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:10:16
What are you thinking about?
:10:18
God...
:10:21
...Jesus, crucifixions.
:10:26
As a rule, do you usually think about
Christ and crucifixions under sexual stress?

:10:38
When I was nine years old,
I used to see visions...

:10:42
...visions of saints and angels,
even Christ himself.

:10:49
Of course I don't do that anymore...
:10:55
...not since I was 16.
:10:58
Were your parents religious?
:11:01
Anything but.
:11:03
My father was an aeronautical engineer.
My mother, a clinical psychologist.

:11:07
What happened?
:11:08
I mean, how did a little kid who saw
visions of Christ turn into a physiologist...

:11:12
...teaching at the Cornell Medical College?
:11:15
I stopped believing.
:11:17
It was very dramatic.
:11:18
My father died a protracted
and painful death of cancer.

:11:24
I was 16 years old
and very fond of my father.

:11:27
I used to race to the hospital
every day after school...

:11:31
...and sit in his room doing my homework.
:11:33
He was very heavily sedated.
:11:36
The last few weeks he was in coma.
:11:42
One day I thought
I heard him say something.

:11:45
I got up and leaned over him...
:11:48
...my ear an inch away from his lips.
:11:51
''Did you say something, Pop?''
:11:56
Then I heard the word he was desperately
trying to say, a soft hiss of a word.

:11:59
He was saying...

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