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This is Badvertising -one of my early monologues - Day # 36 from March 20, 2014. Only now I have a video- https://youtu.be/WLVTfgJvIuM with Peggy Daly performing for Script-in-Hand Players in San Diego. Thank you to peggy, Janet Redmond -and the whole group for bringing my work to senior audiences throughout San Diego County.
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