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[man] I’m lonely.
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I know I’m surrounded by a sea of people,but nevertheless, I’m lonely.
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Nobody loves me.
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And by nobody, I don’t mean anybodyover 30 or anyone under the legal age.
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I don’t mean males.I certainly don’t include family.
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I don’t mean unattractive people, at leastunattractive to me, which is subjective.
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I don’t even mean the majority ofattractive women under 30 out of my reach,
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which narrows it down a bit.
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Actually, to be honest, I just mean Jenny.
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She is everybody in my world.
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And if she doesn’t love me,then nobody does.
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I know this doesn’t make sensestatistically,
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but I’ve realized the worldworks differently from math.
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Or does it?
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[woman] Hey! Stan?
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Hey!
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I haven’t seen you in years.
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Yeah. How long has it been?
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I don’t know.
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Ten years, five months, two days.
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[chuckles]
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I’m sorry. I’ve got a thing for numbers.
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I know.
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-So, do you live around here?
-Around the corner. I don’t get out much.
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That’s probably why,
because I come here all the time.
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-Oh.
-[Stan] There it is.
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My failure to recognize that the worldis mathematical. It’s all statistics.
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My waiting around at home-- miserable,
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complaining, playing the victim,Facebook stalking--
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wasn’t helping my statistical chancesof bumping into anyone.
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Well, Jenny.
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My life is going to change.
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I’m a mathematician. I know data.
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I’m good at data mining,good at finding patterns.
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There must be patterns in everything,even human behavior.
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[computer beeping]
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They can be learned, right?
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-[computer continues beeping]
-It was 3:00 p.m. Saturday.
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We met, intersected, at the corner.
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She was walking down the street.I was walking up.
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A possibility she could be here--café, restaurant, bookstore.
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Window shopping all in one area.
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Jenny was my ultimate proof,the previously unsolvable problem.
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Why Jenny? Well, just look at her.
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Well, actually, look at me.
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I can’t hold eye contact.My heart beats faster. I sweat.
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I look shifty. My feet are shifty.
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I can’t quite talkand I wanna get out of there.
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And yet, I really, really want to stay.
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She says nothing.
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It’s a nice neighborhood. I like it.
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-[Stan] But I hear--
-Invite me up. I’ll do anything to stay.
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They lock people awayfor things like this-- hallucinations.
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Or is it delusions?
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[Jenny] Whatever’s in his mindis deeply locked away,
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only let out in the form of letters.
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Yeah, paper with writing,sent by snail mail to your house.
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The fresh smellof warm afternoon envelope.
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The scent of paper, ink.
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The thought that someonetook the time to think, to write,
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to communicate his deepest thoughtsand feelings to you, it would melt me.
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He would melt my heart every single time.
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And yet, in person,not a word, not a whisper,
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as if he had never, ever sent one.
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I liked it though, the secret world.
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Didn’t want it to end,
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the feeling of nobody knowingexcept him...
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the secret that I was special--
we were special--
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surrounded by a sea of people,often feeling absolutely alone
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except that one personknows you’re alive, cares you’re alive.
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It made me feel alive.
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-So, I’m just about to--
-Yeah, I have to go.
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Someone to see. A date. An appointment.
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[Jenny] I died a little with those words.
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Okay. Well, I’ll see you around then?
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[Jenny] Why’d he say that?What’s he trying to tell me?
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[Stan]
“See you around” reeks of possibility.
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Was it a question or a statement?
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Almost positively 30% a questionand 70% statement.
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And then we walk,her to the west and me to the east.
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Just like that Murakami story,
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on meeting the 100% perfect girlone beautiful April morning.
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What I should really say is--
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-Hey, Jen?
-Yeah?
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Do you remember
when we were in middle school?
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-Hey, Jen?
-Yeah?
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-Remember when we were in middle school?
-[Stan] So I made an opportunity.
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There in the split secondwhile she’s smiling is my opportunity.
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As the smile fades or she turns her head,it’ll disappear any moment, any moment!
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Say something! Say anything!
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When I used to call you
for help on calculus?
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[Stan] There you go.That’s definitely a smile that remembers.
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-I think it was the other way around.
-Really?
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Well, either way,
there were a lot of calls.
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[Jenny] This is kinda nice. Really nice.
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It’s the first time he’s bringing this up.
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A world that was practically hiddenfrom the light of day.
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Those phone calls were onlyever at night, late at night.
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It was way back before mobile phones--landlines, dial phones.
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A whole other level of courage was needed
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to dial the numberto the object of your affection.
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You see, you had to dial each numberand wait for the clicks.
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It was a long time between each number.A lot of time to reconsider.
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[Stan] I’m amazed I went through with it.Many times I didn’t.
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Could have been the time of night?Too late?
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Was there any rule about this?Sometimes I just had to.
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But, boy, sometimes I’d go and pee,then wash up,
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eat something, check and recheck the time,
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brush my teeth, wander in, dial,then leave if there was no privacy.
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It needed to be perfectly private.
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And then you get through.Your heart’s racing.
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Not so much becauseof the anticipation of talking to her,
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but the fear of talking to her mother.
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Or worse still, her father.
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-[Jenny’s father on phone] Hello?
-Hello, Mr. Lee?
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-Who is this?
-Hi, I’m Stan, from Jen’s class.
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I was wondering if I could speak to Jenny.
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It’s a little late, Stan.
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Oh, I know, I know. I’m sorry.
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It’s just that I’ve got a math problem
I’m stuck on.
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All right. Hold the line.
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[Stan] Which was kinda true. Kinda.
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We always needed an into start the conversation.
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But it always ended up somewhere.
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Talk about music class, band practice,what she was planning for summer break.
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I’d always wonder where she was,which room,
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what it looked like, what she was wearing.
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I never knew, even to this day.
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Never stepped foot in her house,yet spent hours connected to her life.
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In the dark, a voice in my headthat I was addicted to.
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Anyway, seeing you’re around here a lot,
and I live just around here,
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I thought maybe--
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[Stan] I’m looking for a sign, some sortof sign of positive reinforcement.
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I’m giving you a lead here.Give me a sign!
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[Jenny] I’m nervous.I can feel my heart beating.
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Is he gonna ask me out?I’m getting shifty. My feet are shifty.
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[Stan] She’s looking anxious,like she wants to get away.
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This isn’t good.Don’t ruin the friendship.
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Don’t ruin what you have.Don’t pressure her!
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I thought maybe we should sometime--
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You know, if you’re around,
we could... catch up?
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[Jenny]
Oh, it’s a friendship thing. Catch up.
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I knew it. Nervous for nothing.
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Catch up. Great.
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Okay, maybe. Why not?
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[Stan] Maybe?What’s maybe? Maybe is a rejection.
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Maybe is, “All those times you called,I was just helping you with math.
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Nothing else. Rein in your imagination.”
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Only if you’re around and I’m around.
If we’re both simultaneously around.
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That would be necessary.
Should we draw a Venn diagram?
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-Work out when our schedules intersect?
-Exactly.
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That wouldn’t be a bad idea.
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[Stan] I decide not to ask herfor her schedule though.
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It may come across as creepy.
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So, when we meet each other next,
we’ll catch up then, okay?
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Yeah. We’ll leave it in the hands of fate.
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[Stan] So, how does this fate thing work?
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Do I just waitand not think about anything?
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Not think about when she might be there,when she might come back?
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Because thinking about itwill alter fate in some way.
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Do I actively work out how to bumpinto her again? Will that be fate at work?
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Are consciousness and choicejust false perceptions
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of a free realitythat’s already predetermined?
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Damn it. What do I do now?
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[Stan] I didn’t ask her out.That was clear to both of us, I’m sure.
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So, when we meet each other again next,
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we’ll catch up then, okay?
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Yeah, we’ll leave it in the hands of fate.
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[Stan] Been through this a lot.
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In fact, the only womenI’ve ever really had relationships with
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are the ones who asked me out.
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Which kind of made me feel pathetic,which reflected back on them.
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You know that Groucho Marx line
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“I don’t wanna be part of a clubthat’ll have me as a member”?
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That would plague my relationships.
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I’d always end up thinking, “If you’lltake a pathetic, spineless fool like me,
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why would I want you?”
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But I’d be so spineless,I’d never instigate the breakup.
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-If you’re as pathetic as me, ignore them,
-[cell phone rings]
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passive/aggressive style,until they break up with you.
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We need to break up.
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[Stan] Then put on a surprisedbut slightly sad face.
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Not too sad that you’re saying,“I want you back.”
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Just that you appreciate their effortin breaking up with you,
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that you’ll kinda miss them,that it didn’t mean nothing to you.
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Of course this has to bedelicately balanced.
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Sometimes it’s mistaken for--
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You don’t really want me to leave, do you?
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And you end up with makeup sex,
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which lets face it,is more fun than regular sex.
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There’s that sense of lossand resurrection. No pun intended.
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And then, of course, there’s breakup sex.
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You know, ’cause it’ll bethe last time you do it.
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And that’s kinda interesting too.
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Everything tastes better if you knowyou’re never gonna have it again.
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And then you’re lost in that cycle--
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break up, make up,
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break up, make up.
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The tension and release keep overwhelming
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your ultimate desireto find someone you truly love.
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Sex is the ultimate illusionist.
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But we’ll get to that another time.
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This is all beside the point.
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Having been in relationshipsmultiple times
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doesn’t make you any betterat asking someone out
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whom you truly, truly want to be with.
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In mathematical terms,there’s an inverse relationship
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between the stakes--how much she means to you--
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and the chancesof you actually asking her out.
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Although in my case,it’s pretty much a flatline.
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So, for someone who has failedto ask out girls that matter to me--
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and I’ve failed many, many times--
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it’s no surprisethat I could be a consultant
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on the stages of not having asked her out.
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The first stage: denial.
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This is awesome!
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This is easy. Everyone does itfor most of their single life.
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But we’re not even good at denial,’cause when it’s shoved in our faces,
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-we just wanna shout--
-Hey, hey, get a fucking room!
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And if we finish the sentence,it would be--
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Because seeing you like this
makes me reflect
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on how empty and worthless
my pathetic existence is
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without someone to look me in the eyes
and say, “You are my everything.”
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Get a room. Don’t tell me what you did.
I don’t wanna know!
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[Stan] Second stage: justification.Why would you ask her out?
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She was looking old. In 20 years,she’s gonna look 20 years older.
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She’s probably a health freak,fundamentalist in something.
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It would never fit in my lifestyle.
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Third stage: stalking.
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Of course, this was a lot harderduring the analog days.
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We actually had to physically follow them,
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which was and is less legalthan digital stalking.
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So I recommend only digital nowadays.
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Fourth stage: fantasizing.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah!
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[Stan] You get the idea.And finally, the last stage: desperation.
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That’s where I’m at.
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Fate sometimes needs a little helpwith probability.
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That’s all I’m doing,just increasing probability a bit.
241
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And the longer I do this,the greater the chances, right?
242
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Well, actually, that’s not how it works.
243
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But fuck it. I’m desperate.
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Where the fuck is she?
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Oh, my fucking God!
246
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I’m sorry. Did I say that out loud?
247
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[Jenny] So he didn’t ask me out.Not really. Not at all.
248
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I wasn’t about to ask him out.I don’t do that.
249
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It’s not ladylike. It’s not right.
250
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There’s a natural order of thingsthat should not be disrupted.
251
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Guys ask girls out,not the other way around.
252
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And this is from experience.
253
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The few times I did ask a guy out,after waiting and waiting and waiting,
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it was always a pathetic relationship.
255
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How could I respect someone, a guy,who didn’t have the courage to ask me out?
256
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I couldn’t.I didn’t and it showed over time.
257
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I’d get angry quickly, scream downthe phone at all hours of the night,
258
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get pissed off at the smallest things,
259
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like the way he wore his hair,his shoes, or the way he snored.
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Anything, really.He would slowly become a kept man.
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A kind of slave, really.
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Get your car. Pick me up now!
263
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Did you just ask me why?
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If he protested, huge argumentswould ensue until he backed down.
265
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In the end, they stop protesting.They know what’s coming.
266
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-They take it like a pathetic, beaten dog.
-[dog whimpers]
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And then they’re so pathetic,there’s no attraction anyway.
268
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So you break up with them.
269
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-Listen, I’m breaking up with you.
-Oh. Oh!
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Yeah, that’s... bad.
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And strangely enough, I thinkthey want it so badly, the breakup,
272
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they’re almost relieved, which hurts me.
273
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How dare you,you spineless nothing of a man!
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How dare you be relievedat me waking up with you!
275
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I’m the best thing
that’s ever happened to you!
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[knocks]
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[Jenny] So I retract the breakup,take him back.
278
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I’m gonna give you another chance, Simon.
Okay, I’m serious. You get to try again.
279
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[Jenny] We have makeup sex,
280
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which strangely enoughmakes me feel clingy.
281
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I know it’s weird.
282
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I think there are juxtaposinghormones released after sex.
283
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I end up in the cycle again of havinggiven myself to some guy I don’t respect.
284
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Yet I have enough self-esteem to think,“If I gave myself to him,
285
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my naked, emotional self...
286
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then somewhere deep downhe must be pretty awesome
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or he must have potential to be.
288
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I just have to mold him.”
289
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And that’s what I do.So, all the nitpicking, the jabs,
290
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the retorts, the arguments,it’s really to make him a better person.
291
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So, I don’t have to punishmyself emotionally over this pathetic,
292
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-sorry excuse of a man I shacked up with.
-[dog whimpers]
293
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Meanwhile you’re alwayson the lookout for someone better.
294
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Hoping for someone better.
295
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And you don’t break up.
296
00:18:45,824 --> 00:18:49,661
I think you’re always more attractiveto other men if you’re with someone.
297
00:18:49,728 --> 00:18:52,798
Single chicks always drawthe suspicious question--
298
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“Why is she single?What’s wrong with her?”
299
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So, I stay in a bad relationship,no matter how pathological it is,
300
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because I think it increases my chancesof finding a better one.
301
00:19:03,308 --> 00:19:07,412
I think it’s okay that he makes a moveeven if he knows I’m in a relationship.
302
00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:10,549
Because that’s generally accepted, right?
303
00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:15,587
Though I could never accept an invitationfrom a guy I knew was in a relationship.
304
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Double standard,but that’s how this world works.
305
00:19:19,191 --> 00:19:25,731
So, here I am, thinking about him, Stan,while I’m waiting for my boyfriend Zac,
306
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feeling nothing, not an ounce of guilt.
307
00:19:29,835 --> 00:19:34,473
Just hoping, wishing he had asked me out,
308
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wondering how I’ll bump into him again,
309
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whether it’ll be another ten years.
310
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Wondering where he lives,what his room is like.
311
00:19:42,915 --> 00:19:45,517
What his handswill feel like holding mine.
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What his arms will feel likewrapped around my waist.
313
00:19:50,422 --> 00:19:54,860
When I’ll get to hear his voicein the deep of the night before I sleep.
314
00:19:56,461 --> 00:19:59,698
We left it to fate when we’ll meet again.
315
00:20:00,465 --> 00:20:03,936
I do not believe in fate.
316
00:20:06,338 --> 00:20:08,240
[Stan] Oh, my fucking God!
317
00:20:12,811 --> 00:20:15,280
I’m sorry. Did I say that out loud?
318
00:20:15,347 --> 00:20:18,750
I’ve never been called God before,
but I’ll allow it.
319
00:20:22,454 --> 00:20:23,755
Hi.
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[Jenny]
The trick is to pretend you don’t care.
321
00:20:42,574 --> 00:20:43,875
Hi.
322
00:20:45,010 --> 00:20:46,778
Hi.
323
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I’m sorry about the “God” thing.
I’m surprised to see you here.
324
00:20:52,951 --> 00:20:55,854
[Jenny] Surprised?So you’re not thinking about me?
325
00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:58,023
Not the way I’ve been thinking--
326
00:20:58,290 --> 00:21:01,727
No, obsessing about you?
327
00:21:03,562 --> 00:21:05,831
Are you waiting for someone?
328
00:21:05,897 --> 00:21:10,936
No. Yeah.
I mean, I’m not sure if he’ll come.
329
00:21:11,003 --> 00:21:14,840
[Jenny] That’s a lie.He looks nervous. I think it’s a lie.
330
00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:17,709
Yeah, me too.
331
00:21:19,978 --> 00:21:22,347
Well, shall we wait together then?
332
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[Stan]
Great! I’ve completely redefined this.
333
00:21:27,552 --> 00:21:30,455
Completely made herinto a convenient pit stop
334
00:21:30,522 --> 00:21:33,458
while I wait for my more significantfriend or friends,
335
00:21:33,525 --> 00:21:36,595
who’ll never turn upbecause there was no appointment.
336
00:21:36,662 --> 00:21:39,531
So, worst-case scenario,I’ve reduced her significance,
337
00:21:39,598 --> 00:21:42,067
made myself into a liaror the sort of person
338
00:21:42,334 --> 00:21:45,337
whose friends stand him upin the middle of the day.
339
00:21:45,737 --> 00:21:49,641
I won’t stay for too long. I don’t wanna
intrude on you and your friends.
340
00:21:50,309 --> 00:21:53,545
Oh, no, not a problem at all.
I mean, we’re friends too, right?
341
00:21:56,415 --> 00:22:00,585
Shit! I said it, the word “friends.”
342
00:22:00,652 --> 00:22:02,688
I didn’t mean to. It just slipped out.
343
00:22:02,754 --> 00:22:07,559
But the pause, the moment of silencespoke reams about our past.
344
00:22:07,626 --> 00:22:11,029
The look up to me,the glimpse of vulnerability.
345
00:22:11,096 --> 00:22:13,965
Maybe a hint of sadness,then the look away.
346
00:22:14,032 --> 00:22:16,968
The recomposure and the smile.
347
00:22:17,035 --> 00:22:20,372
[Jenny] I just wanna get out of here,all of the sudden.
348
00:22:20,439 --> 00:22:23,342
I don’t know why. Well, I do know why.
349
00:22:23,408 --> 00:22:27,579
I feel like a fool.I think I gave away too much.
350
00:22:27,646 --> 00:22:31,016
I’m pretty transparent.He can see right through me.
351
00:22:31,083 --> 00:22:33,518
I can tell, those eyes.
352
00:22:34,486 --> 00:22:36,855
Those eyes.
353
00:22:36,922 --> 00:22:40,358
We used to lock gazes way back when.
354
00:22:40,959 --> 00:22:44,696
Nothing said, nothing given awayexcept those letters.
355
00:22:45,831 --> 00:22:48,433
Secret letters on summer break.
356
00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,104
And the occasional lingering eye contact.
357
00:23:00,045 --> 00:23:04,516
But not now. I’m shifty.I can’t hold his gaze. He’ll see too much.
358
00:23:04,583 --> 00:23:06,518
[Stan] She’s avoiding eye contact.
359
00:23:06,585 --> 00:23:10,122
She’s keeping a distance.I should keep mine too.
360
00:23:10,388 --> 00:23:14,025
But it’s so satisfying,so tempting to try.
361
00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:16,828
Just give me one lingering look.
362
00:23:17,662 --> 00:23:21,566
I long for them.Have waited years for another.
363
00:23:21,633 --> 00:23:26,004
In the past, it was our only communicationin the light of day.
364
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:28,607
It could start as a casual glanceacross a room.
365
00:23:28,673 --> 00:23:33,078
Our eyes would make contact--one second, two seconds.
366
00:23:33,812 --> 00:23:38,416
Then boom, three seconds.
367
00:23:38,483 --> 00:23:41,019
There’s something about that third second.
368
00:23:41,086 --> 00:23:43,054
It’s a well-established norm, I think.
369
00:23:43,121 --> 00:23:46,792
No one holds for that third secondunless you’re saying something.
370
00:23:46,858 --> 00:23:49,961
And that something is big.
371
00:23:50,695 --> 00:23:53,865
The first few times,it takes you by surprise.
372
00:23:53,932 --> 00:23:57,903
And then it’s so good,you wanna go back for more and more.
373
00:23:57,969 --> 00:24:00,005
It’s never enough.
374
00:24:00,071 --> 00:24:03,675
Two pairs of eyescoming to rest on each other,
375
00:24:03,742 --> 00:24:06,511
as if to say there’s nothing elseworth looking at.
376
00:24:06,578 --> 00:24:08,079
We are all there is.
377
00:24:08,146 --> 00:24:12,083
In that third second,we dip our feet into the pool of eternity.
378
00:24:12,150 --> 00:24:16,021
This is what it feels like, timelessness.
379
00:24:16,087 --> 00:24:21,593
And then that slow smile that startsin the fifth, maybe sixth second.
380
00:24:21,660 --> 00:24:26,498
I don’t know. You can’t countwhen you’re in a space devoid of time.
381
00:24:26,565 --> 00:24:28,967
It’s some other dimension altogether.
382
00:24:31,603 --> 00:24:35,507
[Jenny]
In that space, he can see everything.
383
00:24:35,574 --> 00:24:39,611
He used to see everythingwhen we locked eyes.
384
00:24:40,745 --> 00:24:46,751
You give over to someone,like a dog rolling to expose his belly.
385
00:24:46,818 --> 00:24:49,254
Vulnerable, trusting.
386
00:24:49,521 --> 00:24:52,524
And then the smile would come.
387
00:24:52,991 --> 00:24:56,494
-Slowly, teasing me apart,
-[bee buzzing]
388
00:24:56,561 --> 00:24:59,965
prying me open like a flower in spring.
389
00:25:00,031 --> 00:25:03,668
It was new, unexplored,
390
00:25:03,735 --> 00:25:07,272
this other worldthat only we could create together.
391
00:25:07,539 --> 00:25:12,143
And I miss it,the way you miss your first home.
392
00:25:13,712 --> 00:25:17,515
Oh, no, not a problem at all.
I mean, we are friends too, right?
393
00:25:17,582 --> 00:25:20,986
Yes, of course we are friends.
394
00:25:21,820 --> 00:25:25,223
Good friends. Close friends.
395
00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:28,260
[Stan] Shit. Stop while you’re ahead.
396
00:25:28,526 --> 00:25:30,896
[Jenny] I want to crawlinto a hole right now.
397
00:25:31,596 --> 00:25:34,299
[Stan] Someone please save me!
398
00:25:34,566 --> 00:25:39,170
[man] Hey, Stan! Hey, Jen!
I didn’t know you guys know each other.
399
00:25:39,237 --> 00:25:42,540
Uh, yeah, from school.
400
00:25:42,607 --> 00:25:44,276
No way!
401
00:25:45,977 --> 00:25:49,648
Yup, a long time. Good friends.
402
00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:53,218
Uh, am I interrupting something here?
Could I join you?
403
00:25:53,285 --> 00:25:55,086
[Both] Please.
404
00:25:55,153 --> 00:25:57,055
Uh, anyone need another cup of coffee?
405
00:25:57,122 --> 00:25:58,723
[Both] No, we’re good.
406
00:26:07,232 --> 00:26:11,202
-I was waiting for Zac.
-Me too.
407
00:26:32,924 --> 00:26:35,627
So, how long have you known Zac?
408
00:26:35,694 --> 00:26:37,829
Mmm, not long.
409
00:26:38,964 --> 00:26:43,201
[Jenny] What’s the best wayto let this big, fat cat out of the bag?
410
00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:47,072
This was one secretI didn’t want to have to deal with.
411
00:26:47,138 --> 00:26:49,708
My plan was perfect-- find someone new,
412
00:26:49,774 --> 00:26:53,244
flirt a little, date a little, discreetly,
413
00:26:53,311 --> 00:26:57,749
and then let him make the move,so effectively, I’m not the one cheating.
414
00:26:57,816 --> 00:26:59,951
I just couldn’t fend him off.
415
00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:04,189
But I feel guilty enoughthat I let it get so far
416
00:27:04,255 --> 00:27:08,827
that there must be somethingdeep down that made me realize
417
00:27:08,893 --> 00:27:10,829
we’re not right for each other.
418
00:27:10,895 --> 00:27:13,865
Now what?I have no idea what Zac will say.
419
00:27:13,932 --> 00:27:17,736
No idea why I agreedto meet him here in the first place,
420
00:27:17,802 --> 00:27:22,307
especially knowing that therewas a chance, however remote,
421
00:27:22,374 --> 00:27:25,210
and hope, of bumping into Stan.
422
00:27:25,276 --> 00:27:28,279
[Stan] The fact is it’s not chance at all.
423
00:27:28,346 --> 00:27:33,284
I was thinking I finally worked it out--statistics, chance. It’s none of those.
424
00:27:33,351 --> 00:27:36,921
It ends up being a premeditated decisionby a mutual friend.
425
00:27:36,988 --> 00:27:41,426
At least I think he’s a friend of Jen’s.There was no sign they were anything else.
426
00:27:41,693 --> 00:27:45,230
Although, how many female friendsdo I have?
427
00:27:45,296 --> 00:27:47,198
Well, none.
428
00:27:47,265 --> 00:27:51,870
None that I haven’t at one stage wantedto date or nail in some way or other.
429
00:27:51,936 --> 00:27:53,671
I know that sounds crass.
430
00:27:53,738 --> 00:27:58,376
[Jenny] Would it be crass of me to leave?Get up and just leave.
431
00:27:58,443 --> 00:28:00,712
Make a lame excuse and go.
432
00:28:00,779 --> 00:28:02,414
Shit.
433
00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:07,218
All I was hoping for-- putting outpositive waves of possibility for--
434
00:28:07,285 --> 00:28:09,454
to bump into Stan again.
435
00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:13,792
All decimated by havinga third person in the mix.
436
00:28:13,858 --> 00:28:16,728
And a significant otherthird person at that.
437
00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:18,797
[Stan] Chemistry is a delicate thing.
438
00:28:19,964 --> 00:28:24,002
I know because Jen and I were on a schoolchemistry titration team with one guy.
439
00:28:24,069 --> 00:28:26,404
I forgot his name. I blocked him out.
440
00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:29,274
He added two extra dropsof a reagent to the mix.
441
00:28:29,340 --> 00:28:32,110
Two extra little drops
442
00:28:32,177 --> 00:28:36,748
and we ended up 103rdin a competition with only 100 entries.
443
00:28:36,815 --> 00:28:40,218
They didn’t include our resultbecause it was so far off the graph,
444
00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:42,821
it would’ve ruined their bell curve.
445
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:46,191
So when I say I wantedto nail them in some way or other,
446
00:28:46,257 --> 00:28:48,259
I mean that there is an attraction,
447
00:28:48,326 --> 00:28:51,062
something between you twothat kept you coming back
448
00:28:51,129 --> 00:28:53,231
that had to be very carefully balanced
449
00:28:53,298 --> 00:28:56,201
to make sure you didn’t go too faror keep too distant
450
00:28:56,267 --> 00:28:59,137
because that could ruina perfectly good friendship,
451
00:28:59,204 --> 00:29:01,740
one that’s based on mutual attraction.
452
00:29:01,806 --> 00:29:06,144
But with someone like Jen,you wanna tip the balance the whole way.
453
00:29:06,211 --> 00:29:08,947
Actually, you just wannatip in the whole damn solution
454
00:29:09,013 --> 00:29:11,382
and share in the amazing explosion.
455
00:29:11,449 --> 00:29:14,119
But you don’t,and you titrate the reagent,
456
00:29:14,185 --> 00:29:18,857
drop by tantalizing drop,feeding the friendship/fantasy,
457
00:29:18,923 --> 00:29:21,960
maybe until you go too farand no one wants your result
458
00:29:22,026 --> 00:29:25,497
because you’ve taken itway outside the normal bell curve.
459
00:29:27,465 --> 00:29:30,235
How long have you known Zac?
460
00:29:30,301 --> 00:29:34,405
I met him at paintball a few months back.
He shot me in the balls.
461
00:29:35,874 --> 00:29:40,178
And, uh, he stayed with me at hospital
until it was all, you know, patched up.
462
00:29:40,245 --> 00:29:42,447
Are you all right?
463
00:29:42,514 --> 00:29:44,883
What, down there? Oh, yeah, I think so.
464
00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:47,952
I mean, it’s a little blue...
from the paint.
465
00:29:48,019 --> 00:29:50,155
But mechanically, it’s all fine.
466
00:29:50,221 --> 00:29:57,228
Oh, my God. I’m sorry. I’m just trying
not to imagine... anything.
467
00:29:58,029 --> 00:30:00,532
-[Jenny giggles]
-[Stan] Great.
468
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,134
The girl of my dreams is a foot away,
469
00:30:03,201 --> 00:30:06,137
we have a mutual friendabout to interrupt us,
470
00:30:06,204 --> 00:30:11,309
and all I could muster up to tell herwas an incident ending in blue balls.
471
00:30:11,376 --> 00:30:15,513
[Jenny] The strange thing is,I really did get concerned about his,
472
00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:20,118
well, his abilityto father a child... or two.
473
00:30:20,919 --> 00:30:23,054
Is that looking too far into the future?
474
00:30:23,121 --> 00:30:26,925
The nesting instinctis so strong at this age.
475
00:30:26,991 --> 00:30:30,562
I want to nest. Just wanna have babies.
476
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,231
Recently, with almost anyone.
477
00:30:33,298 --> 00:30:37,969
But now, I think of this man.But that was before blue balls.
478
00:30:38,036 --> 00:30:40,471
I’ve never had that feeling with Zac.
479
00:30:40,538 --> 00:30:46,377
We’ve slept together, but I’ve neverfelt my body belonged to him.
480
00:30:46,444 --> 00:30:50,949
I know it’s a strange thing to say,but, in my mind,
481
00:30:51,015 --> 00:30:55,386
I’ve always imagined this--this giving over of my body,
482
00:30:55,453 --> 00:30:57,121
my soul
483
00:30:57,188 --> 00:30:59,057
to the one.
484
00:30:59,123 --> 00:31:03,561
And... I never felteven an inch of that with Zac.
485
00:31:04,529 --> 00:31:09,033
Sex was an act-- fun, pleasurable enough.
486
00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:14,906
There was attractionbut no opening of my soul,
487
00:31:14,973 --> 00:31:17,175
no perfect sublimation.
488
00:31:18,443 --> 00:31:23,548
And that’s not a power thing.It’s just something that I want to do--
489
00:31:23,615 --> 00:31:28,486
I feel I’ll instinctively door experience with the right man.
490
00:31:29,187 --> 00:31:33,925
I’m sorry I told you the story. I bet Zac
would have told you sooner or later.
491
00:31:33,992 --> 00:31:35,560
Strange he hasn’t.
492
00:31:35,627 --> 00:31:37,962
A story about being
the cause of blue balls
493
00:31:38,029 --> 00:31:40,431
is not something
you can bring up at any time.
494
00:31:43,401 --> 00:31:45,503
So, how did you two meet?
495
00:31:46,371 --> 00:31:49,107
-On Tinder.
-What?
496
00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:53,311
You know, on your phone.
You swipe through people’s pictures
497
00:31:53,378 --> 00:31:57,215
and whoever’s around who’s also swiping,
498
00:31:57,282 --> 00:31:59,584
you guys connect.
499
00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:02,453
-Totally by chance?
-Yeah.
500
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:08,493
You get to meet people who you may
never, ever get to meet in your life.
501
00:32:10,028 --> 00:32:12,030
And you just started chatting?
502
00:32:12,096 --> 00:32:17,101
Mm-hmm. It’s kinda like a dating thing.
503
00:32:17,168 --> 00:32:20,371
[Jenny] And there it was.I slipped it in. Or slipped it out.
504
00:32:20,438 --> 00:32:24,709
The cat, out of the bag,into the middle of the fucking room.
505
00:32:24,976 --> 00:32:27,478
And now, in the silence that ensued,
506
00:32:27,545 --> 00:32:31,616
the cat grew as bigas the ten-year silence between us.
507
00:32:32,417 --> 00:32:36,421
It was palpable,a crushing, decimating blow.
508
00:32:36,487 --> 00:32:39,390
I know it. I could see it.
509
00:32:39,457 --> 00:32:43,127
[Stan] I was totally, absolutely winded.
510
00:32:43,194 --> 00:32:46,197
Couldn’t find any words,even though I was racking my brains
511
00:32:46,264 --> 00:32:49,200
to say something casual, off the cuff.
512
00:32:49,267 --> 00:32:52,003
Anything to divert the attentionfrom the big, fat conclusion--
513
00:32:52,070 --> 00:32:55,206
Zac and Jen are dating.
514
00:33:02,313 --> 00:33:06,217
[Jen] And I’m reeling, too, at the shame,the secret connection between us.
515
00:33:06,284 --> 00:33:10,655
Somehow I’d unwittingly beendisloyal to it, broken our pact,
516
00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:16,294
dirtied our secret islandby bringing the big, bad world into it.
517
00:33:16,361 --> 00:33:19,097
But part of me was happy,
518
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:24,335
elated to see that under all the soil,the gravel and mulch
519
00:33:24,402 --> 00:33:28,673
there’s a seed growing, sprouting for me.
520
00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:32,477
Sometimes you have to hurt someoneto find out if they really like you.
521
00:33:32,543 --> 00:33:36,180
And I think he really likes me.
522
00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:39,350
[Zac] What’s up, guys?
523
00:33:39,417 --> 00:33:41,686
What have you both been talking about?
524
00:33:41,753 --> 00:33:43,621
Better yet, what have you been thinking?
525
00:33:43,688 --> 00:33:46,391
That’s what Jen likes to ask.
Don’t you, honey?
526
00:33:46,457 --> 00:33:49,360
So, what have you both been thinking?
527
00:33:51,329 --> 00:33:53,331
[no audible dialogue]
528
00:34:14,619 --> 00:34:16,354
[Zac] What’s up, guys?
529
00:34:16,421 --> 00:34:18,656
What have you both been talking about?
530
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:20,658
Or better yet,
what have you been thinking?
531
00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:23,428
That’s what Jen likes to ask.
Don’t you, honey?
532
00:34:23,494 --> 00:34:26,097
So, what have you both been thinking?
533
00:34:26,164 --> 00:34:28,800
It used to take me by surprise--
it’s so disarming.
534
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,169
And I could never lie about it.
535
00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:34,705
So I would just come up
with the honest answer.
536
00:34:37,842 --> 00:34:42,180
[Stan] And there it is--the confirmation, the stamp of ownership.
537
00:34:42,246 --> 00:34:45,683
Sign language between guys-- “she’s mine.”
538
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:49,587
And there in the space just after,she tries to smile.
539
00:34:49,654 --> 00:34:51,589
Everything is in the trying.
540
00:34:51,656 --> 00:34:54,592
The attempt, the obstacleor resistance to the attempt,
541
00:34:54,659 --> 00:34:58,496
all whilst holding direct eye contact.
542
00:34:58,563 --> 00:35:00,565
It says so much.
543
00:35:02,233 --> 00:35:04,669
There are 43 musclesin the face, apparently,
544
00:35:04,735 --> 00:35:08,406
17 muscles needed to smile,all controlled by one nerve,
545
00:35:08,473 --> 00:35:10,608
the facial nerve,which has five branches--
546
00:35:10,675 --> 00:35:13,878
temporal, buccal, cervical,mandibular, zygomatic.
547
00:35:14,145 --> 00:35:17,682
All innervating different muscles,working in concert like an orchestra
548
00:35:17,748 --> 00:35:21,719
to create expressionin both space and time.
549
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:24,689
And timing is everything.
550
00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:28,359
The amount of time she holds the smile,
551
00:35:28,426 --> 00:35:31,129
the time it takesfor her to reach the smile,
552
00:35:31,195 --> 00:35:35,366
the lack of a full smile,the lack of the smile in her eyes,
553
00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:38,369
the slight sadness,the dropping of the smile,
554
00:35:38,436 --> 00:35:40,471
the lingering eye contact,
555
00:35:40,538 --> 00:35:42,507
the time she takes to drop eye contact
556
00:35:42,573 --> 00:35:45,176
in the context of himsitting right next to her,
557
00:35:45,243 --> 00:35:48,779
watching her every move,no matter how subtle.
558
00:35:48,846 --> 00:35:50,615
And what does this all say?
559
00:35:51,282 --> 00:35:53,718
What I’m believing she’s saying is,
560
00:35:53,784 --> 00:35:56,621
“I’m so sorry for this, that he’s here.
561
00:35:56,687 --> 00:35:59,323
It’s interrupted our world,our time together.
562
00:35:59,390 --> 00:36:02,226
It’s brought our magiccrashing back down to reality.
563
00:36:02,293 --> 00:36:05,796
And though I want to move onas if it’s nothing, I can’t. I won’t.
564
00:36:05,863 --> 00:36:09,167
I want so much to turn back time.Please know this.
565
00:36:09,233 --> 00:36:13,838
Please know that ten years onit hasn’t changed.”
566
00:36:13,905 --> 00:36:15,907
[Jenny] He returns the favor.
567
00:36:17,608 --> 00:36:20,378
I’ve lived years on the memoryof these looks,
568
00:36:20,444 --> 00:36:22,680
the silent messages that mean so much more
569
00:36:22,747 --> 00:36:25,716
than anything we ever have toeven say to each other.
570
00:36:27,185 --> 00:36:30,855
The lingering of his eyes on me,the smile.
571
00:36:30,922 --> 00:36:34,959
A moment like this can replace monthsof anything with someone like Zac.
572
00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:39,597
People say that heaven or eternityis a long, long time.
573
00:36:39,664 --> 00:36:43,968
I think it’s actually the absenceof time-- timelessness.
574
00:36:44,235 --> 00:36:47,939
That “aha!” moment when youstare out on top of the Austrian Alps,
575
00:36:48,206 --> 00:36:54,812
when you try to take in the vastnessof the sea, the sky, the Milky Way.
576
00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:59,350
This same “aha!” momentstaring into his eyes
577
00:36:59,417 --> 00:37:02,954
when you feel that something deep insideresonates with the universe,
578
00:37:03,221 --> 00:37:05,523
that all the misunderstood and unknowable
579
00:37:05,590 --> 00:37:07,892
somehow just makes sense,
580
00:37:07,959 --> 00:37:11,529
when the experience of these momentsare beyond time,
581
00:37:11,596 --> 00:37:13,731
can take you back years,
582
00:37:13,798 --> 00:37:17,668
make you feel like a vulnerableteenage girl looking for approval,
583
00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:20,271
for a boy to like her.
584
00:37:20,338 --> 00:37:22,940
And each replaying of these moments
585
00:37:23,007 --> 00:37:25,576
takes you into a different world,
586
00:37:25,643 --> 00:37:29,413
a world devoid of space and time.
587
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:30,982
So?
588
00:37:32,283 --> 00:37:35,553
I was just thinking about timelessness
589
00:37:35,620 --> 00:37:38,756
and how some things in the world
are just beyond time.
590
00:37:38,823 --> 00:37:41,359
[Zac chuckles] Come on.
Nothing is beyond time.
591
00:37:41,425 --> 00:37:43,828
Look, we’re born into time,
we die in time.
592
00:37:43,894 --> 00:37:45,997
Sometimes before our time.
593
00:37:46,831 --> 00:37:50,835
You mean like that time at camp
when we were sitting on the hill,
594
00:37:50,901 --> 00:37:52,637
soaking it all in, right?
595
00:37:52,703 --> 00:37:55,606
So it was a nice view, this place?
596
00:37:56,407 --> 00:37:57,842
No, no, it’s kind of transcendent.
597
00:37:57,908 --> 00:38:02,546
Like your understanding of the universe
is beyond thinking.
598
00:38:02,613 --> 00:38:06,817
Yeah. It’s beyond our level
of understanding.
599
00:38:06,884 --> 00:38:08,853
Which is bound by space and time.
600
00:38:08,919 --> 00:38:12,456
So, uh, this place had
a really, really nice view?
601
00:38:13,557 --> 00:38:15,026
[both] Yeah.
602
00:38:17,361 --> 00:38:20,798
[Stan] And all that talk aboutstars and time and space,
603
00:38:20,865 --> 00:38:22,867
it means nothing ultimately,
604
00:38:22,933 --> 00:38:25,770
highlighted by a moment like this.
605
00:38:25,836 --> 00:38:27,638
It haunts me, this image--
606
00:38:27,705 --> 00:38:31,309
her leaving,turning to smile at me as if to say,
607
00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:33,711
“Why didn’t you do anything? Why?
608
00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:36,314
In the ten years or preceding years?
609
00:38:36,380 --> 00:38:39,583
This is your fault.I’m here because of you.
610
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:43,921
This ever-widening gap-- all your doing!”
611
00:38:44,588 --> 00:38:47,058
Her looks, her smiles,
612
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:50,928
everything a message,a clue to her inner wants,
613
00:38:50,995 --> 00:38:55,366
and I have doneabsolutely nothing about it.
614
00:38:56,467 --> 00:38:59,403
I stand on the sidelineparalyzed by thoughts,
615
00:38:59,470 --> 00:39:02,340
by suppositions,by probability, by theories.
616
00:39:02,406 --> 00:39:04,442
All I had to do was act,
617
00:39:04,508 --> 00:39:07,478
take a step, make a move.
618
00:39:07,545 --> 00:39:10,481
The timelessness of all these momentsare all well and good
619
00:39:10,548 --> 00:39:13,484
until you have to returnto this world of time...
620
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:17,922
and you realize you have to do somethingwithin the bounds of time.
621
00:39:17,988 --> 00:39:20,725
And though you realize itwith every bone in your body,
622
00:39:20,791 --> 00:39:25,896
you also realize thatwhat we hate most about time is loss,
623
00:39:25,963 --> 00:39:28,666
and with loss comes fear.
624
00:39:28,733 --> 00:39:31,068
And so it’s betterto linger with timelessness...
625
00:39:31,836 --> 00:39:34,939
than to face the possibility of loss.
626
00:40:03,634 --> 00:40:06,003
[Jenny]
Tonight I sat on the edge of a cliff.
627
00:40:07,571 --> 00:40:11,108
The power of the waves,their endless reach
628
00:40:11,175 --> 00:40:16,147
juxtaposed with the end of lightfading so gracefully into the night.
629
00:40:18,416 --> 00:40:22,987
It’s a transition that’s so beautiful,but one that we fight every day.
630
00:40:23,053 --> 00:40:27,024
Time-- scary, but blissful.
631
00:40:27,992 --> 00:40:29,994
I love my solitude on the cliff.
632
00:40:31,162 --> 00:40:34,031
I asked my mom once if she would bring me
633
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:37,635
and leave me here aloneto return in my own time.
634
00:40:37,701 --> 00:40:41,005
She laughed and told me I can do thatwhen I become a woman...
635
00:40:41,972 --> 00:40:46,110
but that the irony is, the older I get,the less alone I’ll want to be.
636
00:40:47,144 --> 00:40:50,915
But I can imagine sitting on this cliffwith somebody else.
637
00:40:51,682 --> 00:40:52,983
A special someone.
638
00:40:56,887 --> 00:41:00,024
[no audible dialogue]
639
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,932
[no audible dialogue]
640
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:23,514
[Jenny] Yes, I do feel guilty,
641
00:41:23,581 --> 00:41:26,550
although I haven’t doneanything wrong objectively.
642
00:41:26,617 --> 00:41:30,221
It is wrong. My objective is wrong.
643
00:41:30,488 --> 00:41:35,493
I’m here, but I want to be somewhere else.To be fair, I should let him know-- Zac.
644
00:41:36,227 --> 00:41:37,695
What’s wrong with me?
645
00:41:37,761 --> 00:41:41,732
I’ve been here before and neverhad a problem with it, the overlap.
646
00:41:41,799 --> 00:41:46,670
It’s normal, isn’t it, to have some amountof overlap between relationships?
647
00:41:46,737 --> 00:41:49,039
You don’t break upwith someone for no reason.
648
00:41:49,106 --> 00:41:52,109
Who wants to be singlewith nowhere to go on Friday night?
649
00:41:52,776 --> 00:41:54,945
And yet there’s somethingbuilding up in me,
650
00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:57,781
an excitement from that little meeting,
651
00:41:57,848 --> 00:42:00,885
I’ve been wondering what it is,and I think I’ve finally realized
652
00:42:00,951 --> 00:42:03,254
that it’s potential.
653
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:07,791
There are men who inspire yourimagination, who are aspirational...
654
00:42:08,259 --> 00:42:10,728
who make the images of your togetherness
655
00:42:10,794 --> 00:42:14,031
bigger than anythingyou’d ever imagine for yourself.
656
00:42:14,098 --> 00:42:17,134
These thoughts, these feelings build,
657
00:42:17,201 --> 00:42:19,637
like the currents of an ocean--
658
00:42:19,703 --> 00:42:22,206
invisible, but powerful--
659
00:42:22,273 --> 00:42:24,074
and I’m at their mercy.
660
00:42:24,141 --> 00:42:27,244
The undertow is so strongit sucks me back in,
661
00:42:27,311 --> 00:42:31,815
pulls me under, then drives meback to shore on an exhilarating ride.
662
00:42:36,620 --> 00:42:40,124
[no audible dialogue]
663
00:42:45,129 --> 00:42:49,900
The waves come in, subside,then surge again.
664
00:42:50,568 --> 00:42:53,137
With them comes the guilt.
665
00:42:54,038 --> 00:42:56,840
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Zac.
666
00:42:56,907 --> 00:42:58,876
Nothing at all.
667
00:42:58,943 --> 00:43:02,212
-I think I could marry someone like Zac.
-Wow.
668
00:43:02,279 --> 00:43:05,683
That’s the first time
I’ve heard you say the word “marry”
669
00:43:05,749 --> 00:43:07,785
in the same sentence as someone else.
670
00:43:07,851 --> 00:43:10,788
I know. I must be growing up.
671
00:43:11,288 --> 00:43:12,856
It’s a good thing, right?
672
00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:15,593
But you did say someone “like” Zac.
673
00:43:16,694 --> 00:43:18,696
That’s not a good sign.
674
00:43:18,762 --> 00:43:20,731
For Zac anyway.
675
00:43:20,798 --> 00:43:23,667
[Jenny] There it was,the big, bold elephant in the room
676
00:43:23,734 --> 00:43:25,836
we all ignore at some point.
677
00:43:25,903 --> 00:43:28,639
I think many ignore it for life,
678
00:43:28,706 --> 00:43:31,008
marrying for no other reason than--
679
00:43:31,075 --> 00:43:34,011
Yeah, but there’s nothing wrong with him.
You know?
680
00:43:34,078 --> 00:43:35,746
[Jenny] But now I know why.
681
00:43:35,813 --> 00:43:38,382
’Cause one day you’re going tobump into someone
682
00:43:38,649 --> 00:43:40,618
and in that brief meeting,
683
00:43:40,684 --> 00:43:44,622
although it may have absolutelyinconsequential passing of real content...
684
00:43:45,756 --> 00:43:48,125
the currentsthat will begin to stir in you
685
00:43:48,192 --> 00:43:52,896
will never allow you to staywith that “nothing wrong with him” guy.
686
00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:56,133
[Stan] I imagine herwith Zac on the cliff.
687
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,802
Our cliff.
688
00:43:58,869 --> 00:44:01,005
I don’t even know where that cliff is.
689
00:44:01,071 --> 00:44:03,974
I imagine where she may belate at night with Zac.
690
00:44:04,041 --> 00:44:07,177
Here I am, getting jealouswhen I have absolutely no right.
691
00:44:07,244 --> 00:44:11,882
But there it is-- awful feelings,awful thoughts, and I hate myself for it.
692
00:44:11,949 --> 00:44:15,352
I hate my spinelessness, my jealousy,my romantic ideal.
693
00:44:15,419 --> 00:44:18,689
I hate that she has dirtied it with Zac.
694
00:44:18,756 --> 00:44:21,191
I hate Zac and the time she has with him.
695
00:44:21,258 --> 00:44:24,328
And I hate that hatingall these things doesn’t in the least
696
00:44:24,395 --> 00:44:26,997
make me any more attractive to her
697
00:44:27,064 --> 00:44:31,902
or get me any closerto calling her to “keep in touch.”
698
00:44:33,003 --> 00:44:35,839
Her number was my lifeline in school.
699
00:44:36,407 --> 00:44:39,009
She’s thrown it out to me again.
700
00:44:39,076 --> 00:44:42,346
Let’s face it. I’m drowning here.
701
00:44:58,762 --> 00:45:02,099
Who sits where? I’ve heard about this.
702
00:45:02,166 --> 00:45:05,702
It’s huge. Like, who gets to
sit on the main table?
703
00:45:05,769 --> 00:45:08,272
Is it gonna be, like, equal?
704
00:45:08,338 --> 00:45:11,742
You have this many?
And then, how many colleagues?
705
00:45:11,809 --> 00:45:15,813
-And then the price gets--
-Excuse me. I need to go to the ladies’.
706
00:45:28,425 --> 00:45:30,894
[Jenny] The tide has come in.
707
00:45:57,254 --> 00:45:59,323
[Stan] And then it starts,
708
00:45:59,389 --> 00:46:01,425
the anxiety bubbling away.
709
00:46:01,492 --> 00:46:05,095
The wait-- excruciating, but addictive.
710
00:46:05,762 --> 00:46:07,397
Five seconds.
711
00:46:07,464 --> 00:46:09,099
Ten seconds.
712
00:46:09,933 --> 00:46:11,969
A minute.
713
00:46:12,035 --> 00:46:14,071
Time says a lot.
714
00:46:14,138 --> 00:46:17,508
It’s the language between the wordswhen someone replies.
715
00:46:17,774 --> 00:46:19,910
The gap says so much.
716
00:46:19,977 --> 00:46:21,411
I know she’s read it.
717
00:46:21,478 --> 00:46:24,481
If she takes a minuteto start typing it’s because--
718
00:46:47,571 --> 00:46:49,306
[Stan] Maybe I’ve oversteppedthe boundaries.
719
00:46:49,373 --> 00:46:53,377
She’s taken. It was wrong to bring upsomething of the past-- childish.
720
00:46:53,443 --> 00:46:56,079
What sick, obsessed kind of spineless man
721
00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:58,549
hangs onto the contentof middle school letters?
722
00:46:58,815 --> 00:47:02,219
It’s over, school.She’s grown up. She’s moved on.
723
00:47:02,286 --> 00:47:04,821
She wants a man, not a boy.
724
00:47:05,956 --> 00:47:07,491
[phone chimes]
725
00:47:10,227 --> 00:47:14,231
[Stan] I’m a fool.I’ve made a frickin’ fool of myself.
726
00:47:14,298 --> 00:47:15,966
[Stan groans]
727
00:47:16,033 --> 00:47:18,969
[Jenny] He’s read it,and the clock starts now.
728
00:47:19,036 --> 00:47:22,272
-[ticking]
-Ten seconds.
729
00:47:22,339 --> 00:47:24,441
Twenty seconds.
730
00:47:24,508 --> 00:47:27,244
A minute. A minuteis the maximum I’ll give.
731
00:47:27,311 --> 00:47:29,513
After that, you don’t really care.
732
00:47:29,580 --> 00:47:31,949
I’ll give anyone the benefit of the doubt.
733
00:47:32,015 --> 00:47:34,151
There aren’t many occasionswhere you read a message
734
00:47:34,218 --> 00:47:37,254
but can’t reply within the spaceof a minute thereafter.
735
00:47:37,854 --> 00:47:40,123
I can think of only a couple of occasions.
736
00:47:41,625 --> 00:47:44,528
[phone chiming melody]
737
00:47:46,997 --> 00:47:49,866
-[phone continues chiming]
-[sirens wailing]
738
00:47:55,205 --> 00:47:56,607
[splash]
739
00:47:59,176 --> 00:48:02,346
[Stan] Recover. Rebuild your image.Women don’t like saps.
740
00:48:02,412 --> 00:48:05,616
They want strong, hardwood men.
741
00:48:11,555 --> 00:48:13,190
That’s a good turnaround.
742
00:48:13,257 --> 00:48:17,294
You’re a player. You’re wanted.You’re the boss.
743
00:48:21,298 --> 00:48:24,334
[Jenny] Oh. He’s dating someone.
744
00:48:31,041 --> 00:48:32,276
-Then you gotta do--
-Yeah.
745
00:48:32,342 --> 00:48:36,947
If you’re in media, you’d treat it like
a wedding film. And it’s gotta be good.
746
00:48:37,014 --> 00:48:41,251
[man] I don’t get it, all this...
[continues, muttering]
747
00:48:41,318 --> 00:48:43,253
Hey, is everything all right?
748
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:44,655
Yeah.
749
00:48:46,923 --> 00:48:48,692
-Why?
-I-I don’t know.
750
00:48:48,959 --> 00:48:51,461
-You just look a little pale.
-No. I’m fine.
751
00:48:52,429 --> 00:48:56,466
Okay, so, what I really don’t get
is the ring.
752
00:48:56,533 --> 00:48:59,469
Like, who said you have to
get, like, diamonds...
753
00:49:04,374 --> 00:49:06,076
[Stan] It’s not like letter-writing.
754
00:49:06,143 --> 00:49:08,378
It’s immediate,but without the emotional feedback
755
00:49:08,445 --> 00:49:10,314
of a face-to-face conversation,
756
00:49:10,380 --> 00:49:15,285
without those 47 separate facial musclestelling you it’s okay, you’re accepted,
757
00:49:15,352 --> 00:49:19,122
smiling on your every word,even when you trip over yourself.
758
00:49:19,189 --> 00:49:21,958
Emoticons just don’t cut it.
759
00:49:22,025 --> 00:49:25,462
With letters we risked everything.
760
00:49:25,529 --> 00:49:27,664
There’s no response, line by line.
761
00:49:27,731 --> 00:49:32,202
You just have to cut a pathwith your words, go with it and write.
762
00:49:32,269 --> 00:49:35,172
And, after a page or two, you send.
763
00:49:35,238 --> 00:49:37,307
Everything poured in.
764
00:49:37,374 --> 00:49:39,609
Nothing to temper your words.
765
00:49:39,676 --> 00:49:43,747
You’re looking for nothing in return.It’s a gift, a blind gift.
766
00:49:44,481 --> 00:49:46,450
Take it or leave it.
767
00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:50,354
I’m not editingbased on any initial reactions.
768
00:49:50,420 --> 00:49:52,489
That’s the beauty of a letter.
769
00:49:52,556 --> 00:49:56,026
[Jenny] It’s too late now.The moment has passed.
770
00:49:57,027 --> 00:50:01,565
It’s too late anyway. It’d be rudeor suggesting too much to reply.
771
00:50:02,733 --> 00:50:05,535
I really miss the dayswhen we had no censorship...
772
00:50:06,236 --> 00:50:10,240
when talking into the night until parentswarned us to go to bed was the norm.
773
00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:17,447
When I was free to express my idealsfor two pages before sealing and sending.
774
00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:21,118
This game of back and forth,it’s a constant struggle,
775
00:50:21,184 --> 00:50:24,221
reading into everythingand knowing nothing.
776
00:50:24,755 --> 00:50:28,191
[Stan] The ball’s in her court.If she’s interested, she’ll reply.
777
00:50:28,258 --> 00:50:30,427
[Jenny]
He’s basically told me he’s dating.
778
00:50:30,494 --> 00:50:32,796
And he’s not making a move.
779
00:50:33,063 --> 00:50:36,099
I gave him my number.The ball’s in his court.
780
00:50:36,166 --> 00:50:38,168
If he’s interested, he’ll ask me out.
781
00:50:38,235 --> 00:50:40,270
[Stan] In any mathematical proof,
782
00:50:40,337 --> 00:50:43,039
you may know all the stepsinvolved with the proof.
783
00:50:43,106 --> 00:50:47,411
But to get to the proof,there is always that amazing step
784
00:50:47,477 --> 00:50:50,080
when the miraculousleap of faith happens--
785
00:50:50,147 --> 00:50:53,750
the “aha!” moment when you somehow,whilst studying the problem,
786
00:50:53,817 --> 00:50:56,420
get hit by a boltof mathematical lightning
787
00:50:56,486 --> 00:51:01,158
and you think you know justwhere to jump, how to jump into it,
788
00:51:01,224 --> 00:51:04,428
what the rest of the proof is,the path to the answer.
789
00:51:04,494 --> 00:51:09,599
It’s a risk, but you have to take it,and more often than not it works.
790
00:51:10,267 --> 00:51:13,703
Nothing logical in that step. It’s faith.
791
00:51:13,770 --> 00:51:17,340
I set out to solve this proof-- Jenny.
792
00:51:17,407 --> 00:51:20,610
It requires a leap of faith.
793
00:51:22,612 --> 00:51:25,248
[cell phone rings]
794
00:51:26,082 --> 00:51:29,319
-Hello?
-Hi. It’s Stan.
795
00:51:29,386 --> 00:51:33,490
-I’m sorry I’m calling so late.
-No, no, it’s fine.
796
00:51:33,557 --> 00:51:36,259
My parents are asleep.
797
00:51:37,661 --> 00:51:39,262
So are mine.
798
00:51:42,399 --> 00:51:45,101
-So...
-Yeah, so...
799
00:51:48,405 --> 00:51:50,106
Yes?
800
00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:53,877
I have a problem,
801
00:51:54,144 --> 00:51:58,582
a proof that I’d like to run past you.
802
00:51:59,816 --> 00:52:01,318
For old times’ sake?
803
00:52:01,818 --> 00:52:03,487
Yeah.
804
00:52:03,553 --> 00:52:05,422
Okay, sure.
805
00:52:06,122 --> 00:52:09,392
Do you know the Murakami story...
806
00:52:10,193 --> 00:52:12,829
about the 100% perfect girl?
807
00:52:13,730 --> 00:52:15,465
No, I don’t.
808
00:52:15,532 --> 00:52:19,903
Well, it’s about how
a young girl and a boy meet,
809
00:52:20,170 --> 00:52:23,340
and they’re perfect for each other.
810
00:52:23,406 --> 00:52:25,375
Perfect?
811
00:52:25,442 --> 00:52:27,811
One hundred percent perfect.
812
00:52:28,745 --> 00:52:31,548
And they told each other stories
813
00:52:31,615 --> 00:52:34,451
and they completely accepted each other
814
00:52:34,518 --> 00:52:37,654
and they no longer felt alone.
815
00:52:39,923 --> 00:52:45,529
They really had found
the 100% perfect other for themselves.
816
00:52:47,931 --> 00:52:50,600
But over time they doubted the miracle
817
00:52:50,667 --> 00:52:53,503
and started thinking,
818
00:52:53,570 --> 00:52:57,674
was it really all right
for their dreams to come true so easily?
819
00:52:58,708 --> 00:53:01,244
So they decided to test themselves...
820
00:53:01,811 --> 00:53:03,780
just once,
821
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:05,882
to separate,
822
00:53:05,949 --> 00:53:09,586
and if they really were
perfect for each other
823
00:53:09,653 --> 00:53:13,223
they’d meet again, they’d know it,
824
00:53:13,290 --> 00:53:16,593
and they’d get married
right there and then.
825
00:53:17,761 --> 00:53:19,829
But they moved on in life
826
00:53:19,896 --> 00:53:24,634
and became cynical
and doubtful of all their ideals?
827
00:53:24,701 --> 00:53:26,336
Yes.
828
00:53:27,304 --> 00:53:30,206
So much so that
829
00:53:30,273 --> 00:53:32,976
one day when they passed
each other on the streets,
830
00:53:33,243 --> 00:53:36,646
they forgot how perfect
they were for each other?
831
00:53:38,315 --> 00:53:41,651
Their memories were so faint,
832
00:53:41,718 --> 00:53:45,622
he could barely drum up
the courage to talk to her.
833
00:53:46,990 --> 00:53:49,626
Well, that is a problem.
834
00:53:51,261 --> 00:53:54,397
How do you propose we solve that?
835
00:53:55,398 --> 00:53:56,933
Well...
836
00:53:59,703 --> 00:54:01,805
they should never have parted.
837
00:54:04,407 --> 00:54:08,578
Well, that’s not the problem at hand now,
because they have parted.
838
00:54:09,613 --> 00:54:11,348
Well, then...
839
00:54:13,316 --> 00:54:14,884
when they meet again...
840
00:54:15,919 --> 00:54:17,454
he should...
841
00:54:18,922 --> 00:54:20,790
tell her the story...
842
00:54:21,658 --> 00:54:23,960
the whole story.
843
00:54:26,663 --> 00:54:28,732
Yes, he should.
844
00:54:30,700 --> 00:54:32,836
I think you got your proof.
845
00:54:59,396 --> 00:55:00,830
This isn’t a cliff.
846
00:55:00,897 --> 00:55:03,333
It’s the closest thing
you’re gonna get around here.
847
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,635
-So all that you wrote about--
-A vivid imagination.
848
00:55:05,702 --> 00:55:07,470
-It wasn’t real?
-What’s real?
849
00:55:07,537 --> 00:55:11,041
Our feelings? Our imagination?
Is that not real?
850
00:55:16,913 --> 00:55:18,648
So,
851
00:55:18,715 --> 00:55:20,617
this is my cliff.
852
00:55:25,955 --> 00:55:29,359
Your cave-- it isn’t really a cave, is it?
853
00:55:35,865 --> 00:55:37,734
The “aha!” moment.
854
00:55:37,801 --> 00:55:39,402
Yep.
855
00:55:43,073 --> 00:55:45,642
You know, you’re the first one
I’ve brought up here.
856
00:55:52,048 --> 00:55:54,551
[Stan] In the 15 yearswe’ve known each other,
857
00:55:54,617 --> 00:55:57,954
I can’t rememberever being this close to her.
858
00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:01,524
I can smell her hair.
859
00:56:01,591 --> 00:56:04,828
Her sweat, it’s intoxicating.
860
00:56:05,729 --> 00:56:09,532
I can feel the distance between uswanting to close.
861
00:56:09,599 --> 00:56:13,103
My stomach churns, but it’s warm.
862
00:56:13,369 --> 00:56:16,072
[Jenny] Usually I careabout a million things--
863
00:56:16,139 --> 00:56:19,375
Did I match my shoes with my bag?Am I overdressed?
864
00:56:20,477 --> 00:56:22,712
Is my mascara running from the heat?
865
00:56:22,779 --> 00:56:26,049
Am I too close? Can he see my crow’s-feet?
866
00:56:26,116 --> 00:56:29,853
But there’s something about someonewho knows you from when you had
867
00:56:29,919 --> 00:56:33,790
no class, no style and no fashion.
868
00:56:33,857 --> 00:56:36,526
School uniforms and being a teenager--
869
00:56:36,593 --> 00:56:39,496
the greatest equalizers.
870
00:56:39,562 --> 00:56:42,098
He knew me then in the heat of summer--
871
00:56:42,165 --> 00:56:45,902
wet backs drenched from sweat,
872
00:56:45,969 --> 00:56:49,472
unglam hair, pimples and training bras.
873
00:56:49,539 --> 00:56:51,074
The horror.
874
00:56:51,141 --> 00:56:54,844
He knew it all,and there’s so much comfort in that--
875
00:56:54,911 --> 00:56:58,748
a homely comfort,a favorite old pair of pajamas comfort
876
00:56:58,815 --> 00:57:01,551
that I really, really like.
877
00:57:01,618 --> 00:57:03,153
What are you thinking?
878
00:57:03,419 --> 00:57:06,156
-That’s my line.
-But I asked first.
879
00:57:07,524 --> 00:57:10,193
[Jenny] But within all this comfort
880
00:57:10,460 --> 00:57:12,929
is the fear that the wrong move,the wrong words
881
00:57:12,996 --> 00:57:14,697
will make it all go away,
882
00:57:14,764 --> 00:57:17,901
as if he let you in becausehe thought you were someone else.
883
00:57:19,602 --> 00:57:24,441
Don’t give it away--your inner faults and fears,
884
00:57:24,507 --> 00:57:28,511
girlie desires, superficialities.
885
00:57:29,546 --> 00:57:33,883
[Stan] I used to write pages to her thatwould start and pour out effortlessly.
886
00:57:33,950 --> 00:57:38,822
But here, now, I can barelyconstruct full sentences.
887
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:43,960
The oral part of my brain is completelyseparated from the writing section.
888
00:57:44,027 --> 00:57:45,862
This is my only explanation.
889
00:57:46,563 --> 00:57:48,131
There is a massive disconnect.
890
00:57:48,898 --> 00:57:50,567
For her too, I’m thinking.
891
00:57:50,633 --> 00:57:53,203
I was thinking about your story.
892
00:57:53,470 --> 00:57:54,771
[Stan] She brought it up.
893
00:57:55,238 --> 00:57:57,140
The big elephant in the room metaphor
894
00:57:57,207 --> 00:57:59,742
that was so easyto talk about in third person,
895
00:57:59,809 --> 00:58:03,246
so easy to share in,like some complicit secret.
896
00:58:03,513 --> 00:58:08,685
But now, here in the open,it’s like opening my chest and asking,
897
00:58:08,751 --> 00:58:12,789
“What is that, that heart thing,and what does it feel?”
898
00:58:12,856 --> 00:58:18,161
And how you thought
that he should tell her his story.
899
00:58:22,265 --> 00:58:24,667
What-- What did he tell her?
900
00:58:26,035 --> 00:58:27,637
Well...
901
00:58:31,541 --> 00:58:33,643
I don’t know where to start.
902
00:58:35,111 --> 00:58:38,715
They meet again
after years of being apart.
903
00:58:39,082 --> 00:58:44,721
[Stan] And their memoryof how close they were...
904
00:58:45,588 --> 00:58:49,792
had become so faint and so full of doubt
905
00:58:49,859 --> 00:58:53,796
that they could barelyspeak to each other.
906
00:58:57,567 --> 00:59:00,837
[chuckles] Help me out here. Anytime.
907
00:59:03,973 --> 00:59:08,077
She sensed it in herself, and in him.
908
00:59:09,679 --> 00:59:14,717
So she quickly ripped out
a couple of pages of a notepad
909
00:59:14,784 --> 00:59:16,819
and handed it to him.
910
00:59:18,121 --> 00:59:21,157
“Write to me instead,” she said.
911
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:25,562
[Stan] He took the paper...
912
00:59:26,930 --> 00:59:31,868
and it took him a momentto remember how it was done.
913
00:59:32,669 --> 00:59:35,071
But something in him clicked.
914
00:59:35,138 --> 00:59:39,576
A warm, familiar feeling poured over him.
915
00:59:40,610 --> 00:59:43,913
He smiled and began to write.
916
00:59:43,980 --> 00:59:46,149
Seeing this made her happy...
917
00:59:47,350 --> 00:59:49,686
so she took a page for herself...
918
00:59:50,253 --> 00:59:53,756
and she began to write as well.
919
00:59:53,823 --> 00:59:56,593
So they both wrote in silence,
920
00:59:56,659 --> 00:59:58,227
perfectly happy.
921
01:00:46,209 --> 01:00:50,880
[Stan] Finally he sensed an endto his writing and he turned to her,
922
01:00:50,947 --> 01:00:54,217
already waitingwith her folded letter in hand.
923
01:00:54,283 --> 01:00:58,955
They exchanged letters nervouslyand then sat opposite each other.
924
01:00:59,022 --> 01:01:02,392
He read hers and she read his.
925
01:01:02,659 --> 01:01:06,262
The 100% perfect coupleknew each other in a time and space
926
01:01:06,329 --> 01:01:08,698
that was only for them.
927
01:01:08,765 --> 01:01:12,769
They didn’t know how their perfect worldwould ever interact with reality,
928
01:01:12,835 --> 01:01:14,437
or if it ever would.
929
01:01:14,704 --> 01:01:17,807
In some ways he never wanted it to,
930
01:01:17,874 --> 01:01:19,409
cherishing every moment,
931
01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:22,278
even the memoriesof each moment of their world.
932
01:01:22,345 --> 01:01:26,015
These memories he would replayover and over--
933
01:01:26,816 --> 01:01:29,852
a glance, a smile,
934
01:01:29,919 --> 01:01:34,157
a “hello” in the morningcould fuel his life for years.
935
01:01:34,223 --> 01:01:38,161
Their connection was more powerful thananything the world could throw at him.
936
01:01:38,795 --> 01:01:41,364
She was his lifeline.
937
01:01:41,431 --> 01:01:45,468
[Jenny] I have kept every wordyou’ve ever written or said to me
938
01:01:45,735 --> 01:01:50,073
deeply locked away, accessed only by me.
939
01:01:50,139 --> 01:01:54,243
No one else has seen or heardabout the secret world we created.
940
01:01:55,344 --> 01:01:57,780
Sometimes I wonder whyit’s so deeply locked away.
941
01:01:57,847 --> 01:02:01,951
I think it’s becauseI don’t want it to escape.
942
01:02:02,018 --> 01:02:03,486
I don’t want to lose it,
943
01:02:03,753 --> 01:02:07,290
to dilute it with the normalnessof day-to-day life.
944
01:02:08,458 --> 01:02:11,160
I’m so scaredthat in the open light of day
945
01:02:11,227 --> 01:02:15,431
someone will see through it and revealit’s no more than just a fantasy.
946
01:02:16,966 --> 01:02:20,369
[Stan] But the fear when he met herwas always paralyzing,
947
01:02:20,436 --> 01:02:24,006
the fear that any change between themwould shatter their world.
948
01:02:24,073 --> 01:02:27,744
[Jenny] She held onto the fantasybecause it was real to her
949
01:02:27,810 --> 01:02:31,748
and it was powerful, the possibilityof the perfect one for her.
950
01:02:32,982 --> 01:02:38,488
Hope was always more powerfulthan any reality she’d experienced so far.
951
01:02:39,889 --> 01:02:45,094
But what she was beginning to thinkwas that their story was very real.
952
01:02:45,161 --> 01:02:48,297
The world they hadwas built on a relationship
953
01:02:48,364 --> 01:02:52,969
of sharing their deepestpersonal thoughts and feelings,
954
01:02:53,035 --> 01:02:56,239
something that happens so rarely,even between couples.
955
01:02:56,305 --> 01:02:58,541
And what they had builtover years of sharing
956
01:02:58,808 --> 01:03:01,978
was possibly why they alwaysfelt so incredibly close...
957
01:03:02,545 --> 01:03:05,948
when they were everin the same space together.
958
01:03:06,015 --> 01:03:08,084
[Stan] As he read from her letters again,
959
01:03:08,151 --> 01:03:11,554
he realized that they had writtenso much to each other
960
01:03:11,821 --> 01:03:16,526
that when they met, anything they saidjust seemed superficial.
961
01:03:16,793 --> 01:03:19,796
They had started a relationshipat the deepest level
962
01:03:19,862 --> 01:03:24,000
and both understood thatin the silence they always shared.
963
01:03:25,401 --> 01:03:27,870
And so they finished reading...
964
01:03:28,504 --> 01:03:33,009
and they both looked up
at each other, and they smiled
965
01:03:33,075 --> 01:03:35,278
and sat in their perfect silence.
966
01:03:36,312 --> 01:03:38,147
Perfectly happy.
967
01:03:47,290 --> 01:03:48,925
Until?
968
01:03:53,162 --> 01:03:54,897
Until...
969
01:03:55,498 --> 01:03:57,033
they both...
970
01:03:57,433 --> 01:03:59,302
reached down.
971
01:04:02,004 --> 01:04:03,606
[Jenny] Deep down.
972
01:04:07,076 --> 01:04:12,114
And thought about
what neither of them was really saying.
973
01:04:17,053 --> 01:04:20,623
At the risk of everything,
he just said it.
974
01:04:26,128 --> 01:04:28,965
[Stan] And that’s whatit all comes down to.
975
01:04:30,132 --> 01:04:34,237
All the probabilities,the sick, anxious hours of waiting,
976
01:04:34,303 --> 01:04:36,939
guessing, planning, dialing,
977
01:04:37,006 --> 01:04:41,077
messaging, hoping, imagining, fantasizing,
978
01:04:41,143 --> 01:04:44,146
procrastinating, comforting.
979
01:04:45,314 --> 01:04:48,284
[Jenny] Flirting, dating, lying, cheating,
980
01:04:48,351 --> 01:04:51,387
talking, bitching, waiting,
981
01:04:51,454 --> 01:04:55,224
wishing, praying, assuming.
982
01:04:55,291 --> 01:04:59,896
[Stan] It all comes down tojust a boy telling a girl--
983
01:05:00,596 --> 01:05:02,131
Jenny...
984
01:05:04,166 --> 01:05:05,935
I like you...
985
01:05:07,169 --> 01:05:08,971
so much.
986
01:05:12,541 --> 01:05:15,144
Perfect.
987
01:05:15,211 --> 01:05:17,613
A hundred percent perfect.
988
01:05:18,614 --> 01:05:20,283
[Stan] One second.
989
01:05:20,349 --> 01:05:21,617
Two seconds.
990
01:05:21,684 --> 01:05:24,387
Then boom.
991
01:05:24,453 --> 01:05:25,655
Three seconds.
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