:17:02
l figure with all
the games you watched...
:17:07
...with whoever you watched them with,
you never got down this close.
:17:11
-What the hell are they doing?
-What you worried about, man?
:17:16
You acting like they gonna play
a World Series championship game.
:17:19
Relax.
:17:21
My brother and l,
we were here for every game.
:17:27
Till he left for the war.
:17:31
l thought it'd be the same
when he came back...
:17:36
...but he talked a little less...
:17:38
...and drank a little more.
:17:42
l promised my mother l would
help him get through it all.
:17:50
So l caught up with him
this one night...
:17:53
...and l was already
half a dozen drinks behind.
:17:57
So we had a few more.
:17:59
And after a while
he tells me he wants...
:18:03
...to drive me back to the apartment.
:18:06
l said, ''No, thanks.''
:18:10
We were all still living there then.
:18:14
l just stood there...
:18:18
...and watched him drive off.
:18:24
Makes it through
the whole goddamn war...
:18:27
...and l let him drive.
:18:32
Later that night...
:18:34
...the nurse was typing
whatever it is they type...
:18:39
...and you know what she tells me?
:18:43
She tells me how much
my book meant to her.
:18:48
My brother's getting cold
in the next room...
:18:52
...and all she can talk
about is a book.
:18:55
Well...
:18:58
...everything changed from then on.