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Every weekend,
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Catherine went home to Béarn.
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She was taking night classes
to get ahead.
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In 3 years, with luck,
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she might get a degree.
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What do you study?
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Financial control,
factoral analysis,
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accountancy, algorithms.
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Must be hard work.
:16:30
It was hard work.
:16:32
But she wasn't scared of work.
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She worked till midnight
:16:37
alone in her bed-sit, studying.
:16:40
You have to fight
for what you want, no?
:16:44
That's what I think, anyway.
:16:46
Maybe Catherine and I
would hit it off.
:16:51
She seemed determined
to keep control.
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All I had to do
was turn up and teach.
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That suited me fine.
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The next Saturday,
from 8 to 11,
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Our Hero socialized
with a priest friend.
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They'd met as students,
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when they were 20.
:17:17
The restaurant was good.
No problem there.
:17:22
But was he still my friend?
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After graduating,
he entered a seminary.
:17:30
He branched off.
:17:32
Now he's a priest in Vitry.
:17:36
Not an easy parish.
:17:38
Society's so-called
"obsession with sex"
:17:41
in advertising,
magazines and the other media,
:17:45
is just a fiction.
:17:47
Most people quickly tire of it,
:17:50
but pretend they don't.
An odd, inverted hypocrisy.
:17:56
Our civilization, actually,
:17:59
is tired of life.