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What if The Golden Girls were actually part of an organized crime syndicate?
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"Y’all probably think they were innocent widowers because that’s what they WANT you to think. Nah, these women were gangsters," explains The Root's Michael Harriot in a Twitter thread, theorizing that Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia were quietly part of an international drug ring.
TOPICS: The Golden Girls, Retro TV
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