Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Hello and welcome to the show. Someone we admire greatly, a young woman named Taylor Swift has released an album that includes a new song called Clara Bow.

We thought we would reach back in the archives and bring you the story of the real Claribou, with whom Taylor

Swift has said she's drawing parallels in their development and their respective careers.

So we thought we'd bring the story to you.

Now, I will tell you, please be kind.

It is from the vault.

And what I mean by that is, when we began, we just began.

You know, there wasn't a lot of study, there wasn't a lot of audio knowledge.

So the audio of the show you were about to listen to is cleaned up as well as possible from here in the future,

but just know it comes from 2012.

The middle school era of the history chicks.

We're not as cute and fumbly as we were at the beginning in elementary school and we are nowhere near as slick as we get in the current graduate school

era so just be kind.

Ooh we're in graduate school I'm actually sitting up a little straighter. We do want to warn you. There is a little straighter. We do want to warn you.

There is a little ears warning on this particular episode. Clara's story really can't

be told in g-rated terms. There's violence, there's child loss, there's child abuse, and many other adult

themes throughout her life. And now, on with the show.

And here's your 30 second summary. Men, mental illness and movie magic.

That's it.

The end.

Let's talk about Clara Bow.

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