Patrick Scott Patterson
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Yeah... I'm just gonna throw this right out here:
We have a storage unit. We've had it for some time, really. Used to have a few of them that I used to repair and restore vintage arcade games and store them to sell. As I got out of that, we kept one as a bit of a random place to stuff random things we didn't want cluttering up the home.
We're planning to get rid of this place this week. "Sell, dump or donate" is the manner in which we are going to dive in there, though I suspect a couple of things such as the old Star Wars and Masters of the Universe loose figures will wander into a closet at home.
Old baby stuff... old arcade parts... some random things like that are in there... as is every submission I was ever sent while at Twin Galaxies.
Yes, a rare instance where I stated the name of my old stomping grounds. Yes, I have been holding on to every single score I was ever mailed for this whole time. In fact, former referees that live right here in town with me also gave me their old stashes, too, meaning I have submissions even prior to my time on the staff there.. the stashes of multiple former refs going back to nearly the start of this century.
I tried several times to get this stuff picked up and sent to people in charge at different points in time but nothing ever came of it. Considering how it was all mailed to me directly anyway combined with the fact that I attempted to get various ownerships at TG to take possession of it, put together with the length of time it's been left with me... I suppose it is now mine to do with what I wish.
Only reason I mention it now is because I understand there is discussion of this out there and how much of these older submissions still exist. Perhaps my mentioning of this could spice up a Monday morning. The timing is not lost on me, either, as I really don't want to store this stuff.
Thousands and thousands of hours of footage behind that door and in my possession. Thought that might be of interest.
What do YOU think I should I do with this stuff?
"Yeah... I'm just gonna throw this right out here: We have a storage unit. We've had it for some time, really. Used to have a few of them that I used to repair and restore vintage arcade games and store them to sell. As I got out of that, we kept one as a bit of a random place to stuff random things we didn't want cluttering up the home. We're planning to get rid of this place this week. "Sell, dump or donate" is the manner in which we are going to dive in there, though I suspect a couple of things such as the old Star Wars and Masters of the Universe loose figures will wander into a closet at home. Old baby stuff... old arcade parts... some random things like that are in there... as is every submission I was ever sent while at Twin Galaxies. Yes, a rare instance where I stated the name of my old stomping grounds. Yes, I have been holding on to every single score I was ever mailed for this whole time. In fact, former referees that live right here in town with me also gave me their old stashes, too, meaning I have submissions even prior to my time on the staff there.. the stashes of multiple former refs going back to nearly the start of this century. I tried several times to get this stuff picked up and sent to people in charge at different points in time but nothing ever came of it. Considering how it was all mailed to me directly anyway combined with the fact that I attempted to get various ownerships at TG to take possession of it, put together with the length of time it's been left with me... I suppose it is now mine to do with what I wish. Only reason I mention it now is because I understand there is discussion of this out there and how much of these older submissions still exist. Perhaps my mentioning of this could spice up a Monday morning. The timing is not lost on me, either, as I really don't want to store this stuff. Thousands and thousands of hours of footage behind that door and in my possession. Thought that might be of interest. What do YOU think I should I do with this stuff?"
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David Oxford Coolness, but I couldn't really answer... I keep a lot of stuff, generally anything with memories or sentimental value attached.
Gotta be some way to archive that stuff, though, right? Seems like it'd be a waste to just dispose of it...
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Patrick Scott Patterson Nowhere did I say I was going to dispose of it... I find it quite sad that most former refs felt they had no other choice but to do so when they, like myself, tried to get various ownerships in the recent hot potato years to take possession. Although... I also must point out that a LOT of the stuff I have is of the "8-hours of fluff" variety... you know, 8 hour tapes of "records" for "fastest lap" on every track of a racing game nobody ever heard of... or Guitar Hero and Rock Band scores that were just being sent in to populate the scoreboard, etc. Not out of the question that this stash could be downsized by dumping those sorts of things if I chose to do so and only holding on to scores that hold some actual status... then choosing what I wish to do with those.
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John Bud pick the parts you prize the most, whether for sentimental or financial value. ask for assistance on the old t.t. stuff etc. after it has been sorted into relevant bundles donate, sell then burn
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Patrick Scott Patterson I have little sentimental value for any of this stuff given the bum steer I was given by a series of ownerships by this point, not to mention certain people who, despite not being there until about 15 minutes ago, are so far up the current owner's ass they might as well call themselves an enema. You do make a decent point though, John, that some of this might have financial value. Combine that with abandoned property laws and this does create an interesting scenario, eh?
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D.s. Cohen Donate any of the arcade and video game stuff to the University of Texas video game archive. http://www.cah.utexas.edu/proj.../videogamearchive/index.php
UT Videogame Archive - Mission
The UT Videogame Archive seeks to preserve and protect the work of videogame developers, publishers and...
cah.utexas.edu
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John Bud i'm scottish bud " a penny spent is a penny wasted " lol.
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Patrick Scott Patterson That'd be an interesting thing, D.S. Now, for the record, I do have my own archive going here... but for the stuff that I don't want, such as this old "world record" footage, that might be an interesting alternative.
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John Bud if the vids hold the records, why not digitise them and stick them online. lots of people post on you tube as a tutorial
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Patrick Scott Patterson Hmmmm.
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Stephen Boyer I THINK I still have some old TG paperwork that was sent to me over the years. I had to buy containers to store these recordings but never a storage unit. Also, I know all these Storage Wars shows are as fake as Jerry Springer but wouldn't it be so funny to have someone win a storage unit and find all these game recordings and it shows up on TV? LOL
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Patrick Scott Patterson Yeah... it became too much of a hassle to store at home so we eventually stashed them in the unit. Takes up quite a bit of space in there. We never actually go into the unit for anything other than Christmas decor, so there's no way to justify continuing to pay on it... so we're going to clean it out.
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Stephen Boyer A lot of the recordings were on VHS too.
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Patrick Scott Patterson True, though the last year of my time there saw more discs come in.
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Stephen Boyer Yep, same here or maybe even on Youtube.
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Jeff Fincher Have you considered the Frisco Video Game History Museum?
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Patrick Scott Patterson I hesitate to donate to any video game museums until something is long established in a physical location. Learned my lesson with the stuff I sent to Iowa a few years back. Lost forever?
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Jeff Fincher Good point
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Patrick Scott Patterson For now, I'll support efforts but am curating my own archives for the foreseeable future
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John Pompa Any chance of people whom may have sent them to you, contact you and get them back if they wanted, meaning they would pay you for shipping and packaging?
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D.s. Cohen The UT archive would be happy to accept anything you don't want/need for your own archive. Let me know if you are interested and I can put you in touch with the right folks.
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D.s. Cohen The UT archive is not a museum, but a public archive that anyone can access.
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David Oxford Sorry, guess I was just thinking worst-case scenario if you didn't want the stuff and had nothing else to do with it... But it looks like there are some interesting options out there.
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Chris Teter Why not just donate it back to TG somehow? I believe you can still get ahold of someone over there who might see value in preserving the history as best as possible. I would see that as the ideal solution, partially because then you could ask them to move it, digitize, etc.
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Patrick Scott Patterson And why would I want to do that, given the treatment of me there, being shorted thousands by previous owner and 4 years of storage fees on this stuff? TG gets nothing donated by me ever again. Gave plenty already.
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Josh Jones Scott, Ive done work with the UT Archive before, as a matter of fact, Lonnie McDonald and I did a huge donation for them, and they were just amazing to work with. They even traveled to Killeen to get the items. Just throwing my two cents into a dollar conversation
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Patrick Scott Patterson I don't doubt they are good people, but that still doesn't ensure me they'll be around 100 years from now. No offense to them, but nobody in the video game world is our Cooperstown yet, and unless I have reason to feel they are I reserve judgement. Noted example of Ottuma HOF & Museum already. I'll probably never get that stuff back. Didn't think the city would pull the plug on that but there you go.
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Tony Temple What was the situation regarding ownership of these tapes Scott? When someone submitted a score, did the tape become property of TG?
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Tina McVey Scott given the fact that you have recently talked so whole hearly of Connor Mchalek the first person to receive the "warrior award" why not offer a certain amount for the whole shibang and donate the cash to his foundation. It sounds like you dont want most of it and dont really want TG to have it back but yet it is a part of gaming history and Im sure someone out there would love to have it and be willing to donate money to a worthy cause such as connors.
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Patrick Scott Patterson I've looked into that. Since they were all mailed to my address and addressed to me by name, postal regulations may determine that they were immediately owned by the person addressed. That is moot here, though, since abandoned property laws are clear...See More
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Patrick Scott Patterson Shorter answer on that Tony is that, at least during my time there, these were treated as contest entries would be, meaning they become property of who they were sent to. The abandoned property laws came into effect later.
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Patrick Scott Patterson Tina... that actually crossed my mind today. That exact same thing... other than the 'not wanting TG to have it back' part. They can... but I'm not donating it back to them as someone else suggested. Gave enough to that joint for free already. But yeah... toss it up in a way that provides to Operation Supply Drop and Connor's Cure and to some extent recoup the thousands in storage fees I've dropped on this stuff over the past four years when I could have just tossed it long ago as others did.
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Tina McVey that has to be a huge undertaking going thru years and years of your life that you spent so much of your time away from your family.
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Tina McVey oh I get it I really do, I just want to see some good come out of all those years they took from you and your family
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A MAN WHO WAS NOTHING STILL IS NOTHING NOW WANTS PROFIT OFF OUR TAPES AND WORK HAVE YOU SAY
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Yeah... I'm just gonna throw this right out here:
We have a storage unit. We've had it for some time, really. Used to have a few of them that I used to repair and restore vintage arcade games and store them to sell. As I got out of that, we kept one as a bit of a random place to stuff random things we didn't want cluttering up the home.
We're planning to get rid of this place this week. "Sell, dump or donate" is the manner in which we are going to dive in there, though I suspect a couple of things such as the old Star Wars and Masters of the Universe loose figures will wander into a closet at home.
Old baby stuff... old arcade parts... some random things like that are in there... as is every submission I was ever sent while at Twin Galaxies.
Yes, a rare instance where I stated the name of my old stomping grounds. Yes, I have been holding on to every single score I was ever mailed for this whole time. In fact, former referees that live right here in town with me also gave me their old stashes, too, meaning I have submissions even prior to my time on the staff there.. the stashes of multiple former refs going back to nearly the start of this century.
I tried several times to get this stuff picked up and sent to people in charge at different points in time but nothing ever came of it. Considering how it was all mailed to me directly anyway combined with the fact that I attempted to get various ownerships at TG to take possession of it, put together with the length of time it's been left with me... I suppose it is now mine to do with what I wish.
Only reason I mention it now is because I understand there is discussion of this out there and how much of these older submissions still exist. Perhaps my mentioning of this could spice up a Monday morning. The timing is not lost on me, either, as I really don't want to store this stuff.
Thousands and thousands of hours of footage behind that door and in my possession. Thought that might be of interest.
What do YOU think I should I do with this stuff?
"Yeah... I'm just gonna throw this right out here: We have a storage unit. We've had it for some time, really. Used to have a few of them that I used to repair and restore vintage arcade games and store them to sell. As I got out of that, we kept one as a bit of a random place to stuff random things we didn't want cluttering up the home. We're planning to get rid of this place this week. "Sell, dump or donate" is the manner in which we are going to dive in there, though I suspect a couple of things such as the old Star Wars and Masters of the Universe loose figures will wander into a closet at home. Old baby stuff... old arcade parts... some random things like that are in there... as is every submission I was ever sent while at Twin Galaxies. Yes, a rare instance where I stated the name of my old stomping grounds. Yes, I have been holding on to every single score I was ever mailed for this whole time. In fact, former referees that live right here in town with me also gave me their old stashes, too, meaning I have submissions even prior to my time on the staff there.. the stashes of multiple former refs going back to nearly the start of this century. I tried several times to get this stuff picked up and sent to people in charge at different points in time but nothing ever came of it. Considering how it was all mailed to me directly anyway combined with the fact that I attempted to get various ownerships at TG to take possession of it, put together with the length of time it's been left with me... I suppose it is now mine to do with what I wish. Only reason I mention it now is because I understand there is discussion of this out there and how much of these older submissions still exist. Perhaps my mentioning of this could spice up a Monday morning. The timing is not lost on me, either, as I really don't want to store this stuff. Thousands and thousands of hours of footage behind that door and in my possession. Thought that might be of interest. What do YOU think I should I do with this stuff?"
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David Oxford Coolness, but I couldn't really answer... I keep a lot of stuff, generally anything with memories or sentimental value attached.
Gotta be some way to archive that stuff, though, right? Seems like it'd be a waste to just dispose of it...
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Patrick Scott Patterson Nowhere did I say I was going to dispose of it... I find it quite sad that most former refs felt they had no other choice but to do so when they, like myself, tried to get various ownerships in the recent hot potato years to take possession. Although... I also must point out that a LOT of the stuff I have is of the "8-hours of fluff" variety... you know, 8 hour tapes of "records" for "fastest lap" on every track of a racing game nobody ever heard of... or Guitar Hero and Rock Band scores that were just being sent in to populate the scoreboard, etc. Not out of the question that this stash could be downsized by dumping those sorts of things if I chose to do so and only holding on to scores that hold some actual status... then choosing what I wish to do with those.
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John Bud pick the parts you prize the most, whether for sentimental or financial value. ask for assistance on the old t.t. stuff etc. after it has been sorted into relevant bundles donate, sell then burn
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Patrick Scott Patterson I have little sentimental value for any of this stuff given the bum steer I was given by a series of ownerships by this point, not to mention certain people who, despite not being there until about 15 minutes ago, are so far up the current owner's ass they might as well call themselves an enema. You do make a decent point though, John, that some of this might have financial value. Combine that with abandoned property laws and this does create an interesting scenario, eh?
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D.s. Cohen Donate any of the arcade and video game stuff to the University of Texas video game archive. http://www.cah.utexas.edu/proj.../videogamearchive/index.php
UT Videogame Archive - Mission
The UT Videogame Archive seeks to preserve and protect the work of videogame developers, publishers and...
cah.utexas.edu
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John Bud i'm scottish bud " a penny spent is a penny wasted " lol.
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Patrick Scott Patterson That'd be an interesting thing, D.S. Now, for the record, I do have my own archive going here... but for the stuff that I don't want, such as this old "world record" footage, that might be an interesting alternative.
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John Bud if the vids hold the records, why not digitise them and stick them online. lots of people post on you tube as a tutorial
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Patrick Scott Patterson Hmmmm.
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Stephen Boyer I THINK I still have some old TG paperwork that was sent to me over the years. I had to buy containers to store these recordings but never a storage unit. Also, I know all these Storage Wars shows are as fake as Jerry Springer but wouldn't it be so funny to have someone win a storage unit and find all these game recordings and it shows up on TV? LOL
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Patrick Scott Patterson Yeah... it became too much of a hassle to store at home so we eventually stashed them in the unit. Takes up quite a bit of space in there. We never actually go into the unit for anything other than Christmas decor, so there's no way to justify continuing to pay on it... so we're going to clean it out.
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Stephen Boyer A lot of the recordings were on VHS too.
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Patrick Scott Patterson True, though the last year of my time there saw more discs come in.
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Stephen Boyer Yep, same here or maybe even on Youtube.
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Jeff Fincher Have you considered the Frisco Video Game History Museum?
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Patrick Scott Patterson I hesitate to donate to any video game museums until something is long established in a physical location. Learned my lesson with the stuff I sent to Iowa a few years back. Lost forever?
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Jeff Fincher Good point
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Patrick Scott Patterson For now, I'll support efforts but am curating my own archives for the foreseeable future
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John Pompa Any chance of people whom may have sent them to you, contact you and get them back if they wanted, meaning they would pay you for shipping and packaging?
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D.s. Cohen The UT archive would be happy to accept anything you don't want/need for your own archive. Let me know if you are interested and I can put you in touch with the right folks.
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D.s. Cohen The UT archive is not a museum, but a public archive that anyone can access.
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David Oxford Sorry, guess I was just thinking worst-case scenario if you didn't want the stuff and had nothing else to do with it... But it looks like there are some interesting options out there.
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Chris Teter Why not just donate it back to TG somehow? I believe you can still get ahold of someone over there who might see value in preserving the history as best as possible. I would see that as the ideal solution, partially because then you could ask them to move it, digitize, etc.
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Patrick Scott Patterson And why would I want to do that, given the treatment of me there, being shorted thousands by previous owner and 4 years of storage fees on this stuff? TG gets nothing donated by me ever again. Gave plenty already.
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Josh Jones Scott, Ive done work with the UT Archive before, as a matter of fact, Lonnie McDonald and I did a huge donation for them, and they were just amazing to work with. They even traveled to Killeen to get the items. Just throwing my two cents into a dollar conversation
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Patrick Scott Patterson I don't doubt they are good people, but that still doesn't ensure me they'll be around 100 years from now. No offense to them, but nobody in the video game world is our Cooperstown yet, and unless I have reason to feel they are I reserve judgement. Noted example of Ottuma HOF & Museum already. I'll probably never get that stuff back. Didn't think the city would pull the plug on that but there you go.
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Tony Temple What was the situation regarding ownership of these tapes Scott? When someone submitted a score, did the tape become property of TG?
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Tina McVey Scott given the fact that you have recently talked so whole hearly of Connor Mchalek the first person to receive the "warrior award" why not offer a certain amount for the whole shibang and donate the cash to his foundation. It sounds like you dont want most of it and dont really want TG to have it back but yet it is a part of gaming history and Im sure someone out there would love to have it and be willing to donate money to a worthy cause such as connors.
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Patrick Scott Patterson I've looked into that. Since they were all mailed to my address and addressed to me by name, postal regulations may determine that they were immediately owned by the person addressed. That is moot here, though, since abandoned property laws are clear...See More
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Patrick Scott Patterson Shorter answer on that Tony is that, at least during my time there, these were treated as contest entries would be, meaning they become property of who they were sent to. The abandoned property laws came into effect later.
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Patrick Scott Patterson Tina... that actually crossed my mind today. That exact same thing... other than the 'not wanting TG to have it back' part. They can... but I'm not donating it back to them as someone else suggested. Gave enough to that joint for free already. But yeah... toss it up in a way that provides to Operation Supply Drop and Connor's Cure and to some extent recoup the thousands in storage fees I've dropped on this stuff over the past four years when I could have just tossed it long ago as others did.
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Tina McVey that has to be a huge undertaking going thru years and years of your life that you spent so much of your time away from your family.
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Tina McVey oh I get it I really do, I just want to see some good come out of all those years they took from you and your family
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A MAN WHO WAS NOTHING STILL IS NOTHING NOW WANTS PROFIT OFF OUR TAPES AND WORK HAVE YOU SAY
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