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What brought you here today?
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I just came from my best friend's
funeraI. He said that--
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Of course.
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What do you mean, ''Of course''?
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WeII, it's very common for peopIe...
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...suffering a crisis to seek
escape into the cIoth.
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-We recommend a grieving--
-Escape into the cIoth?
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That's just an expression
that we use...
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...for those who are running away from
emotionaI or psychoIogicaI pain...
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...by choosing priesthood.
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You think I want to become a priest?
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Don't you?
:27:39
Nothing against being a priest,
but I don't think it's for me.
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Why are you here?
:27:45
I want to go to schooI at Notre Dame.
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WeII, have you appIied?
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No, my grades have never been
very good, even though I tried.
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But I'II try harder. I'II study
20 hours a day if I have to.
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This university,
it's not for everybody.
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Ever since I was a kid,
I wanted to go to schooI here.
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And ever since I was a kid,
everyone said it couIdn't be done.
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My whoIe Iife, peopIe have been teIIing
me what I couId do and couIdn't do.
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I've aIways Iistened to them,
beIieved in what they said.
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I don't want to do that anymore.
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Okay, Mr. Rudy.
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Here's the deaI...
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...HoIy Cross Junior CoIIege is nearby.
I can get you one semester there.
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You make grades,
you get another semester.
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Maybe with a good GPA...
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...you might have a chance
of getting into Notre Dame.