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Jackie Onassis

Series: TAL Fall 2004 No-Premium Fundraising Materials
From: This American Life
Length: 00:07:16

A funny story about how - in every marriage - there are stories that get repeated over and over. Even if they're dead wrong. Read the full description.

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IN: " Well it's a special pledge drive edition ..." OC: "Here's the number to call. And if you want to see the special sneak preview of the This American Life DVD that we want to give you to thank you for calling, go to www.thisamerican.life.org/DVD." [Complete TAL pledge drive instructions included in attached Word doc, tal_2004_pledge_np.doc.]

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Review of Jackie Onassis

I think everyone has had the same experience and can relate to both the characters and the situation. Very humorous.

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Review of Jackie Onassis

This is a great example of how different two peoples stories can be; it has a husband and wife being interviewed about an exact story that should be the same but since Tamar says that the husband isn't their. This is a hilarious story; the reporter does a great job of editing the story together and interviewing the people. There is really no way to make this story much better.

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IN: " Well it's a special pledge drive edition ..."

OC: "Here's the number to call. And if you want to see the special sneak preview of the This American Life DVD that we want to give you to thank you for calling, go to www.thisamerican.life.org/DVD."

[Complete TAL pledge drive instructions included in attached Word doc, tal_2004_pledge_np.doc.]

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