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The Canadian edition of Hello! magazine has a fantastic interview with Angelina Jolie about her children, her relationship with Brad – and those eating-disorder rumors.
How is your newest adopted son, Pax, adjusting to family life? He’s a great kid. When we first met him, we thought he was really shy and really quiet, but about two days at home, we discovered that he is the loudest member of the family! He is very athletic, very bold. Pax and Zee [Zahara] have really connected because they’re closer in age, and Madd and Pax – they’re brothers, so they have moments where they absolutely bond together against everybody else in the family. Then they have moments where they bug each other, but it’s quite normal. It’s nice. I’m really, really proud.
It’s rumored that you’re considering adopting a child from the Czech Republic. Is there any truth to this? No. We’re not considering any more adoptions at the moment. We’re trying to make sure that all of our kids are adjusted first and that they all have individual time. We will have more children, but not right now. We’re always
open to all countries, but there just isn’t any truth to the rumors. Just because [we] adopt and because we travel, people say Brad’s buying a house wherever he goes and I’m adopting a child wherever I go.
Do you and Brad have different parenting styles? We’re very similar and we support each other as parents, so there is no divide of “Daddy’s good with this but Mommy doesn’t like it,” or vice versa. Brad is just as affectionate and loving as I am, and I am just as playful.
Click inside to continue reading Angelina’s interview with Hello!…
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Do you cook? No. Brad would tell you that I am one of the worst cooks in the world, but my first husband said that I pretended to cook badly so I never had to.
How did Brad help you through the loss of your mother? God, it’s funny to give all his secrets away. He’s a really great friend. He really cares. When my mom passed, he sat with me in the [hospital] room and held her hand and helped me go through all the stages that you have to deal with when someone passes, from her ashes to everything. He was just wonderful to my brother [James] as well. [After her funeral] we all went back home and then he just spent the night asking us questions about our mom.
He got us to tell funny stories about her and focus on all the love and all the joy. Brad is extraordinary.
How’s your relationship with his parents? When I first met Brad’s parents, I came in with two adopted children from other countries and that was new for them and their family. I didn’t know how they were going to be, but they’re wonderful, wonderful people. They’re equally loving to all of the children. We’ve left the children with them quite a few times, but I don’t know if we’ll leave them with Pax at the moment [smiling].
Would you say you wear your emotions on your sleeve more than you used to? I suppose, in some way. It’s funny, because I feel like I’m this really emotional person but people have often said to me, about myself or the roles I play, that I seem strong. I’m often surprised that people don’t see me or think of me as an emotional person. Maybe they do more now, but for a long time in my life, it was that I was just tough or something, and that I lacked emotion.
There’s been a lot of speculation about your recent weight loss. The funny thing is when somebody says, “you’re thin,” people say, “thank you.” But to me, it is not a compliment. It’s not something I want to be. I have always been lean, and this year I lost my mom, I have four kids, I finished breastfeeding and it’s been hard to get my nutrition back on track and learn about my body after birth. The disturbing thing is that instead of somebody saying, “Oh, this looks like a person that’s actually dealing with something [emotional],” they say, “does she want to fit into skinny jeans?” When I [read] anything that says I’m too thin, I think “Good, good!” Let it be a criticism. I don’t want to encourage young girls to be too thin.
Where is the reckless Angelina of old, who dived into the hotel pool after winning her Golden Globe? [Laughing] I’m really the same person. I jumped in the pool because somebody dared me to. So it wasn’t anything punk. It was true happiness and fun. Hopefully, I do still have that [quality] and I’ll jump in many pools in the future.
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brad doesnt get paid to talk about angelina lol he doesnt have to thats between him and aj
147 em | 06/22/2007 at 12:52 pm
Brad’s strength is his being his own man. His silence can be sometimes misconstrued but silence has been proven to be a more powerful statement than actual words. Adversity against Brad and Angie are to those who have too much time in their hands stewing how everything bad they wished for this couple has proven them time and time again wrong. To attack either Brad and Angie when you don’t know them personally is a travesty of one’s own behaviour that needs to reflect on what is to be a human being.
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I think Brad is more mature now, and knows it does no good to get into a battle of words with the yellow press.
Plus, I think at the time he was trying to keep the peace with his neurotic wife. She goaded him into it, because we all knos she reads the damn things (tabloids). I can see her now, “Brad! Look what they said! Call them up and tell them blah blah blah….”
Angie would never ask him to make a fool of himself that way.
And I am sure he appreciates that.
Brad is a wonderful man, he makes Angie happy.
They have a happy, loving home. Why are people letting a blind item, that was out months ago originally, and that is soo not Angie for a lot of reasons, get to them? Now we have Brad being blamed for not defending his woman. crazy! I think these are just haters and not even Angie fans.
129 Mrs. Smith | 06/22/2007 at 12:45 pm
I believe that the only way people are going to cease their stupid accusation that Angie also ’stole’ MP’s role from X, is when that horsefaced, lying, manipulative, ex TV actress (I used this word loosely) comes out and denies that the role was ever hers to begin with!!!
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It would never happen ! as long as its positive to her and negative to Angie, She would just let it go and rot in the mind of public. That’s why I’m so piss-off on the recent in-law meeting. Now, I believed Angie was really smart for not jumping into marriage with Brad, She’s too good for him and his family.
A Mighty Angelina!
Critical to the emotional connections “A Mighty Heart” makes is the performance of Jolie as Mariane Pearl. The Oscar-winning actress, whose significant skills have been eclipsed by her position as a tabloid favorite, puts the emphasis back where it belongs with a forceful, immediate and convincing performance. Though a series of big close-ups often places her front and center, Jolie resists the temptation to push too hard or overplay her part. Rather she uses her charisma and skill to express not only weariness and fear but also the hard-edged fierceness and lack of patience that are crucial to seeing Mariane as a real person, not a biopic saint. – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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But the film belongs to Jolie. She won an Oscar for 1999’s Girl, Interrupted, but this is by far her best performance, strong and true in every detail from Mariane’s accent (her roots are Dutch and Afro-Cuban) to the strength she shows under fire. Her total immersion in the role keeps the film from getting lost in the rush of details. Even after Daniel’s death and subsequent beheading, Mariane holds Daniel’s spirit close. Jolie sees to it that the humane and haunting A Mighty Heart honors that spirit. – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
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Angelina Jolie gives a brittle and beautifully contained performance as Mariane Pearl… Jolie’s intelligently tucked-in performance as Mariane avoids grandstanding, receding instead into the intricate tapestry of Michael Winterbottom’s tense and authentically relayed film. – Jan Stuart, Newsday
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…her skin somehow polished to reflect Mariane’s Afro-Cuban/Dutch complexion, her wig a masterpiece of a casually corkscrewed updo, her accent the work of a good student — it’s impossible not to be conscious of her performance at every turn. Her intensity, combined with the aura of her celebrity, becomes the story. — Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly
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Angelina Jolie gives one of the most commanding and moving performances of her career. — Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
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Jolie delivers a focused and unfussy performance, doing an honorable job imitating Mariane’s inimitable Cuban-French accent. Disappearing under the curly coif resembling that of Cher circa Moonstruck, Jolie suppresses her essential Angelina-ness, completing her transition from the screen’s sultry siren to its Earth Mother…Winterbottom permits Jolie one emotional scene; and she makes the most of it, keening Mariane’s almost-unbearable lament for her lost husband. — Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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Angelina Jolie, who plays Mariane in director Michael Winterbottom’s lean and swift account, unleashes her anguish upon learning the news of Danny Pearl’s beheading, the impact is torrential…when Jolie cracks open this key moment, it’s really something…As it stands, then, “A Mighty Heart” leads inexorably to Jolie’s magnificent scream, which is more–deeper–than a mere Oscar-baiting moment. The film is most vivid and immediate when Jolie, her character’s patience and facade cracking, accesses a full tangle of impulses at once. She is a uniquely intense screen presence. — Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Angelina Jolie gives a fierce and astute performance as Mariane Pearl…Ms. Jolie mixes tenderness with implacable toughness…Given Angelina Jolie’s celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn’t happened. To the contrary, the actress enters the character and stays there, even during her feral cries in the film’s most harrowing scene. — Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
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Many of you will wonder how Jolie could portray a woman she has very little physical resemblance to, however, you wouldn’t know it was her if not for the trademark Jolie lips. She fills Mariane with an amazing, wonderful mix of power and hope tempered by reality and preparation for the worst. Additionally, Jolie delivers what I consider to be one of the most horrific, gut wrenching, heartbreaking scenes I have ever witnessed on a movie screen just after the film’s climax. It’s one of those scenes you won’t ever forget, makes you squirm in your seat with discomfort, and you can still hear her just thinking about it weeks later.
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“A Mighty Heart” finds actress Angelina Jolie almost completely disappearing into the role of Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl.
In fact, if not for her characteristic, bee-stung lips, you might forget you’re watching one of the world’s most famous, glamorous stars. Jolie sports a convincing French accent…
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Angelina Jolie’s transformative performance as Mariane Pearl, the reporter from whose book the film is adapted, is only the beginning of the movie’s many accolades.
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The actress has to be praised (along with significant other Brad Pitt) for championing this project, and she’s actually very good as Mariane, fashioning a woman who’s strong and sharp-tongued as well as deeply concerned and fearful (no milquetoast wife at all)—a performance that proves she’s a real actress, not just a star.
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There’s nothing insensitive or overdone in the mild make-up artistry of the part; the inner performance is what shines out. Jolie’s Pearl may feel fear, but never hate — and her public face of grace and calm is one part humanism, one part strategy… Jolie’s Mariane Pearl isn’t some plaster secular saint, either; when the inevitable end to the story comes crashing down, her howling, devastated grief ripples off the screen with brute force and power.
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Worth commending despite the deficiencies of the script is Angelina Jolie, a powerhouse as Mariane Pearl. It takes all of about five minutes for Jolie to disappear into her role; once the baggage that goes along with this iconographic celebrity goes away, the viewer becomes mesmerized by the way she so completely embodies the real-life character she is playing. Jolie blesses Mariane with forthright drive, intelligence, fairness, and a whole lot of raw emotions, and the centerpiece scene—her reaction to discovering Daniel has been confirmed dead—is acted out in such an exposing and honest way that it sends chills over the viewer.
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One ultimately can’t help but sympathize with the woman; Jolie’s stunning, absolutely convincing performance certainly cements this feeling, and it’s very likely that this marks the apex of her career.
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With her belly protruding and her hair piled high, Jolie completely absorbs herself in the role.
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As usual, Jolie turns in a rousing performance, but the better she is, the harder it is to watch. Mariane’s wails of despair when she learns of her husband’s fate are almost too painful to endure.
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Jolie is such an expressive actress that there’s always a danger she’ll overplay the part, but one major misstep aside, she slips into Winterbottom’s wide-ranging procedural and asserts herself only when dramatically necessary. She simply exercises Mariane’s persistent will, and honors her in the process.
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Angelina Jolie — who is an actress, too, remember? — gives what is probably the best performance of her career as Mariane Pearl…Jolie doesn’t make her superhuman — she still breaks down in a most heart-rending manner when the bad news finally comes.
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Jolie’s Mariane takes us behind the scenes of that search and shows us what the woman who showed such a strong face to the TV cameras was truly enduring… Jolie lets us understand Mariane, and Winterbottom’s film puts the viewer in her shoes. So she has no arc, no change that this terrible journey has caused in her.
They’re really nasty out here. I mean, some of the things they’ve said during my and Jen’s split—things that are just deliberately said to get a rise out of her, just truly cruel—make me want to punch their lights out. And more toward Jen than me, which made me even more mad, because Jen’s an easier target. Grown men saying awful, despicable things. Things that a normal father or husband or brother would go and kill them for.”
It’s hard to imagine dismantling a marriage with any kind of grace amid all that, as tabloids sling facile theories and “truths”—for example, that Courteney Cox is superpissed at Brad, or that he wanted kids and Jen didn’t. “That was one version,” Pitt says, vigorously and absentmindedly rubbing the top of his head, “and total bullshit, by the way.”
11 Neela | 06/22/2007 at 11:13 am
I apologize if this has been posted before on another thread. I don’t read comments all the time, so, please have patience.
This was an interview of Sean Smith. He answered questions from readers about his Newsweek article on Angelina. The read was interesting.
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Thank you so much for posting this, I don’t remember seeing it posted here before. It more than interesting, it’s a keeper. It’s relevant to the fans of Brad & Angie at JJ’s in particular because it addresses a lot of the same questions, prejudices, misnomers, rumors and outright lies that we read, and sometimes answer to, day in and day out. Over and over again.
I found this exchange particularly interesting:
Memphis, TN: I know people will think I am just being a ‘feminist’ here but something I have noticed with Oprah, Madonna, Hillary Clinton and now Angelina Jolie. Although very different, they are all extremely powerful, influential and EXTREMELY divisive. People either love, love, love them or hate them. Do you think that the U.S. still has a problem with this type of intense power being in the hands of women?
Sean Smith: This is a great question, and I think you’ve really hit on something. And oddly, I think it’s primarily women who have this problem with powerful women. I don’t know why. Truly. I remember being really struck by people’s anger that Oprah built a schoool for girls in Africa instead of doing it here. The irony is, all of these women could just sit in their palaces and be completely isolated by their wealth, and the choose to go out into the world and try and do something positive. As soon as they do, they get attacked. It’s strange to me. I’m not saying Angelina, or any of these women, is a saint, but what harm are they doing, to anyone? It’s not like they started a war under false pretenses or even used government funds for something. I’m afraid I don’t have an answer here, but the question does fascinate me. I should probably do an entire story on this topic.
What about the rumors floating around on the internet, a blind item about Angelina doing Heroine. Now, most of her fans speak everything that is Angelina. Can you please, for the ones that do not follow her as close, speak on this blind item. Angelina is a junkie and it did have an impact on Shiloh. It could have cause some developmental delay. Do you think that the one thing everyone says Brad left Jennifer for, the perfect family, is it possible her fears would be that he would go back to Jennifer and try again to get that perfect little girl. NOt that he love Shiloh any less. HOwever, Angelina is sick so maybe this is the reason she can not stay clean.. Also in every conversation she is sending a message to Jen because she could never ever be the woman that Jennifer is. That is enough to make any sociopathic drug addict fall off the wagon. What is your take on this.
I think Brad is more mature now, and knows it does no good to get into a battle of words with the yellow press.
Plus, I think at the time he was trying to keep the peace with his neurotic wife. She goaded him into it, because we all knos she reads the damn things (tabloids). I can see her now, “Brad! Look what they said! Call them up and tell them blah blah blah….”
Angie would never ask him to make a fool of himself that way.
And I am sure he appreciates that.
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HE WAS ALREDY WITH ANGELINA.. YET HE KEEP JEN OUT OF THE MESS
They’re really nasty out here. I mean, some of the things they’ve said during my and Jen’s split—things that are just deliberately said to get a rise out of her, just truly cruel—make me want to punch their lights out. And more toward Jen than me, which made me even more mad, because Jen’s an easier target. Grown men saying awful, despicable things. Things that a normal father or husband or brother would go and kill them for.”
It’s hard to imagine dismantling a marriage with any kind of grace amid all that, as tabloids sling facile theories and “truths”—for example, that Courteney Cox is superpissed at Brad, or that he wanted kids and Jen didn’t. “That was one version,” Pitt says, vigorously and absentmindedly rubbing the top of his head, “and total bullshit, by the way.”
#12 Neela, awesome interview. Thanks for that.
Brad & Angelina are ok by me. They are not as ridiculous as most of you here. Don’t do anything different Brad. Angelina does not need defending because it would mean she did something wrong.
You know Johnny dDpp yesterday on David Letterman said his 4 and 3 year old kids were like ” a couple of drunks”. This is from the number one film star in the world today. Why is not everyone up in arms over his statement? I’ll tell you why, everyone one knows that he would have a press conference to tell all of you who paid to see his lame Pirates film to *** off, then go about his business.
To the TROLL/S>>
Brad had to say nice things about Jen because she is a whining pathetic victim.He was dumping her @ss so he felt this would be his last charity to the pathetic b1ich.
AFTER ALL PIZZWATER ALMOST DROVE HIM CRAZY AND SUCKED THE LIFE OUT OF HIM WITH HER ‘EMOTONAL’problems.
Why do you think he had such long long breaks away from the sad pathetic heifer? And pizzwater even said herself her ‘emotional’ problems led to problems and eventual breakup of her marriage.
Bobble-head cant even keep a coke man in her bed.Jen even dropped her mum for talking about her hair.
Angelina ia a WOMAN and Brad is her Man and there is nothing to DEFEND. GO BRAD AND ANGELINA!
BTW>How many Dam times are you gonna change your DAM TAG NAME AND REPEAT YOUR SAME DAM QUESTION OVER AND OVER. PH PLEASE CALL YOUR OBESE1LY B1TCHES. WE KNOW ITS THE SAME DAM TROLL GET YOUR G.E.D ALREADY. JUST DAM!!!
he said that….make him the bd guy….maybe he thinks people think that he is actually the bad guy…he reallly doesnt hve time to insult the tabs at this moment he has kids now……………………………………………….
275 wondering | 06/22/2007 at 11:13 am
I don’t understand what kind of man can stay silent while the mother of his kids is dragged through the mud for 2+ years for something HE did. I am not even a man (or a lesbian) but if I was in his situation you best believe I would have cleared her name long ago. If not for her the children. I dont understand how Angelina of all people could stay with a man that is so weak and then pimp him as a great man who she loves. I cant be a fan of a couple like this… because of Brad.
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Angelina has put herself on the line for that basta.rd . Her charity work is questioned and that has to be the worst. She deserves so much better imo. I really cant wait for them to breakup so Angelina can be on her own. I feel she will be better without the weakest man in the world known as Brad Pitt. He has dragged her down and left her DROWNING in media negativity while saving himself. How can Angelina and her friends not see this?
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I do dragonfly. I am obviously an Angie fan and I just hate all the negativity that has been left at Angie’s feet. Nobody ever questions brad charity work and he really didn’t get involved until 2004(acording to vanity fair africa issue) which just happens to be the year he met Angie. she had already been doing her thing for 3-4 years before that.
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So true. all. of .it.
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My take is that you are an idiot and need to high tail it back to FF, immediately!
I am telling you I did not used to care much for Angelina, but I am really getting pissed off because of the attacks she is under.
I say go to hell everybody and let this woman just live her life.
I am pissed off with Brad Pitt also. I don’t think he deserves her.
That’s all.
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I also can’t stand how much negativity is placed towards her. Strong women are always put down by other envious women.
147 em
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Wonderful post! I don’t know how many times someone has to say it but imo there is nothing Brad could say that would stop the negative press for Angie…mind you the negative press is usually from rags. Angie gets this b/c she is a beautiful, talented, caring woman who happens to be smart and is involved in charity. She flies planes, travels the world and takes care of four children and her man….that scares people..especially women who would consider themselves mini van majority.
Reading those questions to Sean Smith made me sooooo sad,people really know how to hate.Thay have taken everthing she does and spun it the worst way.She is only human,she has made mistakes,Now she looks like someone who has grown into a caring women that would like to see the world and help the very less fortunate & belive me in America, the very poorest are not as bad off as the poor in these other parts of the world.And as for her taking Brad from Jen.Get over it!! Brad made the choose to divorce his wife,Who knows what went on it that marriage that it was so easy for Angie to “steal” him away.She & Brad look happy I doubt any women could “steal” him from her And they are not even married.
Brad uses his actions to prove his love for Angie. He divoced Jen and went to be with Angie. Followed her around the world wherever she wanted to go. Stayed by her side and took care of her and children when she was pregnant. Brought her out of her shell when she got emotional. helped her go through her mother’s death. supported her on her mission of saving the world. pick up and drop off the children to school everyday.
Damn it. these actions are 1000 times better than the damn words.
I think there’s a great balance between Brad and Angelina. I don’t think Brad should be blamed, but people’s mentality should be put into question. Historically, there’s always been a double standard against women. Heh, women are b*tchy period. Sorry. I’m a woman, too, but it is sad that there’s a lack of solidarity among us sometimes. Instead of celebrating another woman’s success and achievements, there are many of us who questiong and undermine them.
Anyway, I don’t think Brad should be blamed. It really boils down to the media and people’s mentality. Angelina has praised him, and we should take her word for that. I don’t think we should contribute to the sensationalism.
What about the rumors floating around on the internet, a blind item about Angelina doing Heroine. Now, most of her fans speak everything that is Angelina. Can you please, for the ones that do not follow her as close, speak on this blind item. Angelina is a junkie and it did have an impact on Shiloh. It could have cause some developmental delay. Do you think that the one thing everyone says Brad left Jennifer for, the perfect family, is it possible her fears would be that he would go back to Jennifer and try again to get that perfect little girl. NOt that he love Shiloh any less. HOwever, Angelina is sick so maybe this is the reason she can not stay clean.. Also in every conversation she is sending a message to Jen because she could never ever be the woman that Jennifer is. That is enough to make any sociopathic drug addict fall off the wagon. What is your take on this.
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Brad knows but doens’t do anything about it, he’s waiting for angelina to overdose and be the victim of the century. The perfect plan.
All those going to see AMH enjoy.please come back and tell us.WE live outside USA.
After reading the newsweek Q and A most of them are not concerned about the movie. I see why her Lawyrers did not want personal questions at the AMH premeire.
I am pissed off with Brad Pitt also. I don’t think he deserves her.
That’s all.
how the hell does Brad not deserve her. fcuk off
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