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<v ->Oh, come on Cole, cheer up.</v>

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<v ->Righto.</v>

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<v ->You two haven't spoken in 40 years.</v>

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(gun fires)

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<v ->Why start now?</v>

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<v ->Mrs Ram,</v>

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is sick.

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(sheep baa's)

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<v ->I was so excited to be able to see Rams.</v>

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It's such a charming, wonderful movie.

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I learned a lot,

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I've got to say.

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I mean it's such a wonderful screen pairing.

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We've got Sam Neill and we've got farm animals.

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I think, like, everyone loves to see those two together.

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And of course your love of farm animals is well-documented.

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So, I wondered,

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I mean, how did this project come about?

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How did you come to be involved with Rams?

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<v ->Yeah,</v>

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I never quite know the answer to that.

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How does one ever get into a movie?

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I was kind of,

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it was a film I was reluctant to

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participate in

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because

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I'd seen the original film,

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which is an Icelandic film.

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A rather bleak film,

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sort of bleakly funny,

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but, uh

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bleak.

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And, uh

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I was already going into

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three films back to back

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and this would have meant four

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on the back of,

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this would have been four in a row

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without any break in between any of them.

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And I knew I'd be really exhausted by the end of it.

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And then I read the script

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I was very encouraged by how,

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by the tone of it.

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And by the sort of,

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I describe it as a,

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not a feel good film, but a feel better film.

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I sort of felt,

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I felt better after reading it

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than when I started it.

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the director,

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Jeremy Sims

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persuaded me that

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I was the only person who could do it.

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surely he was just flattering me.

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(fumbling over words)

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and Michael Caton who plays my estranged brother in it

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is an old friend of mine.

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So I thought, yeah, I think I will do this.

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I think this is something I should do.

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And now that it's been on release in Australia, New Zealand

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and people have seen it.

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It's done very well here.

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I've had,

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I've had great feedback.

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It's such a warm kind of response to it.

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and I'm very pleased that I,

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that I committed to it.

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And I decided I would, I would go there,

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yeah.

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<v ->And it puts you on screen,</v>

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again with some lovely, lovely farm animals.

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I, of course was wondering how some of those sheep

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and Ram were to work with?

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<v ->Sheep are only trainable to a degree.</v>

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They're not the most trainable of animals.

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I mean, you never see a sheep performing tricks

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in a circus, for instance, do you.

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It just doesn't happen.

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They're not that sort of animal.

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They can't juggle.

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They can't walk tight ropes.

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I mean, they can barely get into a

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sheep pen without making a fuss.

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So, yeah, I was a little bit apprehensive about them,

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you know having 30 sheep of my own.

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They're just over there.

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I don't have any apprehension about working with them.

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the main star, Ram

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and I got to know each other pretty well.

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he'd be pretty pleased to see me in the morning,

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when we'd both turn up for work.

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in the scene there in the film

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We were pretty good friends.

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So, he wasn't worried

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and nor was I.

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<v ->As I've alluded to your love of farm animals</v>

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and your collection of farm animals is well documented.

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So, I've got some photos of them

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and Chuff is one of the newest members of your family.

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So I wondered if you could tell me

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about bringing Chuff into your life?

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<v ->Yeah. She's brand new.</v>

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She was, she was bred by my...

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She looks like a Labrador, but she's not a Labrador at all.

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She's just outside sleeping, just like that,

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as we speak.

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Chuff,

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is called Chuff because

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to be chuffed in

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New Zealand parlance is to be happy.

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Chuff sorta means happy dog.

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Yeah, she's a very sweet dog.

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But she's still a puppy.

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<v ->We've got Jeff Goldblumm, the ram.</v>

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And then we've got the pig.

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Could You tell me why did that specific Ram

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embody Jeff Goldblum to you?

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why did that name make sense for the ram?

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<v ->I don't know.</v>

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It was just something about him,

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that he,

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He's a lady's man, obviously Jeff's,

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you have some,

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the ladies love Jeff and the ladies love Jeff Goldblum.

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The pig,

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has let himself down by putting his

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nose out of the fence there.

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He's um,

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a very good friend.

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He's called actually, Angelica.

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<v ->This is Angelica.</v>

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<v ->Yeah, that's Angelica.</v>

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He has a girl's name because he was named

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by a little girl who

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loved that story,

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Charlotte's web.

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And apparently there's a pig called Angelica in that.

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Gender meant nothing to this kid.

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my pig,

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Angelica.

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So he's twice the size at the moment.

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He always gets very fat in the fruit season,

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he gets all the,

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all the reject cherries and apricots out of the orchards.

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he's also half drunk, a lot of the time

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if the apricots have been sitting in the sun

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for two or three days, they start to ferment.

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That's when he enjoys them the most.

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So he's sort of staggering about, half drunk

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and very fat.

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He slims down in the winter

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and gets his waistline back.

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he's a sight to behold at this time of the year.

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<v ->Now this next photo,</v>

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one of these bulls is Graham Norton.

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And I know that you've been on Graham Norton's show before.

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<v ->I'm not quite sure how he got to be called Graham Norton.</v>

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His mother is not in that shot.

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His mother is, uh,

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Helena Bonham Carter.

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And his father was James Nesbitt.

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But, James Jimmy Nesbitt,

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and poor old boy.

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he could barely walk.

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put the poor old boy down.

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that paddock in which

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the cows are in that photo.

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below those trees.

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An honorable departure.

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We wouldn't dream of turning Jimmy Nesbitt

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into sausages or something like that.

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<v ->We've got Kate Winslet here,</v>

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who seems to have recently had chicks,

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which is very exciting.

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<v ->Yes and she's a,</v>

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a very, very good and protective mother.

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She's got 7 little chicks,

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of all different stripes and persuasions and colors

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she's great.

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So if you, if you see her.

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the chicks had gone missing the other day.

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out to about a 3 times the size.

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when they want to sleep.

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<v ->Oh, I mean, that seems comfy.</v>

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I can't blame them.

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<v ->Yeah.</v>

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<v ->Now this again is Angelica</v>

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with Angelica's girlfriend.

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Am I correct?

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<v ->That's correct.</v>

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Imogen Poots.

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<v ->And Imogen, in real life has met Imogen, the pig.</v>

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Am I correct in that as well?

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<v ->Indeed she has.</v>

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And Imogen.

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Very blurry photo.

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I wonder where that came from.

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But yeah,

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very, very fond.

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'cause he just won't leave her alone, so to speak.

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it gets,

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it gets a bit tiresome.

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You know, a girl needs her beauty sleep

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and she, she doesn't get any

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when he's around.

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Life on the farm.

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It's raw.

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It's up,

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it's in your face.

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<v ->If I know Sig, he is done.</v>

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