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Try the red one. - So your brother likes me, huh? - Pull it down a bit. - But he likes a lot of girls, doesn't he? - Yeah, that's better. - Isn't that what you told me? - Try the cap with it. - So, does that really mean anything? - Not that one, the green one. - I mean, was it: “Wow, I think she's hot” or...

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“You're gonna kill yourself,” I said.

“But it's such a rush,” he told me, “There's nothing like it.”

“I get that. I do. But how many times have you almost bought it? I mean, cashed out entirely.”

“More than once,” he says, “More than once.”...

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My brother looks like me!

And we got along great. Sure, we were a bit shy at first. I don't know what he thought – that I might resent him because he was brought up with her and I wasn't? While me, I just felt like he might think I was this complete Martian landing out of nowhere, you know, sort of like his evil clone. But as soon as we got off on our own – because there was all that reunion stuff, and the tears, and her explaining why she had to give me up, you know, the usual, well, we went off for a walk........

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Henry!

Hey man. I wanted to touch base on the Fowler situation.

Clearly we have to hold off on foreclosure. We don't need footage of the grieving family all over the Internet, with the sheriff showing them the door.

You know the funeral's this weekend, right?...

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So this guy, he's like my dad's age, he's checking me out, and he thinks I don't notice. I mean, he's pretending to read his book, but he's looking, seriously looking, just hoping that that top button is going to pop. So I let him get an eyeful, trying the whole time not to crack up....

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When I told them to shoot the children, and the mothers too, I did not think of my daughter, safe on our terrace back home, sipping chilled wine while she studied.

One day, she would make a fine doctor. She had always been so caring.

I had left her a gun, only because she was a woman alone. And who knew better than I what could happen to a woman alone?...

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Why should I behave? That's what you do. You're our parents' perfect child. Their paragon. Their success.

That's your job. You got it before I ever had a shot at it. Right out of the box. So, what have I got left?....

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He always wanted to hurt someone, you know? That's what it felt like. Even when he laughed, there was something mean in it, something not funny. Not funny at all....

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Do you ever wish you had a spaceship? Maybe a silver one, with three fins, like in the old movies? Or a huge white one, with thrusters coming off it and lights along the side? Or maybe just a flying saucer. I personally think flying saucers are boring and I'm not quite sure how you know where you're going – I mean there's no back or front. But sure, I'll bet some people would go for a flying saucer.

The important thing is, you could get in it and you could go wherever you wanted and you wouldn't have to worry about...

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It is noble to die for honor. To die at the hand of an enemy is best. But if you fail, if you prove unworthy to fall, then the greatest honor left to you is to die by your own hand.

You have no right, however, to cast your own life lightly away. You must do it with measure and respect. There must be incense, there must be chanting. And pain. You must bear great pain.

Do not neglect this....

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I don't think he forced me. Not really. I didn't want to, exactly. But we do hang out. And he said, it would make him feel good. And then, when I wouldn't, he said I was being selfish. That it's not like it was that big a deal, and what was I, a nun? Which he knows I'm not. Because I tell him everything.

I used to anyway. Because I trusted him, you know?

So finally, yeah I did it. It wasn't awful....

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You don't have to lie to me. Everybody knows he shot himself. I wish you could hear what they're saying. That he didn't seem like the type. That he must have been drunk. He did like his liquor, didn't he? Oh I know you tried to hide it. Everybody knew. Always making excuses, always trying to cover. But people see through that, you know. People have eyes.

That must be a relief, no? Not having to hide?....

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If you want, we could.... – If you're not busy... – I don't know, it just seems like you... – Oh, please don't get me wrong... – I know there's lots of guys... – Not that I'm asking you.... - But you know, as friends, just to...

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How could he do that to me? I can't even go down to the store. They'll all be looking at me, talking behind my back. Pretending to pity me. Saying I was a bad wife.

How could he humiliate me like this, in front of the whole town?...

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Dude, what was in that?

Damn. I wasn't expecting that, let me tell you. You snuck that in smooth. Phew!

Let me just – Give me a – No, but seriously.

So, anyway, what were we talking about? My car. Right. My car.

The thing is, it's like the weirdest thing. So I got home, OK, after last night....

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So your father killed himself, huh? That must have been tough. And you're not over it, are you? Even years later.

Don't try to tell me you are. You can't fool me.

I wouldn't tell you this, but... well, you've been through it. It's not like it would shock you the way it does some people. - Both my parents killed themselves. That's right. Both....

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You. Are. A. Pig.

Not a cute cuddly pig, all pink and shiny from its little curly tail to its round little snout. Oh no. One of those big, hairy, waddling, snuffling pigs, with mud all over it and big ugly teeth...