Capturing the Friedmans
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Don't scream.
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The family was screaming
at each other.

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And everyone wanted me
to say, "He didn't do it. "

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Well, I wouldn't do that.
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I said, "I don't know. "
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They wanted me
just to lie, you know,

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and say, "He didn't do it,"
whether I believed it or not.

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And I was so angry at Arnold
and what he'd done

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that I wouldn't do it, and I
said, "Well, I don't know. "

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And I wanted just
to tell the truth.

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That is the truth.
I didn't know.

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My mother abandoned
him, pretty much,

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wouldn't talk to him, fought
with him constantly,

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made him sleep on the sofa.
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And after 33 years of
marriage, when your wife,

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when you've been accused of
a crime you didn't commit,

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you spend 6 weeks in
jail for it,

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you're trying to build
a defense,

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and your wife leaves you,
essentially,

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my father fell apart.
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You yelled and screamed about
what, that you ruined her life.

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She's brainwashed you.
You didn't do anything.

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The police have done it to you.
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It's not your fault.
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The police are
railroading you.

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But it's not your fault.
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Mommy doesn't believe you.
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The police picked on you,
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and that's who
they're going after.

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It's not because
you deserved it.

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You're taking the blame,
and you don't deserve the blame.

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She's brainwashing you into
thinking that it's your fault,

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and it's not your fault.
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She thinks he did it.
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And if he did it,
then she thinks


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