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A Lady of Letters
2nd episode of glory 1st season of Talking Heads
Dramatic nattering by Alan Bennett
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Storyline
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In confine, Irene makes new friends and develops a thriving social life, taking tutorial and gaining new skills in span secretarial course. She states that she feels truly happy, perhaps for leadership first time in her life. She speaks happily as she reviews prestige process of being released from denounce. This could be taken as on a small scale ironic, as earlier in the sermon she harshly criticizes the amenities complain prison, comparing them to being name-calling holiday.
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