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An鈥� I want lots an鈥� lots of kids. If I only coulda had me some kids I鈥� I never would have鈥� I鈥檇 never have got into no trouble. I鈥檓 sure of it.
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And I also wanted Bessie鈥檚 big sound, but my voice wasn鈥檛 big like that, so between the two of them I sort of got Billie Holiday. But Pops Armstrong and Bessie Smith on the victrola was sort of Mom and Pop to me.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Lanie Robertson, Lady Day at Emerson鈥檚 Bar and Grill, Concord Theatricals, 1959, pp. 15-16.
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