1:34:01
but what I did next
was positively crazy,
1:34:07
and I've never forgiven myself since...
1:34:11
I go into the bathroom,
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and stacked up against the
wall next to the shower,
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I see a pile of six or seven cameras.
1:34:19
Brand-new, thirty-five
millimeter cameras,
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still in their boxes.
1:34:26
I've never taken a picture in my life,
1:34:29
much less never stolen anything,
1:34:33
but the moment I see those
cameras sitting in the bathroom,
1:34:38
I decide I want one of them for myself.
1:34:42
Just like that.
1:34:44
And without even stopping
to think about it,
1:34:46
I tuck one of the boxes under my arm
and go back to the living room...
1:34:53
I couldn't have been gone
for more than three minutes,
1:34:55
but in that time Granny
Ethel had fallen asleep.
1:35:00
Too much Chianti, I suppose.
1:35:03
I went into the kitchen
to wash the dishes,
1:35:06
and she slept on through the
whole racket, snoring like a baby.
1:35:11
There didn't seem to be any point in
disturbing her, so I decided to leave.
1:35:19
I couldn't even write a note to say
good-bye, seeing that she was blind and all,
1:35:24
so I just left.
1:35:27
I put her grandson's wallet on the table, picked up
the camera again, and walked out of the apartment...
1:35:39
And that's the end of the story.
1:35:47
Did you ever go back to see her?
1:35:56
Once, about three or four months later.