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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
If you're listening to this, you

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are about to hear a super 
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But fair warning, this is just a

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sneak peek. 
Don't hurt us, It's totally 

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Hi guys, welcome to a very 
special episode. 

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Very special episode of 
Significant lovers on Patreon. 

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Secret episode. 
This is our first episode when 

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we're covering a couple that is 
not confirmed at all. 

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That's. 
Not really true, because we've 

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done Drake and we on true. 
They weren't confirmed. 

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That's actually I take it back 
even. 

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Jane Austen and Tom Lavroy 
weren't official. 

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I retract, I retract, but we 
have a very special guest host 

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today. 
And another guest speaker. 

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So there's two people in the 
room with us right now. 

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Because this episode we. 
Have been warned might be 

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controversial. 
So fair warning. 

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Disclaimer This is not us 
pushing a conspiracy theory. 

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This is a. 
Conspiracy episode. 

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But first of all, I'm Kelly. 
And I'm Mal. 

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And today we're covering Harry 
Styles and Louis Tomlinson and 

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it is being Co host by my sister
Mel's cousin Caitlin Anderson. 

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Welcome, Caitlin. 
Hi. 

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Thank you for having me on the 
podcast again. 

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Yes, another kind of unconfirmed
relationship. 

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But yes, my name is Caitlin. 
I am Kelly's sister and Mel's 

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cousin. 
Yes, and she joins us as a 

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subject matter expert in the 
Larry Conspiracy realm. 

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Larry being Louie and Harry, but
we also have with us in the room

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Shannon Anderson, who is a Larry
Denier. 

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Hello. 
What do you have to say about 

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that, Shannon? 
So I've never called myself a 

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Larry Denier per Southeast. 
But you definitely are. 

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I would just call myself a 
Larry. 

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Hater. 
Not hater, more just like 

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questioning why it exists, like 
why it's such a big deal. 

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As a phenomenon, yeah. 
So Shannon joins us with years 

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worth of One Direction 
expertise. 

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So I just want to say this for 
all the listeners out there, if 

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you are triggered by this 
episode, I'm right there with 

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you. 
I stand in solidarity with you. 

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OK. 
But don't leave any hate or 

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anything like that like, OK, a 
cup. 

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Of tea like so. 
Wait, I feel like I need to just

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lay some things out here. 
So Harry Styles and Louis 

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Tomlinson were from One 
Direction, the boy band. 

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And basically what this episode 
is about is the theory that they

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had more than a friendship. 
But it might have been just a 

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friendship, but it could have 
been more of a friendship. 

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Yes. 
But why is that triggering? 

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Because you had to be there. 
I was there in the trenches of 

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2012, on Tumblr, on Twitter, in 
the One Direction fandom. 

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None of you would understand. 
Even Caitlin was not there. 

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OK, but why is it triggering? 
Because here's what happened. 

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So everyone like I was really in
deep in the One Direction fandom

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in middle school and through 
high school. 

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And basically what happened was 
Larry divided the fandom. 

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There were the Larry Truthers 
and then the Larry, I guess you 

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could say deniers or haters, as 
you will. 

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And it got really, really toxic.
It was really bad. 

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But why were you never on the 
Larry side of it all? 

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I mean, I guess probably because
I was a hairy girl first and 

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foremost. 
And the the majority of the 

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reason why I wasn't big on Larry
is because their their fans were

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so toxic and so obnoxious and 
crazy and took every little 

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glance, every little word they 
said to each other and turned it

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into this huge ordeal when it 
really was not. 

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It did not matter. 
And it really it it really 

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destroyed the fandom, the 
toxicity. 

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Do you think it hurt their 
friendship too? 

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100% it did because they were 
told or they decided that they 

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couldn't sit next to each other 
anymore. 

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They couldn't ever stand next to
each other. 

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So they slowly started, I think 
like resenting the fact that 

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there was like this whole fake 
relationship made. 

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But. 
Do you think they played into 

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the rumors too? 
Well, when they're like, well, 

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first of all, I also want to 
read it, reiterate that we're 

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talking about a minor here. 
Harry was like 16 when all this 

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was happening. 
Well, we've talked about minors 

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on this. 
I know, but if you're talking 

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about two teenage boys just 
having fun with each other, 

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they're gonna joke with each 
other. 

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I don't know. 
Many of you guys have had a lot 

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of guy friends that were like 
teenagers or like 1819 years 

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old. 
Like they're going to joke with 

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each other. 
They're best friends. 

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So a lot of what is being 
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relationship, that's just them 
being so super close as best 

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friends. 
Well, we'll. 

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Have Caitlyn present. 
Her evidence? 

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Yeah, and people can decide for 
themselves. 

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All right, I will have to stop 
the. 

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Episode Right there. 
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