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cricket shoes,
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this assignment go
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to sell it.
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to my top salesperson.
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11. Still me.
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13. This is Peggy Hill speaking,
but you can call me...
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and french fries?
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just let me have it.
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like water,
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Yay, Aunt Peggy!
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Peggy.
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big deal
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housing market.
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two weeks to sell the house,
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with flowers, candles
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won't have a chance
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a big crowd.
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40. Oh, God, look
who's here.
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Bud Ferguson.
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like a mere mortal.
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of our sales last month
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"structural problems."
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doesn't have those.
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faulty wiring
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three layers of drywall?
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inspection,
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he had to move to a Dakota.
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by 1:00 p. m.
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starts in an hour,
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you jump in the car
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around the state?
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with outsiders in the house.
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her ferret on the mouth.
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who I felt worse for.
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the ugly ones.
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people in town?
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they take off their glasses
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with the actors.
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142 Taylor Avenue open house.
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how wonderful the house is,
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with it, and bingo, it's sold!
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the actors.
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everybody,
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Unique New York!
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Unique New York!
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it out!
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I'm an actor.
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houses is a dumb idea.
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on the line.
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before the open house.
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acting to propane again.
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with modern upgrades.
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Peggy,
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Hank.
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the freaky people.
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in this house.
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and large bay windows—
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that will never open again.
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the bed is off-limits.
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don't try on my belts."
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King "Don't."
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right there in a bowl.
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makes me...
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my love.
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too early again.
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you rush in.
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my love!
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we are pregnant.
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who's responsible.
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doing here,
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my knitting group?
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doing here.
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sell houses.
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history, Peggy,
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a part of it.
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I want a part in it.
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even hot.
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to just throw you in.
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professional actors.
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being bred,
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love my head.
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my chimney monologue.
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when she just started crying.
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take the house back
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old dad, too.
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the house misses you.
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and it was good.
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to bring friends
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just to make rent?
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of a family.
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the people in the family.
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what keeps them together.
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God, the whole nine.
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stop thinking about home,
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stay dead.
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the party.
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because I never do.
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doctors will never tell you
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is the worst kind of sick.
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I will honor this house
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shealways knew I could be.
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idea— genius.
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surpassed that genius
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a new level of genius
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to the show.
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my target audience.
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did you love it?
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an offer on the house.
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that you've never even seen?
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make you a witch.
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on this house.
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cash deposit?
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a very good price—
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in a down market.
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open it, Dad?
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that is fame.
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of this sale.
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which after tonight,
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Peggy.
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a huge penalty if we backed out.
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to keep our house.
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actors will get us out.
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see the place during the day.
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I to the ate.
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the scrilla,
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to the Jets.
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down the block,
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I'm a sex offender.
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a big mistake.
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and my dog.
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the kind of life I want.
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and you can't have it!
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train, Bobby!
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some sleep,
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on selling the bed.
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figured out a way
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as Super Realtor.
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not pass the inspection.
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will fail an inspection.
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to make it look damaged.
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so it will be easy to fail.
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can take the hit,
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no got-dang way
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the greatest inspector
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any other way.
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Craftsman
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Inspector.
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be friends with Ferguson?
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the next best thing.
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with Ferguson
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in Arlen hears about it.
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how will you fail?
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of my home,
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what a bad one looks like.
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you've got your termite damage.
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even possible?
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compared to this.
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around the edges
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to Phase II, and Bobby,
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with the ladder,
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you feel better,
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way to save our house.
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carpet stain in Bobby's room.
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but it is a violation.
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shows these days,
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be such an alien concept.
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really horrible.
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and you've been beat up,
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with a razor so you can see.
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I'd say, "Here's the damage."
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to fail this house.
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a thousand man hours to fix it.
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report, Mr. Hill?
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with everyone else in town.
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master craftsman
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problem repairing it.
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over my head here, sir.
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with incredible skills
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a well-maintained home
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oxygen tank to breathe in here.
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Bobby, put his mask back on.
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as stupid as they look.
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