Inventing the Abbotts
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:02:17
OLDER DOUG: The end of my innocence
and childhood began in 1957.

:02:21
It's remarkable to me now just how little
I knew then about the people around me.

:02:26
It took me years to figure out
exactly what the truth was...

:02:29
...especially given my brother's knack
at inventing facts.

:02:33
My mother once told me
that if the Abbotts didn't exist...

:02:36
...my brother would have
had to invent them.

:03:02
Lloyd Abbott wasn't the richest man
in town, but it seemed like he was...

:03:06
...because he had three beautiful
daughters: Alice, Eleanor and Pamela.

:03:10
Twice a year, you'd see the big tent
go up on their tennis court...

:03:14
...and everyone could see that one of
the Abbott girls was having a birthday...

:03:18
...or graduating
or going away to college.

:03:20
- Here we go. Another party.
- Shut up.

:03:23
Every time an Abbott girl gets her period,
there's a party.

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Kotex parties, Kotex party hats...
:03:36
OLDER DOUG:
My brother and I were born strangers.

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Same last name, same address...
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...but everything else about us
was different.

:03:44
Back then, Jacey was
a complete mystery to me.

:03:47
And I was a constant source
of embarrassment to him.

:03:52
[DOUG HUMS "HEARTBREAK HOTEL"]

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