:06:04
No, wait, you know what? Actually,
I remember exactly how we met...
:06:06
'cause, well, it was sort of
one of those defining moments.
:06:13
Well, after that we were
pretty much inseparable.
:06:23
Now, Jake and I were definitely
what you'd call "late bloomers."
:06:27
And your average seventh-grade girl's
attentions can be pretty fickle.
:06:30
But not Anna.
Her loyalty to us was constant.
:06:34
Anna was the friend
that every 13-year-old boy dreams of.
:06:37
You know, that magical cross between
Jonny Quest and Tatum O'Neal in Foxes.
:06:45
Yes! Yes!
:06:57
Yeah, we were some trio. Anna used
to call us "two Micks and a Yid."
:07:01
She was gonna make T-shirts.
:07:04
You know, there's eight million
people in New York...
:07:07
but when the three of us were together
it felt like we were living
on our own little island.
:07:13
But New York is an island.
:07:16
I'm trying to sprinkle
a little fairy dust here.
:07:18
- I'm-- I'm trying to tell a story.
- I'm terribly sorry.
:07:21
- Continue. Go on. Sprinkle away.
- Mm-hmm. Okay.
:07:25
Well, then disaster struck.
:07:28
The summer after eighth grade,
Anna's father got a job in California...
:07:32
and just like that,
she was gone.
:07:43
Well, as for me and Jake, our friendship
just got stronger and stronger.
:07:47
In most ways, we were like
any other two kids in New York...
:07:49
but our relationship did have
this one unusual component--
:07:53
we were fascinated
with each other's religions.
:07:55
He showed me
the secret rituals of Judaism...
:07:59
and I let him in on
the Catholic mysteries.