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The Greek god Zeus
had a wife named Hera...
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but he also had numerous love affairs
and many illegitimate children.
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Furthermore, he had one child
who was born without a mother.
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This was his daughter Athena,
the goddess of war and justice...
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who sprang from his head fully grown
and dressed for battle.
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She became chief
of the three virgin goddesses...
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and was known
as a fierce and ruthless warrior.
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Because she was his favorite child...
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Zeus entrusted her to carry his shield...
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which was awful to behold, and his weapon,
the deadly thunderbolt.
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There was a little girl
who had a little curl...
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right in the middle of her forehead.
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When she was good,
she was very, very good...
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and when she was bad...
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she was horrid.
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When the girl went out to play, the water
running in the gutter was the Nile River.
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Her tree house was a harem filled
with beautiful women...
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wrapped in silk and covered in jewels.
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When she got on her bicycle, the girl rode
bareback on a great, black stallion.
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Whenever she swam near the jetty...
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she saw mermaids with golden hair
darting through underwater caverns.
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And her father was the smartest
and most handsome man she'd ever met.
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The girl and her sister
were forbidden to eat sugar...
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and their father refused
to buy a television set...
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but once a week they were transported
into a world of pleasure.
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On Friday night at 730...
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they went across the hall
to the home of an elderly man.
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He took them first to the kitchen...
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where they were allowed to make
their own ice cream sundaes.
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He always gave them several flavors
of ice cream and toppings...
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and assorted fruits and nuts
and sprinkles to choose from.
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When everything was ready...
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they carried their sundaes
to the living room.
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The lights were turned off,
the TV was turned on...
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and they sat in the dark for an hour...
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and watched Don Ameche's
Flying Circus Show.
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On her seventh birthday...
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the girl's father gave her a book
about Greek mythology.
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She would sit in the closet and read
the stories long after being sent to bed.
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One night, her father came home late
from work...
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and caught her
in the middle of a chapter.
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He lay down on the bed,
put his hands behind his head...
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and asked her to tell him
her favorite myth.
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She said it was the story of Atalanta,
who was abandoned at birth...
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because her father had wanted a son.
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She was left in the forest to die...
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but was discovered by a female bear...
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and raised to become a great athlete
and hunter.
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When her father heard the news, he
realized that she was as good as a man...
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and took her back into his home.
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Atalanta had vowed never to many...
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and would race any man who hoped
to win her hand.
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Although they were punished by death
for losing the race...
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many men tried and failed.
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But Aphrodite, the goddess of love,
thought it was time for Atalanta...
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to lose both the race and her heart...
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and so she offered to help
a young man named Hippomenes.
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On the appointed day, he came armed
with three apples made of solid gold.
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The race began, and as soon as Atalanta
overtook Hippomenes...
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he dropped the first apple at her feet.
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She stopped to retrieve the precious fruit
and then soon caught up with him...
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but he threw the second
apple across her path.
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She decided to stop once again...
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but now it became more difficult
to overtake him.
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When she did, he threw the last apple
far from the track.
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Atalanta couldn't resist
veering from her course...
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but as a result she lost the race and was
forced to accept his hand in marriage.
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The girl's father had fallen asleep
while she told the story of Atalanta...
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so he didn't get to hear the end of it.
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Atalanta was married soon after
losing the race and, to her surprise...
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she found happiness in her new life
with Hippomenes.
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Because the power of Aphrodite
had brought them together...
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they were obliged
to pay homage to her.
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But like most newlyweds,
they thought only of each other...
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and neglected
to fulfill their sacred duties.
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The goddess of love took offense
at their behavior...
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and in revenge she turned them
both into lions.
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One day the girl told her father
that she wanted to learn to swim.
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That evening they went
to the university pool.
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He took her to the deep end...
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explained the principles of kicking
and breathing...
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said she'd have to get back all by herself,
and then tossed her in.
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She panicked and thrashed around
for a while...
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but finally managed to keep
her head above water.
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From that day on,
she was a devoted swimmer.
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When they went to New Hampshire
the following summer...
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she spent most of her time
at a nearby lake.
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The water was a strange orange color,
but it was sweet and cool...
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and the banks were lined
with birch and pine trees.
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Her father could swim
all the way across...
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but sometimes he would stay near
the shore with her...
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or sun himself on a raft
while she practiced her dives.
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One afternoon, as she watched
the water dry on her skin...
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he began to tell her
about water moccasins.
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They live in nests
at the bottom of lakes, he said...
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and if someone happens
to come swimming by...
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they rush to the surface and cover
the person with poisonous bites.
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The girl stared at the water
and wondered...
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whether they could even bite
through her bathing suit.
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That evening,
she read the encyclopedia entry...
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and discovered that water moccasins
live primarily in the South...
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and a few Midwestern states.
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Her mother explained that this meant...
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they were thousands
of miles away from her...
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but a geography lesson wasn't
enough to comfort the girl.
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One evening, the girl's father took her
to see a movie...
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about a man who invents a machine
in which he can travel through time.
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When he gets to the year
20,000 he discovers...
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a world full of beautiful,
happy and passive people.
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He also finds a library full of rotting,
unused books...
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and realizes that the beautiful people
no longer understand...
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or care about the principles
of Western Civilization.
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As a result,
they devote their lives to pleasure...
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and then let themselves be eaten by green
monsters who live in underground caverns.
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The relationship between
the two groups is simple:
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Every time the monsters
get hungry they ring a siren...
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and the beautiful people
rise like zombies...
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and march
into the caverns to their death.
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The girl was terrified
by the wail of the siren...
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and didn't want to see the people
get slaughtered like animals.
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Covering her eyes,
she begged to leave the theater.
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Her father reached over,
pulled her hands from her face...
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and insisted that she watch
the rest of the movie.
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The girl loved to play games
and also loved to win.
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It gave her a special thrill whenever she
beat a boy in a race or a wrestling match.
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They always expected her
to give in first...
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but she'd let them break her arm
before she cried “Uncle.”
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Her father didn't like to play games...
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but he was fond of chess
and offered to teach it to her.
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Unlike the boys, he expected her
to be an aggressive opponent.
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The girl was happy to have a game to play
with him and took his lessons seriously.
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After many attempts,
she beat him for the first time.
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The victory tasted sweet
until she realized that the price of it...
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had been the loss
of her favorite partner.
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From that day on,
he never played with her again.
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Because he was an anthropologist
and linguist...
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the girl's father
told her many stories...
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about how other people
celebrate the rites...
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of childbirth, puberty,
marriage and death.
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She liked to imagine being an Indian
or an African girl...
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dancing and singing
in one of those ceremonies.
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By comparison, American rituals
began to seem dull and superficial.
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She thought that might be
why he took so little interest...
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in trimming their Christmas tree
or going to mass with her on Father's Day.
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But one year he suggested that she have
an ice skating party for her birthday.
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When they got to the rink, all her friends
lined up for a chance to skate with him.
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The girl offered to go at the end...
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and drank some hot chocolate
while they circled past.
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Her friends seemed to be
enjoying themselves...
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But when her turn came she was
surprised at how fast he skated.
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She couldn't keep up with him
and couldn't convince him to slow down.
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After a while, she just let herself
be pulled along over the bumpy ice.
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One summer, her father went away to teach
at a different university in the Midwest.
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A few miles from the campus,
there was an abandoned quarry...
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which had been filled by the spring rains.
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He set out alone one evening, hoping
to go for a swim under the full moon.
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At the quarry, a sign was posted
warning people not to enter the water.
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Her father was hot and tired
after the long hike...
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but decided to wait
and ask someone about it.
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When he did, they told him
he was a very lucky man.
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The previous summer, a visiting professor
had gone there for a swim...
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and was attacked and killed by
a nest of water moccasins.
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The girl's father had a sister
whom he loved very much.
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As children, they lived
on a farm in New England...
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and went swimming during
the summer at a neighbor's pool...
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which was fed
by ice cold spring water.
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His sister usually waited
until he finished his chores...
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but one day she went alone...
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knowing that he would
come by soon after.
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She ran quickly down
the unpaved road...
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and was covered with dust
and sweat by the time she arrived.
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It was a hot afternoon,
but the poo! Was deserted.
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She tore off her shoes,
dove into the icy water...
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and died immediately
of a heart attack.
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When her brother came back
from work that day...
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no one was at home.
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He expected to find
everyone at the pool...
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and started walking towards
the neighbor's house.
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He heard a scream.
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He started to run.
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The screams grew louder.
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He raced into the front yard and saw
his mother kneeling on the ground...
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beside the lifeless body of his sister.
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The wake was held at their home...
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and throughout the following nights
he sat and watched over her.
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No one blamed him for her death...
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but he carried the burden of guilt
and loss for many years.
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Twenty years later,
the girl's father wrote a poem...
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about the first week in the life
of his firstborn child.
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He describes
walking the streets with her...
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sitting quietly as she takes a bottle,
and staring into her dark eyes.
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He realizes that no one can predict
the course of a child's life...
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but tries to imagine her as a young girl
running off to school...
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or as a grown woman
with a life of her own.
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He ends the meditation by saying...
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“All this must come
as the questions are answered...
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"but now there is only the quiet face
that replaces a drowned sister at last."
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The girl liked to sleep late,
eat between meals...
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keep her room mess )4
and fight with her sister.
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She made her mother miserable...
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but couldn't stop doing
what she wanted to do.
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Her father didn't seem
to care as much...
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because he spent
most of his time at the office.
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Once in a while, though...
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he would come home in the middle
of a huge fight...
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and the girl's mother would beg him
to do something about her crazy children.
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Since threats and minor punishments
had almost no effect...
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he decided one evening
to try a different approach.
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While the girls continued to fight...
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he went into the bathroom
and turned on the faucets.
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A few minutes later he went down
the hall...
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grabbed the girls by their hair,
dragged them into the bathroom...
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and made them kneel beside the tub.
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After warning them not to disobey
their mother anymore...
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he pushed their faces into the water.
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The girl started to scream.
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The screaming
made her start choking.
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She kicked and punched at his legs
and tried to wrench her head away...
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but his hands were large and strong.
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No. She would have to keep
perfectly still now...
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because every move she made
took away another breath.
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There was a pain spreading
through her chest...
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a pressure building in her head...
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Let me go. I never meant to be so bad,
I just get like this sometimes...
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Let me go, I would have said
I was sorry, Please let me go!
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Her eyes were wide open,
her lungs were going to explode...
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she was grabbing wildly at the air
and screaming into the water...
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when she suddenly felt
his grip loosen on her neck.
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She dropped to the floor,
coughing and shivering.
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Her sister sat across from her
in a puddle of cold water...
231
00:20:51,717 --> 00:20:54,254
while her mother stood nearby
screaming and crying.
232
00:24:28,667 --> 00:24:30,647
On her tenth birthday...
233
00:24:30,735 --> 00:24:34,478
the girl's sister gave her a diary
with a green cloth cover.
234
00:24:34,573 --> 00:24:40,023
It came with a lock and a small key,
which she hid carefully under the bed.
235
00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:43,524
On the first page she scrawled
a large note that declared:
236
00:24:43,615 --> 00:24:47,062
“If anybody reads this diary,
they are very mean.
237
00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:49,291
It is personal!”
238
00:24:49,387 --> 00:24:51,731
For the most part,
the girl filled it with stories...
239
00:24:51,823 --> 00:24:53,962
about doing punishment assignments...
240
00:24:54,059 --> 00:24:57,165
fighting with the boys,
and playing with her friends.
241
00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:00,341
Because she didn't write every day...
242
00:25:00,432 --> 00:25:04,744
there were still empty pages left when her
parents told her they were getting a divorce.
243
00:25:06,972 --> 00:25:09,316
The girl was too ashamed to tell anyone...
244
00:25:09,407 --> 00:25:13,355
and even kept it a secret from her
best friend for more than a year...
245
00:25:13,445 --> 00:25:16,392
but she did confess it to her diary.
246
00:25:16,481 --> 00:25:20,122
It felt as if the act of writing it clown
would make it really come true...
247
00:25:20,218 --> 00:25:23,791
so she used a pencil instead of
her favorite cartridge pen.
248
00:25:23,889 --> 00:25:27,962
The next time she looked inside,
the entry had been erased.
249
00:25:28,994 --> 00:25:31,838
Her mother was the only
possible suspect.
250
00:25:45,343 --> 00:25:47,289
The girls were out of control...
251
00:25:47,379 --> 00:25:51,418
the house was falling apart,
nothing made sense anymore.
252
00:25:51,516 --> 00:25:55,430
In the middle of dinner, their mother
would burst into tears and say...
253
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,261
“Maybe I should kill myself
254
00:25:57,355 --> 00:25:59,801
"Then he'd realize
what he's doing to us."
255
00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:05,606
Early one evening, her father came over
to pick up a few things.
256
00:26:05,697 --> 00:26:07,677
The girl hoped
he would stay for a while...
257
00:26:07,766 --> 00:26:11,839
but her parents got into a fight
and he left a short time later.
258
00:26:11,937 --> 00:26:17,319
Her mother was furious and called the girl
and her sister onto the front porch.
259
00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,480
She opened one
of the casement windows...
260
00:26:19,578 --> 00:26:21,888
and had the two girls
climb onto the sill.
261
00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:26,725
As she held her arms
around their waists...
262
00:26:26,818 --> 00:26:30,698
they stared in fear
at the sidewalk far below.
263
00:26:30,789 --> 00:26:33,292
Their father was halfway
down the block by now...
264
00:26:33,391 --> 00:26:36,804
and their mother had to scream
to get his attention.
265
00:26:36,895 --> 00:26:40,866
He stopped, turned around slowly,
and looked up at them.
266
00:26:42,033 --> 00:26:44,035
The girl had an urge to wave...
267
00:26:44,135 --> 00:26:48,015
but she felt her mother's grip
tighten around her waist.
268
00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:51,485
Then her mother leaned forward
and began to shout down at him...
269
00:26:51,576 --> 00:26:53,715
“You think you can
just leave us like this...
270
00:26:53,812 --> 00:26:56,292
just walk away
from your home and you kids...
271
00:26:56,381 --> 00:27:00,261
but what if we all jumped out the window
now and landed in a pile at your feet?
272
00:27:00,352 --> 00:27:03,265
How would you feel then?”
273
00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:06,802
The girl waited for her father to do
or say something...
274
00:27:06,891 --> 00:27:09,872
but he just stared at them
for another long moment...
275
00:27:09,961 --> 00:27:12,601
and then shook his head
and walked away.
276
00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:54,040
One of the first things to enter the house
after her father left...
277
00:27:54,139 --> 00:27:56,745
was a black and white TV.
278
00:27:56,841 --> 00:27:59,185
And because her mother
had gone back to work...
279
00:27:59,277 --> 00:28:01,382
the girl could come home
every afternoon...
280
00:28:01,479 --> 00:28:04,892
and spend hours
watching her favorite shows.
281
00:28:04,983 --> 00:28:10,023
She also started getting a small allowance,
which she spent entirely on candy.
282
00:34:29,867 --> 00:34:33,076
After the divorce papers
came through...
283
00:34:33,171 --> 00:34:37,551
her parents never spoke to each other
and her father never came to their house.
284
00:34:38,943 --> 00:34:41,651
The girl started seeing him again
a few years later...
285
00:34:41,746 --> 00:34:44,488
but only on rare occasions.
286
00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:47,461
One evening he took her
to a Japanese restaurant...
287
00:34:47,552 --> 00:34:49,623
introduced her to his second wife...
288
00:34:49,720 --> 00:34:53,896
and asked whether she'd like to go
with them on a trip to Mexico.
289
00:34:53,991 --> 00:34:56,870
She felt nervous at the thought
of being around his wife...
290
00:34:56,961 --> 00:34:59,168
but agreed to the plan.
291
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:03,109
He called a few weeks later to say that
his wife had decided to stay at home...
292
00:35:03,201 --> 00:35:06,045
and so they went alone.
293
00:35:06,137 --> 00:35:08,344
The girl was proud
to be with her father...
294
00:35:08,439 --> 00:35:12,410
and he seemed happy to give her
a complete tour of Mexico City.
295
00:35:12,510 --> 00:35:17,186
At the end of a hot and tiring week,
they headed for Acapulco.
296
00:35:19,350 --> 00:35:22,524
The first day on the beach,
the girl was approached by a young boy...
297
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:26,659
wearing a pale yellow shirt
and a thin gold chain.
298
00:35:26,757 --> 00:35:28,395
He didn't speak any English...
299
00:35:28,493 --> 00:35:32,339
and she only knew how to say
“please "and “thank you".
300
00:35:32,430 --> 00:35:34,376
After a few hours with him...
301
00:35:34,465 --> 00:35:39,175
she realized that she had forgotten
to meet her father for lunch.
302
00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:44,015
He was furious and warned her
not to make the same mistake twice.
303
00:35:44,108 --> 00:35:49,148
The girl was afraid of him but the next day
she was late for both lunch and dinner.
304
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:05,770
He woke her up early
the following morning...
305
00:36:05,863 --> 00:36:09,868
and told her to pack her bags
and meet him in the lobby.
306
00:36:09,967 --> 00:36:13,005
When she got there, he said
they were leaving for Mexico City...
307
00:36:13,104 --> 00:36:17,382
so that she could catch the next flight
back to Chicago alone.
308
00:36:17,475 --> 00:36:21,821
She sat by herself on the back of the bus
and watched the coastline disappear.
309
00:36:24,916 --> 00:36:26,759
They didn't speak
another word to each other...
310
00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:29,291
until she left him at the gate
and boarded the plane for home.
311
00:36:30,421 --> 00:36:32,861
until she left him at the gate
and boarded the plane for home.
312
00:36:38,496 --> 00:36:43,070
The girl never told her father how it felt
to be sent home from Mexico.
313
00:36:43,167 --> 00:36:44,927
Ten years later,
she was surprised to find...
314
00:36:44,969 --> 00:36:47,711
that he had written a poem about it,
entitled...
315
00:36:47,805 --> 00:36:51,048
“How You Wept, How Bitterly”.?
316
00:36:51,142 --> 00:36:53,520
He begins the poem by calling her...
317
00:36:53,611 --> 00:36:58,253
"“Remote as moonlight since I gutted
the family with my exodus."
318
00:36:58,349 --> 00:37:03,298
"Later on he asks, “Did you need
that Adonis of the beaches?"
319
00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:05,765
And he ends the poem by declaring...
320
00:37:05,856 --> 00:37:10,305
“Your eyes at our parting condensed
all children orphaned by divorce.
321
00:37:10,394 --> 00:37:15,207
"A glance through a film of tears
at a father dwindling to a speck."
322
00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:20,479
The girl had waited so long to get
some kind of apology from him...
323
00:37:20,571 --> 00:37:23,677
but this wasn't
the one she imagined.
324
00:37:23,774 --> 00:37:25,776
He still didn't realize
that he had been acting...
325
00:37:25,876 --> 00:37:28,516
like a scorned
and vengeful lover...
326
00:37:28,613 --> 00:37:32,026
and that hers had not been the tears
of an orphaned child...
327
00:37:32,116 --> 00:37:34,687
but those
of a frustrated teenage girl...
328
00:37:34,785 --> 00:37:38,164
who had had to pay for a crime
she didn't commit.
329
00:38:32,543 --> 00:38:35,183
The girl had always
looked forward to the evenings...
330
00:38:35,279 --> 00:38:39,489
when she would see her father and tell him
about what she had done at school.
331
00:38:39,583 --> 00:38:42,325
She had been disappointed
whenever he called before dinner...
332
00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:45,765
to say he wanted to keep working
for a few more hours.
333
00:38:45,856 --> 00:38:49,030
That meant she wouldn't see him
for the rest of the night.
334
00:38:50,394 --> 00:38:52,533
Many years later,
she went to the library...
335
00:38:52,630 --> 00:38:55,509
and looked him up
in the card catalog.
336
00:38:55,599 --> 00:39:00,173
She wondered what he'd been writing
while deciding to get a divorce.
337
00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:03,650
The only book available was
a collection of articles entitled...
338
00:39:03,741 --> 00:39:07,746
“Language, Context
and the Imagination.”
339
00:39:07,845 --> 00:39:10,416
She discovered that two
of the articles written that year...
340
00:39:10,514 --> 00:39:13,620
involve the study of kinship systems.
341
00:39:13,718 --> 00:39:17,632
One is called “The Linguistic Reflex
of Social Change:
342
00:39:17,722 --> 00:39:21,033
From Tsarist to Soviet Russian Kinship.”
343
00:39:21,125 --> 00:39:26,734
"The other one is entitled
“Proto-Indo-European Kinship."
344
00:39:26,831 --> 00:39:30,278
In the hopes of learning something
about his approach to family life...
345
00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:33,349
she carried the book to a nearby table.
346
00:39:33,437 --> 00:39:36,111
For an hour she tried to read
through the first one...
347
00:39:36,207 --> 00:39:38,949
but couldn't understand
a word he'd written.
348
00:39:52,056 --> 00:39:56,505
He did write one book
which the girl read from cover to cover.
349
00:39:56,594 --> 00:40:01,771
It's a detailed study of Aphrodite,
the goddess of sexual love and desire...
350
00:40:01,866 --> 00:40:06,679
whom he compares with Demeter,
the goddess of maternal love and devotion.
351
00:40:20,785 --> 00:40:22,389
In the final chapter...
352
00:40:22,486 --> 00:40:27,196
he analyses the age-old schism
between the two kinds of love.
353
00:40:27,291 --> 00:40:30,329
He points out that patriarchal cultures
have always felt threatened...
354
00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:34,968
by the coexistence of sexual desire
and maternal devotion in a woman.
355
00:40:35,065 --> 00:40:38,239
He speculates that there may have been
an earlier goddess...
356
00:40:38,335 --> 00:40:42,374
who embodied the qualities
of both Aphrodite and Demeter...
357
00:40:42,473 --> 00:40:47,320
and argues for the need to reintegrate
those two states of being.
358
00:40:47,411 --> 00:40:49,687
The book is dedicated to his third wife.
359
00:40:59,356 --> 00:41:01,427
Ever since the girl became a woman...
360
00:41:01,525 --> 00:41:05,268
she and her father have tried
to remain on friendly terms.
361
00:41:05,362 --> 00:41:09,105
They write each other often
and see each other rarely.
362
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,908
They even exchange birthday
and Christmas presents...
363
00:41:12,002 --> 00:41:16,951
although the woman doesn't send any
to his third wife or their two daughters.
364
00:41:17,942 --> 00:41:19,979
Last summer the woman had a job...
365
00:41:20,077 --> 00:41:23,354
teaching in a city
close to where her father lives.
366
00:41:23,447 --> 00:41:25,757
She invited him to come up for a visit...
367
00:41:25,850 --> 00:41:30,128
and he offered to bring along
his eleven-year-old daughter.
368
00:41:30,221 --> 00:41:33,065
The woman hadn't seen
the girl for several years...
369
00:41:33,157 --> 00:41:36,036
and said she looked forward
to meeting her again.
370
00:41:38,562 --> 00:41:41,941
The following Sunday she picked them up
at the bus station...
371
00:41:42,032 --> 00:41:44,808
and took them to her house for lunch.
372
00:41:44,902 --> 00:41:47,280
As they ate ham sandwiches in the yard...
373
00:41:47,371 --> 00:41:49,851
the woman sat quietly
and listened to the conversation...
374
00:41:49,940 --> 00:41:51,920
between her father
and the young girl.
375
00:41:53,477 --> 00:41:55,218
No matter what they talked about...
376
00:41:55,312 --> 00:41:58,816
it came out sounding
like a debate or a lecture.
377
00:41:59,783 --> 00:42:02,559
The woman took
another sip of lemonade.
378
00:42:02,653 --> 00:42:04,155
She wanted to join them...
379
00:42:04,255 --> 00:42:07,998
but felt she was in the presence
of something too familiar.
380
00:42:08,092 --> 00:42:10,902
lust then the father stopped the girl
in mid-sentence...
381
00:42:10,995 --> 00:42:13,635
to say that her story
didn't interest him.
382
00:42:13,731 --> 00:42:16,905
The woman became rigid with fear.
383
00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:22,383
This was her childhood, being played out
all over again by the young girl.
384
00:42:22,473 --> 00:42:26,011
And then it occurred to her that the girl
was the same age she had been...
385
00:42:26,110 --> 00:42:29,421
when her father
left their home so long ago.
386
00:42:30,648 --> 00:42:34,391
She got up quickly,
carried their plates into the kitchen...
387
00:42:34,485 --> 00:42:37,159
and opened a bag of cookies.
388
00:42:37,254 --> 00:42:40,497
She was sure that her father
would never leave his new family:
389
00:42:40,591 --> 00:42:44,129
He was older now
and seemed happily married.
390
00:42:44,228 --> 00:42:48,904
She looked out the window and saw
that he had gone to lie down in the shade.
391
00:42:48,999 --> 00:42:52,412
At that moment, she didn't know
whether to fee! Pity or envy...
392
00:42:52,503 --> 00:42:55,450
for the young girl
who sat alone in the sunshine...
393
00:42:55,539 --> 00:42:58,042
trying to invent
a more interesting story.
394
00:43:37,081 --> 00:43:40,585
Every time the woman went back
to that orange lake in the country...
395
00:43:40,684 --> 00:43:44,188
she would try
to swim all the way across.
396
00:43:44,288 --> 00:43:46,529
Her father had done it many times...
397
00:43:46,624 --> 00:43:48,570
but whenever she got halfway over...
398
00:43:48,659 --> 00:43:51,640
she'd start thinking
about those water moccasins.
399
00:43:51,729 --> 00:43:54,710
No doubt the-yd migrated
all the way from Louisiana...
400
00:43:54,798 --> 00:43:57,938
and were lying in wait for her
as she neared the opposite shore.
401
00:43:59,503 --> 00:44:02,541
On her last visit,
she went with friends.
402
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,381
For a few hours,
the woman read...
403
00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:06,819
and played around
in the shallow waters...
404
00:44:06,910 --> 00:44:11,017
but then decided it was time
to start her journey across the lake.
405
00:44:12,249 --> 00:44:16,197
As she swam, she began to worry.
406
00:44:16,286 --> 00:44:18,732
She fought with herself
407
00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:20,768
The shore got further away.
408
00:44:22,226 --> 00:44:25,139
Her legs began to cramp.
409
00:44:25,229 --> 00:44:28,233
He loves me in spite of this.
410
00:44:28,332 --> 00:44:30,812
He loves me not.
411
00:44:30,901 --> 00:44:33,507
I have to do this.
412
00:44:33,604 --> 00:44:36,175
I'll never make it.
413
00:44:36,273 --> 00:44:38,879
I'm halfway there.
414
00:44:38,976 --> 00:44:41,286
I want to rest.
415
00:44:42,546 --> 00:44:45,117
It frightened her
to stare into the deep water...
416
00:44:45,215 --> 00:44:48,662
so she turned over
and began doing the backstroke.
417
00:44:48,752 --> 00:44:51,130
Then she thought,
“Maybe the water moccasins...
418
00:44:51,221 --> 00:44:53,531
will put me out of my misery.
419
00:44:53,624 --> 00:44:56,867
Or maybe I'll drown trying to do this.
420
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,102
If that happens, will he realize
what I wanted to accomplish?
421
00:45:01,198 --> 00:45:04,805
"Will he know
I was doing it for his sake?"
422
00:45:04,902 --> 00:45:06,609
But she remembered her mother...
423
00:45:06,704 --> 00:45:10,618
who had held on to him
so long after he was gone.
424
00:45:10,708 --> 00:45:12,847
Was it any different with her now...
425
00:45:12,943 --> 00:45:14,547
stuck in the middle of the lake...
426
00:45:14,645 --> 00:45:18,889
and not knowing
whether to go further or tum back?
427
00:45:18,982 --> 00:45:23,294
She stopped swimming
and began to float under the bright sky.
428
00:45:23,387 --> 00:45:28,496
The sun warmed her face and the water
surrounded her like a lover's arms.
429
00:45:28,592 --> 00:45:31,334
She thought other friends
lying on the sandy beach...
430
00:45:31,428 --> 00:45:34,466
and realized how
tired she had become.
431
00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:39,446
It was time to start
the long swim back to shore.
432
00:45:39,536 --> 00:45:41,948
On the way,
she only stopped once...
433
00:45:42,039 --> 00:45:44,485
to turn around
and watch her father...
434
00:45:44,575 --> 00:45:49,888
as he beat a slow and steady path away
from her through the dark orange water.
435
00:45:55,786 --> 00:45:58,960
A, B, C, D, E, F, G
436
00:45:59,056 --> 00:46:02,265
H, I, J, K, L, M, N, 0, P
437
00:46:02,359 --> 00:46:05,533
Q, R, S, T, U and V
438
00:46:05,629 --> 00:46:08,803
W, X, and Y and Z
439
00:46:08,899 --> 00:46:11,937
Now I've said my ABCs
440
00:46:12,035 --> 00:46:15,346
Tell me what you think of me.
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