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Part One: Coco Chanel: The Nazi Who Invented Fashion

Behind the Bastards

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Coco Rico: A Song About a Rooster

"When one considers all the things that go on in a child's head, I wanted to kill myself," she writes. "Coco is obsessed with like these Charlotte Perkins Gilman stories about sickness and kind of the oppression of women." She gets this side job singing at this cafe where cavalry men are known to go drink and let off steam. The audience here are all drunk horny soldiers who are more interested in her appearance than her voice.

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