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That's audible.com.com. UK slash Wondery. Hey, everybody. We're back with trashy breakups. My name is Stacy.

Hey, friends. I'm Alicia. Excited to be back with a trashy breakup today.

Our Wednesday feed drop.

We have a good one today. We have a much requested one today.

Yep.

Technically not a trashy divorce per se. It's a little adjacent.

But we're going to say you say me today using a little Lionel Richie song to talk about Jessica

Lang. Actress extraordinaire. Actress extraordinaire, artist extraordinaire.

She's had an extraordinary life that is such a tremendous blend of her own creativity and female autonomy.

She's a badass.

Let's talk about her. Okay.

Jessica Phyllis Lane was born April 20th, 1949 in Cloque, Minnesota. Third of four kids. Cloquet. Klo K. Friends, if we're not pronouncing cities correctly, please let us know. I looked up the pronunciation on the internet. It's probably right. C-L-O-Q-U-E-T, but locals may say it a different way.

I mean, it's like Alabama and Talladega Talladega. If you're local, you're going to say it one way,

you're not if you're not. Yep. Anyway, Klo-Kay is what the internet has verified for me,

Minnesota. Jessica's the third of four kids. As a kid, her family moves around a lot. Her dad

changes jobs a bunch. This is also added to dad's alcoholism and volatility, so not great.

Not a great childhood. The thing that really bugs Jessica, she's always the new kid in school because they move so frequently.

So she begins her sort of creative escape through reading and drawing, which is great.

She will find she loves the novel Gone with the Wind.

She reads it a lot.

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