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- I was a successful model once.
- For magazines?
:09:06
I was the "Yoni Yum
Feminine Hygiene Dew" girl
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from 1965 to 1970,
and then I got laid off.
:09:13
- So now you're bumming around?
- Yeah.
:09:15
Hitchhiking?
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Please don't think me
immodest...
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but I'm really the best.
:09:21
- You're the best?
- Yeah.
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I am.
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When I was younger, I hitchhiked
127 hours without stopping.
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I crossed the continent
twice in six days,
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cooled my thumbs
in both oceans,
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and caught rides after midnight
on unlighted highways.
:09:39
When I'm really moving...
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moving so freely,
so clearly, so delicately
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that even the sex maniacs
and the cops
:09:47
can only blink
and let me pass...
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then I embody the spirit
and the heart of hitchhiking.
:09:55
I have the rhythms
of the universe inside me.
:09:59
I'm in a state of grace.
:10:09
Well, right off...
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I don't remember how old I was
when I found out I was part Indian.
:10:15
My mama's family, a lot of them
had lived out west in the Dakotas.
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One of them had married a squaw,
Siwash tribe.
:10:23
You may say
that my pleasure in Indianhood
:10:26
and my passion for car travel
might be incongruous...
:10:30
if not mutually exclusive...
:10:32
but after all, first car
that ever stopped for me
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had been named in honor
of the great chief of the Ottawa.
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New York City.
:10:47
Sure is a hell of a town.
:10:57
Ominous.