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- "Society's Child"
is a great song.

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You have this young
girl with a guitar

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taking on the beast,
interracial relationships.

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(bus rumbling)

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- [Janis] I was sitting on a
bus in East Orange, New Jersey.

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I was 14 and I was
one of, I think four,

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maybe five Caucasian kids

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in an all-Black school
and neighborhood.

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Very middle class, very
upwardly mobile neighborhood.

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But still, I was
definitely the outsider.

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I was on the bus
watching a young couple.

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He was Black and she was
white, and they were young

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and they were holding hands,

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and they were just oblivious

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to the way people
were glaring at them,

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not just white people.

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I mean, everyone
was glaring at them.

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And I started thinking about
how hard that was going to be

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and wondering whether
their parents even knew

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that they were dating and if
their parents didn't know,

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whether anybody on the bus
was going to tell on them.

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I wondered whether
the girl would be able

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to take the pressure

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and in the end, I thought
she probably wouldn't.