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Lavender Matinee - Story by Alfred Bolster

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    Before I begin my story tonight,
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    I'd just like to say that that told stories that are based on sort of facts about my life,
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    but the story tonight, other elements of myself naturally have crept into it.
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    It's a fiction piece.
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    Therefore all the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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    [ *laughs from audience* ]
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    Yes.
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    A lipstick.
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    A special lipstick.
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    I found it the other day when I was sorting through the boxes in the attic.
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    It belonged to Frida.
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    It was the only shade of lipstick that Frida ever wore.
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    It was her colour.
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    And she alone __the world allowed to wear it.
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    It was discovered by her friend Steve,
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    who worked at the Chanel counter of The Bay in Vancouver.
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    He showed it to Frida one day in the fall of 1979.
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    And as soon as she tried it on
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    it was hers.
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    It's name was Lavender Matinee.
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    Yes! Memories of Frida and Lavender Matinee.
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    Frida wore the lipstick wherever she went,
Title:
Lavender Matinee - Story by Alfred Bolster
Description:

From the "Whoop-di-doo" event in May 2013 in Powell River, BC.

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Duration:
09:21
Radical Access Mapping Project added a translation

English subtitles

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