Buying the Cow
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1:02:00
- Eleven.
- Eleven years old.

1:02:01
If that son of a bitch
were here right now...

1:02:04
But you wrote him!
1:02:06
I mean, did you ever write him?
1:02:11
No. Of course not.
1:02:18
Honey, do you want me to finish the story
for you?

1:02:20
- There's more?
- Yeah.

1:02:22
No, it's okay. I can do this.
1:02:26
So as soon as the guy was gone
I threw the address away.

1:02:30
But what I didn't know at the
time was that my JittJe sister Katie...

1:02:34
...who was two years younger than me...
1:02:36
...saw everything.
1:02:42
She wanted to be Jike me.
1:02:44
She worshipped me
and she started writing this creep, as me.

1:02:49
She even sent him my picture.
1:02:52
Then, of course, when he wrote back...
1:02:54
...weird stuff about how
he wanted to run away with her...

1:02:57
...and make babies.
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Can you imagine that? Make babies?
1:03:00
And this is before the Internet.
What a sicko.

1:03:03
- I'm sorry, honey. Are you all right?
- But...

1:03:08
...did you ever find out who this guy was?
1:03:11
My parents did.
1:03:13
Sort of.
1:03:14
They overheard Katie
bragging to me about her boyfriend.

1:03:17
She had mentioned it before...
1:03:19
...so we just assumed it was
this imaginary pJay friend or something.

1:03:22
But when she started teJJing me about how
he'd promised to run away with her...

1:03:26
...and make Jove to her...
1:03:28
- CUnder the stars.
...they stepped in.

1:03:31
She was only nine.
1:03:34
So my dad called the authorities...
1:03:37
...gave them the guy's address...
1:03:39
...and, as was his style,
told us to forget the whole thing!

1:03:43
It wasn't until years later...
1:03:45
...that I realized the guy
thought he was writing me.

1:03:49
And then I pieced it together,
and I remembered the airport incident.

1:03:52
But I never told anyone.
1:03:59
I have to go.

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