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:02:02
Nobody's gonna make
it easy for you!

:02:05
It's up to you!
:02:06
QUOYLE:
I used to imagine

:02:08
that I'd been given
to the wrong family at birth

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and that somewhere
in the world

:02:16
my real people longed for me.
:02:20
From where my father stood
:02:22
my failure to dog-paddle
:02:24
was only the first
of many failures.

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Failure to speak clearly.
:02:29
Failure to sit up straight.
:02:31
Failure to make friends
every time we moved

:02:34
to another dreary upstate town.
:02:36
In me, my father recognized
a failed life--

:02:41
his own.
:02:44
When I got admitted
to the junior college

:02:47
my father figured
it was a clerical error.

:02:49
When I dropped out
a year later

:02:51
he wasn't surprised.
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Quoyle!
:02:53
Quoyle!
:02:56
Job not stimulating
enough for you?

:02:58
No. I mean, yes.
:03:01
I mean...
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This is the best work
I've ever had.

:03:05
(machinery clanking)
:03:07
(bell rings)
:03:38
QUOYLE:
I stumbled into adulthood

:03:40
learning to separate
my feelings from my life...

:03:43
counting on nothing.
:03:45
(man and woman arguing)
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I got used to being invisible.
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Until... someone noticed me.
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(muffled yelling)
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(wipers sound like heartbeat)
:03:59
I'm sick of this shit!

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