:55:02
- I still have a few good ones left.
- I don't care.
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I could tell you about
the special soap we made.
:55:13
There's the story
of how I escaped from Berlin -
:55:17
- after I foolishly went back.
That was a close one.
:55:25
No, none of these.
You don't seem to be in the mood.
:55:32
Today, I will tell you the story -
:55:35
- of an old man who was afraid.
:55:40
He was afraid
of a certain young boy -
:55:44
- who was,
in a queer way, his friend.
:55:48
The boy proved
to be a very good student.
:55:52
But not perhaps in quite the way -
:55:56
- his mother
and his teachers had envisioned.
:56:03
At first, the old man
disliked the boy intensely.
:56:07
But then he began
to enjoy the boy's company.
:56:12
Of course, there was still a
great deal of distrust between them.
:56:18
Each knew something
the other wanted to keep secret.
:56:23
Over time, the old man felt -
:56:26
- his hold on the boy slipping away.
:56:30
He thought the day might come
when the boy no longer needed him.
:56:35
So one sleepless night,
the old man got out of bed -
:56:43
- and wrote down the story
of his involvement with the boy.
:56:49
Everything he could remember.
:56:54
From the first day forward.
:56:59
He wrote how the boy forced his way
into the old man's house.