:02:00
with a single word
on each card.
:02:02
I wrote...
:02:03
"found a virgin paradise...
:02:05
"it's yours-Matthew."
:02:08
Naturally, they were delivered
in the wrong order.
:02:10
The message she got was...
:02:12
"found a virgin.
:02:13
"It's paradise.
Yours, Matthew."
:02:16
I never heard
from her again.
:02:18
Vacations
are full of surprises,
:02:20
to say nothing of virgins,
:02:22
which brings me
to last year.
:02:24
It had been
a really mixed-up time.
:02:27
Just when I got to wear
a smaller retainer,
:02:29
my parents filed
for divorce.
:02:31
Kinda took the fun
out of smiling.
:02:33
I'd been working in brazil
out of Sao Paulo,
:02:36
the new york of brazil.
:02:37
Sao Paulo is where
all the work gets done.
:02:40
Where all the fun gets done
is in Rio,
:02:42
which is where
my wife Karen and I
:02:44
decided to spend
our last vacation.
:02:46
Somehow
I'd never made it there-
:02:48
by all accounts,
:02:50
the most exciting, the most
sensuous city in the world.
:02:53
I didn't know
if this was actually true,
:02:54
but after 20 years
of marriage,
:02:56
any fantasy helps.
:02:58
Victor was coming along,
of course.
:03:00
That's my friend
Victor Lyons.
:03:02
He was going through
a bad patch at the time.
:03:05
This divorce
is gonna kill me.
:03:07
Phone calls, letters.
:03:09
Iook at this.
From her lawyers.
:03:11
Every day something.
:03:12
If I don't get a letter,
I get a telegram.
:03:14
We're in more contact
apart
:03:15
than we ever were
together.
:03:16
Who knows, maybe the divorce
will save the marriage.
:03:20
Bite your tongue.
:03:21
Just one day
in Rio,
:03:22
you'll forget
all about it.
:03:23
I promise you.
:03:24
Tell you the truth,
:03:25
if it wasn't for Jennifer,
I wouldn't even go.
:03:27
I don't have to leave town
to be miserable.
:03:28
It's much cheaper
doing it at home.
:03:30
When does she get in?
:03:32
She's on a 3:00 flight.
:03:33
Imagine what all this
is doing to the kid.
:03:36
She'll be all right.
Kids are survivors.
:03:39
Pays to survive, huh?
:03:41
Half.
That's all she wants.
:03:44
Wish I had herpes.
:03:47
I say to myself
she likes 'em
:03:50
handsome and tall
:03:52
I had to admit
:03:53
that I'm not
like that at all
:03:58
I still don't know what
drew her to me overnight?