The Swimmer
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:06:02
l don't know how you do it!
You haven't changed a bit.

:06:06
Where did you get this?
Why do you got all these clothes on?

:06:10
We have to go catch a plane.
:06:13
- You're gonna catch a plane?
- Gotta get back to the shop.

:06:20
You know how long it's been since
we had a swim together?

:06:24
- Please don't remind me.
- What'll you have, Stu?

:06:27
We're all old bunkmates. We went to
the same camp when we were kids.

:06:32
Gee, l don't know.
l drank too much last night.

:06:36
- A diluted martini?
- l'm out of practice...

:06:39
...with your kind of parties.
:06:41
We don't do that in Columbus,
unless it's New Year's Eve.

:06:45
- l told you not to accept the transfer.
- What else could l do?

:06:49
l'd have quit before l let them
send me to the provinces.

:06:53
Well, it's healthy.
:06:55
Stu, did you pack...?
:06:57
Don't tell me that's Ned Merrill
down there.

:07:01
- Hi, honeybunch, come join the party.
- Half a minute.

:07:05
Stu, l didn't realize how much
l missed that ugly old mug of yours.

:07:10
Get out of those clothes
and we'll have one quick swim.

:07:13
- l'm not up to it. l'm feeling my age.
- You're a year younger than l am.

:07:19
Yeah, you were always
pulling seniority on me at camp.

:07:24
Remember how we'd take off
our suits and swim for miles?

:07:28
- We just never got tired.
- Yeah.

:07:31
We had nice,
new, pink lungs in those days.

:07:34
And the water up there, remember?
That transparent light-green water.

:07:39
lt felt different. A beautiful feeling.
We could've swum around the world.

:07:45
That was before we ever touched
a drink or a cigarette.

:07:48
- Or a girl!
- Or a girl.

:07:50
That doesn't sap a man's strength.
:07:53
- Or l'd be in a wheelchair today.
- Ned Merrill!

:07:56
- Peggy.
- Ned Merrill, still bragging.


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