conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Based, TONYA, TAPES with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Specific Groups?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'The Tonya Tapes'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the first two paragraphs for this book?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: The Tonya Tapes
  In January '94 is when I came home from Nationals. Then I went to Olympics in February. I went through all the court shit in March. That (the 'Penthouse' issue) happened in May, June – I couldn't even tell you anymore. So, it probably was right before he went to prison. (More on the video in Chapter '11.') And, oh, I can tell you something else. When I came home from the Olympic Games – I had my bag of stuff that I had got from the Olympic Association. I had a medal and a really nice camera. He took both of them – took both of them. Talk about being pissed off. I ended up leaving half of my stuff. I had crystal. I had beautiful dishes. I had stuff that I had collected from other countries. My friends came over to move me out the one day he wasn't going to be there. He had to be at his lawyer's office, and they were trying to get all my stuff out of there when he showed up. I had to leave half my stuff – stuff that was really important to me.
  Oh, no. I am sure he either gave it away or sold it. But he has done lots of shit like that before. In '91, after I had won Nationals and had gone to Worlds – let's see, in '92, excuse me, right before I went to Olympics (in Albertville, France, where Tonya placed fourth), I had received a really cool camera for the Olympics – they give it to you at Nationals in your bag of goodies. One of the photographers that I knew really well, – his name was Tom, out of Portland – he used to take pictures of me all the time for 'The Oregonian' (a newspaper). I did a photo shoot at the Coliseum (a rink) around the boards. They had a 'Budweiser' sign on the boards, and they had some other signs up there, and I thought it would be really cool because I'm in my skates, and so I got up on the rail, and I laid across the rail above the 'Budweiser' sign, and he took a picture of me – just for me – so I could have it. He blew it up, and I put it in a really cool frame. I mean, it was really cool looking. It had been hanging up on my wall. When I left him (Jeff) in '93 and my dad ended up staying there – when I was carrying some of the stuff out of my house, I had the picture. I had my camera and a whole bunch of other stuff, and he (Jeff) came out and knocked me on the ground. Everything went flying out of my hands. He took the camera and threw it on the ground – broke into smithereens. Took my picture, jumped up and down on it, broke it, took it out (of the frame), and ripped it in half.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know five more paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Jeff and I were arguing so badly about it because he kept calling me stupid. I remember that. So, I said, "I will call (the reporter) because (the reporter) will tell you that I know what I am talking about."
  Can you see why, though, that would make people think something C9 thinking that you might have been calling to see where she (Nancy) was so that Jeff, or whoever, I don't know who – would plan this attack on her – somewhere else other than Detroit?
  At her home? I didn't have an address. I wasn't asking for no address. All I did was call somebody and say, "Hey, isn't this true – that they bought a home?"
  I asked her the name of the town she bought her house in. And it was right outside of C9 it was on some lake or whatever. And I believe she got on the phone and told Jeff.
  Yeah. Because I was right. She had bought a house at this other place. I didn't ask for no address or phone number or anything like that. I asked (the reporter) because she knew that I was right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Jeff and I were arguing so badly about it because he kept calling me stupid. I remember that. So, I said, "I will call (the reporter) because (the reporter) will tell you that I know what I am talking about."
  Can you see why, though, that would make people think something C9 thinking that you might have been calling to see where she (Nancy) was so that Jeff, or whoever, I don't know who – would plan this attack on her – somewhere else other than Detroit?
  At her home? I didn't have an address. I wasn't asking for no address. All I did was call somebody and say, "Hey, isn't this true – that they bought a home?"
  I asked her the name of the town she bought her house in. And it was right outside of C9 it was on some lake or whatever. And I believe she got on the phone and told Jeff.
  Yeah. Because I was right. She had bought a house at this other place. I didn't ask for no address or phone number or anything like that.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Do you know the last three paragraphs? Start with the sentence 'Love me and my kitty'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Love me and my kitty. (She laughs). Nowadays, what do I do good? I think I do my archery pretty good.
  I haven't mentioned skating because I haven't done it for awhile, but skating will always be my biggest passion, and if I could ever do it again, I would.
  Gosh – well, you said, "What is the biggest misconception?" I guess the biggest misconception is that I'm not an animal. I am just human. There are so many people out there that make me to be this bad person. But, you know, they've got their fingers pointing out. If you're human, you should at least have one of those fingers pointing back at yourself, too. There is no one who is perfect.