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What is Jazz?
Examples of this ASH top audio genre include "Take Five" by Dave Brubek or "Hallelujah, I Love Her So", the song which Alice & Ferny wowed their wedding guests to during their first dance.
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What is the wrist?
Known anatomically as the combination of the radius & ulna, Alice fractured this body part after following Ferny's advice to snowboard down a closed trail.
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What is Greenwich Village?
Before moving out to the Brooklyn 'burbs, Alice & Fern put roots down in this NYC hotspot and experienced some of their biggest milestones to date, like the coronation of King Henry & tying the knot.
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What is "The Out-of-Towners"?
Starring Steve Martin & Diane Keaton as Henry & Nancy Clark, this movie is an all-time ASH favorite (despite being a box office flop) and depicts two lovebirds, who are definitely NOT in a rut, trying to find their way around the Big Apple after first being rerouted through Alice's hometown.
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What is Milano?
This city, the capital of Lombardia, is where Alice studied more about food, shopping & wine than the classes she was tasked with taking abroad and is the root of her love for homemade pasta and cannolis.
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What is the North End?
Due to her love of the finer Italian goods, your host included, Alice moved here to ensure she was only steps away when a craving hit for a pastry from Mike, which was typically joined by the wafting scent of "sigari".
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Who is Lizzo?
This artist, who shares a birthday with Big Al and also turns 32 today, is best known for her hit songs "Good as Hell" and "Truth Hurts".
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What is Tennis?
This pastime, Alice's one true "love", is on display annually when Al & Fern make the pilgrimage up to Flushing Meadows, Queens for a few matches between the world's best.
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What is Hell's Kitchen?
This neighborhood abutting the Hudson River served as Alice's first NYC home above a barbecue restaurant once co-owned by Justin Timberlake.
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What is "The Money Pit"?
This 1986 comedic gem stars America's favorite Covid-19 celebrity survivor and depicts a couple who buy a country mansion outside of NYC for a bargain price before eventually realizing its many "quirks", such as collapsable chimneys, staircases and bathtubs.
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What is India?
This country's stamp on the passport in early 2018 included bowls of biryani in Hyderabad, tea plantations in the hills of Munnar and a cruise down the canals of Kochi.
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What is the South End?
It was here that Alice first lived after moving out on her own post-college, in a brownstone which included an in-room faucet and a sketchy ladder to the rooftop through the ceiling of another roommate's bedroom.
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What is "Shag"?
This movie, which nobody else has ever seen and tells the story of a girls trip to Myrtle Beach in the Summer of 1963, was given in DVD form to Alice as a gift on the morning of their wedding by her soon-to-be husband, who is also very handsome and great at organizing birthday Zooms, we might add.
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What is Disneyland?
A destination that had been missing from Alice's travel itinerary for the first 30+ years of her life until she finally bit the bullet and had a magical experience at this original West coast locale.
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What is Foggy Bottom?
From the comforts of home in Cambridge, Alice took off in the Fall of 2006 for here, where the on-campus housing was known more for being "thirsty" than that of higher learning.
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