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What would we do, baby, without us?

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What would we do, baby, without us?

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And there ain't no nothing we can't love
each other through.

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What would we do, baby, without us?

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Sha -la -la -la.

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Jennifer? Jennifer, you're not going to
believe this.

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I'm so excited. I was up in the attic,
and I found this shoebox.

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Congratulations, Mal.

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It's a real nice one.

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No, you don't understand.

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It's full of Mom and Dad's old love
letters.

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What's a love letter?

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It's a really mushy letter you send
someone to tell them how much you love

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I want to write one to Rachel Feltman. I
love her.

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Who's she?

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She's a girl in my class.

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He's only five, but I don't care. I like
him young.

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Wait, listen, listen, listen. My
dearest, sweetest Lamekin.

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You were so beautiful last night when we
took over the administration building.

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Your lustrous skin was made even more
luminous by Zerosi. Oh, that's you.

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Nothing. Yeah, nothing, Mom. Nothing.
Nothing.

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Yeah, nothing, Lamekins.

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Hey, listen, uh, hi.

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Lauren's car just pulled up, and I want
to talk to you guys about something

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before she comes in.

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Wow, I haven't seen Lauren around here
lately.

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Yeah, see, that's what I want to talk to
you about. She's been having a lot of

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trouble with her senior thesis, and
she's feeling kind of down about it. So

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whatever you do, don't mention the word
psychology or thesis.

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Hi, Lauren.

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Hi. Hey, Lauren.

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How's that senior psychology thesis?

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Alex asked us not to mention anything
about her senior thesis.

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Why can't we say anything about your
senior thesis?

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Because she's having trouble with it.

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Trouble with what?

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Her senior thesis.

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I appreciate your concern, but actually,
this thesis thing, it's no big deal.

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Really? I hear you're having trouble
with it.

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Honey, come on.

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Let's not think about that nasty thesis,
okay? Bad thesis.

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Let's talk about us, okay?

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How long has it been since we've seen
each other? What a great time we're

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to have tonight. Nice movie, fancy
dinner.

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I'll even lend you the money.

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Listen, Lauren, if you don't like your
topic, I've got one for you. A friend of

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mine last year, Grant, did her
psychology thesis on intimacy problems

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Capricorns and Pisces during the
holidays.

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She got an A.

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I don't know if I can change my topic
now. I've been researching this one for

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over two years.

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Well, how much have you written so far?

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A page and a half.

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Oh, yeah.

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If you've written that much, you can't
turn back now.

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Surprise. Oh, Alex, I'm so glad you're
here.

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Whoa. Hey.

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I'm sorry I had to cancel that date last
night. Oh, it's all right. That's okay.

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I went to the movies with Skippy. You
know, fatal attraction with Skippy takes

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on a whole new meaning.

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I probably should have gone. As it is, I
got nothing done. Oh, really? Yeah. You

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know, I look at these mice running like
crazy on that wheel and getting nowhere.

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I think, how different am I from a
mouse?

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You don't fit in your food.

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I had a meeting with Professor Lombard
this morning.

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I showed her what I had in my thesis so
far, and she was disappointed.

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This thesis will explore the following
areas of behavior. One, spend more time

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with Alex.

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Two, go out more with Alex.

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Three, talk more with Alex.

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Honey, this is brilliant.

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That's not it. That's the chapter I'm
writing now.

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I'm thinking of calling it Things I Can
Do With Alex If I Quit My Thesis.

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That's an happy title.

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You're not really thinking of quitting
your thesis, are you?

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What would be so wrong with that?

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I could go back to my old life.

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A life that I liked very much.

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I could spend more time with you.

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I could care for you and nurture you and
watch over you.

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I could devote myself to you and make
sure that you're as happy and as

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as a human being could possibly be.

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If that would make you happy.

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It would. I really want to quit.

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Don't you think it's a good idea? I
can't say. I mean, that's your decision.

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All right, then fine.

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I'm quitting.

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Oh, Alex, I feel like an enormous
weight's been lifted from me.

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I'm free.

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Does that mean you can go out with me
tonight? Are you kidding? We're going to

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celebrate.

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Come on.

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Now I'm going to devote all my time and
energy in making you happy.

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Glad I stopped by.

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Hey, what are you two doing?

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We're writing another love letter to
Rachel Feldman.

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Another one? What did you think of the
first one? She hit me.

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It's a start.

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The letter made Margie Phillips cry.

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Why?

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Margie, I love Rachel. Rachel S.

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Coneastwood.

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Well, Andy, maybe I can help you win the
heart of your fair Rachel.

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You probably don't know this, but in my
day, I was quite the love letter writer

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myself. Isn't that true?

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My lovely, my golden -haired Gothamer
angel.

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My sweet, each breath seems a lifetime
when I'm away from you.

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I'd walk miles across desert sand for
one glimpse of your rare

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beauty.

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Mom, hey, no need to explain, okay?

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I understand.

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Tough to keep the excitement alive.

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Oh, come on now, Alex. I've seen you and
Lauren get pretty mushy together.

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You know, it's different, Mom. We're
young.

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Mush looks good on us.

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Well, you've enjoyed being together with
Lauren again, though, haven't you? I

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can't lie to you, Mom. You know, Lauren
quitting the thesis is the best thing

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that ever happened to me.

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Better than Nixon's pardon?

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That was more emotional, of course.

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But this is beyond my wildest dreams.
And Lauren is doing all this great stuff

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for me. She even baked me a cake and
decorated it. It was a scale model of

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floor of the stock exchange.

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Done entirely in frosting.

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Tiny edible dollars.

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Little angry traders.

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Oh, well, as long as she's using her
time wisely.

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Ooh. Do I detect a note of condescension
in your voice?

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Ooh, certainly not.

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I lucked out, that's all.

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I mean, you know, Lauren decided she
doesn't want a career, so I get the best

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both worlds. I get a smart girl who
doesn't show it.

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Face powder directly on the lips? Yes.

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Then apply the lipstick, okay, and blot
it a little bit.

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Then put your lip gloss on, and you're
practically smudge -proof.

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That's great.

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Alex, you wouldn't believe the things
Mallory knows.

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No argument there.

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Hey, Mom, come on up. I want to show you
these new red sneakers I just bought. I

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thought you just bought some red
sneakers last week. No, these are high

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They're for evening.

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So, do you have a good day today, honey?
Oh, yeah, not bad, not bad. I finally

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finished that economics paper.

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Um, what'd you do?

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Oh, not much.

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Rested. Bought a really good wheel of
fortune on TV.

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Great, great.

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So, oh, did you interview for that
teaching job you were talking about?

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Well, not really. There were about a
hundred other people applying. I can't

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compete with that.

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Why not?

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Because I don't want to.

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Besides, I've been thinking, if the
purpose in life is to be happy, why

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do anything that doesn't make me happy?

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Right, right. I guess I can't argue with
that.

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I want to learn gourmet cooking.

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I want to learn bonsai gardening.

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I want to learn pebble arts.

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Uh -huh.

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But you're not ruling out the teaching
job entirely, are you?

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It won't make me happy.

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I'm happy doing this.

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And if I need money, I'll just go on
Wheel of Fortune.

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Uh -huh.

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Alex, if I get a job, I may not be here
for you when you need me.

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Don't you understand?

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I want to spend every second with you,
starting now.

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this is working out fine thanks for
letting me go through your recipe file

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yeah, well, since you're making this big
dinner for Alex, I thought it might

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help if you knew some of his favorite
dishes.

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Yeah. Tonight I'm making Nancy Reagan's
hearty beef stew for conservative

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cowboys and ravenous Republicans.

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Mmm.

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Lauren, I'm really impressed.

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I mean, I could never make a beef stew.
I wouldn't know the first thing to go

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into it.

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Well, beef.

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Oh, right.

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I'm so excited. I just love to cook, but
I haven't had time until now.

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So you're really glad you dropped your
thesis, right?

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Oh, yes. What a relief. You know, all
that time I spent studying, I felt like

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was banging my head against the wall.

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Oh, you do that, too?

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It just wasn't right for me. You know,
sometimes people make the wrong choices,

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like in the days of our children. Do you
watch? Oh, the soap opera. Yeah, yeah.

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It's like how Xander keeps trying to
please Reef, but she'd be better off

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Skylar. Well, I think she should be with
Brooke.

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Oh, we've got a new girlfriend,
Cashmere. Oh, I love her.

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Well, I better get the groceries for
tonight. Tell Alex I'll see him at

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Oh, yeah, and I'll see you Friday for
that makeover lesson.

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Hey. Oh, Alex, you can go grocery
shopping with me.

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Oh, honey, listen, I'm getting a little
tired of grocery shopping.

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Oh, come on, it's fun.

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You like it when I wheel you around in
that cart.

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Okay, if you don't want to go.

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But I'm going to miss you every minute.

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All right.

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I can't believe what's happening.

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I now have a woman who runs errands for
me and cooks for me and takes care of

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me.

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It's everything I ever wanted.

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And I can't stand it.

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Do you think there's something wrong
with me?

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Um, generally speaking?

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Allie, tell me something.

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Do you notice anything different about
Lauren?

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Well, she's definitely dressing better.

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And she seems to know a lot more.

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I mean, about important things.

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So you two are having a lot of fun
together.

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Oh, I've never gotten along with her
better. We're like one and the same now.

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That's what I was afraid of.

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Wow.

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Okay, this is your night, so I just want
you to sit down and relax.

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Oh, and I have the evening edition of
the paper for you to read while I'm busy

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with dinner.

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Okay. Honey, honey, honey, I would
really rather just chat.

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Well, it's not just dinner, Alex.

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I'm also doing some laundry for you,
arranging some flowers, and putting the

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final touches on desserts.

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What is this, the Betty Crocker -a
-thon?

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Martin, sit down. Talk to me.

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What do you want to talk about?

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How about those election primaries, huh?

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Oh, Alex, I don't read the paper
anymore.

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There's so much sad news in it. I just
want to be happy.

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Yeah, well, honey, it's important to
keep up with what's going on in the

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I mean, for example,

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you see about the development in the
Persian Gulf?

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Yes, I did, and I'm really mad about it.

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You are?

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Fabulous. Great.

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What are you mad about?

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U .S. involvement or any aggression?

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What? Tell me. Tell me.

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I'm mad that that stupid news report
broke in the middle of Days of Our

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Children.

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Right there when Xander was about to
tell Reef that Brick and Cashmere were

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trying to frame Skyler for Nicole's
murder.

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Oh, Alex,

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what's wrong?

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Honey, don't you miss...

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Your whole life, your thesis, the lab,
the work, the feeling that you got when

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you learned something new.

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Look, I thought you wanted me to drop my
thesis.

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I know, I did.

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Maybe I was wrong.

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You have so much to offer.

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You know, you should be doing more than
watching soap operas and clipping

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recipes. But they're good recipes, Alex.

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Lauren, look at yourself. You're
frittering your life away on these

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Don't you get tired of doing the same
thing day after day and not

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anything? Don't you appreciate all that
I've done?

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The errand running, the cooking?

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It's all for you.

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Is it so bad that I want to spend my
time with you and make you happy? What

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about you? What about making yourself
happy?

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I mean, you're using me as an excuse.

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I am not. Admit it. You spend all your
time watching TV.

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All right, maybe you're right. Maybe I
have been watching too much TV.

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I'll stop.

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And I'll spend more time with you, okay?

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Okay, look, just stop trying to please
me by satisfying my every whim.

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I can't believe I just said that.

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Alex, this isn't that big of a problem.
It is, it is. You don't see it.

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Lauren, you're hiding.

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You're hiding from the real world.

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You quit more than your thesis, Lauren.
You quit life.

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I love you, but not like this.

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Not the way you are right now.

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Lauren. Lauren.

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Leave me alone.

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Mom tells me you're writing a new love
letter to Rachel.

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How did that go?

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She pushed me into a hedge.

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That's quite a charmer.

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But Margie Phillips was there and she
helped me out. She loves me.

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Now I love Margie, not Rachel.

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Oh, so let me guess. So now you're
writing a love letter to Margie.

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That's right. Could you help me?

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Absolutely, absolutely.

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What do you got so far?

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Dear Margie.

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That's good, that's good. I mean, that's
a start.

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I didn't want to come on too strong.

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But there's a lot more to say, you know?

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Like, um, thanks for helping me out of
the hedge.

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And also, my dear Margie, sorry that I
didn't pay more attention to you.

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Sorry for a lot of things.

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I ran out of the room tonight. My heart
sank.

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I love you, I want to be with you, but
your thesis is important.

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Yeah, that's good. Why'd you like that?

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Hey, any word from Lauren?

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Uh, no.

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No, I don't think I'll be hearing from
Lauren too soon.

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Well, honey, I know it was tough, but
what you did tonight, you know...

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Trying to wake Lauren up was a very
brave and selfless thing to do.

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Maybe you actually learned something
from this.

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What, Mom? What did I learn?

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That maybe you don't want to settle for
an empty -headed, ditzy little cream

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puff. Is that your beck and call?

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Maybe just on weekends?

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Oh, Alex, you know, I'm this buttoned
-up, macho exterior. You don't really

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believe that.

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You're not going to be happy unless
you're with a woman who's...

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Who's strong and vibrant. Someone with
an equal partner. Someone you can talk

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to.

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You're right, Mom.

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And I blame you.

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Then my work here is done.

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Hi. Hi.

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I forgot to put the fabric softener in
the laundry.

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You're going to have some wicked static
cling in your socks.

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Alex, what you said tonight cut awfully
deep.

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It really hurt.

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I know.

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It wasn't easy to say.

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Alex, I feel like I'm alone out here on
this one.

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You know, I'm the first woman in my
family ever to go to college.

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It would be a lot easier if I just had a
role model.

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Sometimes I feel like I'm flapping my
wings furiously, not knowing if I'm

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it right, because no one ever taught me
how to fly.

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Role models are important.

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I know when I'm in a situation, I always
think, I wonder what my parents would

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do.

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Then I do the opposite.

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Alex, it's different with you. You've
always been confident.

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I remember our first date. You looked at
me tenderly and said, Do you know

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what's great about me?

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You talk for six hours nonstop.

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And you still don't know what's great
about me.

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I know what's great about you. You're
smart.

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You're understanding.

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Ruggedly handsome.

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It's funny. When I was little, I always
pictured my future as living in a nice

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house and a garden and a couple of kids.

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And even though I knew I wanted a
career, it was really never a part of my

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vision. When I was a little kid, I
always wanted to be supreme ruler of the

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universe.

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Alex, that's still your dream, isn't it?

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Yeah, but it doesn't seem like enough
now.

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You know what my problem is?

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I've got a father complex.

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I was always... He always said he's a
little girl and he always overprotected

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me. And now I'm trying to continue that
personality dynamic with you.

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Excuse me, but did I just hear you say
something psychoanalytical?

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I guess so. It just kind of came out.
Oh, great.

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Oh, it's great.

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Alex, I know I have to continue on with
my thesis.

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But what?

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I'm scared. What if I fail? Hey, hey,
you got to take that risk.

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Will you help me?

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No.

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But I'll be there to support you.

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I get it.

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Hey, this doesn't mean that you still
can't dote on me, you know.

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