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<i>Two weeks ago,
I had my picture taken.</i>

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Look up. Good, good.

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<i>It was a promotional
photo for my column,</i>

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<i>scheduled to run on the side of a bus.</i>

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<i>I had misgivings.</i>

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<i>Which were somewhat mollified when
they told me I could keep the dress.</i>

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- All right, we got it.

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<i>Friday night.</i>

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<i>In lieu of any actual
social life of their own,</i>

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<i>Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte
had all stopped by</i>

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<i>to live vicariously through
my first official date with Mr. Big.</i>

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Carrie!

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Oh, honey, it's fabulous.

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Bravo!

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It's tits on toast, baby.
But you make it work.

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Well, let's just say it.
It's the "naked dress."

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I mean, you're obviously
gonna have sex with him tonight.

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Come on, it's our first date!

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She's not gonna have sex.

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She's just gonna look like sex.

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That's right, I'm just the trailer.

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Please, if it happens, it happens.

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- Bottoms up.
-Wait a second.

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Ooh...

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I thought you were serious
about this guy.

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You can't sleep with him
on the first date.

27
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Oh, God, here she goes again
with "the rules."

28
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The women who wrote that book,

29
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they wrote it because
they couldn't get laid.

30
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So they constructed
this whole bullshit theory

31
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to make women who can get laid feel bad.

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But if you're serious about a guy,

33
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then you have to keep him
in a holding pattern

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for at least five dates.

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Oh, you've gone up.

36
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Yes, because the number of dates
that you wait to have sex with a man

37
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is directly proportional to your age.

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Forget the math.

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Just don't fuck
on a first date, you're fine.

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-Third date.
-Too soon!

41
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Reality check.

42
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A guy can just as easily dump you
if you fuck him on the first date

43
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as he can if you wait until the tenth!

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When have you ever been on a tenth date?

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And by then, at least
you're emotionally involved.

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Exactly.

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I mean, isn't it better
to find out if the sex

48
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is good right off the bat,

49
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before anybody's feelings get hurt?

50
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But it's okay to have hurt feelings.

51
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And you always handle those so well.

52
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Well, there is something
to be said for restraint.

53
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When did you become such a Victorian?

54
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The Victorians were on to something.

55
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They valued romance.

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True romance cannot exist
without good sex.

57
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And yet you can have
good sex with someone

58
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you don't like or respect...

59
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Or even remember.

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All right, well, ladies,
I'm just going to dinner.

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Goodnight.

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Bye, have fun.

63
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Bye.

64
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The truth is, I was dying
to sleep with him.

65
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But isn't delayed gratification
the definition of maturity?

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Interesting dress.

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Meaning?

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Interesting dress.

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Don't worry. I'm perfectly
capable of restraining myself.

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So am I.

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<i>I can't be hemmed in by rules.</i>

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<i>I go with my emotions.</i>

73
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<i>I mean, some of the greatest
romances of all time</i>

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<i>began with sex on the first date...</i>

75
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<i>I bet.</i>

76
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<i>I will not be the first one to speak.</i>

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<i>And if he never calls me again,</i>

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<i>I'll always think of him fondly...</i>

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<i>as an asshole.</i>

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That was really...

81
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I mean, can you believe we,
on the first date?

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I mean, I didn't plan that,
you know. I...

83
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What do you think?

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What? Ow.

85
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-Oh...

86
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Uh, I thought it was
pretty fucking great.

87
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But what do I know?

88
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You feel like having some Szechuan?

89
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<i>Had Mr. Big
discovered my weakness</i>

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<i>for great sex and greasy Chinese?</i>

91
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<i>Or was going out to dinner</i>

92
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<i>simply a diversionary tactic to keep me
from spending the night?</i>

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<i>Before I was able to completely
indulge my paranoia...</i>

94
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<i>It was my pal, Mike Singer.</i>

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<i>We've known each other for ten years,
but never had sex,</i>

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<i>because we want to know each other
for another ten years.</i>

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Hey!

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Carrie, what are you doing here?

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-Well, I'm with, um...
-Oh, that's him.

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No, no, I'll tell you about it later.
I'll tell you later.

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-You look great.

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-Not too naked?
-Uh...

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Just naked enough.

104
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Hmm...

105
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Hi, I'm Carrie Bradshaw.

106
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I'm an old friend of Mike's.

107
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I'm Libby Biyalick.

108
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It's so nice to finally meet a friend.

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So, I'll call you.

110
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Okay, great. Well, have a good dinner.

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Nice to meet you.

112
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<i>I left the table wondering why Mike
didn't want to introduce me to his date.</i>

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Jab, cross!
Again, jab, cross!

114
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<i>That very same night,</i>

115
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<i>something absolutely
amazing happened to Miranda.</i>

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Come on! Jab, cross, kick!

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Oh, my God, oh, my God!

118
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I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
I didn't mean--

119
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<i>She met someone in gym class.</i>

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Are you... Oh, God.

121
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- Are you sure you're okay?
-I'm fine, really.

122
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So, what exactly about my head
pissed you off?

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I wish there was something I could do.

124
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Well, you could buy me dinner sometime.

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-And a CAT scan.

126
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<i>His name was Ted Baker.</i>

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<i>He was 32 years old,
a sports medicine doctor</i>

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<i>with an apartment overlooking
the Natural History Museum.</i>

129
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<i>Three prior serious relationships,</i>

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<i>none resulting in marriage.</i>

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A kiss to make it better.

132
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So, really, can I call you sometime?

133
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Sure.

134
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He left a message
on my machine when I got home.

135
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He wants to go out this week.

136
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Hey, that's fantastic!

137
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No, it's too quick.

138
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I think maybe that kick in his head
scrambled his brains.

139
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No, too quick is sleeping
with him on the first date.

140
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That's too quick.

141
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You both got excited
and you went for it.

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Stop blaming yourself.

143
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No, I don't blame myself.

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-I blame the dress, the dress.

145
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The dress led me on,
had a life of its own.

146
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Oh, then we went to this
Chinese restaurant afterwards,

147
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and you'll never guess who I ran into.

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-Who?
-Mike Singer, out on a date.

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The whole world's in love.

150
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Oh. I'm not sure, I don't know.

151
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He was acting very weird.
Like, he, uh...

152
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like he didn't want me
to meet her or something.

153
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What's her name?

154
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<i>Her name was Libby Biyalick.</i>

155
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<i>Mike told me everything that afternoon,
while I helped him pick out sheets</i>

156
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<i>at Bed, Bath & Beyond.</i>

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So, how long have you been seeing her?

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A while.

159
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-Is this a painful topic?

160
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No, it's just, she's not
someone I date openly.

161
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Why, is she married?

162
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No.

163
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Is she a cousin?

164
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No.

165
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Look, the thing is, she's smart,

166
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she's incredibly sweet,
and the sex is great.

167
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Well, she's just not
the one I see myself with.

168
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Why not?

169
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<i>It was about three months ago.</i>

170
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<i>Mike had been dumped by Fiona Brooks,
a cellist for the Philharmonic,</i>

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<i>who he was trying to forget
as quickly as possible.</i>

172
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<i>They had both loved to cook,</i>

173
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<i>and shopping for the week
was a Saturday morning ritual.</i>

174
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<i>So he was feeling
particularly vulnerable when...</i>

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Care to try some
aged sheep's milk cheese

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from the Tyrolean Alps?

177
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Thanks.

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Mmm, it's good.

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It's made by monks.

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-Really?
-Trappist monks.

181
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Fresh goat cheese from the Napa Valley.

182
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It's delicious.

183
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<i>L'explorateur.</i>

184
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It's a triple creme from France.

185
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<i>Mike found himself
very uninhibited.</i>

186
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<i>Since he didn't think
Libby was that gorgeous,</i>

187
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<i>there wasn't any pressure.</i>

188
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<i>The next morning,
he woke up and felt at ease,</i>

189
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<i>very relaxed.</i>

190
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I'm a creative director of an ad agency,

191
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but eventually I'd love
to have my own shop.

192
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I'd love to have my own shop, too.

193
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Well, cheese shop, I mean.

194
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<i>She was one of the only women
he'd ever met</i>

195
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<i>who he felt he could just be with.</i>

196
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So what's the problem?

197
00:10:01,976 --> 00:10:04,521
Look, she's not beautiful,

198
00:10:05,063 --> 00:10:07,107
and we don't have a lot in common.

199
00:10:07,190 --> 00:10:09,442
I mean, you know,
most of her friends are in dairy.

200
00:10:10,276 --> 00:10:13,696
But she's warm,
and unpretentious, and...

201
00:10:14,864 --> 00:10:16,991
it is the best sex
I've ever had in my life.

202
00:10:17,867 --> 00:10:20,203
What are you afraid of?
What other people are gonna think?

203
00:10:20,328 --> 00:10:21,746
Look, all I know is that

204
00:10:21,830 --> 00:10:23,998
she's not the right woman
for me in the larger sense.

205
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So I keep her a secret.

206
00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:32,215
<i>I couldn't decide whether
Mike was being shallow or honest.</i>

207
00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:35,635
<i>But the question nagged me for days.</i>

208
00:10:36,344 --> 00:10:39,222
<i>How many of us out there
are having great sex</i>

209
00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:42,267
<i>with people we're ashamed to
introduce to our friends?</i>

210
00:10:43,226 --> 00:10:46,688
Have I ever had fabulous sex
with someone I didn't want to admit to?

211
00:10:46,771 --> 00:10:47,772
Hmm...

212
00:10:48,523 --> 00:10:49,399
Mm.

213
00:10:49,983 --> 00:10:51,192
Did I ever tell you

214
00:10:51,693 --> 00:10:54,028
about that jazz musician
who lived with his mother in Queens?

215
00:10:54,112 --> 00:10:55,071
Yeah, Alex.

216
00:10:55,238 --> 00:10:56,573
What about the window washer?

217
00:10:56,739 --> 00:10:58,575
The one who doesn't wear any underwear?

218
00:10:59,159 --> 00:11:02,287
I met this gorgeous kid
in Spy Bar last year.

219
00:11:02,412 --> 00:11:04,497
He turned out to be in high school.

220
00:11:05,331 --> 00:11:07,917
<i>Evidently, Samantha had had lots of sex,</i>

221
00:11:08,543 --> 00:11:10,086
<i>none of which was secret.</i>

222
00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:13,131
Fine, it just proves that
I'm not ashamed of anyone

223
00:11:13,214 --> 00:11:14,340
who I've slept with.

224
00:11:14,424 --> 00:11:16,217
Okay, here it is.

225
00:11:17,468 --> 00:11:18,720
Up here.

226
00:11:23,892 --> 00:11:25,185
Oh, you look...

227
00:11:25,894 --> 00:11:26,853
Naked.

228
00:11:27,395 --> 00:11:28,521
<i>There it was,</i>

229
00:11:28,730 --> 00:11:32,066
<i>the dress that lead me down
the garden path with Mr. Big.</i>

230
00:11:32,358 --> 00:11:33,568
I shouldn't be embarrassed?

231
00:11:34,152 --> 00:11:35,862
No, you look fabulous!

232
00:11:36,362 --> 00:11:38,364
Besides, there's no such thing
as bad publicity.

233
00:11:38,448 --> 00:11:40,366
Yeah. You would say that,
you're a publicist.

234
00:11:40,450 --> 00:11:43,369
You know, we need to go
some place absolutely fabulous

235
00:11:43,453 --> 00:11:45,163
where we can toast you,
where the bus goes by.

236
00:11:45,246 --> 00:11:46,331
And you can invite Mr. Big.

237
00:11:46,414 --> 00:11:47,916
No, no, no, I don't think so.

238
00:11:47,999 --> 00:11:49,834
I haven't heard from him
since we spent the night together.

239
00:11:49,918 --> 00:11:51,461
Oh, sweetie, forget about him.

240
00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:53,630
You are gonna be on the side of a bus.

241
00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,132
Ten million men are gonna
be drooling over you

242
00:11:56,216 --> 00:11:57,800
every morning on their way to work.

243
00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:01,137
It's the best personal ad
I've ever seen in my life.

244
00:12:01,804 --> 00:12:03,389
<i>Samantha had a particular knack</i>

245
00:12:03,473 --> 00:12:06,309
<i>for turning a desperate situation
into a hopeless one.</i>

246
00:12:06,392 --> 00:12:08,895
Oh, speaking of secret sex,

247
00:12:09,604 --> 00:12:12,065
did Charlotte ever tell you
about the rabbi?

248
00:12:12,148 --> 00:12:13,149
The rabbi?

249
00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:14,150
Excuse me?

250
00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:15,735
You know who I'm talking about.

251
00:12:15,818 --> 00:12:17,487
I cannot believe that
the two of you came down here

252
00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:18,780
to interrogate me at work!

253
00:12:18,863 --> 00:12:20,448
I'm sorry, it's my fault.

254
00:12:21,157 --> 00:12:23,660
Anyway, he wasn't a rabbi.

255
00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:26,454
He was a Hasidic folk artist
from Brooklyn.

256
00:12:26,704 --> 00:12:28,164
Close enough.

257
00:12:29,874 --> 00:12:33,169
<i>Evidently, Charlotte
had seen Shmuel's work in an exhibition,</i>

258
00:12:33,253 --> 00:12:35,630
<i>and scheduled an appointment
to meet him at his studio.</i>

259
00:12:37,465 --> 00:12:38,841
These are outstanding.

260
00:12:39,634 --> 00:12:40,760
So much life.

261
00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:43,388
You have a beautiful way with light.

262
00:12:43,763 --> 00:12:44,931
Thank you.

263
00:12:52,939 --> 00:12:54,941
Now, this one is really special.

264
00:12:55,733 --> 00:12:56,859
That's my Yeshiva.

265
00:12:59,028 --> 00:13:02,115
I wanted to capture
the exuberance of youth.

266
00:13:02,490 --> 00:13:05,785
<i>Charlotte quickly became
intoxicated by his talent,</i>

267
00:13:05,868 --> 00:13:08,997
<i>his strangeness
and the smell of his wool.</i>

268
00:13:09,372 --> 00:13:10,540
Magical.

269
00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:20,174
<i>It was so sexy, so forbidden.</i>

270
00:13:20,550 --> 00:13:22,552
<i>Daddy's little Episcopalian princess</i>

271
00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:25,138
<i>in the arms
of one of God's chosen people.</i>

272
00:13:27,390 --> 00:13:30,977
We would talk about art
and sex and the Torah.

273
00:13:31,060 --> 00:13:33,521
Well, why didn't you
introduce him to anybody?

274
00:13:33,604 --> 00:13:35,064
I was embarrassed.

275
00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:36,733
I mean, I couldn't really date him.

276
00:13:36,816 --> 00:13:38,484
And he couldn't date me.

277
00:13:38,568 --> 00:13:40,194
I mean, what would people think?

278
00:13:40,278 --> 00:13:43,031
If the sex is good,
who cares what anybody thinks?

279
00:13:43,114 --> 00:13:46,367
Now you cannot put this
in your column. Promise?

280
00:13:46,451 --> 00:13:47,702
I promise.

281
00:13:47,994 --> 00:13:50,872
<i>Was secret sex
the ultimate form of intimacy,</i>

282
00:13:50,955 --> 00:13:55,001
<i>since it existed in a pure state,
exempt from the judgment of the world?</i>

283
00:13:55,084 --> 00:13:57,754
<i>Or is it just another way in
which we deny our feelings</i>

284
00:13:57,837 --> 00:14:00,381
<i>and emotionally
compartmentalize our lives?</i>

285
00:14:05,887 --> 00:14:06,763
Hello?

286
00:14:07,347 --> 00:14:08,431
Do you miss me yet?

287
00:14:08,681 --> 00:14:09,849
Who is this?

288
00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:11,017
<i>How've you been?</i>

289
00:14:11,642 --> 00:14:13,436
Oh, great.

290
00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:16,898
Fabulous, fantastic actually, and you?

291
00:14:17,065 --> 00:14:20,568
Well, at the risk of sounding trite...

292
00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:24,739
I haven't been able
to stop thinking about you.

293
00:14:25,239 --> 00:14:26,574
I adore trite.

294
00:14:29,410 --> 00:14:32,497
Listen, we should have
a real first date.

295
00:14:32,789 --> 00:14:34,957
<i>You know, the traditional American kind.</i>

296
00:14:35,041 --> 00:14:36,501
<i>Dinner and a movie?</i>

297
00:14:36,834 --> 00:14:38,961
Of course, knowing us,
we'll skip the movie.

298
00:14:39,295 --> 00:14:41,130
Just as long as we don't skip dinner.

299
00:14:42,924 --> 00:14:44,008
What a relief.

300
00:14:44,092 --> 00:14:46,302
I had just escaped
the "sex on the first date" curse.

301
00:14:46,386 --> 00:14:47,303
Whew!

302
00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:50,056
<i>That weekend,
I was out with a man whose name</i>

303
00:14:50,139 --> 00:14:52,350
<i>I wanted to shout from the rooftops.</i>

304
00:14:52,433 --> 00:14:54,143
Let me get this straight,

305
00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:57,647
your picture is going to be on a bus?

306
00:14:57,730 --> 00:14:59,107
That's right.

307
00:14:59,690 --> 00:15:02,110
A cross town bus, or a downtown bus?

308
00:15:02,318 --> 00:15:04,570
The M2. It goes right down Fifth.

309
00:15:05,696 --> 00:15:06,989
That's a good line.

310
00:15:07,073 --> 00:15:08,658
I'm getting together
a group of my friends

311
00:15:08,741 --> 00:15:10,410
tomorrow afternoon to watch it go by.

312
00:15:10,493 --> 00:15:13,246
I thought, maybe if you
weren't doing anything--

313
00:15:13,329 --> 00:15:14,789
Hey, how are ya?

314
00:15:15,415 --> 00:15:18,167
Hey, hey, how are ya?
It's good to see you.

315
00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:20,253
-You remember Phyllis.
-Of course, Phyllis.

316
00:15:20,336 --> 00:15:22,296
-How are you?
-Everything good?

317
00:15:22,380 --> 00:15:24,715
Yeah, everything's dandy.

318
00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:26,259
Well, that's what I hear.

319
00:15:29,220 --> 00:15:31,597
-So, uh, good to see you.
-Good to see you again.

320
00:15:31,889 --> 00:15:33,850
-Good seeing you. Bye.
-Bye-bye, cheers.

321
00:15:37,061 --> 00:15:37,895
Who was that?

322
00:15:37,979 --> 00:15:40,106
Oh, it's just some guy
I skied with in Aspen.

323
00:15:40,940 --> 00:15:42,358
<i>I didn't understand.</i>

324
00:15:42,567 --> 00:15:45,194
<i>Had I suddenly become
the invisible woman?</i>

325
00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:47,280
<i>I tried not to let it bother me.</i>

326
00:15:48,072 --> 00:15:51,742
<i>I also tried not to let it bother me
that he took me back to Fung Wa,</i>

327
00:15:51,826 --> 00:15:53,786
<i>scene of our post-coital dinner.</i>

328
00:15:54,620 --> 00:15:56,581
Oh, I can't make your party tomorrow.

329
00:15:56,956 --> 00:15:57,915
Oh, no.

330
00:15:57,999 --> 00:15:59,834
I wanted to introduce you
to some of my friends.

331
00:15:59,917 --> 00:16:01,836
Well, I'll be home later if you miss me.

332
00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:05,590
<i>As I surveyed the room,</i>

333
00:16:05,965 --> 00:16:09,844
<i>I realized it smelled like a cheap date
you don't want anyone to meet.</i>

334
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:13,431
<i>I told Mr. Big I was on a deadline
and I had to get home.</i>

335
00:16:16,309 --> 00:16:18,311
-Hello?
-Listen, I have a question.

336
00:16:18,603 --> 00:16:20,855
Of all the restaurants in Manhattan,

337
00:16:20,938 --> 00:16:22,523
why did you take Libby to Fung Wa?

338
00:16:22,607 --> 00:16:24,400
Well, it's pretty obscure.

339
00:16:24,484 --> 00:16:26,235
There's not much of a chance
of running into anybody I know.

340
00:16:26,319 --> 00:16:28,112
<i>So, you mean
it's the kind of a place</i>

341
00:16:28,196 --> 00:16:30,573
that men take women they don't want
to be seen with in public?

342
00:16:30,656 --> 00:16:32,241
<i>Yes, it is perfect for that.</i>

343
00:16:32,658 --> 00:16:34,410
Oh, sorry.

344
00:16:34,494 --> 00:16:35,953
<i>The evidence was mounting.</i>

345
00:16:36,037 --> 00:16:39,749
<i>Was it possible that I had become
Mr. Big's secret sex girl?</i>

346
00:16:40,708 --> 00:16:41,834
<i>The next morning,</i>

347
00:16:41,918 --> 00:16:44,962
<i>Miranda discovered a shocking
sex secret of her own.</i>

348
00:16:45,296 --> 00:16:47,632
<i>She had just spent
a wonderful night with Ted,</i>

349
00:16:47,715 --> 00:16:49,091
<i>who had to leave early in the morning</i>

350
00:16:49,175 --> 00:16:51,802
<i>to catch a flight to DC
for a spinal conference.</i>

351
00:16:51,886 --> 00:16:53,596
I can go home, it's no big deal.

352
00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:55,806
No, stay, it's 6:00 a.m.

353
00:16:58,643 --> 00:16:59,685
I'll be back tonight.

354
00:17:00,770 --> 00:17:02,146
Want to do something?

355
00:17:02,230 --> 00:17:04,565
-I'd love to.
-All right, I'll call you at work.

356
00:17:04,649 --> 00:17:06,025
Have a good flight.

357
00:17:13,449 --> 00:17:15,451
<i>Miranda waited
for the dead bolt to drop,</i>

358
00:17:15,535 --> 00:17:18,204
<i>and then used the opportunity
to ransack Ted's apartment</i>

359
00:17:18,287 --> 00:17:20,373
<i>and look for pictures
of old girlfriends.</i>

360
00:17:24,919 --> 00:17:27,630
<i>She was not at all prepared
for what she found.</i>

361
00:17:34,345 --> 00:17:39,016
<i>Yeah? Do you feel your cock
where it wants to be every night?</i>

362
00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:43,062
<i>Every single night when you come home
and everything's done in the house</i>

363
00:17:43,145 --> 00:17:45,022
<i>and I've been doing it all day long...</i>

364
00:17:45,106 --> 00:17:46,649
I don't know what to do.

365
00:17:47,024 --> 00:17:48,317
I can't admit to having found this,

366
00:17:48,401 --> 00:17:50,444
but now I don't know
if I want to see him again.

367
00:17:51,112 --> 00:17:52,863
How can you judge him
until you spank him?

368
00:17:54,699 --> 00:17:55,866
I'm only kidding.

369
00:17:55,950 --> 00:17:59,036
But, I mean, obviously,
this is what he's into.

370
00:17:59,745 --> 00:18:01,414
Maybe it's just his fantasy life.

371
00:18:04,667 --> 00:18:05,710
<i>Later that day,</i>

372
00:18:05,793 --> 00:18:09,297
<i>the cream of New York gathered to toast
the maiden voyage of my bus.</i>

373
00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:10,548
Where's Mr. Big?

374
00:18:10,631 --> 00:18:12,258
Oh, he couldn't make it.

375
00:18:12,341 --> 00:18:13,843
What do you mean he couldn't make it?

376
00:18:13,926 --> 00:18:15,469
I don't know, it's a work thing.

377
00:18:15,553 --> 00:18:17,555
Oh, but this is your bus party!

378
00:18:17,638 --> 00:18:19,890
Oh, I told you, you shouldn't have...

379
00:18:19,974 --> 00:18:21,392
Well, never mind.

380
00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:24,645
What, he's not here because
I slept with him on the first date?

381
00:18:24,729 --> 00:18:26,188
Basically, yes.

382
00:18:26,314 --> 00:18:27,815
When you sleep with a man
on the first date,

383
00:18:27,898 --> 00:18:30,192
the relationship will never be
anything more than just sex.

384
00:18:30,276 --> 00:18:31,819
-Uh-huh.
- Okay, thank you.

385
00:18:31,902 --> 00:18:33,070
-Cheers!
- Cheers!

386
00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,697
<i>I didn't want to admit
that she was right.</i>

387
00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:36,365
Ah, here it comes,
here it comes!

388
00:18:36,449 --> 00:18:39,243
<i>I just wanted to see my bus
and get the hell out of there.</i>

389
00:18:40,870 --> 00:18:42,913
-Oh, shit.
- Carrie!

390
00:18:43,289 --> 00:18:45,291
-Hi, did I miss it?
-Hey! Hi.

391
00:18:45,374 --> 00:18:46,459
Not yet, no.

392
00:18:46,542 --> 00:18:48,127
Hey, I thought you were
gonna bring Libby...

393
00:18:48,210 --> 00:18:50,254
Oh, yeah. I finally asked her
to join me in public

394
00:18:50,338 --> 00:18:51,756
and she turns me down.

395
00:18:51,881 --> 00:18:52,882
Why?

396
00:18:53,174 --> 00:18:54,300
She told me she met somebody else

397
00:18:54,383 --> 00:18:55,968
who doesn't have
my problems with intimacy.

398
00:18:56,052 --> 00:18:57,428
Oh, I'm sorry.

399
00:18:57,553 --> 00:18:59,221
Uh! Quiet!

400
00:18:59,305 --> 00:19:00,306
Here you come!

401
00:19:08,522 --> 00:19:10,066
Oh...

402
00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:14,779
Aw, don't worry, sweetie,
don't worry. Eh...

403
00:19:14,862 --> 00:19:18,491
Nobody in New York notices a bus
until it's about to hit them.

404
00:19:18,574 --> 00:19:19,742
That's right.

405
00:19:20,868 --> 00:19:21,994
<i>Meanwhile,</i>

406
00:19:22,078 --> 00:19:24,664
<i>Miranda spent another
wonderful evening with Ted</i>

407
00:19:24,747 --> 00:19:26,874
<i>and began to re-evaluate her options.</i>

408
00:19:26,957 --> 00:19:31,045
That was one of the most amazing meals
I have ever had.

409
00:19:31,128 --> 00:19:32,088
Thank you.

410
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:33,422
My pleasure.

411
00:19:34,882 --> 00:19:37,593
You know, I missed you today.

412
00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:40,846
-You did?

413
00:19:41,597 --> 00:19:42,973
I guess I've just been
waiting all this time

414
00:19:43,057 --> 00:19:44,433
for a good kick in the head.

415
00:19:44,809 --> 00:19:47,269
And here I thought
that all you really wanted

416
00:19:47,353 --> 00:19:48,938
was a good spanking.

417
00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:51,023
Excuse me?

418
00:19:51,899 --> 00:19:53,150
You heard me.

419
00:19:57,863 --> 00:19:58,948
Oh.

420
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:06,330
<i>Ted didn't take Miranda
home that night.</i>

421
00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:09,583
<i>He never took her calls
or returned her messages.</i>

422
00:20:10,376 --> 00:20:12,712
<i>And she never saw him at the gym again.</i>

423
00:20:15,673 --> 00:20:17,007
<i>Very late that night,</i>

424
00:20:17,091 --> 00:20:19,885
<i>fueled by a massive
quantity of champagne,</i>

425
00:20:20,261 --> 00:20:23,013
<i>I decided to say goodbye to Mr. Big.</i>

426
00:20:28,686 --> 00:20:32,231
I just came here to tell you that,
if you're embarrassed or ashamed

427
00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:34,442
to be involved with me in any way,

428
00:20:34,525 --> 00:20:36,694
that we can no longer see each other.

429
00:20:37,027 --> 00:20:38,946
<i>The truth is, I blamed myself.</i>

430
00:20:39,321 --> 00:20:41,699
<i>I wore the naked dress
on our first date,</i>

431
00:20:41,866 --> 00:20:43,909
<i>I slept with him too fast,</i>

432
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,413
<i>and now I'm on a Fifth Avenue bus
with a penis on my head.</i>

433
00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:50,708
What are you talking about?

434
00:20:50,833 --> 00:20:52,793
You won't introduce me to your friends.

435
00:20:53,210 --> 00:20:55,045
You bring me back to that restaurant

436
00:20:55,129 --> 00:20:57,923
where men take women
they don't want to be seen with.

437
00:20:58,007 --> 00:21:00,009
You won't come out and meet my friends.

438
00:21:00,092 --> 00:21:01,761
You have me in a niche.

439
00:21:01,844 --> 00:21:04,930
Certain events, certain restaurants,
certain people.

440
00:21:05,014 --> 00:21:09,143
Like I'm only a particular fragment
of the kind of person

441
00:21:09,226 --> 00:21:11,645
you think that you should be dating.

442
00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:15,775
But I've only gotten to know
a particular fragment.

443
00:21:15,858 --> 00:21:18,068
Although, I'm beginning to know more.

444
00:21:18,736 --> 00:21:19,862
No, this is not me.

445
00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:22,948
This is me reacting
to your perception of me.

446
00:21:24,992 --> 00:21:26,368
Oh, okay.

447
00:21:28,496 --> 00:21:30,122
Well...

448
00:21:30,998 --> 00:21:34,710
I think Fung Wa's
is the best Chinese food in the city,

449
00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,629
so that's why we went there.

450
00:21:37,087 --> 00:21:38,422
And, uh...

451
00:21:38,672 --> 00:21:39,507
Oh... the...

452
00:21:40,883 --> 00:21:42,468
The guy we met in the street,

453
00:21:42,551 --> 00:21:45,930
I couldn't remember his name,
which possibly means I have Alzheimer's.

454
00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:47,723
So that's what that was about.

455
00:21:47,932 --> 00:21:53,062
And this afternoon I had courtside
tickets to the Knicks,

456
00:21:53,854 --> 00:21:54,814
and...

457
00:21:56,065 --> 00:21:57,358
that's all folks!

458
00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,027
<i>I should have been
jumping for joy,</i>

459
00:22:01,153 --> 00:22:03,447
<i>but I only felt a hard knot of fear.</i>

460
00:22:05,991 --> 00:22:07,284
So you and me...

461
00:22:09,286 --> 00:22:10,704
Then maybe this is for real?

462
00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:17,002
Could be...