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No.
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Of what? What were you so afraid of?
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You're going to think I'm crazy or something.
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Love.
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What?
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Have you ever felt so completely consumed by a feeling for someone that you couldn't breathe? That the time together is so passionate and consuming that you felt physical pain when they would leave?
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Um...sure.
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I couldn't catch my breath. That's not a metaphor, that's...And I panicked. I never dreamed anyone would hear me back there... I tried to leave him. Went to my mother's in Boston. He brought my things up and pleaded with me to come home.
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You must think I'm pathetic.
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No. No, I don't.
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I'm sorry that I frightened you like that. But I was so touched by your concern. I've been lonely here. Perhaps we could be friends.
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Yes?
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Um...
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I'm running late here. I just came back for my briefcase.
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Right. Well, I wanted to stop by to welcome you to the uh, to the neighborhood. I'm Claire Spencer. From next door.
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This really isn't a good time.
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Well maybe your wife...
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She isn't here.
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When...when will she be back?
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I don't know.
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Ohkay...
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I have to go.
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Who?
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Give me that shit. Your wife.
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I didn't kill my wife.
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Of course. You must be so proud.
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I am.
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Everyone's very anxious to shake hands with our newest academic celebrity.
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How're you holding up?
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Just fine. It's a lovely party.
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Norman was telling me the dream house is finally finished.
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Almost.
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Wonderful. It's good to see you two doing so well.
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I'm sorry?
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I know how hard it can be sometimes.
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Uhhuh. What can be?
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Well, I don't think I've seen you since the reception at Dean Ackerman's last year.
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For the Dupont Chair. I swear. I'm becoming the nosy old lady I used to run from at Amherst.
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No. I'm just not sure what you mean.
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There was just...some tension. You were upset. I remember being concerned.
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At the party.
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Toward the end. You remember?
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Ohhh yes. No, no. Just a little, you know...We're fine.
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Well, I'm glad. Pardon my intrusiveness, but we do have to stick together you know.
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Who's that?
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The wives.
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Who's idea was it?
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Mine. His. We both...thought...
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I didn't want to come.
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Then why did you?
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Because he was worried about me.
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Your husband?
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Yes. I'm sure he's hoping you'll pack me full of prozac so he can live out his life in peace.
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Do you really think so?
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No.
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Why is he worried?
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Because, I don't know, because sometimes...sometimes I forget things...and ever since Caitlin left, ever since my daughter left for school, there've been...I fainted and... Why is this so hard?
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Fireball?
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You're joking.
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These are good.
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Mmhmm.
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She finished my solitaire game and turned on the radio...she likes rock and roll. Angry rock and roll.
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How do you know it's a she?
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I saw her in the water. Beside me. She was filling the bathtub.
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What does she look like?
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Pretty. She's a blond.
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Do you have any idea who she is?
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Um...I'd rather not say...just yet.
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Fine.
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What do you think I should do?
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What?
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Try to communicate with her somehow.
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You think that'll help?
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Can't hurt. And I think it's important you find out what she wants.
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Are you humoring me?
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Nope.
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How?
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I don't know. My aunt used to use my uncle's old pajamas and a candle.
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What's happening to me?
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Well, that's what we're here for.
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Whether you imagined it or not, you actually saw and heard things that frightened you...that gave you reason for concern.
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Yes, but...
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Your friend saw them.
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Isn't there something called group hysteria?
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You think you influenced her?
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Maybe. I don't know. I just know that when all this was happening, I felt, some part of me felt...alive. Like somebody needed me. And the more I reached out to, it, the fuller it became.
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You're saying you willed these events to happen?
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I don't know, I'm very confused right now.
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She said, "You know." That I know.
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Do you?
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No.
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What do you think? Guess.
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I felt...pain. That she'd been hurt by someone. This is great. I'm trying to intuit the emotions of a figment of my
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Have you been hurt?
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Me? No. Well, in the accident I was injured, but...
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You were in an accident?
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Last year. I drove my car up a tree. Nothing serious, this... ...a minor concussion. But the car looked bad. It could have been bad. I think it scared the hell out of Norman.
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What?
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That he doesn't...see me, or, you know, that I'm...that's something's wrong...with me.
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That can't feel good.
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