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I remember I fell in love
with this girl in Prague.
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Was in 1968.
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She was beautiful.
She looked like Carole Lombard.
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She grabbed me. It was
in the alley behind my church.
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She pressed me against the wall.
She kissed me.
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I felt like Richard Chamberlain
in The Thorn Birds, you know...
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in the barn with Maggie.
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I was so happy I could die.
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You've never told me this. What--
Did anything happen between you?
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Not really.
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Flirtations, little moments...
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but then soon after the Russians
invaded Czechoslovakia...
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and I moved
to the United States.
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I don't know.
I'll tell you something.
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If she had kissed me back...
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I don't think
I'd be sitting here right now.
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I would have given it all up.
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I mean, she didn't, but--
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I don't know. I just-- I keep thinking
about what you said in the seminary...
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about how, you know,
the life of a priest is hard...
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and if-- and if you can see yourself
being happy doing anything else...
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you should do that.
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Well-- Well, that was
my recruitment pitch...
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which is not bad
when you are starting out...
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because makes you feel like,
like a marine.
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The truth is...
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you can never tell yourself that there
is only one thing you could be.
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If you're a priest
or if you marry a woman...
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it's the same challenge.
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You cannot make
a real commitment...
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unless you accept
that it's a choice...
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that you keep making
again and again and again.