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AP : I know we've got Steve on the __________. Hello, Steve, you're through. Aunt Polly's listening to you.

Steve : Oh, Hullo! Aunt Polly.

AP : Hello Steve. Now, what's the problem?

Steve : Well, you see. Aunt Polly? It's all __________ to do with this girl, Jenny Bent.

AP : Oh no names, please. What about Jenny Bent?

Steve : Well, I __________ I hadn't been.so stupid..I __________...

AP : No no Steve. __________ of blaming yourself, you'd __________ start by the beginning, hadn't you?

Steve : All right. Well, you see, we __________ at a party, I mean Jenny's birthday party, She had __________ me and there was that blonde, Paddy, quite a smasher. I... I __________ to make Jenny __________, you see so I started dancing and flirting a __________ with Paddy and...

AP : You could have invited Jenny to dance a bit, __________ you? After all it was her party. Couldn't you do that for her?

Steve : I know Aunt Polly but at school, we're in the __________ form, at school, Jenny's always __________ and chatting with __________ boys. She never __________ to notice me. So I wanted to.. i wanted her to see that I could... that I __________ just waiting __________ her to take an interest in me, [1'37]