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    • “A Tattle Tale”, performed by Judith Sloan and co-authored by Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer. Since 1990, Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan have collaborated on several performance pieces, radio works and plays including “Denial of the Fittest,” “The Whole K’Cuffin World,” and now “A Tattle Tale.”

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