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Trucks aren't the only thing going around as 'Little Women: Dallas' cast makes pit stop at Texas Motor Speedway

Previously: A quick recap of the quick, eight-episode first half of Season One of Little Women: Dallas. Didn't binge to catch up. No worries, I got your recaps right here. Go ahead, click. I'll wait.

Coming up: It's all Emily, all the time. Looks as if she's going to open her own bar after turning down investing in the concept from Asta and Ty. And she and Asta throw food at each other.

"NASCAR is like the unofficial sport of Texas."

That's Caylea as she hosts the gang at Texas Motor Speedway. Caylea says her parents used to work at NASCAR "and they got me hooked."

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They're doing it right, in a suite. But the questions are soooooo wrong.

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"Do they switch drivers?"

"Do they get dizzy?"

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Caylea doesn't get it, thus the quote above. I don't either.

Caylea asks Tiffani about the departed Austin. And Tiffany and Caylea go shade for shade. Defensive much? Says Tiffani in the confessional: "When I sent Austin home, I wasn't breaking up with him, I was just taking a break."

Girl, have all the seats.

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So much for not talking about Austin.

Subject change: Caylea's taking makeup classes now. Asta doesn't want to talk about the "bar situation," but Caylea pushes. Asta stands her ground. They still push. Can we get a little respect among friends, please? I don't blame Asta for her bathroom break from them.

While she's away, Amanda says she wants to surprise Asta with a birthday party. Then Caylea asks about ex- and maybe current boyfriend Zach. Question: Is Caylea suddenly a talk-show host?

Amanda in confessional: "I love Dallas, so I'm not going anywhere for a guy." Well.

Down by the track ...

Tiffani, with Amanda watching, goes against Asta's wishes again and asks about the bar situation. Ugh. Amanda: "A real friend wouldn't try to screw you over. Cue Emily, who says, "What's up, party people?"

"If you don't want it, then leave me alone."

Bri says her modeling career is "starting to take off." Wooda and Bri got asked to cover COSIGN Magazine. Caylea offers to do the makeup. That girl always has her hustle on!

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Anyway, Wooda, Bri and Meek are hanging. Bri is pushing Wooda for relationship goals. Wooda: "Ah, yeah. I ain't with that right now."

Girl, I have been in those shoes. Get up. Dust your pants off. Walk away.

It turns out the cover story for the magazine is about "power couples." And Bri doesn't want to play a part she doesn't have. He calls it a "little issue." Wooda. Stop.

"My dad helped me see that twerking isn't a career."

Caylea loves her new choice of career and just knows her dad would be proud of her. You can tell she loves it. She knows all the answers to the instructor's questions. And her classmates notice.

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I love that she loves school, in this case a place called Tint School of Makeup and Cosmetology. And her face is beat to death these days, so it seems she might make a go of it. Just to help you out here, beat = nice. In this context. Don't go using it all silly and everything, though. Your feelings will get hurt.

"They can't protect me."

So, this is why Tiffani won't date another little person. She confides in a "high-end" client. She says Dawn has been her client for a while. Come. For. Her. She has called.

The client starts matchmaking, saying she has a friend.

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"Kinda sounds like Asta's idea" ...

Caylea and Bri meet up with Emily. Em wants them to check out a venue with her. When they get inside, Emily starts describing a bar. That's Caylea's reaction you read.

Em says she hopes Asta won't be mad at her and that Asta and Ty can work there. Her voice lifts at the end as Bri's eyebrows shoot up into her hairline. Her smile is intact, though. Ooooh, Emily knows she's about to step in it.

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They wouldn't even know I had that bar until opening night. And not the soft opening, either. Like after it's been open for two or three weeks. I'd invite them out for drinks and they'd have to wonder all night how I got drinks for free. I'm not usually that kind of girl to throw a rock and hide my hand, but this is fire right here. Who gets burned on purpose? Where they do that at?

"Was it you or him?"

Tiffani's blind date asks her many questions about her relationship with Austin, who she's now calling her "ex." Things change quickly in the world of Tiffani.

They're at The Sandbar Cantina and Grill.

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Until the inquisition, Tiffani was feeling him. He checked off all the list items, including a j-o-b. He's a "business manager at a luxury boutique here in Highland Park." She answers, "It ended."

Caleb, honey, there will probably be no second date. If you didn't want to be there, there are easier ways to go. I'm just saying.

He really doesn't want to be there. Caleb starts talking about children because he's 31 and running out of time. Boy bye. He's in a hurry, and now she's in one, too. To leave. Run, Tiff, run.

"It breaks my heart."

Caylea is doing Bri's makeup for the photo shoot. It's just right.

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"It's a little weird to me that they're doing this photo shoot as a 'power couple'," Caylea confesses. Me, too. Bri, three.

Again. I've been in these shoes. They're hard to walk in. I need a moment or else I'm going to start calling out names.

Wait. What? Bri is sitting on some type of throne chair holding an actual leash around Wooda's neck as he crawls on the floor. Nuh-uh. Nope. Not in this recap.

Ooooh, I am definitely feeling some type of way about that. We need a People for the Ethical Treatment for Humans on this set. Come on, now!

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Spot. Busted. The first question from the reporter is about their status as a couple. Wooda goes to great lengths to say he doesn't believe in titles and they're not a "couple."

Poor Bri confesses that it breaks her heart to hear it, but she doesn't say anything that we see at the interview. I bet she cried in the car.

"If he hasn't changed in the last four years, do you think he's going to change now?"

Tiffani, Emily, Bri and Asta.

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They're talking about Tiffani's blind date. And here comes Emily barreling out of the gate aiming directly for a total eclipse of the heart. It's just her attempt to find an entry point to talk about Austin.

Dang, girl.

Tiffani's crying. Asta hasn't said anything. And Emily's still talking. Don't they know by now to show no weakness around her? She can't help herself!

"I don't even know what to think about this."

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Brichelle! And look out. She's got a drink with a straw.

Caylea and Brichelle are seated and they tell Asta to sit down. Uh-oh, an ambush at work. Caylea comes right out with it: "Emily's taking your idea ... and she's gonna call it The Mini Bar."

Ty has taken a seat, too.

Brichelle: "Y'all need to send her a cease and desist letter and shut her ass down." And then she calls Emily a "dirty underhanded" well, insert your own word here.

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Ty says, "We have to sue her." Asta is all like wait a minute, I need to talk with her first. Asta is thinking of ways to "hear her out" and "giving her the benefit of the doubt." Such a sweet spirit.

I don't want her to be crushed, but it seems to be headed that way.

"It's so awesome to know I have such amazing friends."

The gang's at Hanami Hibachi & Sushi for Asta's surprise birthday party. Amanda is there with Zach. Asta just thinks she's there for a double date.

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Oh, snap. Brichelle is there, too. So, you know something is about to go down. She's the straw that stirs the ish, if you get my meaning.

They all look so pretty. Then they lose the 'r.'

Brichelle can't contain herself, and levels up in petty: "Emily, Asta has something she wants to talk to you about."

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Ooooooh, it seems Caylea has two faces. Asta takes the bait. Here's my thing. No matter what, I'm not messing up my own birthday party. Well, except for that time I was 16 but I've learned better since then and I messed up pretty early before many people were there and it was all fixable.

Anyway, Asta said early on that she wished Amanda maybe hadn't invited Emily because of how mad she was but she understood. In fact, she said she understood everything. So does Emily for that matter. But understanding something intellectually is one thing. Emotionally is an entirely different animal.

And, in the end, the one who ran and told that got the tables turned on her: Caylea.

Anyway, Amanda gets them back on task and asks Emily to leave. Emily is going quietly when Asta throws food at her. (Heh. Ty tries to catch the food before it hits her because he knows what time it will be if it lands. He's a good husband.) Emily calmly walks to a waiting plate and throws back. She says, "I'm not fake," meaning Caylea. Oof. No argument here.

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"#TeamAmandaAndZach"

Amanda and Zach are at home. I loooove that yellow dresser, girl!

They're trying to eat breakfast. But it's Zach's last day in town and Amanda isn't feeling her. Or perhaps she's feeling it too much as she's crying into her breakfast. Or both?

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Love is complicated. But we know she's not moving to Arizona.

Amanda confesses that she plans to stay strong until the day is right. I think I love Zach a little, too. Like she says, "A to Z."

"I feel like I have a hangover and I didn't even drink."

Wooda and Bri and Emily are chillaxing. Emily is holding forth on the birthday surprise dinner.

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"Last night was ridiculous," she says. So, so ridiculous. So, so right.

To Emily's credit she realizes that wasn't like Asta. Then there's a knock at the door and "Emily Fernandez, you've been served."

The letter wants her to cease and desist.

Emily might as well have yawned. "This is not the battle you want," she says. And later, "it is what it is and it's happening."

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Coming up: Mark McClelland, Attorney at Law. Confident. Tiffani goes to the doctor and they find an abnormality in her breast. Emily wants another baby with Lontel. Lontel's sister gives her the side eye.

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