Kurada said that when she told the Cookie Monster that her husband needed to get cash, the shaggy blue creature pushed the boy and began calling her and the child obscene names.

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So does his girlfriend, Ella, who lives with her little boy in the Pink Flamingo trailer park and earns the extra cash she needs by competing in the weekly Hump Day Honey Bikini Contest, held at the Happy Wednesday bar.

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