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A burst of colour. Pink shirt.
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Was it Paul? We never did
find out who he was.
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I'm sure it wasn't him.
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- Yes, I agree.
- Isn't it amazing?
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We haven't seen the last of him,
believe me. He'll be back. He'll find a way.
1:43:19
The imagination... Oh!
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- Why does it mean so much to you?
- He wanted to be us.
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Everything we are in the world.
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This paltry thing, our life, he wanted it.
He stabbed himself to get into our lives.
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He envied us.
We're not enough to be envied.
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Like the papers said, we do have hearts.
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Having a heart is not the point.
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We were hardly taken in.
We believed him for a few hours.
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He did more for us in a few hours
than our children ever did.
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And he wanted to be your child.
Don't let that go.
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He sat out in that park and said
"That man is my father."
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He's in trouble, and we don't
know how to help him.
1:44:04
Help him? My God! We could
have been killed. Throats slashed.
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You were attracted to him.
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Oh, please. Cut me out
of that pathology right now.
1:44:16
Attracted by his youth, his talent,
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and the embarrassing prospect
of being in the movie of Cats.
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Well... that, yes. Yes.
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Did you put that in your Times piece?
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And we turn him into an anecdote
to dine out on, like we're doing right now!
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But it was an experience.
I will not turn him into an anecdote.
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How do we keep what happens to us?
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How do we fit it into life
without turning it into an anecdote?
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With no teeth, and a punch line
you'll mouth over and over for years.
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"Oh, that reminds me of that impostor."
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"Oh, tell the one about that boy."
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And we become these human jukeboxes,
spilling out these anecdotes.
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But it was an experience.