Olive Penderghast addresses her peers through a webcam to address the escalating rumors regarding her promiscuity. She adopts a witty, self-deprecating tone to reclaim her narrative and set the record straight about her reputation.
OLIVE: Let the record show that I, Olive Penderghast, being of sound mind, ample breast size and the occasional corny knock knock joke, do enter this video blog into evidence in the case against me. Because I’m being judged by a jury of my peers, I will attempt to insert ‘like’ and ‘totally’ into my
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