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for young ears

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july two

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thousand and seven a ,

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since hong kong return to chinese sovereignty

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sovereignty know we're pushing for npr in china

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i also cover hong kong from time

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to time his status as the son of

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what i now the king is eighty five

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years old he has another

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regent another young man who

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works in advertising services

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replay more

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, the first hand yes yes

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with it and remember my name for

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ten years

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george i'm a tiny stylish

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eccentric wearing sit flat

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perfectly circular spectacles his

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attitude to the king is that of that subject

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to his monique

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i'm just one of the service

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there , a good friend

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in favor friend

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in yeah because and

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maybe some time you mocking with

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him

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meet in the early nineteen

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nineties show was walking

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and munkank in kowloon when he sees

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a crowd at , center

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an old man shirtless sitting

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on an upturned rubbish bins painting

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on a traffic control box to

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stop watches mesmerize

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said said king finishes

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king is another

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bottle not far from not feet

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of the kings doesn't of for it instead

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he calls out think inc

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no one is no

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one but joe

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your friends either and picks

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up the a princess the

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start the start relationship eventually

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to start making

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the humane special mixes that

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a sticky of paint to of the wall

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getting old he was already

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on crutches after his legs were crushed

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in a was taxes and now

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, in a wheelchair he has heart

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problems and when and

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set fire to the ancestor shrine in his

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flat his family moved him

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to a nursing home then

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and nurses ban him from inviting

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the king is beside himself

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the opposite is stopped hanging

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he didn't rider they're worried along with

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a and then he can flip

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where we have seen their mouth

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the nurses down from being

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to does she smells so

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much the other residents complain

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in i feel to the whole hour

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and a backup and as shroud

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red lava that what was assessing

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the i'm the paying why you didn't allow

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me to rise of i'm why you keep

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all my poverty as the frost

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the adding the papers my puppeteer

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spell

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soon shall find the solution

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market pens says

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, king lights on paper instead

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of on the walls sometimes

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his was

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game

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medical that cause the headboard

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of his badge

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if hands are shaking then

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time he forgets how to write those

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only so familiar characters in

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here to earth jones to show him

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the in and out of hospital see

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and co are already thinking

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about his legacy

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i promised him we're going

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to puppies up for for him but

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sit keep talking about us

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soviet both about me

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i'm louisa men and this

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is the king

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the

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he

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did he

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in be on story of sensitize

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and man who imagines himself to

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be a king and got all the people to

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buy into that fantasy he

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called himself called king of talent and

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spent and lifetime defeating

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his family tree across uncles

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wall i began

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a trying to find out if the with any

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truth behind his claims of how those

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and it was assigned was assigned

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do

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one the whole

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power the other people's

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shoes

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the kings the com a cultural icon

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a slice us symbolizing different

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things

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the people

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now i want to know what kind of legacy

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he needs of when i start

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digging and realize i have questions

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about who's legacy it is anymore

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feed

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that the new theory

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that summer of two thousand seven

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chose hard at work on the book

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the , and hospital for the third time

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this time for pulmonary edema from

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smoking one day

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job hop sin bringing a sick leave

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for the kings fine for a charity auction

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it's a small statue about a foot

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tall a copy of one of china's

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terracotta warriors that lemon yellow

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in color the kings in

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green and gray check pajamas he's

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beaming as he signs the sega

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he saw a threat

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than japan and the southern

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it it looked like a says

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very happy and then he told

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me on love doing their thing

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any more specific

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oh me afterwards distill notice

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thing

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the signature is different

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he , signed the king of kalou

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and instead been

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shaky black cat says he's

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listen his we

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name some so try

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i'm not doing the king any

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more he tells show it

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appears the king has abdicated

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his throne i'm

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that the last time job sees

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him allies

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on july fifteen two thousand

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and seven

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read

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eleven days and a nice

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to bite that it mayhem

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and in the founders of

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if you know in the newspapers sons

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and special supplements people

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collective memories one

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, say even suggest the king

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was hong kong true leader he

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writes the chief executive says chief executive

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year term but son so toy with

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the people's king his whole life

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yeah he to the has become

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the king the

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moment co here's the news he

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knows what he has to do

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you

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whoa the kings record keeper is

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our kids

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after i got the news

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and i going to a hospital the path

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other material which belongs

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to solve ah he

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says you have any worse than nests

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omaha fifty them right anymore

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a few days later the funeral

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and that to unfolds in an unusual

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way

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home is

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the made media that there's no coffin

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mid forties know

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moon

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the reporters is struck by the emptiness

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that the seen one describes it as

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cold and desolate the

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all if they're waiting for the family

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but they never allies it

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turns out this is a fake funeral

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a decoys the kings

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wife and children are holding a private

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ceremony elsewhere they

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don't want a fuss and

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guess side so choice finally

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found the legitimacy the craved

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that his family deprive him of a send

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us sit for kings

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that the government does nothing to

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preserve his work on the street y

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twenty fifteen when fifteen go looking

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for the kings characters kings the wild only

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a few p

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one a chimp ha sorry pierre

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but , want to find the others others

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can only young journalism student

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show student nixon

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sneezes it's late and she's helping me

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she's flying high

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the height of a busy road enjoy

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hong pao known we find

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a piece of the kings what and

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electricity box covered with his

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wife

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i'm thrilled

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choice not so much

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why do you think events and , the

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the you even not named him if

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i hadn't tainted hadn't i

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think maybe no ordinary

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nearby find a playground

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on the ping chef public housing estates

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we find enough

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p

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the king messy legacy straggle

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some the lamppost awesome

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houses a lamppost is covered with could

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see through plastic fork again

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this pack no explanation

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join us off a sigh what they say

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oh god

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if you want from me ten dollars to take

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it home defense says about the has

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the money

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are you know what however when i was

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i wouldn't say this taken

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aback

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everyone i've spoken to so far

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have been sounds of the king and

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maybe i've been blinded by my own

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enthusiasm

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later over an ice cream sundae

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i price joyce further i

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, you

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didn't like actually the

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actually

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what mccain and palin when you say

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i , like his style of writing

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against chinese character

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free as

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as as the same hang

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up without any fights

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, as he said calligraphy

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and supposed to be all about harmony the

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report online now

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i'm a minute like

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calligraphy done via a sixty

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allows you to see

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the time assess actually

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if you look at work see

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to supersede eighty six eighty

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seven dollars for ten days is not

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something forty six on how thorough

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right how are , disappointed

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yes please yeah

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she's lack of artistic talents that

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bothers choice you can say he's

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selfish he says retain

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like source says he

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showed a d c area

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hi joyce thinks the

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king might not be famous if it weren't

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for the media they're not a

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lot of local

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in hong kong and

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sometimes i thank you so

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how would throw he thought as

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to pick one who ,

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and will be some notoriety

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that is rock were everywhere

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in hong kong more

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hi

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julie , that someone made

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the team famous famous comes

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up again when we go back out to talk

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to people on the street we

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meet someone who says she's an artist

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she's not him

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the

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and

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ernie i'm having doubts

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maybe the king is simply a creation

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of others people with a vested

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interest vested interest up the value of

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his work one government

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officials certainly thought so her

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name cbt yen and in have

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you he wasn't even analysis

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the new new or creative

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elements to his work she

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, so wrote a paper attributing

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sons fame to steaks and as

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as unnamed stakeholders

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they're most likely the two most recent

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lesions malkin why

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who organizes first exhibition until

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tone his last patron they

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both own siege actions

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of his work he says given

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him things to vitamin like charles

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umbrellas maps is cheese

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that is an argument they created

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those works that much as he

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did it's tricky

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to get the bottom of this because

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when i talk to them it seems they disagree

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on just about everything now

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can why accuses jolla destroying

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pieces as a kings work

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including a huge wall painting

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and fi inform hello

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, time was on the

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following the family

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has a high has proposals

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high then after like

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ten years show her

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father facebook far

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as i'm thinking

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it was a painting now cume why says

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skyscrapers and the words

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aren't is not everything but we need

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it

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the why did he say that

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eagle

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that is a lot of would say see

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i didn't hang said elsewhere

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the did you ask him why he

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had some

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lower hi are you know him that some

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that were angry he lodges a police complaint

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show was phones in a book he

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says is part of part bigger projects

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which he called disappearance

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he's drawing attention to the vanishing

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of the kings work and the city's old

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buildings and traditions the

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means it as a wakeup call to

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hong kong when

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we talk show fires his own accusations

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that allow can why accusing

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him as pathetic as the kings expense

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when selling his works

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the even though have them without god

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he doesn't number fifty thousand the

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first work

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then he just only gave three thousand

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two thing apollo at a city job

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stephen king will cuddle also say

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i'm happy okay

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no idea who is in the white

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maybe , reason even a right to be

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in the only thing that is

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clear the value of the kings

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what just keeps going up fueled

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by both collectors they

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both putting on tribute exhibitions

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and eventually they bury the hatchet to

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do one together occasionally

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, they sell

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pieces as the kings work and

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twenty thirteen adversity covered

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scooter cells per quarter of quarter million

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us dollars

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the king a com hong kong most

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valuable assets

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no dying and

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rising is become a kind of design

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shorthand just greens

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hong kong is fake

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king calligraphy on the hall of the facebook

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coffee in starbucks on restaurant

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if the com

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the paid as usual cliche

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you might that's maybe

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the kings what is meaningless maybe

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, just been swayed by the people i've been

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talking most of asia

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the states in his maybe

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he's just a commodity

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the moment as the king's death in

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, thousand and seven seven

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else was happening to the

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government wants to demolish the seaside

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ps for reclamation projects

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it free

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here and it's way newly arrived

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for she doesn't as class set forth

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in hong kong ancestors

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, to say that they fear

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hong kong colonial history kong

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colonial lost

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the

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the pilot for ten days holding a

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hunger strike chaining themselves

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to raining after the

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kinda ice nice thing to start

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he knew

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gone

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hum the queen remain finally

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please don't have here and remove

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princesses cycle

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one too thin man with

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square spectacle of his interviews

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lying on the pier waiting

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to be arrested his

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name is eddie true

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what about ago man that

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, it isn't or syria

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in preserving our history so stop

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them on them zone starts to hurt

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the heart of on heart of

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this is the first in a series

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of protests in ,

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thousand and seven people try to stop

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the demolition of the street famous for

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printing traditional wedding cause cause

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years two he tried to preserve

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the farming village in the path of the

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well way linking hong kong to china

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first time they fail

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then in

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twelve here i have

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my high school students want

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the government to scrap for physicists

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have feel sick chinese style education

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the thing when in

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september twenty fourteen everything

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seventy nine days uncommon occupy

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street simply places they

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want more

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democracy to choose a chief executive

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me appointed biased selection to me

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homer the mobilizing to protect

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their freedom to

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get the democracies they were

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the

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surprise

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comments as the handed

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be clean and

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no fact the went and i say should

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the know

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the last night of the occupation

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the first stop is a concrete staircase

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near the government headquarters it

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could lenin was and it's inspired

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by wall of protest

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having him to sit notes

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schools with chinese slogans

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these attacks six the king who would

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recognize

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when i get that

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bolland he's a carefully taste

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and down the know to save them

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the same ,

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amount oh no need

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for universal suffrage

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the i'm not

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really because universal see you every

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worth the wait wait

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of see hop around a home with

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me

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across the occupied same

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public art is exploding

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a canopy a flight eight hundred and well

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as as the head see umbrellas

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used by fisher says to protect

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themselves from huge and

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so he me a high wouldn't statue of statue

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man posing man yellow i'm follow

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along

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it like the movement

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hum not peace

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imagination and political

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and artistic

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the gray early morning

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light the bayless survive

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the police are on their way what

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democratic party chair emily now

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she's sitting in the world waiting to

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be arrested

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the only have coming in about

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five minutes and , you

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keep saying saying would

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be infinitely ago infinitely i think

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so because they will come and they would

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tell us the late

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anyway that we will not go away

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and , guess they were some economists economists

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mood and tense fiba

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by nature on

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in law abiding ruffalo

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is now , shops

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in size inside a stubborn principal

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street which is driving them to take

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a stand homeless against

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their will have to sell because

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i'm i'm half ago and

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if you get you get be

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arrested upset that is

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that is what are you

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prepared

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the era yep

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, and i have a feeling that is

22:53

right decision that i'm

22:56

afraid afraid

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pick for me as for me

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item

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in case he won the man who designed

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the kings exhibition heathrow think in

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nineteen ninety seven

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you can still sitting at a table

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by the side of the world phone portraits

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of protesters i

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on him what the umbrella movement has

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done to hong kong

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like a king the red fill in

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the story of the matrix the

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, tell you what's

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that

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i fell asleep in the

23:32

saudi sleep which

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i know it's unforgivable unforgivable

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casey is unequivocal

23:42

everything has changed the

23:44

people of hong kong or now with that

23:46

, the redfield and we will die

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and real realize that that

23:51

not only chinese but we are hong

23:53

kong nice with his stance or and

23:56

be proud of identity for the first

23:59

that's what is moving that's

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, why come

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on

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how a way of

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life this life this war on how true

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by the end of the occupation nine

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hundred and sixty five

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people have been arrested

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on the way home i'm still

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thinking about my crisis of confidence

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in the

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in

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then i realized maybe it

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isn't how illness ness speaks

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to hong kong as yes

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, was a symbol of dispossession

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dispossession found his power in voicing

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his loss in continuing

25:05

his resistance even though

25:08

he knew it was doomed

25:10

and now

25:12

it seems the kings descendants

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a taking off his

25:16

the

25:35

next time on the king of to lose

25:38

the frustration that's been building suddenly

25:41

explodes into master of protest

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after

25:45

all you people were so

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indifferent about politics up the two

25:50

thousand and fourteen them by the muslims and

25:52

for the me with felt so powerful so powerful

25:54

out we are finally back and cruises

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outright

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no again war

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real war will drive into

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this war is war

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on culture if you lose

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and say goodbye to language the

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way of living

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not be higher

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next time on the king

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of calories

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he is created in were thwarted by

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me louise a mammoth casino

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well as well as producer and

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says

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he did you need to

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had had thing is i've awful stapleton

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and essential thank you to

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all

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share stories

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i probably tell him things

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anybody even to this

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day see wow would

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never had any idea

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it on city snow

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i'm journalists matthew condom i

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lived through an era where crime and corruption

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permeated the lives of so

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many queenslanders senior police

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allowing extensive criminal activity to flourish

27:36

undetected really

27:37

receive sexual favors the

27:39

whole state was really in a state

27:42

of doubled

27:42

maybe you've heard the stories before

27:46

but there's another story you might not

27:48

have heard about the sex workers

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who are caught in the middle

27:56

leading [unk] brussel madam surely margaret

27:59

blowing the whistle on senior officers

28:02

massage parlor entrepreneur someones

28:04

idol one of kwame brown but most

28:06

baffling cold cases star

28:09

witness catherine james is

28:11

, the first person ever to going to witness

28:13

protection and the one who's lived through

28:16

it all stars edith not not

28:19

coma or coma the

28:22

sirens was coming a six pack

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podcast series from the ip say listen

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now