Desperate Housewives - Season 1 - Episode 1 - Introduction

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You're going to hear a brief passage from Desperate Housewives - Season 1 - Episode 1 - Introduction
The narrator is Mary Alice Young
Mary Alice Young
, a woman who kills herself at the very beginning of the series. Her friends, Susan Mayer
Susan Mayer
, Bree Van de Kamp
Bree Van de Kamp
, Lynette Scavo
Lynette Scavo
and Gabrielle Solis
Gabrielle Solis
are going to investigate and try to understand the reasons of her suicide.

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Mary Alice : My name is Mary Alice Young. When you this morning’s you may come across an about the day I had . there is never newsworthy about my life, but that all last . everything quite normal at first. I for my family, I performed my , I my , I ran my errands. In truth, I the day as I spent every other day, quietly polishing the of my life, until it gleamed with . That’s why it was so when I to go to my hallway closet and retrieve a that had been used.