Strictly Ballroom
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Lessie would come along,
of course.

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The three of us together,
the old gang.

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We were a bunch
of old funsters.

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We all wanted to win,
of course...

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but with your mum
as your dad's partner...

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we had no chance.
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They were magnificent.
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Ooh, yeah
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Take a look at me,
I'm yesterday's hero

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Yesterday's hero
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That's all I'll be
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They had it
all before them...

:19:37
a perfect career.
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And then...
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everything changed.
:19:45
Your dad became,
I don't know...

:19:48
self-obsessed,
focused on himself...

:19:51
a selfish dancer.
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I didn't know
what to make of it.

:19:55
He started doing his own thing,
improvising...

:19:58
throwing in crazy, wild,
crowd-pleasing steps.

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A bit like yourself, Scott.
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Not always...
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strictly ballroom.
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Shirley put up with it
for as long...

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as she bloody well could.
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It was only a matter of time...
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before she eventually...
cracked.

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I tried to warn him,
but, no, he wouldn't listen.

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He wouldn't listen
to any of us.

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He'd lost touch with reality.
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He was convinced
he and your mum...

:20:33
could win
the Pan Pacific Grand Prix...

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dancing his own steps.
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Of course, they lost.
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Heh. I was lucky enough
to win that year.

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The shock sent Doug crazy.
:20:45
He vowed
he'd never dance again.

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For a while there...
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we didn't think
he'd pull through.

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Slowly, little by little,
day by day...

:20:54
he managed to crawl back
from the dark pit of despair...

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and tack together
some semblance of a life.


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