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[J. Edgar Hoover meets the child actress, Shirley Temple, at the movie house in front of reporters]
Reporter: Miss Temple!
Shirley Temple: Mr. Hoover, I was wondering if you would join my police force.
J. Edgar Hoover: Why, yes, Miss Temple. If you agree to be an honorary G-Woman and give me one little kiss.
Shirley Temple: I don't know if your wife would approve, Mr. Hoover.
J. Edgar Hoover: But, you see, I still live with my mother.
[both chuckle]
Shirley Temple: Oh, Okay!
[Miss Temple kisses him on the cheek under the flash of cameras]
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[later in the night Annie Hoover passes away, Edgar is alone in his bedroom and wakes up to grab his rosary]
Annie Hoover: [in the air he hears his mothers voice] Stay strong, Edgar.
[Edgar then goes to the mirror as his mother helped teach him to, to get over his childhood stutter, holding out and dressing into his mothers shirt]
Annie Hoover: [again in the air Edgar hears his mothers voice] You stay strong, Edgar.
J. Edgar Hoover: [Edgar screams out and tears apart his rosary in a frantic shiver] Stay strong! Uhh!
[Edgar finally collapses in tears and curls himself in a ball]
Robert Stilwell
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