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A Girl Affair (Romance Movie)
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Transcript
00:00:00She's upstairs with my wife.
00:00:01Okay, someone will be there right away.
00:00:03Thank you.
00:00:05Hey! Hey!
00:00:07Hey!
00:00:09Alright!
00:00:11Oh.
00:00:13I don't know, I just feel like
00:00:15when these so-called skeptics of any
00:00:17and all religious faiths,
00:00:19spirituality,
00:00:21metaphysics, whatever you want to
00:00:23call it,
00:00:25are tempted to shut the idea up
00:00:27completely, I think
00:00:29that it's important that the question be
00:00:31asked, what is the difference
00:00:33between the material
00:00:35that they talk about and study
00:00:37and meditate upon
00:00:39and the spirit which we talk about
00:00:41and study and meditate
00:00:43upon?
00:00:45Is there actually a difference or
00:00:47is it really just
00:00:49a different way of thinking
00:00:51or of seeing?
00:00:53And I'm not so sure that there is a difference.
00:00:55Anyway,
00:00:57there's some of the ideas that I hope
00:00:59come across in the novel.
00:01:01Alright,
00:01:03I'm out of words.
00:01:05I'm sure that's not true.
00:01:07But that does bring us to a close.
00:01:09So I want to thank you all for being here
00:01:11and a very special thanks to Miranda Ruth
00:01:13for making time for us.
00:01:15Thank you.
00:01:37I need to take this, excuse me.
00:01:39I just think
00:01:41getting away would be good for
00:01:43both of us, actually.
00:01:45We've been going at each other a lot lately
00:01:47and she's interested in Chicago
00:01:49for college, so.
00:01:51Well, I'm not sure
00:01:53how exciting I'd be
00:01:55but of course I would love to have her.
00:01:57How long?
00:01:59I don't know, a couple of weeks?
00:02:03That would be fine.
00:02:05When we get back,
00:02:07um,
00:02:09when were you thinking?
00:02:11As soon as possible.
00:02:13Okay, yeah.
00:02:15Um, yeah, we can make that work.
00:02:17Sure.
00:02:21Apologies.
00:02:23Family.
00:02:25Are you okay?
00:02:27Yes.
00:02:37Thank you.
00:03:07I push and pull
00:03:09and then I tell myself to remember
00:03:11the names
00:03:13of the people
00:03:15you met
00:03:17in December
00:03:19it's surreal
00:03:21it's true
00:03:23it's hard to remember
00:03:25the times
00:03:27from December
00:03:33Thank you.
00:03:37Thank you.
00:03:41Oh my god.
00:03:45You grew up.
00:03:47Hey.
00:03:49Hi.
00:03:51Oh, welcome sweetheart.
00:03:55Thanks.
00:03:57Come on in.
00:03:59How'd you play?
00:04:01A little bumpy.
00:04:03Oh, can I get that?
00:04:05You were very little when you were last here.
00:04:07You probably don't even remember this place.
00:04:09I don't, do you?
00:04:13Upstairs, so why don't you come on in
00:04:15we'll get you settled.
00:04:25And here it is.
00:04:29It's small, it's cozy.
00:04:31The light is brilliant in the morning.
00:04:33And that old chair in the corner
00:04:35makes for a really nice reading nook.
00:04:37Oh, I don't really read.
00:04:41Well, there's some real gems
00:04:43on the bookshelf if you do decide
00:04:45to give it a go.
00:04:49Do you have Wi-Fi?
00:04:51I do.
00:04:53Ralph Waldo is the name of it.
00:04:55And the password is
00:04:57all caps
00:04:59Hawthorne with an E
00:05:011850
00:05:03That's the year that
00:05:05the Scarlet Letter was
00:05:07Got it. Thank you.
00:05:11That's the year the Scarlet Letter was published?
00:05:13Yeah.
00:05:15Are you hungry?
00:05:17Yeah, a little.
00:05:19Well, just get settled and whenever you're ready
00:05:21come down and we'll eat.
00:05:23Thanks.
00:05:25Thanks.
00:05:29This was your mom's room, by the way.
00:05:49Hey, I'm just about ready.
00:05:51Um, you can go take a peek
00:05:53and come back if you like. I think that's where we're gonna eat lunch.
00:05:57Do you eat potato salad?
00:05:59Oh, shit. What?
00:06:01Are you vegetarian?
00:06:03I'm sorry.
00:06:05I've got more.
00:06:07You're not?
00:06:09You're so bad.
00:06:23You're so bad.
00:06:53Your dad told me
00:06:55that you're thinking about coming up here for college.
00:06:57That's exciting.
00:06:59Yeah, maybe.
00:07:01It depends on where I can get a scholarship.
00:07:05Well, your mom went to DePaul, of course,
00:07:07and that's a good one.
00:07:09And then
00:07:11U of C, at the University of Chicago.
00:07:13That's where I went to college.
00:07:15And then I went to
00:07:17University of Chicago.
00:07:19And then I went to
00:07:21U of B, at the University of Chicago.
00:07:23Which is where I teach, occasionally.
00:07:25Although there are a little nuts there, so...
00:07:29Might want to avoid that one.
00:07:31Okay, will do.
00:07:35What about you?
00:07:37Um, how's
00:07:39books? How's books and stuff?
00:07:43Books and stuff are good.
00:07:45I've been doing, actually, a lot of
00:07:47press for this new thing,
00:07:49this novel.
00:07:51What's it called?
00:07:53In the Dawn.
00:07:55What's it about?
00:07:57Oh, really?
00:07:59Well, it's about this woman named Jacqueline.
00:08:01And on her 50th birthday,
00:08:03she...
00:08:05You sure you want to hear this?
00:08:07Sure.
00:08:09What else are we going to talk about?
00:08:11Good point.
00:08:15So on her 50th birthday,
00:08:17she's sensitive to the sun.
00:08:19And it starts to affect her
00:08:21relationships, her
00:08:23friendships, her work.
00:08:27I'm not sure how much you really want me to
00:08:29tell you, but...
00:08:31You can tell me all of it.
00:08:33That's no fun.
00:08:35Well, isn't that
00:08:37what you're supposed to do with stories?
00:08:39Yeah, but I mean,
00:08:41when you
00:08:43worked for two years
00:08:45on the heart of it...
00:08:47Yeah, but I'm not going to read it.
00:08:49Fair enough.
00:08:53Um...
00:08:55Well, come to find out she's been doing a lot of
00:08:57research on
00:08:59this condition called photophobia.
00:09:01Is that real?
00:09:03It is, but in my version
00:09:05it's a little heightened. Anyway, so she...
00:09:07She's doing
00:09:09this research, and then she
00:09:11realizes that it dates back centuries
00:09:13into her own family.
00:09:15And that its original
00:09:17name, Aether Amnesthesia,
00:09:19actually comes from
00:09:21a Greek god.
00:09:23Oh, you write fantasy.
00:09:25No, I don't write fantasy.
00:09:27A lot of my work has some
00:09:29metaphysical themes and some
00:09:31spiritual themes, but it's basically realism.
00:09:33Sounds like fantasy.
00:09:35No, no
00:09:37it's not.
00:09:39So she
00:09:41decides then that she's going to go to Greece
00:09:43to get to the bottom of this.
00:09:45And then when she gets there, she gets into this
00:09:47awful...
00:10:07Be good to see where your mom came from, huh?
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00:12:31The end of part one's characterizations, they're beautiful, they really are.
00:12:37But I mentioned it last week, I just think that the information is just being kind of
00:12:40clunkily laid out.
00:12:41Right, which I partially disagree with.
00:12:44Right, but that's why you have come to your brilliant writer friend, Miranda, for her
00:12:49ideas.
00:12:50I have indeed.
00:12:51Just so we're clear.
00:12:52And we are.
00:12:55So you're starting with this beautiful, steady momentum at the top of part two with DeAndre
00:13:01on the trail of the journalist.
00:13:02This is the smoothest, most energized passage in this book.
00:13:07And then you do earn, in chapter 12, this breathing space.
00:13:11There's this nice, patient lull that relaxes and speaks to us.
00:13:17But once the journalist, I don't know what his name is, right, right, once Ernest throws
00:13:21himself off the bridge, leaving DeAndre alone, I think that's when the book is just telling
00:13:26you you need to move.
00:13:27Just move, move, move.
00:13:29To the philosophical tangents in parts two and part three, they probably just need to
00:13:35go.
00:13:36That's my biggest no.
00:13:37I know.
00:13:38I can't believe what I'm saying.
00:13:39Who are you and what have you done with Miranda?
00:13:40Right?
00:13:41Hi.
00:14:05Hi.
00:14:06I think I'm lost.
00:14:07Where are you trying to be?
00:14:10Ravens?
00:14:11Ravenswood?
00:14:12Yes, but there's something else.
00:14:14Gardens.
00:14:16Yeah, yeah, that's it.
00:14:18East of the bridge, you're actually on the right road.
00:14:21Just head straight west a few blocks.
00:14:24You should start to look familiar.
00:14:25Okay, thanks.
00:14:27Thanks.
00:14:37No, I didn't say that the ending wasn't justified.
00:14:39I just said that it doesn't currently work.
00:14:41Because of the tangents.
00:14:42Possibly, but it's also possible that it doesn't work despite the tangents.
00:14:46Good lord.
00:14:49Hey!
00:14:50Hi, sorry, I can go back outside.
00:14:52No, no, no, no, no.
00:14:53We were just having discourse.
00:14:55Sid, this is my friend Anthony.
00:14:58Hi.
00:14:59Hiya, Sid.
00:15:00Anthony is an old writer friend of mine.
00:15:02Old writer friend, how flattering.
00:15:04Old Pulitzer Prize nominated writer friend of mine, how is that?
00:15:09Anthony is a very well respected journalist, writer of non-fiction,
00:15:13and now he's writing a novel, that's what we were discussing.
00:15:17Now he has to go talk about the election on television.
00:15:19Cool!
00:15:20I'd rather be doing anything else, believe me.
00:15:23I'm going to go take a shower, I smell bad.
00:15:25Okay, there are towels that are right outside the door on the shelf.
00:15:28Nice to meet you, Sid.
00:15:29Yeah, nice to meet you too.
00:15:30See you Friday?
00:15:31Oh, the soiree, I haven't even told you about that yet.
00:15:35All in good time.
00:15:36Yeah.
00:15:41I'm out.
00:15:42Thanks for this.
00:15:44It's really good, Anthony.
00:15:47And you know, my thoughts are my thoughts, it's your book.
00:15:53I know.
00:15:56How's Brandon?
00:15:57Oh, good.
00:15:59How's Brandon?
00:16:00Oh, he's fine, he's fine, he's with his mom this week,
00:16:03taking him to his first Cubs game for his 15th birthday, but he doesn't know it yet.
00:16:08Oh, he'll love that.
00:16:09I think so.
00:16:14See you Friday.
00:16:15Bye.
00:16:28Bye.
00:16:39Bye.
00:16:46So what's the deal with your friend?
00:16:49The deal?
00:16:51Well, Anthony and I went to the University of Chicago together years ago,
00:16:57we were grad students, and we became fast friends.
00:17:02So no romance?
00:17:04What? Oh my God, no.
00:17:08Why do you ask?
00:17:10Just curious.
00:17:11You seem nice.
00:17:13He is, and a brilliant mind.
00:17:17He's handsome.
00:17:21He is.
00:17:22You should see his son.
00:17:25This beautiful boy.
00:17:26He's going to swoop up all the ladies one day.
00:17:30Or the men, or both.
00:17:34Anyway, he's married, technically.
00:17:37What about you?
00:17:38Do we have a boyfriend?
00:17:40Yeah, kind of.
00:17:42Kind of.
00:17:46Wonderful.
00:17:47Anything else I can get you ladies?
00:17:49No, I think this is fine.
00:17:51Thank you, Sarah.
00:17:52My pleasure, Miss Ruth. Enjoy.
00:17:56She's wonderful.
00:17:57She's so sweet.
00:17:59So much food.
00:18:00I know.
00:18:02Are you sure that you don't want something other than just water?
00:18:05Oh yeah, I'm fine, thanks.
00:18:07Good for you.
00:18:10So did you come here a lot growing up?
00:18:13Oh yeah, we came at least once a week.
00:18:16Your mom and I would get pretty sick of it.
00:18:19But now I love it.
00:18:22Cool.
00:18:27So, um, so the boy.
00:18:29What?
00:18:30Oh.
00:18:31Yeah, I don't know.
00:18:33I mean, we've been hanging out for a while.
00:18:36His name's Josh.
00:18:38Josh.
00:18:40He's fine.
00:18:42Is he cute?
00:18:44Yeah, he's pretty hot.
00:18:47He's a good time.
00:18:50Well, that's great.
00:18:51I'm so sorry to interrupt.
00:18:53Oh, I see you just got your food.
00:18:54Would you mind signing your book?
00:18:56I ran all the way home to get it.
00:18:58Oh.
00:18:59We love you.
00:19:00Sure.
00:19:01What is your name?
00:19:02Jennifer.
00:19:03And you live in the neighborhood?
00:19:04Yeah.
00:19:05This is one of our favorite places.
00:19:06You know, I don't want to take much of your time,
00:19:08but I just wanted you to know how much I admire your work.
00:19:12Oh, thank you.
00:19:13That means so much to me.
00:19:15Thank you.
00:19:16Here you go.
00:19:18Thank you.
00:19:19Have a great night.
00:19:20You too.
00:19:21Thank you so much.
00:19:26That's never not weird.
00:19:28It's pretty cool.
00:19:48Yes!
00:19:51So I finished two-thirds of the essays,
00:19:53and by finished, for some of them, I mean I just revised
00:19:58because they were in magazines or whatever.
00:20:01But to be honest, I already miss fiction.
00:20:05It's just, it's so different.
00:20:07You know, on the one hand, you're just trying to lay out
00:20:11the material as elegantly as possible,
00:20:13but then on the other hand, you're actually,
00:20:15you're making the thing.
00:20:17And I suppose that's not actually accurate, but I just...
00:20:27Sid?
00:20:35Sid!
00:20:37Hey!
00:20:38I found one of your books!
00:20:42Which one?
00:20:45Valley of Their Shadows.
00:20:50Borrow it!
00:21:04Good night, Sid.
00:21:05Night.
00:21:07I'm really glad you're here.
00:21:09Yeah, me too.
00:21:12I'm not boring you, am I?
00:21:14No, no, it's fun.
00:21:17Okay, good night.
00:21:19Night.
00:21:45Helen.
00:21:51Cassandra.
00:21:57Margaret.
00:22:05Alice.
00:22:15Sid.
00:22:18Miranda.
00:22:26Hey.
00:22:27Hi, love.
00:22:29Here's some juice and some muffins downstairs if you want them.
00:22:32And some coffee, too.
00:22:33Thanks.
00:22:35I was actually going to lay out in the backyard, if that's okay.
00:22:40Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:42Cool.
00:22:43Oh, could you put some sunscreen on me?
00:22:47Sure, of course.
00:22:48Thanks.
00:22:52Do you sleep well?
00:22:53Yeah, the bed's super comfy.
00:22:55It is, isn't it? That was mine growing up.
00:22:57Really?
00:22:58Uh-huh.
00:23:00Your mom's wasn't quite as comfy, but she wanted to take it with her anyway.
00:23:10I think it ended up in your old house.
00:23:14Yeah.
00:23:17So is this where you write all your books?
00:23:21It is, yeah.
00:23:28Okay, I think I gotcha.
00:23:31Is that good?
00:23:32Yep.
00:23:33Thanks.
00:23:37Do you ever wish you moved away?
00:23:40Tried other cities?
00:23:43No.
00:23:47Thanks.
00:24:13Once upon a time...
00:24:36Once upon a time...
00:24:44Once upon a time...
00:24:57You don't have to stop listening. I'm just getting some fresh air.
00:25:00You mind?
00:25:01No.
00:25:02You want to lay out with me?
00:25:03Oh, no, thank you. I don't even think I own a bathing suit.
00:25:07For real?
00:25:08Yeah, I don't...
00:25:11Yeah, no.
00:25:13I read some of your stories.
00:25:15You did?
00:25:17The short ones.
00:25:18Oh, God, that was forever ago.
00:25:21What'd you think?
00:25:22I liked them. They didn't seem that old.
00:25:24Oh, good, that's the idea.
00:25:26All the characters kind of seem stuck in their own heads.
00:25:29Well, that's part of the interior nature of the form, but I can...
00:25:33And they're either single or divorced or drifting away?
00:25:38Well, Des is happily married, and Joan is dating...
00:25:41I mean, most of them.
00:25:44Huh.
00:25:47You write a lot about religion. Like, religious people.
00:25:50Yeah, yeah, I guess I do.
00:25:52Like, there's that one woman who is a nun, or whatever, and then...
00:25:57There's the one about the preacher's wife, and then...
00:26:00Don't forget the witch.
00:26:01Yeah, yeah, I was going to say the one about the witch.
00:26:03Claire's an athlete.
00:26:04I didn't get to Claire.
00:26:05Yeah, she's a tennis player. And Des is a scientist.
00:26:09Does the, um...
00:26:12Does the religious thing, does it seem like a, um...
00:26:15Like a hindrance to you? I mean, I don't know if you and your dad...
00:26:19Oh, we don't go to church.
00:26:20No, but it didn't bother me. I mean, I think it's interesting that there are people like that.
00:26:25Religious people?
00:26:26Yeah.
00:26:28Yeah, there are a lot of them.
00:26:31Are you?
00:26:33Yeah, yeah.
00:26:35Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:37We weren't growing up.
00:26:38Like what kind?
00:26:42Um, well, I go to the Lutheran church over in Andersonville.
00:26:48So you, you really believe in, like, a heaven and hell and all that?
00:26:52I, I, you know, I don't know. I, um...
00:26:56I believe in grace. I believe in some sort of a...
00:27:01A complete meaning somewhere. And I don't really know anything else.
00:27:05So what's the difference then between you and, like, an agnostic?
00:27:10I just think I...
00:27:14I just believe so very strongly in, in a great unknown somewhere, and...
00:27:21To deny the...
00:27:23Yeah, like a great unknown or whatever, but...
00:27:26You really think we're gonna see my mom again?
00:27:28You really, really think that?
00:27:34She didn't believe that.
00:27:37Did she?
00:27:59Hey.
00:28:01Hey.
00:28:04You new to town?
00:28:06Oh, yeah.
00:28:08No, um, I'm visiting my aunt.
00:28:12Where from?
00:28:13South Carolina.
00:28:15Where's your accent?
00:28:17I don't have one.
00:28:18Um, my dad is from New York, and I was born in Maryland.
00:28:22I can hear it in there a little bit.
00:28:24You can't.
00:28:25I can. I totally can.
00:28:28But I'm not gonna fight with you.
00:28:31I'm Katie.
00:28:32Sid.
00:28:36Cool.
00:28:37Thank you.
00:28:40Hey.
00:28:43I get off in about ten minutes if you wanna, you know, have a little chat.
00:28:48Sure.
00:28:49I get off in about ten minutes if you wanna, I don't know, go for a walk or something.
00:28:56Okay.
00:29:07Hey.
00:29:08Oh, hey.
00:29:10Um...
00:29:13Hi.
00:29:14Hey, uh, nice to see you again.
00:29:16You too.
00:29:19So what have you been doing with yourself?
00:29:21Um, I've just been chilling at my aunt's house.
00:29:25Uh, trying to explore a little bit.
00:29:27Went for a run.
00:29:30Your aunt cool?
00:29:31Yeah.
00:29:32She is. She is a writer.
00:29:34What's her name?
00:29:35Miranda Ruth.
00:29:37No way.
00:29:38You've heard of her?
00:29:40Yeah, she's a big deal.
00:29:41Oh, weird. Cool.
00:29:44Cool, yeah.
00:29:45Um, she lives in the same house she grew up in.
00:29:50Which is kind of strange.
00:29:52It's a nice house, though.
00:29:54Rad.
00:29:57So, you have your own apartment? That's pretty sweet.
00:30:00Yeah, right when I hit eighteen I was out.
00:30:04I live with my brother.
00:30:05Cool.
00:30:08So, South Carolina, huh?
00:30:11You shell shocked?
00:30:13What?
00:30:14Come on, that's pretty lame.
00:30:17Okay, you're right. It is. Sorry.
00:30:23Um, my dad actually got a job there once my mom died, so...
00:30:28Sorry. How old were you?
00:30:31I was like eight.
00:30:34What does your dad do?
00:30:36I don't really know. Financial stuff.
00:30:41You get along?
00:30:42Um, not really.
00:30:45It's part of the reason why I wanted to get away, honestly.
00:30:47He is, like, always home and he's super depressed, so...
00:30:52Yeah. I hear that.
00:30:59I thought you were working.
00:31:00They sent me home.
00:31:01What's up, Katie?
00:31:03What's that, Tab?
00:31:04What's going on? It's like a Thursday.
00:31:06Hanging out.
00:31:07Hi. No! Put me down! No!
00:31:09Dude, put my sister down!
00:31:13What's up?
00:31:14Hey. Um, this is Sid. She's visiting from South Carolina.
00:31:18South Carolina. Isn't that...
00:31:23I'm just gonna go change. We might go up to the roof. My room is back here.
00:31:30Nice pants, Kate.
00:31:31Fuck off!
00:31:36You can sit on the bed if you want.
00:31:39Sorry, I don't have, like, a chair.
00:31:47Sorry about those guys. They're pretty lame.
00:31:49It's okay.
00:31:51Don't look.
00:31:53Oh. Just kidding.
00:31:56You can look if you want to.
00:32:08Okay.
00:32:39Hey.
00:32:41Hey.
00:32:42Hey.
00:32:43Hey.
00:32:44Hey.
00:32:45Hey.
00:32:46Hey.
00:32:47Hey.
00:32:48Hey.
00:32:49Hey.
00:32:50Hey.
00:32:51Hey.
00:32:52Hey.
00:32:53Hey.
00:32:54Hey.
00:32:55Hey.
00:32:56Hey.
00:32:57Hey.
00:32:58Hey.
00:32:59Hey.
00:33:00Hey.
00:33:01Hey.
00:33:02Hey.
00:33:03Hey.
00:33:04Hey.
00:33:05Hey.
00:33:06Hey.
00:33:08Hey.
00:33:14Whoa.
00:33:16Yep.
00:33:22This is nice.
00:33:28Hi.
00:33:31Are they making a movie?
00:33:33I guess so.
00:33:38So, are you in college?
00:33:40Or is the, like, coffee shop thing what you want to do?
00:33:44Hell no. That is not what I want to do.
00:33:47I'm not in college yet.
00:33:49I'm taking a break to figure shit out.
00:33:51So what do you want to do?
00:33:53I don't have a fucking clue.
00:33:57I want to not rush things.
00:33:59That's what I want to do.
00:34:01Cool.
00:34:03So what about you? What's your deal?
00:34:06Um, I play soccer.
00:34:10I hang out with my friends.
00:34:11You play soccer?
00:34:12That's about it. Yeah.
00:34:14That's fucking hot.
00:34:22Hey.
00:34:23Oh, we'll get out of your way.
00:34:25Oh, no, don't.
00:34:26This is going to seem really weird, but we actually need a boy and a girl slow dancing in the background.
00:34:31Would you guys be willing to do that for us?
00:34:34Actually, no, wait.
00:34:36Yeah, what do you want us to do?
00:34:38Oh, wow, thank you.
00:34:39So, yeah, if you could kind of just get yourselves over at the center of the roof.
00:34:45Yeah, that's perfect.
00:34:47Now, I'm going to shout action, and when I do, just, like, be in love.
00:34:51You got it.
00:35:01Action.
00:35:32So we did.
00:35:34We danced.
00:35:35And you never knew that he was a she?
00:35:38No, I guess not.
00:35:41Well, maybe she is a he.
00:35:45Yeah, maybe so.
00:35:49Guess what I did today?
00:35:52Wrote an essay.
00:35:53Shut up.
00:35:54I wrote an essay.
00:35:55I wrote an essay.
00:35:56I wrote an essay.
00:35:57I wrote an essay.
00:35:58I wrote an essay.
00:35:59Wrote an essay.
00:36:00Shut up.
00:36:01No.
00:36:02I laid out.
00:36:03Oh, my God, you did?
00:36:05I did.
00:36:06I did also write an essay, actually.
00:36:08But I laid out.
00:36:09You did have a swimsuit.
00:36:11You knew you did.
00:36:12I didn't.
00:36:13I had no idea.
00:36:14I didn't even remember.
00:36:15I had to dig it out.
00:36:16It was purple.
00:36:17And it fit.
00:36:18And that is a real deal miracle, Miss Atheist.
00:36:21It is impossible that it fit.
00:36:23I want to see it.
00:36:25Maybe tomorrow.
00:36:26Maybe tomorrow.
00:36:27We can get a little tan before the soiree.
00:36:29Oh, God, I have to remember to call a caterer tomorrow morning.
00:36:32Yeah, so wait.
00:36:33What is this thing?
00:36:34Oh, right.
00:36:35So, second Fridays of every month, I have a soiree.
00:36:39Academics, writers, church friends, normal people.
00:36:43We eat.
00:36:44We get drunk.
00:36:45We read.
00:36:46We tell stories.
00:36:49I didn't bring anything to wear to something like that.
00:36:51Oh, that's okay.
00:36:52It's totally casual.
00:36:54I could take you shopping tomorrow if you want.
00:36:57We could get something cool.
00:36:59No, it's okay.
00:37:00Thanks.
00:37:01I'll go to the thrift store, ask Katie or something.
00:37:03Can she come?
00:37:05Sure.
00:37:06Cool.
00:37:14I hate my feet.
00:37:15I think you have nice feet.
00:37:17Oh, God, look at mine.
00:37:19Let me see.
00:37:24Yeah, but yours are prettier.
00:37:28Oh, yeah, you're right.
00:37:29They are.
00:37:31Whatever.
00:37:54Oh, God.
00:38:13So, what time does this thing start tonight?
00:38:18People usually start showing up around six.
00:38:20It doesn't really go until about seven.
00:38:23Will Anthony be there?
00:38:25Always.
00:38:33Do you ever have sex?
00:38:37What?
00:38:40Do you ever have sex?
00:38:41Oh, I'm sorry.
00:38:42Is that...
00:38:43No, no, no.
00:38:44It's okay.
00:38:45It's just...
00:38:46Wow.
00:38:48Sure, I do.
00:38:49Really?
00:38:50Yeah.
00:38:51When?
00:38:52With who?
00:38:54I've had sex.
00:38:55Yeah, I know.
00:38:56We've established that.
00:38:58I'm just trying to think.
00:39:00Miranda.
00:39:01What?
00:39:02I'm trying to think.
00:39:03It's been forever, hasn't it?
00:39:08Well, there was this...
00:39:14Well, there was a guy at a hotel.
00:39:19At a lit convention.
00:39:21In 1992.
00:39:23No!
00:39:24Ow!
00:39:25Sorry.
00:39:30Yeah, but...
00:39:32No, it's...
00:39:34It's been about five years.
00:39:35What?
00:39:37Yeah.
00:39:38Shit.
00:39:39I was 11.
00:39:41Damn it!
00:39:44God.
00:39:46Well, I did...
00:39:47I had...
00:39:48I had a very long-term boyfriend, so I want to put that out there, but...
00:39:55It didn't work out.
00:39:58That was that.
00:40:00And there have been some other...
00:40:03There have been some other chaps here and there, but otherwise...
00:40:07So, you have no interest in doing it again?
00:40:09Do what?
00:40:11I don't know.
00:40:12Like, date?
00:40:16No, not really.
00:40:18What?
00:40:19Sex?
00:40:22I don't know.
00:40:26I really haven't thought about it.
00:40:30To be honest.
00:40:37Can I tell you a secret?
00:40:39Yes, you may.
00:40:42I kind of want to have sex with Katie.
00:40:49What? Is that weird?
00:40:52Not at all.
00:40:56How do I do it?
00:40:59How do you...
00:41:01Don't ask me. You're going to have to Google that.
00:41:05Okay, will do.
00:41:07You know, your mom had a little fling with a girl once.
00:41:11Really? She did?
00:41:12Yeah.
00:41:16It was lovely.
00:41:18Yeah.
00:41:24Oh.
00:41:26Oh, God.
00:41:28Hi.
00:41:29Hey, Ridley.
00:41:30I'm sorry. I totally forgot that you were coming.
00:41:33Do you want me to not?
00:41:35No, no, no. You can do your thing.
00:41:37This is Sid.
00:41:40He's going to be staying a couple weeks with me.
00:41:42Hey, Sid.
00:41:43Hey. This is Ridley.
00:41:45He's the son of some very dear friends of ours around the corner.
00:41:48And he sometimes comes to Second Friday.
00:41:50Are you coming tonight?
00:41:51Sure am.
00:41:52Good.
00:42:16Whose stuff is this?
00:42:18Fucking Tad moved in.
00:42:20Why?
00:42:21He lost his apartment, I guess.
00:42:24Thanks.
00:42:29Honestly, I don't have much.
00:42:32Except this one dress I used to wear to church.
00:42:35Want to wear that?
00:42:37No offense. It's a little...
00:42:38Yep. Thought so.
00:42:40Sorry.
00:42:41Dressy-wise, I don't really have anything else.
00:42:45Except the tux I wore to prom. You want to wear that?
00:42:55You ready?
00:42:57Yeah.
00:43:04Oh my God.
00:43:08Hey, little lady. What's your name?
00:43:15Hey.
00:43:36Are you sure you don't want to come to the party?
00:43:40No. I'm good.
00:43:43Can I call you later?
00:43:45Please, please, pretty please.
00:43:50Hello, hello.
00:43:51Oh, thank you so much for bringing all that.
00:43:54No problem. You look very nice.
00:43:57Oh, thank you.
00:43:59It's just this little...
00:44:01Thank you.
00:44:02Is there more outside?
00:44:04Yeah, lots.
00:44:05Did you get some sun?
00:44:06What?
00:44:07Um...
00:44:08Yeah, I...
00:44:10I laid out with...
00:44:12With soot in the grass and I got some...
00:44:16I got some sun.
00:44:17Oh.
00:44:38Some music?
00:44:39Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
00:45:08Where's Sid?
00:45:09She went to see a friend about an outfit.
00:45:13A friend already?
00:45:14Mm-hmm.
00:45:17A friend-friend?
00:45:26Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:45:29I'ma bring you home.
00:45:30Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:45:33Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:45:35Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'ma bring it on home.
00:45:38Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:45:41Wait a minute, I'ma bring you home.
00:45:43Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:45:47Wait a minute, I'ma bring it on home.
00:45:49When I was just about ten years old,
00:45:52I walked up to the prospect of a cleaner soul.
00:45:55And I clung tight to the preacher,
00:45:57rugged down to the pulpit with my mic exposed.
00:46:00He was my uncle, and it was like the first Sunday of the month.
00:46:04I really had a thirst to play, what a start.
00:46:07My mama just cried and cried and filled up her loving chest with pride.
00:46:11And I, I buckled.
00:46:13I gave it all to him for a cent with a grin in my childish ways.
00:46:17I chuckled.
00:46:18Paid the way for Grandma's sin when I couldn't sit with my Bible in place.
00:46:22Oh, wonderful.
00:46:23Now how long were you there?
00:46:24About a week.
00:46:25About a week.
00:46:26This is relaxing.
00:46:27Such a great time of year.
00:46:29You came from Princeton.
00:46:30Absolutely.
00:46:31Which is, I mean, I think that's wonderful.
00:46:33We have these East Coast connections.
00:46:36Yes.
00:46:37Hi.
00:46:38Hi.
00:46:39Is this okay?
00:46:41It's perfect.
00:46:42It's amazing.
00:46:43Oh, my.
00:46:44Hi.
00:46:45Welcome.
00:46:46Thanks.
00:46:47Come on up.
00:46:48Let me introduce you to everyone.
00:46:49Everyone, this is my niece.
00:46:50This is...
00:46:51Hi.
00:46:52Hello.
00:46:53This is Miss Evergreen.
00:46:54Hi.
00:46:55This is Anthony's mother.
00:46:56Thank you.
00:46:57This is our good friend Thompson.
00:46:58Hi.
00:46:59He's also at the university with us.
00:47:00Jack.
00:47:01Jack.
00:47:02Pardon me.
00:47:03Of course.
00:47:04And this is his boy.
00:47:05Bailey.
00:47:06Hi, Sid.
00:47:07Bailey.
00:47:08Sid.
00:47:09And, of course, you remember Ridley from earlier.
00:47:12Yes.
00:47:13Nice socks.
00:47:14Thanks.
00:47:21Okay.
00:47:33Thank you.
00:47:44I have an idea.
00:47:56You're a little bit of color.
00:47:57I don't want people to take your cataract.
00:48:02I love it.
00:48:03Thank you.
00:48:04You like it?
00:48:05Yeah.
00:48:06Thank you.
00:48:07Have you ever been to Chicago?
00:48:08No, this is my first time.
00:48:09Oh, we're going to have a look at our city.
00:48:10It's a beautiful city.
00:48:12It's beautiful.
00:48:13Yeah.
00:48:14Yeah.
00:48:15Yeah.
00:48:16Yeah.
00:48:17Yeah.
00:48:18Yeah.
00:48:19Yeah.
00:48:20Yeah.
00:48:21Yeah.
00:48:22Yeah.
00:48:23Yeah.
00:48:24Yeah.
00:48:25Yeah.
00:48:27Yeah.
00:48:29Yeah.
00:48:57We were rivals.
00:48:58She was a prosecutor.
00:48:59I was a DA.
00:49:00That's so cool.
00:49:01Oh, we should also add that.
00:49:02I was married.
00:49:03Yes.
00:49:04So, in any case, we knew we had to wait until one of us retired so we could successfully
00:49:08make a go at it.
00:49:09You worked on the same case?
00:49:11Cases.
00:49:12That's incredible.
00:49:13So, you were both married to men?
00:49:15Yes.
00:49:16I was a widow when we met.
00:49:17I was a widow early on.
00:49:18Betty was married, got divorced later.
00:49:21That's where he came from.
00:49:24So, you liked it and you didn't?
00:49:29What?
00:49:30Being married to men?
00:49:32Are you asking if we liked dick?
00:49:46I did.
00:49:47She didn't.
00:49:48I do.
00:49:53Dick is not terrible, is it?
00:49:55It's not terrible.
00:49:56It is like the opposite of terrible.
00:50:00So, what are you into, hon?
00:50:04Oh, um, I like everything.
00:50:15And he goes outside to go on his little date, you know, to the dance.
00:50:20And in two seconds, he comes back in and he's like,
00:50:23Mama, her parents left.
00:50:26We need a ride.
00:50:27Right.
00:50:28I don't think that's exactly what happened, but whatever.
00:50:30Oh, shut up.
00:50:32I drove you on all your dates.
00:50:34Yes, you did.
00:50:35And I love you, Mama.
00:50:36Thank you.
00:50:37I could drive you, too, if you want to go somewhere.
00:50:44Wow.
00:50:50Where's Jay?
00:50:51I thought he was coming home.
00:50:53He got himself a date.
00:50:54Really?
00:50:55Mm-hmm.
00:50:58Does some girl work?
00:51:00Weird.
00:51:01You're supposed to hang out.
00:51:03How are you?
00:51:07Fine.
00:51:08How are you?
00:51:09I'm good.
00:51:10I'm sorry about making fun of you in front of your friend the other day.
00:51:16I, like, picked you up and spun you around.
00:51:19So what are you up to tonight?
00:51:21Don't know.
00:51:22Well, let me know if you want to hang out.
00:51:25Uh, okay.
00:51:34This is a story about a woman who burned her own house down.
00:51:39Not true.
00:51:40No, sir.
00:51:42This is very true.
00:51:43Okay.
00:51:451968, Cincinnati, Ohio.
00:51:48No, no, no cell phones.
00:51:50Sorry.
00:51:52Sweet, sweet Cincinnati.
00:51:56Dolores, mother of four, worked for the Ohio Insurance Company.
00:52:01Husband left her for another woman.
00:52:05Left her alone in that house with four children.
00:52:09Three boys, one girl.
00:52:11One day, someone knocks on her door.
00:52:14She opens it to find a very nice-seeming young man standing there.
00:52:18He is new to town, works for the paper, looking to rent a place.
00:52:23Money is tight for them, see?
00:52:25So she moves into her daughter's bedroom, gives the nice young man her own room,
00:52:29just till he gets off the ground here.
00:52:32Good Christian man, not a concern in the world.
00:52:36A couple of days later, she catches word a woman in Columbus has been murdered.
00:52:41By a devil worshiper.
00:52:45And he got away.
00:52:47Oh, dear.
00:52:48Oh, don't worry. I don't think it's true.
00:52:50What did you say?
00:52:53I said, uh, yeah, you know, I think I read about that somewhere.
00:53:02Yeah, she's just pregnant, so she's really sensitive.
00:53:05Oh!
00:53:06Congratulations!
00:53:08Congratulations!
00:53:12I did just came out.
00:53:14Bravo!
00:53:15Congratulations!
00:53:17You saw what it's going to be?
00:53:19No, it's this!
00:53:25There's a certain slant of light, winter afternoons, that oppresses,
00:53:30like the heft of cathedral tunes.
00:53:33The heavenly hurt it gives us.
00:53:35We can find no scar, but internal difference, where the meanings are.
00:53:42None may teach it, any.
00:53:45Tis the sealed despair, an imperial affliction sent us of the air.
00:53:51When it comes, the landscape listens, shadows hold their breath.
00:53:56When it goes, tis like the distance on the look of death.
00:54:04Emily Dickinson.
00:54:06I have a memory, an impression when I read this poem.
00:54:10You don't forget the feeling when you were a child at the end of August,
00:54:15when the first little chill comes in the evening,
00:54:18and you're thinking, school starts.
00:54:22End of summer blues.
00:54:24Behind what we think of as the Russian menace
00:54:27lies what we do not wish to face when they regard a Negro.
00:54:31Reality.
00:54:32The fact that life is tragic.
00:54:35Life is tragic simply because the earth turns
00:54:38and the sun inexorably rises and sets.
00:54:41And one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
00:54:48Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble,
00:54:52is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives.
00:54:56We'll imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices,
00:55:02steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations,
00:55:07in order to deny the fact of death.
00:55:10The only fact we have.
00:55:13It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death.
00:55:18Ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death
00:55:21by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.
00:55:24We sat looking off across the country, watching the sun go down.
00:55:28The curly grass about us was on fire now.
00:55:32The bark of the oaks turned red as copper.
00:55:35There was a shimmer of gold on the brown river.
00:55:38Out in the stream, the sandbars glittered like glass
00:55:41and the light trembled in the willow thickets,
00:55:44as if little flames were leaping among them.
00:55:48The breeze sank into stillness.
00:55:51The soul swam slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe
00:55:55and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end
00:55:59upon all the living and the dead.
00:56:03James Joyce, The Dead.
00:56:06Thank you.
00:56:09Hey.
00:56:10What the fuck, man?
00:56:12I was wondering if you wanted to get on the solid bed with me.
00:56:15It's not a bed, it's a couch. Get the fuck out of my room.
00:56:18It's a couch, yeah.
00:56:19No, get the fuck out of here.
00:56:21Come sit on the couch.
00:56:22Tab!
00:56:26Get out of my room!
00:56:30I thought I'd share a little bit of nature
00:56:32from Ralph Waldo Emerson on this lovely summer evening.
00:56:36To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.
00:56:41At least they have a very superficial seeing.
00:56:45The sun illuminates only the eye of the man
00:56:48but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
00:56:53The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses
00:56:57are still truly adjusted to each other,
00:57:00who has retained the spirit of intimacy
00:57:03even into the era of manhood.
00:57:07His intercourse with heaven and earth
00:57:09becomes part of his daily food.
00:57:14Crossing a bare common in snow puddles at twilight
00:57:17under a clouded sky,
00:57:19without having in my thoughts any occurrence
00:57:21of a special good fortune,
00:57:23I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration.
00:57:27I am glad to the brink of fear
00:57:30I am glad to the brink of fear.
00:57:34In the woods, too, a man casts off his years
00:57:38and at what period soever of life
00:57:44is always a child.
00:57:48In the woods is perpetual youth.
00:57:52Third act
00:57:58He lost.
00:58:01It's all about blinking.
00:58:03It's about smiling. No smiles.
00:58:05OK. OK.
00:58:14Poof!
00:58:15Laughter
00:58:19That's...
00:58:20That might have been a tie.
00:58:48I'm so glad you could come.
00:58:49Oh, thank you for having us.
00:58:50Wonderful meeting you.
00:58:51You as well.
00:58:52Thanks again.
00:58:53And congratulations.
00:58:54Thank you.
00:58:55I hope you can come back next month.
00:58:56Absolutely.
00:58:57We'll see you then.
00:58:58Bye.
00:58:59All right.
00:59:00Take care.
00:59:01Where's Rick?
00:59:02I think he and the girl might be somewhere.
00:59:03Oh, good God.
00:59:04Well, it happened.
00:59:05You know, I'll go get him.
00:59:06Sorry.
00:59:08I ...
00:59:10Jared?
00:59:12Yeah.
00:59:14Is ... He's in there.
00:59:28I'm sorry, um, I...
00:59:32Dad?
00:59:34Yeah?
00:59:36Is Ridley in there?
00:59:38Yeah.
00:59:40Ridley and your mothers are looking for you.
00:59:42Okay.
00:59:59Hi.
01:00:01Hey.
01:00:03Where'd you disappear to?
01:00:05I was upstairs.
01:00:08I think Aunt Miranda's mad at me.
01:00:10She'll get over it.
01:00:15She was telling me about your son.
01:00:17Yeah, he's...
01:00:19something else.
01:00:21She also said you were technically married.
01:00:24She also said you were technically married.
01:00:27You just got the whole rundown, didn't you?
01:00:31Uh, true.
01:00:33Separated.
01:00:35We're through the thick of it, though.
01:00:37You're getting back together?
01:00:39No, no, no, no.
01:00:41I mean, like, through the initial burst.
01:00:43Oh.
01:00:45We're moving forward.
01:00:47Brandon's been a real saint about it.
01:00:54So, um, maybe once the dust settles, you could...
01:01:00I mean, would you ever consider dating Miranda?
01:01:06Anthony, did you want to take home those cream cheese things?
01:01:08Yeah.
01:01:10For you and Brandon?
01:01:12Yeah, let me come in and grab those.
01:01:14Alright.
01:01:24Oh, my God.
01:01:54Another second Friday, though.
01:01:56Pretty crazy.
01:01:58Did you have fun?
01:02:00Yeah.
01:02:02Everyone was super nice.
01:02:04Can I help you clean up?
01:02:06Um, sure.
01:02:08If we can just get everything in...
01:02:10this general vicinity,
01:02:12we can deal with it tomorrow.
01:02:14I'm pretty exhausted.
01:02:16Yeah, me too.
01:02:18I'll check the back porch.
01:02:21It was cool to hear everybody read and stuff.
01:02:23All the stories.
01:02:25Yeah? You like that?
01:02:27Yeah.
01:02:29I like that one story that that one woman told.
01:02:31Cornelia?
01:02:33Yeah.
01:02:35Was it true?
01:02:37Probably not.
01:02:41I liked yours.
01:02:43My what?
01:02:45The thing you read.
01:02:47Yeah.
01:02:49Oh, the part you heard?
01:02:51Well, there was more.
01:02:55Yeah, I'm sorry.
01:02:57It's fine.
01:03:01It's okay.
01:03:05I don't want to do that, relative.
01:03:07It's more about the smoke.
01:03:09I just don't like it in the house.
01:03:11And it's not...
01:03:13I'm sorry.
01:03:15It's okay.
01:03:18Really, it's...
01:03:20It's fine.
01:03:22Okay.
01:03:24Do you want anything else before I put this food away?
01:03:26No, thanks.
01:03:28I'm good.
01:03:30I'm gonna call Katie.
01:03:32Okay.
01:03:34Oh, I might...
01:03:36have half a piece more of Anna Mae's cake.
01:03:38You sure you don't want some cake?
01:03:40No, thanks.
01:03:44You know, maybe if you had sex once in a while,
01:03:46you wouldn't have to do it all the time.
01:03:52I'm really sorry.
01:03:54That came out super nasty.
01:03:56Let me just say something real quick.
01:03:58I really am sorry.
01:04:00No, no, no.
01:04:02It's okay, but I need you to listen to me, okay?
01:04:04I wish that I could share with you
01:04:06the utter joy it brings me
01:04:08to spend three hours on a Saturday afternoon
01:04:10reading Emerson or Melville
01:04:12or Virginia Woolf
01:04:15or discussing T.S. Eliot or James Baldwin
01:04:17with a dear friend until dawn.
01:04:19The fulfillment
01:04:21that I get
01:04:23from going to church,
01:04:25from reading theology,
01:04:27from reading science,
01:04:29from praying.
01:04:31But I can't.
01:04:35Because I am me
01:04:37and you are you,
01:04:39I can't relate to the total fulfillment
01:04:41that I get from these things.
01:04:43I know.
01:04:45And I understand.
01:04:47You're finding your own joy.
01:04:49You're engaging
01:04:51your own stuff.
01:04:53That's great.
01:04:55That's how it should be.
01:04:57It's a beautiful thing.
01:04:59But hear me.
01:05:01It is not a handicap
01:05:03to have one thing
01:05:05but not another.
01:05:07To be one way
01:05:09and not another.
01:05:13We are different shapes
01:05:15and ways
01:05:17and our happiness is unique.
01:05:19There are no rules of balance.
01:05:23I'm sorry.
01:05:25Don't be sorry.
01:05:27But I got a quarter of a century
01:05:29on you Sid.
01:05:31So let's just
01:05:33enjoy ourselves.
01:05:35Okay?
01:05:37Let's just like
01:05:39respect each other's selves.
01:05:43Now you stop talking.
01:05:47I guess I just feel like...
01:05:49Are we done in here?
01:05:51Because I really need to be done in here.
01:05:53Did you get all of the bottles?
01:05:55Yeah, everything's clear.
01:05:57Okay, thank you for helping.
01:05:59I'm going to go upstairs.
01:06:01Okay.
01:06:13Miranda?
01:06:21You don't have to come.
01:06:23I'll just call you when I get out.
01:06:25I'm coming.
01:06:27She wanted me to text her
01:06:29and not to buzz up.
01:06:31Okay.
01:06:33Bye.
01:06:35Bye.
01:06:37Bye.
01:06:39Bye.
01:06:42Okay.
01:06:50Oh, hi sweetheart.
01:06:52Are you okay?
01:06:54I'm sorry.
01:06:56I didn't mean...
01:06:58Let us in.
01:07:06Are you okay?
01:07:08Fuck.
01:07:10Um...
01:07:12He finally passed out.
01:07:16What happened to his nose?
01:07:18I punched him.
01:07:20I'm sorry to make you come over.
01:07:22I feel so stupid.
01:07:24Don't be silly. Are you okay?
01:07:26Yeah.
01:07:28Katie?
01:07:30Are you okay?
01:07:32Yeah.
01:07:34Did he hurt you?
01:07:36I tried to go out and he wouldn't let me leave.
01:07:39He was acting really weird.
01:07:41I don't want him to wake up.
01:07:43You can probably go. It's fine.
01:07:45No. You should go get your kids.
01:07:47You're going to come with us.
01:08:09Katie.
01:08:17What the fuck?
01:08:22Sid.
01:08:25Sid.
01:08:29Sid.
01:08:31Sid.
01:08:33Sid.
01:08:35Sid.
01:08:37Sid.
01:08:43I'm Miranda.
01:08:45Katie.
01:09:07Cool room.
01:09:09Thanks.
01:09:11It was my mom's.
01:09:19Reddit.
01:09:21Reddit.
01:09:23Reddit.
01:09:25Reddit.
01:09:27Reddit.
01:09:29Reddit.
01:09:31Reddit.
01:09:33Reddit.
01:09:36Reddit.
01:09:40Reddit.
01:09:42Reddit.
01:09:44Wait. Really?
01:09:46Yeah. Why?
01:09:48I don't know. I guess you don't really seem like a reader.
01:09:50Fuck you. What does a reader even seem like?
01:09:52Oh.
01:09:54Yeah.
01:09:56Oh my god.
01:09:58Holy shit.
01:10:00Your aunt wrote this?
01:10:02I read this in middle school.
01:10:04Wait a minute.
01:10:06I know that book.
01:10:08Wait. Aunt Miranda wrote that?
01:10:10Uh. Yeah.
01:10:12Is that the one about the baby born in a castle?
01:10:14The hotel that used to be a castle. Yeah.
01:10:16And her parents treat her like a princess
01:10:18and she starts to develop powers.
01:10:20Yeah. And she thinks she's magic
01:10:22and you don't know if it's real or not.
01:10:24Kind of badass.
01:10:27What?
01:10:29My name.
01:10:33That would be correct.
01:10:35Wait a minute. Let me see that.
01:10:37What?
01:10:39My name.
01:10:41That would be correct.
01:10:43Wait a minute. Let me see that.
01:11:07Hi.
01:11:09Is she okay?
01:11:11Yeah. She'll be okay.
01:11:13Are you okay?
01:11:15Yeah.
01:11:17I'm fine.
01:11:21I found this.
01:11:27My mom used to read this to me, didn't she?
01:11:31She did.
01:11:33You were way too young for her.
01:11:36You fell asleep every time.
01:11:40She did it anyway, though.
01:11:42She did it for herself.
01:11:46She loved that book.
01:11:52You named her after me.
01:11:57Check the date.
01:11:59Check the date.
01:12:07It's the other way around.
01:12:29When do you go back?
01:12:31Thursday.
01:12:33What will I do without you?
01:12:37Probably what you did last week
01:12:39before you knew me.
01:12:43What will we do until then?
01:12:47Whatever we want.
01:12:51I don't know.
01:12:55I don't know.
01:12:57Whatever we want.
01:13:28I don't know.
01:13:30I don't know.
01:13:32I don't know.
01:13:34I don't know.
01:13:36I don't know.
01:13:38I don't know.
01:13:40I don't know.
01:13:42I don't know.
01:13:44I don't know.
01:13:46I don't know.
01:13:48I don't know.
01:13:50I don't know.
01:13:52I don't know.
01:13:54I don't know.
01:13:56I don't know.
01:14:02I don't know.
01:14:06I don't know.
01:14:08Tryin'
01:14:12Tryin' something
01:14:38Tryin' something
01:14:46Tryin' something
01:14:52Tryin' something
01:14:58Tryin' something
01:15:00Yes, you did, okay, did I know you're good
01:15:21Wait
01:15:30I
01:15:53Had a brother Devin
01:15:56He was like 12 years older than me
01:16:07He had a lot of mental problems or whatever just like a lot of issues
01:16:13And he and my mom and my dad used to get into these really big fights
01:16:18They
01:16:23Thought about sending him away to military school or whatever, but I never did
01:16:36Anyway
01:16:39One weekend when I was really little my dad was away and
01:16:42After I'd gone to bed my brother and my mom got into this really big fight and
01:16:55He shot her oh my god
01:17:02And then himself
01:17:13Somehow I slept through the whole thing and the neighbors found them before I could so I was
01:17:23Protected
01:17:28Anyway, that's the story
01:17:43You
01:17:49Feel free to relax in here until we're ready for you
01:17:52We'll probably hold the house for about five or ten minutes just so it can fill up so you have plenty of time
01:17:56You can help yourself to some snacks. And if you have any questions, I'll be right up the hall. Thank you, honey
01:18:05This is interesting
01:18:09Hell yeah
01:18:12Sure, I'll make Miranda. You're so big time. I'm not that big
01:18:18Well, maybe just a little
01:18:24Hello
01:18:27What
01:18:30Okay
01:18:33Are you sure?
01:18:35It's okay
01:18:37Well, I'll come home soon
01:18:41Why don't we start with a simple question
01:18:45Are there any simple questions
01:18:49Where do your ideas come from? Oh
01:18:53You would think that I would have a quick straightforward answer to that by now but I
01:19:00Don't
01:19:02You know, I'm tempted to give the standard
01:19:06answer that they
01:19:09They come from everywhere they come from different places a
01:19:14Feeling of relative a place other works of art a concern
01:19:23But concern would give way to an idea for a book
01:19:30Concern of the spirit I guess
01:19:35Kind of unrest
01:19:38I
01:19:43Suppose if I'm being completely honest, I
01:19:47Can't say that in their essence that they come from outside at all. They
01:19:55They come from me
01:19:59They are me
01:20:02Each one of them sort of me
01:20:09Reformed
01:20:11And I was working at the library when I discovered your book of short stories
01:20:17The title of which just fell out of my head, I'm sorry the Valley of the Shadows that's the one thank you
01:20:27there was something about those women that
01:20:30Gave me strength
01:20:31How thoughtful how engaged with the bigger picture or something?
01:20:38going through life with such patience and
01:20:43Curiosity
01:20:45despite seemingly relentless
01:20:48hardship
01:20:49It reminded me of the women in my life who I love a lot
01:20:54my grandmother recently I
01:21:00Don't have a question apparently, uh, I guess I just wanted to thank you for honoring them
01:21:07Thank you that that means a lot anyone else we have time for one more
01:21:28Hi
01:21:30Hello young lady
01:21:32That's my aunt
01:21:34My aunt Miranda
01:21:38Anyway, I wanted to ask you what your greatest pleasure in life is like joy
01:21:49Cake
01:22:04Oh
01:22:25You know in her friend Katie
01:22:28Well help yourselves. We got food
01:22:31Drinks we got good people good weather. Hey Brandon. What are you calling? What?
01:22:38Come over here. This is Miranda's niece. It that's her friend Katie. Hey, sweetheart. How's your summer going?
01:22:49It's 14
01:22:51Hey you guys, let me take your picture. Yeah. Yeah, sure. It's all squeezing in tight here
01:23:00Thank you, thank you. I got hamburgers. I got chicken. I got whole sausage
01:23:15Hey, how's the grub burger overcooked? Oh, you got the hot dog?
01:23:20Hot dog is excellent. I can't really speak for the burger. Yeah, I can they're overcooked
01:23:25Fuck it
01:23:27Fuck it
01:23:31You
01:23:35You were right by the way the other day
01:23:39About what?
01:23:41on part two and three
01:23:44Read back through it what you said kind of quick
01:23:46Well good
01:23:48As long as it's for the book and not for me, you know, I do it all for you, don't you?
01:23:54I
01:23:59Gotta go pick up my brother from work. I'll watch Priscilla for me. Yeah, sure. He said, you know, Brenda
01:24:04I think we may have met once or twice at a UFC thing behind nice to meet you on
01:24:09Miranda nice to meet you. I'm actually fan love the new one. Oh, thank you so much. Definitely. Thank you
01:24:16Don't let him get into too much trouble to find trouble
01:24:23She's lovely. Yeah, she lives around the corner. It's a little girl
01:24:34She divorced yeah, so is there any potential there?
01:24:53You
01:24:55We'll see
01:24:59Hey, no, no, no, that's not for playing with
01:25:07Maybe you should visit me sometime
01:25:11Seriously, yeah, why not? What would your dad think?
01:25:16Who cares?
01:25:19Columbia, South Carolina
01:25:21What's it like
01:25:24It's fine come and see
01:25:28Hey
01:25:30Are y'all girlfriends?
01:25:35Maybe so
01:25:39Cool
01:25:41Yeah, they are
01:25:51You
01:26:22Oh
01:26:24Good yeah
01:26:28It's Miranda, oh, hey you're calling me I
01:26:35Just I wanted to check in and see how you were I'm at the beach with my toes in the sand
01:26:44Well, that sounds nice
01:26:46Okay, girls, let's go. Oh am I calling you at a bad time? Um
01:26:51No, it's okay. I I soccer practice. It's about to start. Oh, okay
01:26:56All right. Well, you go in and play your heart out and I just I just called to say hello
01:27:03Of course I miss you I
01:27:09Love you
01:27:16I love you, too. Okay. Well have a great practice
01:27:21I'll talk to you later. Okay, that sounds good. All right
01:27:26Bye let's go. Let's go
01:27:29You
01:27:48Taken to lie
01:27:50It
01:28:05Feel my front
01:28:12And I could sense red blood
01:28:21There was a subtlety
01:28:29You came