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A small Alanis story: That time Alanis's mom tried to recruit me to Mary Kay (1989-ish)
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I was invited to a birthday dinner at a restaurant in Ottawa for the guy who produced Alanis' 1st album (she was 14 or 15) - he was a giant jerk, truly, but we had a bunch of friends in common, so I was invited and went.
04:51 PM - May 06, 2023
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She was on a kids TV show (You Can't Do That on Television), so I kind of knew who she was, but this is well before she was "Alanis". I was going to Broadcast school and was dating a musician at the time and Ottawa is a small town in many ways.
04:52 PM - May 06, 2023
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I was seated next to her Mom who kept pitching me "You have beautiful skin" (erm, I was 22, of course I did!), "You could be really successful" etc. Anyway, politely took her card...
04:52 PM - May 06, 2023
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...and it landed in my "stuff", which somehow landed in a box in my parents' basement, which came to the house my husband & I bought 20+ years ago.

I recently watched the "Jagged" doc which reminded me about that night so long ago, so had a dig around and found the card.

cc @vitom
04:53 PM - May 06, 2023 (Edited)
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