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Go on, dig your thumbs in there like you're gouging out the eyes of an enemy. Grasp the pot like you would a mischievous child's neck. Jellineck! I can't form the pot! Jellineck: Easy there. Geoffrey Jellineck: It doesn't matter when you get here - just what time.

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Jerri: I got something to say! A Burden's Burden Jerri: But I've had plenty of babies! Just none I've carried to full term. You know, if she doesn't pull through, IвЂ™ll have the Widows' League send over some casseroles. Sara Blank: Poppy Downes is in a coma? What a shame. IвЂ™d wake up with blood on my ass, and then we'd get high. Jerri: Stoney and I would go over to Buckle's and Puff would turn us on to a hot load of mescaline crumbled into a tumbler of ether with a float of Percocet jimmies. Jerri: Who wants to go to a cockfight?! I'll drive! Okay? Understand? Now you run along and have fun. Noblet: Jerri, let me give you a little advice: No one makes friends with a failure. Jerri: If I donвЂ™t graduate by the time I'm 50, I'll be the laughingstock of Flatpoint High! What was your report on again? Jerri: Brazil. now you all know the size of a king-size sheet, right? Well, you try scrambling down that in the dark after a boot of skag or a snort of horse. One night вЂ“ I'll make this quick вЂ“ one night, I was thrown by a horse and I had to have a laminectomy. For example: I can't smoke one stick of pot or take one needle of coke. Jerri: History has taught us many things. It's important that we never forget the atrocities the Japanese committed against our boys.

Poppy Downes: And meanwhile, our brothers from the east were eating bowls of rice safely nestled in their internment camps. I'm finding out that though the faces have changed, the hassles are just the same. I'm back in high school, living at home and discovering all sorts of things about my body. But now, I'm out of jail, picking up my life exactly where I left off. My friends were dealers, cons and eighteen-karat pimps. For thirty-two years I was a teenage runaway. I'm Jerri Blank, and I'm a forty-six year-old high school freshman. Season 1 Old Habits, New Beginnings Jerri: Hello.

But now I'm back in school! And though the faces may have changed, the hassles are just the same. Thirty-two years ago I dropped out of high school and ran away from home. Opening Credits Jerri Blank: Hello, I'm Jerri Blank.

4.8 There Once Was a Blank From Nantucket.

The disease resulted in kidney failure, and she ultimately died of a heart attack on at the age of fifty-four. According to Douglas, Fisher's disappearance was due to her being taken to a Miami hospital in the middle of her lecture tour, where she was diagnosed with liver cancer.

In the late 2000s, researchers turned up an interview with Mike Douglas in a 1973 issue of the Rotary Club publication 'The Rotarian', in which Douglas recounted interviewing Fisher. In real life, Fisher fell out of the public eye in the early 1970s, and for many years was believed to be missing and presumed dead. Many lines of dialogue in the show are taken verbatim from a recording of a speech she gave to a New York high school, which circulated for many years on the cult video market as 'The Trip Back'. The character of Jerri is based on motivational speaker Florrie Fisher, who travelled high schools in the 1970s talking about her fall from 1940s socialite to a heroin addicted prostitute in the 1960s.

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