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Sarah, as a mid-range millennial, I know that you remember those live-strong bracelets.

I remember so many kids on the school bus having a live-strong bracelet and it just being like,

what is going on here it really was

so everywhere like if you weren't there you do not understand yeah it's hard to quantify but

you didn't even have one of like the knockoff ones that said i heart boobs that was supposed to be

for breast cancer but nobody actually knew where that money was going.

No, you know what? I never had any of them. Had like really thin wrists that like it would just

like emphasize how weak I looked, I guess. I don't know. What a flex. You're so delicate. You can't

wear this clunky piece of jewelry. They were just too heavy for me. I'm just one of those girls.

Okay, sounds tough.

Well, Sarah, today I'm going to bring you back to the very reason we had so many of those

ugly, cheap, landfill-deston jelly bracelets.

And somehow, it has to do with Cheryl Crow.

It's January 2013, and Lance Armstrong is in Austin, Texas.

He's got a short crew cut and a chiseled, classically handsome face.

He's sitting in a brown leather chair, surrounded by cameras in a nondescript hotel room.

The 41-year-old is used to being in the spotlight.

He's a superstar cyclist with a record-breaking seven Tour de France wins. But he's not holding a trophy today, or wearing one of

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