Capturing the Friedmans
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My father walked out.
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This is not wonderful.
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This is being a rat.
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My mother was a nag.
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Well, I mean, this is true
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but look, she stayed with me,
she took care of me.

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So people's visions
are distorted.

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I never felt angry at my dad.
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My dad had nothing
to do with this.

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Someone knocks on the door
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and accuses you for a crime
you didn't commit

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you gotta attack
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attack your attackers
and do what you can.

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And that's all it was.
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It had nothing to do with
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there was nothing else
that was involved at all.

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We were talking about
honoring and respecting.

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Yeah, but, yeah,
talk about honor and

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do you honor and respect
your husband?

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That's why
I don't talk to you.

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I said I did honor
and respect my husband.

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Oh, Okay.
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But you don't like
that answer.

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No I don't.
I don't believe it, no.

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Ask your father.
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Do I honor and respect you?
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Do you object to my handling
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do you have any objection
in my relationship with you?

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Do you like it
when she calls you slime?

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She did.
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Did you like it
when she did?

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OK.
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Did you like it when
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The other cases that
I've written about

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those families
have been much stronger.

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First of all,
they've started from

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a monolithic feeling
of innocence

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which didn't exist
in this family

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because of Arnold's pedophilia.
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And they just buckled down
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and everybody gets behind
the defendant

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the accused family member.
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People quit their jobs.
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And, you know
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people were all sitting around
the kitchen table

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for the next 3 years with
staplers and Xerox machines

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and they're working on
the defense.

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And then when the defendant
is convicted

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they're working on the appeal
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and all family conflict
is submerged.

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Why don't you try once
to be supportive of me?

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Well, I'll tell you why.
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Because we all started at
the beginning of this thing


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