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-Shwmae!

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-I'm Sion Tomos Owen, a Rhondda boy.

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-I was born here,

-and I still live in Treorchy.

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-Can I have

-six thick cuts of bacon, please?

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-Where are we on the map?

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-Here!

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-The Rhondda is about 14 miles long

-from Rhigos to Trehafod...

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-..and three miles wide

-from Cwmclydach to Blaenllechau.

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-At the moment,

-it's home to about 70,000 people.

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-Everyone is familiar

-with the usual images.

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-But there's a lot more

-to the Rhondda.

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-LAUGHTER

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-That's class. I'm bonkers

-about the place. Drinks on me!

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-I love going round to sing, laugh...

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-..and draw cartoons.

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-Sion!

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-This time,

-Lindsey and the salon girls.

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-I love the salon.

-The perfect job for me.

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-Dilys and the bingo ladies.

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-13, 39, 42, 68 and 85.

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-13, 39, 42, 68 and 85.

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-You've got that.

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-I share the stage with Tom Jones.

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-You were the voice.

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-You were the voice.

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-I am the voice. I'm still the voice.

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-I want to put the Rhondda

-on the map.

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-No, I'm creating a new map

-of the Rhondda and the people.

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-Down, Jeeves.

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-It's a big day. I'm moving house.

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-Becky and I moved to Gelli in 2011.

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-Gelli is in the Rhondda.

-But it isn't home.

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-A year after getting married...

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-..we're moving two miles

-up the valley back to Treorchy.

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-Come on, let's do it.

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-Come on, let's do it.

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-The family have come to help.

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-Everyone but Becky!

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-Up in the air, drop down and out.

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-Look what's here.

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-Wow!

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-Sion!

-Guess what I found in the fireplace.

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-The dragon you carved on

-work experience in Builth Wells.

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-Do you want it?

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-Do you want it?

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-It can keep company to Geraint.

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-This is Geraint.

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-It won't go out like that.

-Dan in the middle doesn't help!

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-I'm never doing this again.

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-Why are you cleaning?

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-Why are you cleaning?

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-So you don't take dust with you!

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-We're not taking it.

-What's the point of cleaning?

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-Dust and dirt, everywhere.

-And he blames me for cleaning.

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-I want a cuppa.

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-All the Rhondda villages

-are different.

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-It's good that so many

-successful, small businesses...

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-..are owned by local people.

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-It's so different

-from large cities.

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-They all look the same.

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-Ton Pentre's main street is busy.

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-Alright?

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-Alright?

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-Hello!

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-Lindsey Eynon, an old school friend

-of mine, owns Vous salon.

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-Did you always

-want to be a hairdresser?

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-Yes.

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-When did you leave school?

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-When did you leave school?

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-When I was sixteen.

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-I started in a Treorchy salon

-after Llwynypia College.

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-I worked in a lot

-of salons in the Rhondda...

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-..in about ten.

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-Flippin' heck!

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-Flippin' heck!

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-Experience!

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-I always wanted to open a salon here

-because I love the Rhondda.

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-I was in Llantrisant for a while.

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-I like Llantrisant,

-but I'm not from there.

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-I was out of my comfort zone.

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-I'm happy to be back in the Rhondda.

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-Lindsey has loyal, and familiar,

-customers.

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-I've been Lindsey's customer

-for ten years.

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-She worked somewhere else in

-the village before opening here.

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-Lindsey moved to Llantrisant...

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-..and I followed her there.

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-I was thrilled to hear

-she was coming back.

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-I've been coming ever since.

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-Lindsey employs six local girls.

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-Clients travel miles to come here.

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-Her Llantrisant clients

-followed her.

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-The customer comes first.

-Everyone leaves happy.

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-I wouldn't go anywhere else.

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-You're from the Rhondda.

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-You're from the Rhondda.

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-Yes.

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-Where were you brought up?

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-Where were you brought up?

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-Ton Pentre.

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-I live in the street

-behind where I grew up.

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-I love it here.

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-I tried to leave once.

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-It was 1996, I think.

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-I'd planned to rent a room

-in a friend's house.

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-We were working on Pobol Y Cwm.

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-I moved to Cardiff

-and lasted ten days...

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-..then I was back!

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-..then I was back!

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-In the dark depths of Cardiff!

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-I didn't know anyone.

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-I didn't know who lived next door.

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-I missed the sense of community.

-So I came back.

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-I love my job.

-It doesn't feel like work.

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-I'm completely myself here.

-I love the salon.

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-It's the perfect job for me.

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-You've always been chatty.

-It's perfect.

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-It helps.

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-Wow, nice.

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-If it's good enough

-for our Stacey... sorry, Shelley...

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-..it's good enough for me.

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-I feel like Lola the caterpillar...

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-..about to turn into a butterfly.

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-That's the campest thing

-I've ever said.

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-Washing my beard.

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-It's not only the business

-that's on Lindsey's mind.

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-She's marrying Steve,

-her childhood sweetheart.

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-Tonight is an important night.

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-There are things to prepare.

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-Oh, god. I'm nervous!

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-What's happening?

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-Thirty of us are starting

-in The Lion in Treorchy.

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-Then we're going to Cardiff.

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-Do you know

-what they have planned for you?

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-I don't know what to expect.

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-You've had no hints?

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-No. I'm just going.

-Go with the flow.

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-# Don't leave

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-# Don't leave

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-# Don't leave

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-# Feathers on the chick

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-# Chick from an egg,

-egg from a nest

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-# Nest on a branch,

-branch on a hill

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-# Hill on earth, earth on nothing #

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-Ta-ra!

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-Have a good night.

-Make sure they look after you.

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-Thanks, Sion. Have you had fun?

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-Yes!

-What goes on tour, stays on tour.

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-# Fairer than the lilies white

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-# The pure heart alone can render

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-# Songs of joy both day and night #

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-Oh. God help Cardiff.

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-I can't lock the house.

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-I can't lock the house.

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-Why?

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-'Cause I haven't got a key!

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-'Cause I haven't got a key!

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-Get in ya!

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-They've all driven to the house.

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-I only have the lorry key.

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-The house is still open.

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-Hiya.

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-Yes.

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-Is Beck with you?

-We can't lock the house.

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-We'll come up.

-The house is empty, anyway.

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-Dad and I head off.

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-We're leaving Gelli.

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-Stop! Thanks.

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-We're going to Treorchy,

-back to my Treorchy.

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-Thank you.

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-Can you get Sat Nav in Welsh?

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-Stop.

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-We're moving two miles...

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-..up to the head of the valley.

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-Gelli, Ton Pentre, Pentre, Treorchy.

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-This is Treorchy town centre.

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-It's much busier here.

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-I usually see someone I know.

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-Dai! Get up!

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-One of my best friends lives there.

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-That's where my best friend's

-in-laws live.

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-Who?

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-Keith. Bob lives there,

-and Natalie's parents.

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-This is my new street.

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-We've got to get out.

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-I open the curtains...

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-..and stand there,

-singing songs from Les Mis!

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-I don't get

-the chance to perform now.

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-All the fives, 55.

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-All the fives, 55.

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-I'm utterly terrified.

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-I'm scared stiff.

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-House!

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-Subtitles

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-Ferndale is halfway up

-the Rhondda Fach.

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-Morlais Chapel

-is now a community hall.

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-Tuesdays and Thursdays

-are for bingo and not religion.

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-Eight and six, 86.

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-I've come to play

-for the first time in my life.

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-Seven O, 70.

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-Mrs Dilys Evans from Blaenllechau

-plays bingo here.

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-Bingo plays an important part

-in her busy weekly schedule.

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-Monday, cafe.

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-Tuesday, bingo.

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-Wednesday, bingo. Thursday, bingo.

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-Friday, cafe.

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-That's how I know

-the week's schedule.

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-House!

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-I'm exhausted.

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-Have you always

-lived in Blaenllechau?

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-Yes.

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-Since when have you been here?

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-Ninety years.

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-I was born in Wind Street.

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-You had one brother.

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-And nine sisters.

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-Mam buried two children

-the same day.

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-One was seven...

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-..the other seven months.

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-That was before I was born.

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-I was the youngest of nine.

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-All the sevens, 77.

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-House.

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-Like all Rhondda villages,

-Blaenllechau grew around coal.

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-There were two pits. Dilys's

-father worked in one of them.

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-He was in the pit for years.

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-He started when he was twelve.

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-Twelve.

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-That's young.

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-That's young.

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-He finished at 72.

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-Sixty years in the pit.

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-Sixty years in the pit.

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-He was never on the dole.

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-Was he a latchboy to start?

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-Bound to be.

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-He looked after horses.

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-He was a haulier.

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-My husband was only in the pit

-for ten years.

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-He had to leave...

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-..when he was 24.

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-He had pneumoconiosis.

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-Like my grandfather.

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-When my husband worked there,

-he said...

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-"..We're nothing but slaves."

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-My eldest son went to the mine.

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-I said to him...

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-"..Haven't you seen

-how your father suffered?"

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-"It's not the same now," he said.

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-Thirty two. Four and one.

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-You wanted 73.

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-They're not used to it,

-these youngsters!

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-Is there a lot of opportunity

-to speak Welsh?

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-No, only on Sunday.

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-Marian takes me to chapel.

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-Her Welsh is different to mine.

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-Her daughter and granddaughter...

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-They speak Welsh.

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-They speak Welsh.

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-Yes.

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-Right. Back to the bingo.

-I'm determined to crack this.

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-House!

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-13, 39, 42, 68 and 85.

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-I had 39.

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-I didn't hear it. When was 39?

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-I didn't hear it. When was 39?

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-You've got a line.

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-Well done, Sion.

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-Well done, Sion.

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-Have I won?!

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-You've lived in Wind St...

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-..and Blaenllechau all your life.

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-If you had the choice,

-would you live somewhere else?

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-No.

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-You're happy where you are.

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-You're happy where you are.

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-Yes.

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-68 and 85. I've got to change this.

-You've got 1.25.

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-Drinks on me!

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-It felt like I'd won the World Cup!

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-I won 1.25!

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-Sorry!

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-From one hall to another.

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-Treorchy's Park And Dare Theatre

-is famous throughout the Rhondda.

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-There have been thousands

-of performances here...

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-..from school concerts

-to pantomimes.

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-Max Boyce, Rhod Gilbert,

-Joan Armatrading...

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-..and Sion Tomos Owen

-have trodden the boards.

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-I've come for a tour

-with Thomas Jones.

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-I'm the deputy assistant manager.

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-That's a mouthful!

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-The job involves everything

-you'd imagine it takes...

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-..to run a building like this.

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-I live up the road in Treherbert,

-where I grew up.

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-It's that way.

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-I get up at 8.30am

-and I'm in work by 8.55am.

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-It's two train stops.

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-I worked front of house,

-in the bar and auditorium.

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-I used to work backstage

-in the technical department.

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-The job was advertised

-and I applied.

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-It was my first job

-after university. I'm still here!

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-You were the voice.

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-You were the voice.

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-I am still the voice.

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-When you come

-to the Park And Dare Theatre...

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-..you'll hear an announcement.

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-Can you do a run through?

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-Ladies and gentlemen, welcome

-to the Park And Dare Theatre.

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-Please ensure your mobile phones

-are switched off.

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-The use of recording devices

-is strictly prohibited.

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-Thanks for your cooperation.

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-Just as I remember it.

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-The building is in two parts.

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-The Institute was built in 1895.

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-In 1913, the theatre...

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-..or the second half, was built.

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-There's a great story

-about how it was built.

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-Parc Colliery miners...

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-..and miners from South Wales...

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-..donated a penny

-for every pound they earned...

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-..towards the build.

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-In those days,

-there was seating for 700 to 750.

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-We've put in new seats,

-and there's more legroom.

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-I'm grateful for that!

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-I'm grateful for that!

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-And me!

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-The capacity is presently 650.

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-It's full of history

-and personal memories.

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-I used to sit back there.

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-I was the only person here

-when I came to see...

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-..Blues Brothers 2000.

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-I sat there. A lady that end left.

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-Another sat the opposite end,

-knitting.

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-Nobody could see me.

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-I boogied while the music played,

-and went bananas.

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-It was cracking.

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-I owned the Park And Dare

-for the night.

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-Another tick off my bucket list.

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-That's fab.

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-The stagehands don't know this...

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-..but when I lock up at night...

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-..if I'm the only one left...

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-..or the others are downstairs

-in reception waiting for me...

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-..I sing in the corridors.

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-Sometimes,

-and nobody knows this...

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-..I open the curtains

-and sing Les Mis songs.

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-I don't get the chance

-to perform now.

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-That's my time.

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-What's happening tonight?

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-What's happening tonight?

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-We have a lot to do.

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-It's the annual Treorchy male voice

-choir and Park & Dare Band concert.

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-Shwmae, everybody.

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-It's a full house.

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-It's nice when the community

-celebrates singing and the band.

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-Thank you.

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-I love working here,

-and being part of the theatre.

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-The building belongs

-to the community.

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-People keep coming back

-over the years.

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-# Pure heart

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-# So true and tender

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-# Fairer than the lilies white

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-# The pure heart

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-# Alone can render

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-# Songs of joy both day and night

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-# Pure heart so true and tender

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-# Fairer than the lilies white

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-# The pure heart alone can render

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-# Songs of joy

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-# Both day and night #

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-It's great our new home is so

-close to such a brilliant theatre.

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-Everything is open.

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-It's not so narrow as in Gelli.

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-I feel I can breathe.

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-Maybe it's because I've come back.

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-Thanks, Sion.

-Is that what you think of me?

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-I love the eyebrows.

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-And the flicks.

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-And the flicks.

-

-Yes.

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-Oh!

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-I'll take that. Thank you. Not bad!

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-Not bad!

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-That's three more on the map.

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-The valley is filling up.

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-We'll meet more next time.

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