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Growing up, I just never liked

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the name Maurice. I wasn't

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sure what just call you, whether I should

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call you Maurice. Am. I'm

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Morocca and I'm back with season

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three of my podcast Mobituaries.

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I'm looking forward to introducing you to even

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more of my favorite dearly

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departed people and things

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from once popular names that

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have been left for Dad. It's not

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a goofy name, it's a cool name.

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It's tied to the girl whose

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name made international news

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in eleven year

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old American school girls. Samantha Smith today

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said goodbye to Soviet children she met at

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a youth camp on the Black Sea. She was

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that beam of sunshine that broke through the

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cold ice of cold work to

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the woman of a thousand voices,

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Why are you taking our Christmas tree?

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Why you know her?

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Laugh for witch Hazel. It's so quintessential

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right to

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freak you out. It creaked

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me out from the Latin lovers

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who set Hollywood on fire in

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the nineteen twenties. He would

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hold you in his arms

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if you were a beautiful woman, and

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kiss you passionately and brutally.

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Can somebody turn down the thermostat and here

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if I'm feeling hot to

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TV's top dog of the nineties.

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As you know, Wishbone is the star of

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the mega popular, award winning children's

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show on PBS Design to Introduce kids

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to literature. I've told people that writing

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for the show was like an assignment

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from an English professor on asset, it totally

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was. Yes, this season,

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I'll tell you about the year that changed

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marriage in America. On screen,

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so pleased to meet you. I'm

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pleased to meet you, Mrs Graydon, And

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off screen, we didn't get married

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for any reason other than the fact that we loved each other.

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We weren't trying to prove anything, change anything.

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We just loved each other. Listen to obituaries

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on the I Heart radio app, Apple

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podcasts, or wherever you get

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your podcasts. What do you think

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of the name Maurice. I think

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of like an old French dude, kind

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of short and fat.