:59:08
Wow. Dad will kill you.
:59:13
Do you like it?
:59:15
It's amazing.
:59:17
Did dad see it already?
:59:19
He must have been shocked.
:59:22
I just cut it.
:59:24
Your father left long ago.
:59:27
If you looked like that when you were our age, we would fight over you.
:59:31
Boys did fight over me.
:59:35
What happened, Eddie?
:59:38
Nothing. I had an argument with Rosie.
:59:43
Because of that girl. The Russian who guessed the numbers.
:59:46
Yes. How did you know?
:59:49
How did I know? I'll tell you how I knew.
:59:53
When I was your age I would wear Saint Tropez trousers with cyan and bourdeaux stripes.
:59:58
Boys would faint when they saw me.
1:00:01
I was a fantasy from a Mike Brandt song for them.
1:00:05
They'd try to show me their love in all kinds of strange ways.
1:00:08
One of them sled on a rope from across the street right into my parents' living room
1:00:12
and smashed all their windows.
1:00:14
Another one simply had no clue what to do,
1:00:17
so whenever he met my brother he'd beat the crap out of him,
1:00:21
and then say: "Tell Sharon to come with her Mike Brandt trousers tomorrow".
1:00:27
Later my father told me that someone I knew disappeared.
1:00:32
He used to mention me a lot in the stories he wrote.
1:00:35
He painted me with my cyan bourdeaux trousers.
1:00:40
He was just some guy in the class. Nobody took notice of him.
1:00:43
He had a look like a frightened rabbit who's about to be eaten any moment.
1:00:48
I'd go near him and rub him every day, pretending it to be accidental
1:00:52
only to embarrass him.
1:00:53
That was dad.
1:00:55
Do you think dad still loves me?
1:00:59
I think so.