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"It&amp;apos;s the end of an era.\r\nOprah Winfrey signed off her long-running talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Wednesday in an emotional hour that featured just one guest: Winfrey herself.\r\n\r\nSurrounded by 300 audience members and celeb pals like Maria Shriver, Gayle King and Winfrey&amp;apos;s longtime beau, Stedman Graham, the host, 57, described her talk show exit as &amp;quot;all sweet, no bitter.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;There are no words to match this moment,&amp;quot; Winfrey said in the show&amp;apos;s opening moments. &amp;quot;This show has been going on for 4561 days of my life.&amp;quot; Later, the host recalled her early days on the Chicago-based series, sans a stylist and publicist. &amp;quot;[I had] just a Jheri Curl and a bad fur coat,&amp;quot; she joked.\r\n\r\nClad in a pink/coral-colored dress, Winfrey recalled some of her favorite episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show, including a 2008 chat with Jill Bolte Taylor, a Harvard-educated scientist who wrote a book shortly after suffering a stroke. Winfrey also looked back on her proudest Oprah Show moment: The October 2010 episode she hosted where Tyler Perry and 200 other men spoke out about being molested.\r\nAs has become tradition with Winfrey, the hour-long &amp;quot;love letter&amp;quot; to fans was not without the host&amp;apos;s sage words of wisdom.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Each one of you has their own platform. Mine is a stage in a studio. Yours is wherever you are,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;You can help somebody, you can forgive, you can listen, you can heal -- you have the power to change someone&amp;apos;s life.&amp;quot; And later, &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve spoken to nearly 30,000 people on this show and all 30,000 had one thing in common: A need for validation. Everybody wants to be heard.&amp;quot;\r\nTo allow her fans to be heard, Winfrey gave out her personal email address (oprah@oprah.com) and asked viewers to stay in touch.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience,&amp;quot; Winfrey said, closing the show surrounded by her staff and her beloved cocker spaniel, Sadie. &amp;quot;I thank you for sharing this yellow brick road of blessings. I won&amp;apos;t say goodbye -- I&amp;apos;ll just say, &amp;apos;Until we meet again.&amp;apos;&amp;quot;\r\nBy Allison Corneau for UsMagazine.com. For more Channel Surfing, click here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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