too. and something we saw pretty fun today, we were at the baptist church of newark we saw a sign that said, a budget, god's way. perhaps that will help us solve the budget crisis. we will talk about that with lindsey graham. have a great night, happy valentine's day, anderson cooper with "360" starts tonight. >> hi. we begin tonight with our special coverage of the death of whitney houston. her funeral will be private in her hometown of new jersey. governor chris christie ordering flags flown at half-staff that day, her family deciding against a big public memorial, earlier reports said they were considering a 20,000 seat arena and instead, no wake or public viewing. services will occur in the church she grew up in, sitting in the pews, where people first heard the incredible voice coming from the choir.

janet jackson knew and admired her. i talked to her about her friend. and dr. pinsky helps us understand how the prescription drug she was taking might have played a role in her death and how houston's history with narcotics could have broken her body down over time. first, more on the very latest. the gold colored hearst carrying the body of whitney houston houston before fans last night as it pulled up to this funeral home in new jersey. houston's mother, cissy arrived earlier. friends say she is overwhelmed but staying song. newark is houston's hometown and a funeral will be held saturday at a place of private worship she attended as a child at new hope baptist church. how the singer died is still

unclear and so far yielded few answers. authorities examining a bottle of prescription pills found inside her hotel room the day she died. friends said she was taking medication for throat infection and the drug, xanex for anxiety. houston had a well-known struggle with alcohol in recent years however a fan told cnn she was no longer an addict and didn't use hard drugs anymore. she had let it go, a friend said and we were proud of her. authorities down played the significance of the pills found in the hotel room saying the amount they found is less than usually found in an overdose situation. they said they'd still be looking for any signs of illegal or prescription drugs in her body at the time of her death. >> no matter what medications they're taking until we run a tox and see the level of what's in the system we will not speculate. >> reporter: investigators are also speculating with her medical team according to the "los angeles times" to learn of any underlying condition she may

have had. on saturday, she was found unconscious and unresponsive under water in the bath by her assistant, mary jones, who called for help. her staff pulled her out of the tub and authorities arrived on scene moments later. they tried to resuscitate houston but it was too late. she was pronounced dead in the hotel room. days after her death, the music world continues to pay tribute to houston. aretha franklin honored her in a private concert monday night shown on "good morning america." >> miss elizabeth whitney houston. ♪ i'll always love you ♪ i'll always love you >> in four days, houston will be laid to rest. it will be weeks until investigators have final answers over what may have caused her sudden and shocking death. ♪ >> let's dig deeper now in the role if any drugs especially

prescription drugs may have played in whitney houston's death. a close friend says she was in his words no longer an addict and no longer using hard drugs. he said she had been clean from hard drugs for three years but took xanex for anxiety and not unusual for her to have a drink when she went out. we won't know for several weeks if she combined the two before she went out or took excessive either. dr. drew pinsky and sanjay gupta. we don't know what houston died of. we're awaiting the toxicology results. what can happen to a human body when even a small amount of prescription drugs are mixed together and, worse, when whole is added to that mix? >> you think about the umbrella term system depressants, a big term, basically means these medications, even in isolation can depress your central nervous

system and affect the things you don't think about in your body, ability to regulate your heart rate and blood pressure and drive to breathe. it says something that people should try to be mindful of. when you add things together and mix in alcohol as well. it's not a 1 plus 1 equals 2 situation. when they say the term sinner gi gistic, they're saying in combination, they're somehow worse rather than being additive. the things you don't think about are affected, blood pressure, heart rate, breathing is a possibility with mixing these medicati medications. >> whitney houston's last performance was with singer kelly price, impromptu two nights before her death. kelly houston said she saw her drinking champagne as many did. i want to play that. >> did it worry you to see her drinking at all, given her past? >> no, i wasn't worried about it. i didn't see where it was excessive.

i didn't see -- i saw her with a couple of glasses of champagne. and our interactions were normal. nothing seemed over the top. she didn't seem to be intoxicated to me. again, i know intoxicated when i see it. i wasn't worried about it at all. >> you said that hearing from her friends like that makes you angry. why? >> oh, anderson, i -- no disrespect but this is the highest level of ignorance. the fact is that just because somebody isn't doing hard drugs does not mean their addiction is not active. please, everybody, i'm trying to get this message across to the world. it seems to be falling on deaf ears. if you have addiction today, you will not die of hard drugs, you will die a prescription death. that is how addicts die today. every one of my patients in the last five years of addictive pathology, taking medications the doctor prescribed and

happened to put them in combination, they're an addict and take a little more than everybody else and put a little alcohol. seeing whitney with champagne in her hand should have been an alarm sounding for all her friends, say, whitney, you were in treatment just last may, you seem to not be doing so well, let's get you to a meeting right away. not because it's mean or mean spirited. it saves lives. people with addiction do not put pills in their mouth without being in harm's way. when are we going to learn this, how many deaths? brittany murphy, michael jackson, go down the list, every celebrity you have seen die in the last five years has been a prescription death with the due poli policy tus involvement of their physician just as their friends are not understanding it. >> and there are people who take xanex and have a glass of champagne, no? >> absolutely. they're not drug addicts. anderson, i have to interrupt you again.

these are excellent medications used properly. opiates, pain medication, exceedingly important medications unless you're an opiate addict. at the turn of the century, it was called god's own medicine, we can eliminate suffering, extremely compelling for physicians to give opium and end suffering. the problem is for people with a certain genetic makeup, it has a very dark side that will kill them if they continue to be exposed to it. sanjay, don't you agree with me? >> i think there's a certain percentage of people when they take these things in combination, even if they haven't been addicts. people think there's a perception that provision drues drugs, because they're prescription drugs are not the same as opium and heroin. and people i do every 1.5 minutes of overdoses. the business traveler takes a xanex, maybe has a drink and

takes an ambien to sleep -- >> that's somebody that is in trouble. >> that can get them in trouble whether or not they had an addiction in the past. >> sanjay, not so silent. we're recording on it every night here on cnn and hln. i'm talking about it every night on my show at 9:00. the fact is we have to understand this is what kills people. i will refer you back to leagues of rock stars did god knows how much elicit drugs. look at ozzie and rolling stones, they did tons of elicit drugs, they're alive. since we graduated to prescription drugs the death rate of addiction has gone up dramatically. go to any 12 step meeting in this country, filled with people with pill problems. it wasn't that way five years ago, it's much more person nishtious. we have trouble getting people to understand it's dangerous. >> i find what you said interesting. i never had a xanex.

if you take a xanex and ambien and have a sip of alcohol or couple of alcohols that can be a problem for somebody who's not even an addict? >> that's right. more than a sip of alcohol presumably. the thing about it is it goes back to the idea again these medications in isolation have a certain impact on the central nervous system. the perception no one says having a drink is a good idea, you're warned when you get these medications don't take them in combination with alcohol, the message probably hasn't been loud enough, it's not just a bad idea, you could die from this unintentionally and the number one cause of death among a certain age population in this country and more cause of death than cocaine and heroin combined, more than car incidents. >> combined? >> and car accidents. >> combined. >> interesting, dr. drew, to hear the source, a family friend saying to cnn she was no longer an addict. most addicts i know will say,

i'm still anned addict, i'm jus not using. >> let's be super clear. if you ever had sufficient relationship with a chemical you are given the diagnosis of addiction and you meet criteria for admission to a drug treatment center, that is the same as saying you're a diabetic, have asthma, have cancer. that is a chronic disease like diabetes that will be with you the rest of your life period and has to be managed on a daily wa basis or is active. the degree varies as high as i'm dying to have a drink or i'm taking heroin. somebody diagnosed with this toasting with champagne, they are in harm's way. >> pardon my ignorance, is the a larger more important conversation, is it ever okay for somebody who's been an

addict with pills or cocaine or whatever to then have a drink of alcohol even if they're not using the other? if you're an addict in one thing are you an addict in all? >> not to put your audience to sleep with this biology but it is a disorder of the deep regovernor the brain called the media forebrain bundle an anything that triggers that apparatus with extra physical biology triggers that disease of addiction. all chemicals that cause addiction share that potential. any of those things will reawaken the dragon. >> it's a tragic discussion to have but important one. dr. drew, appreciate it. sanjay as well. >> you got it. thanks. >> important to point out we don't know how whitney houston died or if drugs played a part. that said, drug abuse is a serious problem in this country. one person dies every 19 minutes

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whitney houston was admired by more than just her fans. her voice left even her fellow singers breathless, janet jackson among them. she admired whitney houston's talent and been through the loss and investigation and questions and rumors the houston family is now experiencing. i spoke to janet jackson for an interview that will air monday on my daytime program "anderson." here's some moments. >> we've all been reeling from the death of whitney houston. when you heard the news, what did you think? >> i don't believe it. i immediately, i started shaking. i was trying to text everyone i knew to let them know. i was speechless. i could not believe it. >> where were you? >> i was home, here. i just so happened to be watching tv and i saw this newsflash.

i still can't believe it. >> we've all been kind of re-listening to her and her performance singing "the "star-spangle "star-spangled banner." to you, what was she like as a performer? >> incredible. she was known as "the voice." she would open her mouth and this instrument would come out, you would obviously understand why. she was such a sweet sweet soul, especially back in the ear early -- the late '80s, early '90s is when i connected with whitney the most. it doesn't matter if we're doing an awards show, we would always take the time out to find one another. either she'd come to my dressing room to say, hey, and i'd be in makeup or find her, we'd always find time to talk to one another, she was such a sweet soul. >> my thoughts obviously and i think everybody, with her daughter, bobbi kristina, who

has just got to be reeling. >> very devastating. i pray for her and her family. even bobby. he's going through so much, they're all going through so much. her mother. it's very sad. >> her mother spoke to her a short time before she passed. for a parent to out-live a child is just -- you know, it's the worst thing there is. what advice do you have for her family, for her kid? for her child? >> it's very very tough time. even though it's still a loss. i lost my brother, she lost her mother, there's still a difference even though it's still a loss from the family. i don't truly know what that is like being so young. but it was hard for me, it was very very difficult for me. i didn't want to accept it. it's very difficult. you have to come to terms at

some point. you have to actually give it up to god and it sounds so mean but you have to move on. you can't hold on to that. it can be very devastating. sometimes therapy is the best thing. >> and tv people always use that word "closure" talking about loss. as someone who has lost family members as well, i don't think there is such a thing as closure. i think that's a maid-up tv word. >> i don't think there is either. you have to go on with life. you figure out a way to move on with life. it's always right here. there's never a day i don't think about my -- not one day has gone by where i don't think about my brother and my other brothers and sisters have said the same thing. >> janet jackson earlier today. the full interview airs next monday on my daytime program "anderson". check your local tv lists for that. friends of houston said she

battled drugs in the early days. as far as the public is concerned, her unraveling only became apparent after she and bobby brown married in 1992. brown canceled a concert tour, rushed back to los angeles last night. the one in this blue hoody in the middle of that pack of photographers. late today, brown issued a statement concerning his daughter, bobbi kristina, hospitalized shortly after her mother died. it reads, "my daughter did visit with doctors at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles on saturday and has been released and presently with my family including her siblings. obviously, the death of her mother is affecting her, however we will get through this tragedy as a family, however i ask for privacy during this time. privacy has not always been top on their agenda for whether itnr his. >> on saturday, bobby brown took

to the stage to declare his love for his ex-wife. >> i would like to say, i love you, whitney. >> reporter: as this ireport shows she was there for a renewal of the 19 80 boy band nw edition. and "candy girl". >> she tells me i'm her only guy. >> reporter: "new edition" had a string of hits. but brown's on stage antics and fellow member led the band to kick brown out in 1986. ♪ >> reporter: undaunted, brown went on to a successful solo career with hits like "my prerogative" and "every little step" and his 1988 album, "don't be cruel."

♪ brown and houston married in 1992, on the surface, it seemed perfect, the pop princess and the r&b singer. but there were signs of trouble. in 1995, brown was present at a shooting outside a seedy boston bar that claimed the life of his bodyguard, steven seely. he was shot in the head several times and died inside a bentley registered to whitney houston. then there were brown's arrest for dui in 1996, for marijuana possession an speeding in 2002, parole violations in 2003. >> bobby! >> reporter: in 2005, the couple put their rocky marriage on a short lived reality show called "being bobby brown" for all the world to see. >> [ bleep ] it's not right.

it's not right. >> reporter: by the time that reality show aired, houston's career was already in tatters. two years later, so was her marriage. they divorced after 15 years together and brown was not awarded custody of their daughter, bobbi kristina. brown explained to "the insider" why their marriage that been so volatile. >> how often did you and whitney use together? >> i used an awful lot. >> what was your drug of choice? >> cocaine. i think i was bored and just gotten married and things wasn't right. unfortunately, i turned to alcohol and drugs. >> reporter: but brown was trying to leave that type of behavior behind. despite their tumultuous marriage, "people" magazine reports on saturday, brown cried on stage over the death of his ex-wife. randi kaye, cnn, atlanta. >> we will have much more ahead, including a rare look at whitney houston performing when she was

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we showed you the inside of new hope baptist church at the top of the program. what we didn't show was what people might have heard from the pews when a very young whitney houston was singing the gospel then. now we can. the video quality is not good, i

warn you, but the beauty of it and potential of her voice shines through. watch. ♪ ♪ she had her whole life ahead of her in that video. this week, whitney houston will be back in the new hope baptist church. she's come home and surrounded by people who knew her, knew that voice, knew that child. it's our job to report on the facts of her life and sometimes those facts aren't that pleasant and haven't been this week. so many people want to remember the beauty of whitney houston's voice, they're buying her music once again. right now, there are seven whitney houston albums on the top selling. and sadly, she was short of cash when she died and leaning heavily on her mentor, clive davis, to keep homes in atlanta

and new jersey out of foreclosure. those things often surface when a superstar dies. but it was kind of murky and at one time no one was bigger than whitney houston. tom foreman has details. >> reporter: measuring the wealth of whitney is difficult at best. a good starting place is her 1992 hit movie "the bodyguard." in over 20 years, it has made almost $411 million. the soundtrack has sold 17 million copies in the u.s. alone. according to the recording industry association of america, that's the most ever, more than purple rain and saturday night fever and, of course, the film also gave us that song. ♪ and i i will always love y you ♪ >> reporter: i will always love you sold 4 million copies in its first year alone. that's seven records every minute.

it was great news for houston and maybe even better news for dolly parton, who wrote it. under recording law, parton, not houston or her estate is the one that gets paid every time you hear that song on the radio. she talked about the tune recently on anderson's daytime talk show. >> then, when whitney did it and made all that money, i got all the money for the writing and i bought a lot of cheap wigs. >> reporter: still, houston's music was the cornerstone of her empire and her records broke records time and again. she produced more number one singles in a row than even the beatles. her songs not only climbed the charts fast but stayed near the top for long periods. how much she earned from all that is uncertain. when abc's diane sawyers asked about rumors of using crack, the singer herself suggested she had enormous wealth. >> first of all, let's get one thing straight. crack is cheap. i make too much money to ever

smoke crack. let's get that straight, okay? i don't do crack, i don't do that. crack is whack. >> reporter: now, her songs are dominating online sales, just as michael jackson's did after his sudden loss. that could be worth many mill n millions. in the two years after his death, billboard says he sold 16 million songs and almost 11 million albums. certainly, there have been celebrities who have spent their fortunes as fast as they have made them but houston would have had to work at that. after all, in the mid-90s, she was widely regarded as one of the wealthiest entertainers on the planet. she owned property, made tens of millions of dollars touring. in 2001, she signed a record deal worth $100 million. >> the show underwent a huge transformation. >> reporter: and her appeal continues, the grammy's packed with references and tributes to houston scored its biggest

audience in almost 30 years. when her final film "sparkle" is released later this year, industry experts expect to build even more on the fame and fortune of whitney houston. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> randi kaye is following other stories for us tonight and joins us with a "360" news and business bulletin. >> breaking news from capitol hill, house and senate negotiators hammering out a tentative bill to extend the payroll tax cut and jobless benefits. and prevent cuts in medicare payments to doctors. a vote could happen by friday when congress adjourns for a week. and the shelling on neighborhoods in syria, snipers fire at just about anyone out on the streets. new video shows what appears to be a government gunman targeting a young child. at least 40 syrians died today alone. cnn cannot independently verify these reports or video.

and chinese vice president ping in a visit to the white house and president obama reminding the man in line to be his country's next leader of the perhaps of a trade balance between the u.s. and china. anderson. still ahead, rick santorum hoping for a victory on mitt romney's home turf of michigan and what rick santorum's surge in michigan means and breaking down the race. former mississippi governor haley barbour trying to stay out of the spotlight and turned down our invitation for weeks to explain controversial pardon dons. our ed lavandera caught up with him. >> reporter: governor, can we talk to you about the presidential pardons? we'll wait out here, then. ♪ oh!

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in "raw politics" tonight, rick santorum surging in mitt romney's home state of michigan. the primary is two weeks from today. the santorum campaign is turning up the heat launching a pair of new tv ads today, hoping for a big win where romney was born and his father served as governor. all this comes as brand new numbers show romney losing his nationwide lead, now in a tie of 34- 34-32% and that is within the margin of error. and another poll shows santorum with a 14 point lead with conservative voters.

let's talk with ari fleischer and cnn democratic strategist, cornell, a pollster and strategist for the obama campaign. rick santorum's numbers up, winning evangelicals and blue collar voters and looking for intensity at the moment, has far more stronger supporters than mitt romney here? sn>> mitt romney is decaying support of conservatives. they didn't trust him think he was one of them, didn't think he was authentic. what conservatives have been waiting for is someone to take on mitt romney one-on-one and where he's always been most vulnerable. this is the problem mitt romney has. he needs to take rick santorum down a few notches and move himself up in the favorable area a few notches by connecting with republican conservatives on economic policy. >> cornell, before you get too happy on the democratic side,

68% of those polls say romney will win the nomination, in other words, they may be trying to send a message but romney is going to be their guy, isn't he? >> i wouldn't say us get happy. we're fine with taking on either one of those guys. here's the problem. you look at our primary in '08, the majority of the voters and democratic primary voters thought hillary clinton was going to win. that was conventional wisdom was saying. i think what's really interesting, not from a partisan perspective but from a historical perspective, you look at the last couple of election cycles, what's going on here, you have the grassroots of both parties rejecting what the establishment says is their best candidate, rejecting what the establishment wants and i think it's really remarkable. this sort of fluiddity in the electorate and volatility can happen and real grassroots on the right speaking up and saying, no, we don't want the establishment wants and want to go in a different direction, it

is unique. >> it is amazing in this race, everybody has been a front-runner at one time or another, santorum the last guy standing and surging. no one gave him a shot a few weeks ago, it's extraordinary. >> if you remember, anderson, last summer you and i started talking about this. the one thing i said then there is no solid foundation underneath any one candidate. every candidate's foundation is beat on shifting and changeable. that's highly unusual for moderate republicans, very hi arc call, we almost always know who's next and flock to that candidate. this campaign has been wide open why you saw so many people from bachmann to santorum to newt to cain, back to santorum surge and take the lead. it's not too late for mitt romn romney, he has a lot of money and running in states others are not running for the delegate chase and what we thought was a

good month for mitt romney is anything but that. >> doesn't he need to keep this from becoming a two man race between him and santorum. >> the fact that ari is pulling back from mitt romney, saying the establishment is pulling back from mitt romney, i think is really news. that's interesting. if you're romney, you want newt gingrich in this race, especially southern states. you have to have newt gingrich in that race. i don't know, perhaps a matter of not being able to poll, right now, they have to turn their attention to santorum and stop what's happening now. i said this a while back, that core conservative evangelical base of the republican party coalesce around one candidate, that candidate have the chances of being their nominee. if you're romney right now, you're terrified in fact you are effective at tearing down newt gingrich and now they're coalescing around santorum who has a lot of conservative

bonafides hard to tear down. >> a., are you pulling back from mitt romney and, b, after the santorum sweep of those three states, people say now mitt romney will focus the fire on santorum, it doesn't seem in michigan his super pac is. >> on one, i've always been neutral. i'm having a lot of fun being an analyst and watching each of the different republicans trying to say what they did right and did wrong. i'm calling this race unfolding. i've always been in the neutral camp. once we have a nominee, i will be fully unneutral. as for michigan, i do think he has to set his sites on santorum. newt is fading. if i were mitt romney, i would treat this as a one-on-one race against rick santorum. i wouldn't worry about what the pundits are saying about don't go negative. this is a campaign and they're made for big boys. he has to do what he needs to do, hopefully policy oriented, where it needs to be, not personal. if there are differences, need

to bring them out. i think there's electability issue here. mitt romney still does well among independents, although not as much as he used to than santorum. it's the issue, who at the end of the day can win in the fall. >> thank you. appreciate it. we've been asking governor haley barbour to come on this program and answer questions or doesn't have to be on this program, about the convicted felons and pardon dons. he's refused so far, and we'll see what happened. coming up, prosecutors trying to put amanda knox back in prison. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil

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tonight, "keeping them honest" and searching for former mississippi governor haley barbour in the pardon scandal that left families in fear how some of these murderers could have been set free and given pardon dons and we're hearing from the attorney general trying to get the pardons overturned. the one person who will not talk to us is haley barbour himself. for one month he wouldn't come on the program. since he wouldn't come, we decided to try and find him. we finally did find him.

we'll show you how that went in a moment. first, a recap. right before he left office, governor barbour granted more than 200 pardons for four people, including four convicted murderers, these men here who worked at the mansion in a work release trustee program. barbour said they committed what he called crimes of passion and according to him, that makes them unlikely to commit another crime. claims that's what experts say. "keeping them honest," experts said that is not true. barbour said he and victims in his office talked to victims' families before he pardoned those that killed their loved ones. we talked to then families and they said that's not true and they did not try to get in touch with them. why would barbour say that? one of the questions we tried to ask him. he won't come on the program. ed lavandera tried to get answers. here's what happened. >> reporter: since haley barbour won't go to us, we thought we'd

go to him. we found the former mississippi governor giving a speech in lexington, virginia. hi, governor, from cnn. can we talk to you a bit? >> let me get my instructions first. >> reporter: can you give us a second? >> he wouldn't give us a second but not before he told us what he thought about the questions. >> reporter: governor, can we talk to you a second? we'll wait out here. >> stay where it's cold. >> reporter: he said to stay where it's cold. he didn't come back. he gave his speech. >> i learned a great lesson about government when we did the census in 1970s. the government is not a very good communicator. the government doesn't do a good job of getting things across. i've been trying all my career to do a better job. >> reporter: governor barbour wasn't in the mood to practice

what he just preached. >> governor, can we have a few minutes to talk with you about the pardon dons? >> when the supreme court rules, we can talk. i'm not so presumptuous as to what they will do but when they rule, we will talk. >> reporter: the families wants to hear. why won't you talk to them? we waited outside to give him one last chance. this time, he surrounded hisself with security. >> reporter: governor, we can knock this out in five minutes. can we get five minutes? >> when the supreme court rules we can. >> reporter: why can't you talk to these families who want to hear from you, you refuse to meet with? do you regret pardoning -- >> ed lavandera joins me now. i love when he said to you, stay out there where it is cold. >> it was cold, just started snowing. >> and the speech about

communicating ice ironic. >> the irony speaks for itself? >> amazing someone as seasoned an issue as haley barbour is has not answered questions about this. he answered a few questions but we had a few experts say those who commit crimes of passion will not create other criticime not true. and calling these crimes of passion, some were pre-meditated, well thought out killings. >> the interviews he gave early on was before you really got a chance to unravel. there's 200 pardons, a lot to get through. it's take an while to unravel all this. all the interviews he's done, he's done early on, glossed over big picture idea was the he was thinking. there are much more specific questions we have at this point and obviously, you see the way he's reacting to them. >> we talked to a number of family members and you talked to victims' family members, who want answers.

what do you think they want to hear? what do you think they want to ask the governor? >> they want to sit across the table from him and even if it's an answer they don't agree with, every one we've spoken to, we want him to look us in the eyes and tell us why he did this. i think, with that, that would go a long way. they haven't gotten that. >> a number said they wanted to be able to have pled their case before the opportunity was granted. >> many trustwho worked at the governor's mansion knew they could get this and if they got that trustee job that was one step closer to getting pardoned and they tried to fight i along the way and said they never got a chance. >> randi kaye has a "360" bulletin. >> italian prosecutors have asked a judge to overturn the acquittal of american student amanda knox. she was convicted of murdering her british roommate, meredith

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