Capturing the Friedmans
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I think I was the first woman
that he ever really dated.

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And he was very reluctant
to get married.

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I sort of said, "We've got
to do this," you know.

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I could be very
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So he says, "Well, all right. "
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Big mistake.
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We were delighted.
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She was effervescent, pretty.
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They seemed to be
very much in love.

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They seemed to be
very compatible.

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It had been a long
time in coming.

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My mother, "You're my oldest!
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Get married! I want
a grandchild," you know.

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My mother is sexually ignorant.
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As far as I'm concerned, she had
sex, I mean everyone thinks

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their parents only
had sex 3 times,

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you know for each
of their siblings.

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But with my mother,
I think it was true.

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And it was like, you know,
you read in a book

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how do you have sex,
and you start here,

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and then you do step 1,
step 2, step 3.

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And that's somewhat like what
sex was like with Arnold,

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Because I used to say to him,
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"It's called foreplay.
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It's supposed to be play.
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It's supposed to be fun. "
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And he treated it like work.
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Like this is what you're
supposed to do when you do it,

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like washing the dishes.
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If he was so much in the closet
and not living with her

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and not attracted,
where was she for 30 years?

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Why didn't she say, "Honey,
you're not having sex with me.

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I think I want a divorce. "
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Where was she?
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I don't think that's the case.
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Either they're
both crazy,

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which is a possibility,
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or
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or he was perfectly normal,
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based according to, you
know, by her standards.

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You're the one for me
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It was a difficult marriage
because of Elaine.

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She had her problems, and it
took a monumental amount


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