Six Degrees Of Separation Page #10

We're always paying off debts.

759

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Then my beeper went off - a patient in

her tenth month. Her water finally broke.

760

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I gave the kid my keys.

761

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- Number 121.

- Thank you.

762

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- Doug told me all about your brownstone.

- Is that right?

763

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How you got it at a great price

because there'd been a murder in it,

764

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and people thought it had a curse.

765

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But you, sir, were a scientific man,

and were courageous.

766

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Well, yes. Courageous.

767

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Very courageous.

768

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I ran off to the delivery room.

769

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- Twins. Two boys.

- i(woman)/i Ahh.

770

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I thought of my son.

I dialled my boy at Dartmouth.

771

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Amazingly, he was in his room.

Doing what, I hate to ask.

772

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You've accused me of having

no interest in your life,

773

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of not doing for your friends,

being a rotten father.

774

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Well, this should make you very happy.

775

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The son of who?

Dad, I never heard of him.

776

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Dad, as usual, you're a real cretin.

You gave him the keys?

777

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You gave a stranger who happens to

mention my name the keys to our house?!

778

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Dad, sometimes it's

so obvious to me why Mom left.

779

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I'm so embarrassed to know you!

780

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You gave the keys to a stranger

who shows up at your office?!

781

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Mom told me you beat her, and you drank

so much your body smelt of cheap wine.

782

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Mom said sleeping with you was like

sleeping with a salad with bad dressing!

783

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- Why did you bring me into this world?!

- There are two sides to every story.

784

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You're an idiot! You're an idiot!

785

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I went home, courageously.

786

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With a policeman.

787

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i(j& string quartet music )/i

788

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i(volume increases)/i

789

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i(door opens and closes)/i

790

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Arrest him!

791

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- Pardon?

- Breaking and entering!

792

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- Breaking and entering?

- You're an impostor!

793

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Officer, Your Honour, Your Eminence, Dr

Fine gave me the keys to his brownstone.

794

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- Isn't that so?

- My son doesn't know you!

795

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This man gave me the keys to his house.

Isn't that so?

796

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- Did you give him your keys?

- Yes, but... but under false pretences.

797

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This... this f***ing black kid,

crack addict, comes into my office...

798

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I've taken this much brandy,

but can pour the rest back.

799

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I've used the electricity listening to music,

but nothing's been taken from the house.

800

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Excuse me.

801

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I want you to arrest this fraud!

802

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- I'm sorry.

- Stop him!

803

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A cretin! A creep!

No wonder Mother left you!

804

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Two sides... every story.

805

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We decided to get a copy

of Sidney Poitier's autobiography.

806

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So we go down to the Strand

Book Store - eight miles of books.

807

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i(Flan) Five Sherlock Holmeses./i

808

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I've found it! iThis Life/i by Sidney Poitier.

809

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"Back in New York,

with Juanita and the children,

810

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I became aware that our marriage,

while working on some levels,

811

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was falling apart

in other fundamental areas."

812

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Oh, there's a picture of him

and his four... daughters.

813

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- No sons?

- No sons.

814

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Imagine our surprise.

815

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Well... shall we?

816

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This kid, bulldozing his way into our lives.

817

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We let him into our lives.

818

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I run a foundation,

you're a dealer, you're a doctor.

819

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You'd think we'd be satisfied.

820

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Agatha Christie would ask

"What do we all have in common?"

821

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It seems the common thread linking us all

is a need to be in the movie of iCats./i

822

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Our kids, struggling through their lives.

823

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I don't want to know anything

about the spillover of their lives.

824

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All we have in common is, our children

went to boarding school together.

825

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- Why have we never met?

- His mother had custody. I lived out West.

826

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After Doug graduated high school,

she moved West, I moved East.

827

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- I think we should drop it right here.

- Are you afraid Ben is mixed up in this?

828

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- I don't wanna know too much about him.

- You think Ben is hiding things from us?

829

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I'm getting to the bottom of it. My son has

no involvements with any black frauds.

830

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- Doctor, you said something about crack.

- No, that just leapt out. No proof.

831

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Good God, no proof!

832

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We'll take a vote. Do we pursue this, no

matter what we find out about our kids?

833

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- I vote yes.

- Me too.

834

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- I trust Doug.

- No.

835

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Yes.

836

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Listen to this last page. "We have hidden

too much from our modern children."

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"When we are scared,

we tend not to let them know."

838

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"They see the bravest, toughest, and

most impenetrable visage we can muster,

839

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precisely at those times

when we are most afraid."

840

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