Capturing the Friedmans
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That is the truth.
I didn't know.

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My mother abandoned
him, pretty much,

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wouldn't talk to him, fought
with him constantly,

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made him sleep on the sofa.
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And after 33 years of
marriage, when your wife,

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when you've been accused of
a crime you didn't commit,

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you spend 6 weeks in
jail for it,

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you're trying to build
a defense,

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and your wife leaves you,
essentially,

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my father fell apart.
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You yelled and screamed about
what, that you ruined her life.

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She's brainwashed you.
You didn't do anything.

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The police have done it to you.
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It's not your fault.
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The police are
railroading you.

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But it's not your fault.
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Mommy doesn't believe you.
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The police picked on you,
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and that's who
they're going after.

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It's not because
you deserved it.

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You're taking the blame,
and you don't deserve the blame.

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She's brainwashing you into
thinking that it's your fault,

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and it's not your fault.
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She thinks he did it.
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And if he did it,
then she thinks

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he's going to be
convicted of it.

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And if he's convicted of it,
he's going to go away.

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Yeah, but if, let's say he
goes away for 10 years.

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He's still gonna come out.
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No, I'm talking about 50 years.
I'm talking about 100 years.

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She doesn't think
he's getting 50 years.

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I don't think she thinks that
he's going to get 50 years.

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OK, so what is he gonna get?
Twenty years?

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That's 50 years.
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What's the difference, well,
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If he goes to a state
institution on state charges,

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you know he's not coming back.
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In this case, there was
consultations

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between both sides, the District
Attorney's Office,

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the families,
the defense attorneys,

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as to what to do with
Arnold Friedman.

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We were trying to maintain
a sense of normalcy

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in terms of having dinner
and paying the bills,

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but it was almost surreal.
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I mean, I don't think
any of us had any notion

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of what was going on
or what we were doing


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