to heaven
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or be reincarnated.
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At my funeral I want it to be a party,
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so lots of balloons, and loud
music, and lots of photos.
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The hardest death in my
life thus far would be
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- I was kind of right.
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When you die you believe
you will go to heaven.
08:13
At your funeral you would want
lots of laughter and music.
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Of all the people who
you know that have died
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the one whose death
was the hardest for you
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- See I don't really
believe in death, really.
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I just feel like the shell dies,
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but your spirit keeps coming around.
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At my funeral I want it to be a party.
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I mean like concert, I don't
care, something big, and fun.
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And out of all the people
that has died in my family,
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the hardest was my father.
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But I mean, like I said, I
don't believe in the end.
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I don't believe that that's
like the end all be all.
09:03
I feel like I still talk
to him, see him, feel him,
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you know, so it's not, you know.
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- When did your father pass away?
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- A really influential time in your life.
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- Very, very, but I mean
because he was a musician too,
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and he was a songwriter too.
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And I still have all of
his lyrics, and tapes,
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and just everything.
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I have all of his musical possessions,
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and it really inspired
me to write, and to sing,
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and to do all the things
that I'm doing so,
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I still feel like he's living through me.
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- Absolutely, that's amazing.
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Will you sing to me please?
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♫ You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
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♫ You make me happy when skies are gray.
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♫ You never know dear, how much I love you
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♫ [Both] Please don't
take my sunshine away.
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- You can go first.
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- When I first saw you I
decided that I would date you,
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but after talking to you I decided
10:40
that I would still date you.
10:44
- When I first saw you I
decided that I would date you.
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And after speaking with you, I've decided
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I'll continue dating you.
11:00
I mean you can just call
me Suckie all day, right?
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Is that what you called me?
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- Okay, well just call me Sookie now.
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All Sookie Sookie now.
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You want to go get some wine?
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- Let's go.
- Okay.
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