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Lisa, wait.
What is it?
The threshold.
I've got to carry it. The threshold, the threshold.
The threshold, the threshold, the threshold, the threshold, the threshold.
I can't want tradition like that.
And this is our home.
The elephants, the horses, the crowds, and the...
It smells.
You have had too much champagne.
And why not? How often do I get married?
Just once.
Just forever.
You know, you don't know what you're doing.
And you don't know what you're saying.
As a matter of fact, you're not responsible for what you're thinking.
But you're hooked.
I've got you and you'll never get away.
Oh, I love you, Philip.
I love you, I love you, I love you.
And this is our wedding night.
I'm so happy.
Diablo.
Hi.
Diablo.
Diablo.
Diablo.
Look, there's Jerry.
We've got to tell the boss. We've got to tell him. Lisa, wait.
I'll tell him.
Look, you had a little too much to drink.
Jerry's very much in love with you.
You'll only hurt him.
Jerry!
Hey, where have you two been?
I wanted to go over an idea for your act, Lisa.
We were hiding.
Hiding?
Right in there.
Come on, no joke. Lisa!
He won't come out.
Even if I unlatched it, he wouldn't come out.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you.
I've got something to tell you. Felix and I... Look out!
Yes, come in.
Felix?
Well, you expecting someone?
No. Of course not.
Lisa went on a hit today.
She's waiting in L .A. for us.
Well, champagne, four candles and a cake.
Must be somebody's birthday.
Oh, an anniversary of some kind.
What do you want, Curtis?
Just about this time, wasn't it?
Four years ago?
It was a terrible thing Lisa did with that cat, Jerry Franklin.
What do you mean Lisa did?
Well, she opened the cage and let the cat get to Jerry.
She didn't.
Everyone knows it was an accident.
No, that's a story that went out.
Lisa knew how scared Jerry is of the cats.
Look, why are you bringing up all this now?
She'd had a little wine, that's all.
You think she maliciously opened the cage?
Oh, I think she was a little drunk, Felix.
She's got a conscience.
That's why she married Jerry. She didn't really love him.
That's why she's sticking with him when she really loves you.
What do you want, Curtis?
Well, now, you know that Jerry Franklin and I are partners in the circus.
Yes.
Want to buy me out?
Of course, the circus has fallen on bad times.
Do you know what he offered me for my share?
$180 ,000.
Why are you telling me all this?
Well, according to our partnership, I can turn around, offer Franklin the same
amount for his share.
He has to accept it.
What are you getting at?
I need a loan. I don't want to leave the circus.
Go to the bank.
I think I got a better chance with you.
Well, I don't have that kind of money.
You've been raising it.
How much you got in the till, Felix?
All right, I am raising it.
For Jerry Franklin, not for you.
And if he has to buy you out, I hope to be able to give him the money to do it.
See?
That's just the point.
Who gets the money to buy the other guy?
Was it exactly four years ago tonight?
I mean the night you married Lisa?
She didn't have time to divorce you before marrying Jerry Franklin.
Out of pity.
Can't blow out a marriage just like that.
Even with the best motive.
Look, you can't tell Jerry.
You've kept it from him for so long.
What are you going to do?
Well...
I'm going to wait for you to lend me the money you've been raising.
Felix, you can't blow out a torch like that either.
That's too bad. Lisa won't stay on when you take over.
She's great.
There'll be a few others who won't stay on.
Yes, sir. I'm looking forward to that.
Look, Durant, if you're figuring on replacing Heidemann, forget it.
But you promised me when I gave you the $10 ,000... We'll have to call that a
loan. I made a mistake.
You can't carry the show. You just haven't got it. I can do everything.
Heidemann can. I've got the experience, the ability, talent, everything.
Everything but his genius.
Well, it'll have to be by tomorrow.
It's him or us.
Tony and I just gave Felix our last $15 ,000.
It's all the money we have left in the world.
How much does that make altogether, Felix?
I'll be able to make it now.
Good.
Lisa, Felix, Joyce, Tony and me, partners.
Curtis is bluffing.
He says he can raise that money, but he can't.
In these last four years, we've loved each other without once saying the
Lisa's been an honorable and devoted wife to Jerry Franklin, Mr. Mason.
She's paid penance where none was demanded.
But as long as your marriage with Lisa is on the book, she's not legally
to Franklin.
She's really committing no crime, Mr. Mason.
Theirs is not a consummated marriage, the accident.
Well, the law makes no distinction on that account.
Now, you said the accident occurred on the night of your marriage.
Yes. Well, you could have had your marriage annulled.
Yes, Mr. Mason, but the time never seemed right.
First, we didn't know what to do, and then when Lisa married Jerry, couldn't
just then... I think Lisa wanted to hold on to that one thread secretly,
just as I did.
Bigamy is a felony in this state, Mr. Heidemann.
Can it be worked out without Jerry Franklin's knowledge?
Possibly.
And the loan Curtis is demanding?
You mean the blackmail?
That money isn't all yours, is it?
No. Then how could you use it?
Have you raised the entire $180 ,000?
All but $15 ,000 of it.
I know where I can get that, but that isn't the problem.
The problem is that if Jerry finds out Lisa's been married to me all this time,
it'll just about kill him.
You see, he thinks Lisa's been in love with him all along.
I understand.
But these are things that you and Lisa must decide for yourselves.
Yes, Mr. Mason.
Thank you. No, no, sit down.
No, I haven't been to a circus for years.
I could reserve some seats for you for tonight's performance.
Love to.
All right, let's see.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, the incomparable Felix
Heidemann, the funniest man in the world.
with marshmallows.
Well, Perry?
Well, hello, Lieutenant.
You know, hot corn never tastes half as good as it does with circus.
That's right, Lieutenant.
Nothing like good circus popcorn and good company to help you eat.
All right, Perry.
What are you doing here?
Eating popcorn.
What about you, Lieutenant?
Oh. Same thing you're here for, probably.
Duty.
Homicide got a complaint from the owner.
Someone tried to kill him.
Curtis? No, Mr. Franklin.
Had a tiger loose on him.
About an hour ago.
Back in the dressing room area.
Oh, he's okay. Nothing happened to him this time.
But I understand something did happen to him once before.
It was a long time ago.
Where's Heidman?
Where's that clown?
Funniest man in the world.
Well, I don't think this part of his act is going to make a jury laugh.
Mrs. Franklin, we are trying to place everybody.
No one seems to recall just what happened to Heidman or in what direction
went. Now, where were you when the fatal shot was fired?
In my dressing room.
And did you hear the shot?
I heard the silence, Lieutenant.
What's that?
Back here, when a performance goes on, there's a steady sound.
People talking, music, laughter.
I was putting on my makeup when I heard the silence.
And then you came out into the corridor?
Yes. And then what?
I went to the performance entrance to see what was going on.
Did you see Heidemann?
No, Lieutenant.
Did you see anybody in a clown suit, Mrs. Franklin?
No, Mr. Mason.
It's no good, Perry.
That was Heidemann in that suit and underneath that grease paint.
Since none of you are going to cooperate, you'll all have to come
spend the rest of the night, if we have to, remembering what went on.
You too, Lieutenant?
Huh?
It seems to me that you were just as much an eyewitness as anyone else. How
do you remember?
Well, I know one thing I didn't forget.
To put out an all -points bulletin on Felix Heidemann.
In San Francisco, Mr. Mason. I just found out what happened.
What are you doing up there?
I came up here to get the last part of the $180 ,000.
Why San Francisco?
My bank is here.
When did you leave Los Angeles?
I caught the 9 o 'clock train from Union Station last night.
9 o 'clock?
That's right.
The shot that killed Curtis was fired at 9 .15.
Yes, sir.
And you're saying you did not shoot Curtis?
Of course I didn't shoot him, Mr. Mason.
Look, I know they're looking for me.
What'll I do?
Are you telling me the truth, Mr. Heidemann?
Yes, sir.
Then you'd better come back to Los Angeles and tell it to the police.
The police?
Give myself up?
You'd be giving yourself up if you tried to run away.
I told her just the way it happened, Mr. Mason. I took the 9 o 'clock train to
San Francisco to get the money out of the bank.
Well, if we can prove you were on that 9 o 'clock train, it will automatically
clear you.
Well, I don't know if I can, Mr. Mason.
Didn't keep my ticket stub.
Didn't sit next to anyone.
There's just no one I remember.
Maybe one of the conductors will remember.
We'll have Paul Drake check on that.
Now, what about the gun you used in your act?
I left it in my dressing room on top of the makeup table.
Then anyone could have taken it.
I left it there purposely for my replacement.
What replacement?
I'd never leave the show in the lurch without arranging for a substitute.
I left a note.
Then you know who was in your costume at the time of the shooting.
No, I don't, Mr. Mason.
You see, the man that was supposed to be in that costume was Mr. Curtis.
Curtis?
Well, he used to be a clown. He's filled in for me on occasion in the past.
Who could have filled in for you this time?
Who could have made every single person there believe it was Felix Heidemann in
that clown suit?
Somebody did, Mr. Mason.
I thought it was Heidemann. Of course, I wasn't looking for it not to be.
If you know what I mean.
Where were you when the shot was fired, Mr. Durant?
My axe with the elephants. I was waiting over there to come in.
Did you see any part of Heidemann's axe?
Well, without really seeing it.
You know, you've seen it before. It's a routine. Well, this time, was there
anything about it that struck you as unusual?
Some missing characteristic?
Something left out of the routine?
No, but as I say, I wasn't really looking for anything.
What are you trying to do, Mr. Mason? Make out it wasn't Heidemann performing?
I think it's a possibility.
Is that how you're aiming to defend him?
Heidemann said that he took the 9 o 'clock train to San Francisco.
That he'd made arrangements with Curtis to substitute for him.
Curtis did substitute for him occasionally.
Did anyone else?
Occasionally?
Why don't you say it?
You mean me?
No.
No, I was never asked.
Now, um... Franklin was sitting there in his wheelchair at the tunnel entrance
to the dressing rooms when the shot was fired. Do you recall that, Mr. Durand?
I've been trying to remember everybody's position, but...
I'm more confused than sure.
Well, the killer was standing here, just about where we are.
And Curtis was standing directly over there.
A bullet fired along this line could have come from the dressing room
From where you say Mr. Franklin was.
That's right.
Well, even if I'd been looking, I couldn't have seen Mr. Franklin from
was.
Well, could you have seen Curtis standing over there?
Yes, I could have. I don't remember looking.
Mr. Durant, I need your help.
A question has been raised that Felix Heidemann either had a substitute or
someone impersonated him.
Now, would you search back in your memory for some definite clue as to the
that the killer could not have been Heidemann?
You're suggesting that I might be able to testify that it wasn't Heidemann in
that costume?
Yes, you might.
That's the way of a lawyer, to protect his client.
Figuring out angles like that, true or not.
Well, even if I might, I wouldn't.
You'd lie?
There's no love lost between Heidemann and me, Mr. Mason.
I'm not saying I'd lie and hang him.
But I wouldn't tell the truth to help him either.
Hello, Paul.
Anything new?
Hi, Perry.
Plenty, but it'll keep. The Gilberts are waiting for you, and Della says it's
important.
Della, I'm back.
Would you bring the Gilberts in, please?
Yes, sir.
Come in, please.
My wife has something to tell you, Mason.
Won't you sit down?
No, thank you.
I don't know if it's important or not.
Tony seems to think so.
Last night, about 20 after 6, I went into Mr.
Curtis' office.
There was a note on his desk from Felix saying that he was going to San
Francisco and couldn't make the performance.
And he wanted Mr. Curtis to fill in for him.
Felix said he had left a note for Curtis.
Go on, Joyce.
Later, after dinner, I went back to his office, and the note was gone.
And you thought Curtis had picked the note up?
Yes, yes.
And when you saw Curtis lighting his cigarette during the performance, and
realized that he had not taken Heidemann's place, what did you think?
I thought Felix had changed his mind.
You know...
I believe someone other than Felix Heidemann was in that clown suit.
I'd like you to try to recall if there was anything in the act, anything
different or out of the ordinary which would show that it wasn't Heidemann.
No, I... I don't recall.
I didn't notice anything.
Did Felix go to San Francisco, Mr. Mason?
That's going to be one of the major issues in this case, Mrs. Gilbert.
Whether he did or did not.
The police will be very dubious.
Very.
That is some of the news I have for you.
I think the police are prepared to concede that Heidemann went to San
They are?
Any time after 10 o 'clock.
Heidemann said he took the 9 o 'clock train.
They got a call this morning from the state police near Santa Barbara.
A gun was found on the highway, presumably thrown from a San Francisco
train. Santa Barbara?
Close by, Carpinteria.
Kind of lucky it landed on the highway.
Yes.
Very lucky.
Was it Heidemann's gun?
Registered to him and identified as the .357 long -barrel magnum revolver used
in his act. And, according to Tragg, the gun that killed Judson Kurtz.
I show you Exhibit A and ask if you can identify it.
Yes, sir. That's the bullet which passed through the deceased's body and
ricocheted off an iron plate on one of the tent poles.
And this peculiar flattened and bulging effect.
That's when it struck the iron plate.
Thank you, Lieutenant.
Lieutenant Frag, I show you this gun and ask you to identify it.
Yes, sir.
It's the gun found on Highway 101 in Carpateria.
That's on the way to San Francisco at a point where the railroad tracks cross
the highway.
It's a Magnum 357, purchased by the defendant, Felix Heidemann, and
in his name.
It was wiped clean of all fingerprints.
Thank you.
Now, Lieutenant, on the night of the murder, did you, in the course of duty,
visit the Curtis Franklin Circus?
Yes, sir. I'd gone there to investigate an attempted homicide against Gerald
Franklin, one of the owners.
What time was this?
About 8 .30.
Then you were present during the evening performance. Did you see a clown named
Felix Heidemann performing that night?
Yes.
What happened during that performance?
He was caricaturing a shooting act which had preceded him.
And? He fired a shot at the deceased, Judson Curtis.
But instead of having blank cartridges in his gun, there were real bullets.
Now, and I want to emphasize this point, Lieutenant.
Was there during the act, following the act... or in any discussion with any of
the principals at any later time, any hint or suggestion that it was not the
incomparable, world -renowned Felix Heidemann performing that night.
Oh, no, no, sir.
Thank you, Lieutenant.
You may cross exam.
Was the clown in costume, Lieutenant?
Yes, sir.
And in heavy makeup?
Yes. Would you say unrecognizable?
Well, if you mean, uh...
Feature by feature. That's what I mean, yes.
Yes, he was unrecognizable.
Lieutenant, did you check the fatal bullet ballistically?
We tried, but the distortion was so severe, no comparison could be made.
Then for all we know, the gun found on Highway 101 was not the murder gun.
Well, I wouldn't put it that way. I just put the answer the way I put the
question, Lieutenant.
No, we can't prove it was the murder gun.
Was the gun loaded?
Yes. How many bullets were in the cylinder?
Four.
Then, since the .357 Magnum holds six bullets, it could mean that two shots
been fired.
Could.
Now, Lieutenant, you took several members of the circus personnel down to
headquarters for questioning on the night of the murder. What time did you
release them?
Oh, various times.
Now, what time did the last of them leave?
About 3 o 'clock.
I believe you stated in your testimony that the gun was found at Carpinteria
early in the morning. Now, exactly what time early in the morning?
Well, the state police reported it at 6 .50 a .m.
Then any of those people you'd been questioning at police headquarters had
time to drive to Carpinteria, toss the gun onto the highway to simulate its
having been thrown from a train.
Well, if you're asking if any of them had been kept under surveillance, no,
weren't.
That's what I was asking. Thank you, Lieutenant. That's all.
You may step down.
And the amount of money to buy Judd Curtis out was $180 ,000.
Heidemann was the treasurer.
As explained then, it was a question of your buying out Curtis or his buying you
out.
Yes. And you had partners on your end, including the defendant, Felix
Yes. Now, Mr. Franklin, let's dig a little deeper.
I asked you to explain the relationship which existed between you and your wife
before your marriage.
What is there to tell?
We were all good friends.
I think Lisa had a great affection for Felix.
I'm proud to say she had a greater affection for me.
She was in love with me.
The measure of that love is that...
At the time of my accident, she'd already made up her mind to accept me.
I don't know what else there is to tell.
Her devotion.
Her self -sacrifice over these past four years. The way she gave
real meaning to futility.
And Felix Heidemann.
Was he in love with your wife?
Of course. How could he help it?
I knew it all along.
And did you also know... Objection, Your Honor.
Defense has been very patient with this line of questioning, but it's
extraneous, argumentative, leading, and certainly not best evidence.
Your Honor, the prosecution is trying to lay a foundation as to the motive for
murder. The objection is not without merit.
Perhaps, Mr. Alvin, you will explain to me what your plans are.
Your Honor.
It is the intention of the state to prove that the defendant, Felix
was being blackmailed by Judson Curtis.
That the blackmail centered around the relationship between... Your Honor, I
the witnesses in this case be excused from the courtroom.
Certain hardships might result if... There's only one way he can try to prove
what he thinks he knows about us.
And that is to bring me to the stand, to ask me the questions, not Jerry or
anybody else.
Just me.
Well, I'm sorry, Jerry.
I'm very sorry, but I cannot sacrifice Felix.
I will not testify.
Young woman, you're out of order.
But you mean you're not going to testify?
He's my husband, Your Honor.
Felix Heidmann is my husband.
Can I be forced to testify against my husband?
He was going to have the money by 3 o 'clock the next day.
Did he say where he expected to get the money?
From Heidemann.
From Heidemann?
But now, Felix Heidemann was part of the combine that was going to buy him out.
Did he say how he expected to get the money from Heidemann? He said that
Heidemann and Lisa were trying to protect Mr. Franklin.
That they didn't want him to know that they were married.
It would be a terrible blow to him.
And by threatening to tell Mr. Franklin, he could get the money.
Yes. Now, Mr. Durant, why did the decedent tell you all this?
Well, why not?
Mr. Curtis planned after he took over the circus to make me the premier clown.
He was going to get rid of Heideman.
Did you witness the performance of Felix Heideman on the night of the murder?
Yes, sir.
Well, then, as a clown, as a working member of the profession, what's your
expert opinion on the performance that night?
It was superb.
I've never seen Heidemann in greater form.
Then, as far as you're concerned, it was Felix Heidemann, the defendant, who was
performing that night.
Of course it was. There's not the slightest doubt about it.
Heidemann is a genius.
Wouldn't it take a bigger genius to impersonate him?
Thank you.
You may cross -examine.
Mr. Mason, before you begin your cross -examination, if you have no objection,
I'd like to call the noon recess now.
No objection, Your Honor.
Court is adjourned till 2 o 'clock this afternoon.
Now, as I understand it, Gerald Franklin was sitting in his
wheelchair watching the performance from here.
Yes, I think so.
You know so, don't you, Mr. Gilbert?
Well, yes.
Let's see, he was... Just about here, in the shadow of the stand.
They had a direct line of the clown on the center of the ring and Judson Curtis
on the other side.
Mr. Mason, if there's any way that I can help, maybe on the stand I can remember
some differences in the performance.
Thank you, Mr. Gilbert.
Now, you were watching the performance from there?
Yes, right there.
And your wife?
Joyce was sitting right beside me.
Then, when the shooting started, of course, we ran out.
Did you notice in which direction the clown was running?
That's what Lieutenant Tragg kept after us on.
Yes, I think I did.
I think he ran back to the dressing rooms.
And nobody followed?
No.
Paul. Yeah?
Paul, I wonder what happens when it rains.
Oh, you mean the canvas roof?
Well, that's waterproof, Mr. Mason.
It shouldn't be.
There should be a hole in it, a bullet hole.
The clown fired up at the platter, remember?
But those were blanks.
One of those blanks killed Curtis, didn't it?
Two bullets gone out of six.
But why do you want to find a hole in the roof, Perry?
It's going to present quite a problem without striking the whole tent.
I know a better man to tackle it.
This is Durant's dressing room.
Perry, you want me to get going on the canvas top?
Help me here first, Paul.
Sure, help you with what?
Help me find some .38 caliber blanks, at least four of them and possibly six.
What blanks would they be?
Well, if there were real bullets in that .357 Magnum, then the blanks normally
used would have been removed.
You expect to find them here, in Durant's dressing room?
You want to chip in, Mr. Gilbert?
Yes, certainly.
Anything I can do to help.
I noticed you were a little angry at your wife the day you came to my office,
Mr. Gilbert.
No.
No, I wasn't.
Hadn't she told you about that note soon enough?
No.
What do you mean?
Perhaps she had some reason for keeping it back.
Perhaps she had some reason for not telling you why she went to Curtis'
in the first place.
And then she went back the second time.
I forgot to ask her what for.
Do you know, Mr. Gilbert?
No.
What kind of guns do you and your wife use in your act, Mr. Gilbert?
We have them specially made.
You a jealous man?
No, why should I be... Well...
There had been a time when Curtis and Joyce were... Perry, here they are.
How many, Paul?
Four.
You'd better get back to the courtroom, Mr. Gilbert.
What about me?
You cover the world, Paul.
The circus was in financial difficulty, wasn't it, Mr. Durant?
I'm not an accountant.
Please, speak up, Mr. Durant.
I'm not an accountant.
You loaned a large sum of money to Judson Curtis to enable him to take over
circus, did you not?
Yes, I did.
Why shouldn't I have?
And he made you a promise at that time.
A promise that you could take over the act belonging to Felix Heidemann.
Yes.
Now, Mr. Durant, on the afternoon of the murder, Joyce Gilbert had occasion to
go into Mr.
Curtis's office.
On his desk, she saw a note left there by Felix Heidemann. Did you see that
note?
No.
You did not see that note?
No, sir.
It was a note telling Curtis that...
Heidemann was going to San Francisco, asking Curtis to substitute for him.
What are you asking me all these questions for?
Because I believe you've been lying, Mr. Durant. I believe you did see that
note. I believe you destroyed it.
And further, I believe you took Heidemann's place during his act.
You knew his routine by heart, his every move, his every gesture.
Under all the paint, who could tell the difference?
It was your great opportunity, wasn't it, Mr. Durant?
All right.
Yes, it was my opportunity, and I took it.
Thousands of people laughed and watched and applauded and thought I was
Heidemann.
Curtis watched me.
Franklin watched me.
All the professionals watched me.
And not one of them knew it wasn't Heidemann.
It was a greater performance than Heidemann ever gave.
Then Curtis fell to the ground.
You realized he was dead and you fled to the dressing room area.
Yes. Changed to your own clown costume to resume your own identity.
Yes.
Then what, Mr. Durant?
Well, then there was questioning by Lieutenant Tragg.
We were taken down to police headquarters.
And released before 3 a .m.
That's right.
Go on.
Well, then I went back to the circus, back to my dressing room.
I got the revolver, got in my car, drove to Carpinteria,
to a place where the railroad track crosses the road.
You knew Heidemann was taking that train to San Francisco?
Yes.
I dropped the revolver on the highway.
Trying to implicate Heidemann?
Yes.
I... I don't suppose you'll believe me, but... when I went into the ring, when
the act started, I didn't know the gun was loaded.
I believe you about that, Mr. Durant.
I believe that you did not kill Judson Curtis.
What? You thought there were blanks in that gun? There were.
When you fired up at that spinning platter, you fired a blank cartridge.
Just as you fired a blank cartridge at Curtis.
But that's impossible.
The gun I took to Carpenter Real was loaded with real bullets.
When did you first examine that gun?
When? Why, when I came back from police headquarters?
The only one who could have committed the murder waited for everyone to be
to police headquarters, then calmly went to your dressing room, took the blanks
out of Heidemann's gun, replaced them with four bullets, and let you take it
from there.
The murderer is the only one who...
Could have shot Curtis without having been observed.
His revolver, the counterpart of Heidemann's gun, concealed by the robe
covered his lap.
What made you want to kill Curtis, Mr. Franklin?
What made you want to kill him?
I killed him because... because he set the tiger on me.
He opened the cage door knowing I was the only one in the aisle.
Unprotected. Deliberately.
He wanted to kill me like that.
He set the tiger on me.
Thank you.
Thank you, Lisa.
For those four years, I never knew.
Coming up next, another episode of Harry Mason, followed by comedy kickback,
only on the Hallmark Channel. Curtis was desperate.
Not only couldn't he buy Franklin out, but he'd stolen so much that an
accounting would have disclosed that Franklin wouldn't have had to pay him
cent. So that's why he tried to kill Franklin.
That's right.
He had to buy Franklin out, not be bought out.
And there's some other things I dug up, things that Perry's known, but no one
else has. No one, that is, except Lisa.
About what, Lisa?
Lisa never really married Gerald Franklin.
No, I didn't. I wanted everybody else to believe I did, but it was a mock
ceremony.
A friend of mine acted as the magistrate.
So you see, Lisa has never been legally a bigamist.
Now what happened? Now, Paul.
Now? Now.
Now we're going to celebrate the beginning of a honeymoon you've never
Night on movie night on the Hallmark Channel in September.
Once upon a time there lived a little mermaid.
Why is he doing this to me?
Men is our enemy.
Revolution!
Okay, might be chaplain after all. You want to understand me, watch my moves.
You are the parent of them all. Just take a bite.
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