Capturing the Friedmans
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short of sodomy.
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One of the boys was the son
of a close friend

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and I feared exposure
and loss of this friendship.

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The boy might have
told his parents

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but they said nothing
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so I assumed that
he really had not told them. "

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That's what? It's one sentence.
What does that mean?

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Do you fucking know
what that sentence means?

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I don't even fucking know
what that sentence means.

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I "sexually aroused?"
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What the fuck
is he talking about?

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Maybe he put his arm
around the kid.

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Maybe he took him
in a sailboat

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and he found that
sexually arousing?

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Maybe he was leaning
against a tree.

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That's called
sexually arousing contact

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if you're sexually aroused
while you lean against a tree.

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I don't know what that means.
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I don't know
what that sentence means.

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When Arnold was first arrested,
he said

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"I'm arrested because
of this magazine.

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I sent one magazine
in the mail

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and that's why I'm arrested,
and it's nothing.

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It's just nothing.
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It doesn't count,
it doesn't matter

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it's nothing. "
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And you know, you live
as husband and wife

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you share certain intimacies.
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I said to him,
"Tell me the truth.

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What happened?"
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He says, "That's it.
That's the truth. "

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So it came out that he had
in fact molested a young man.

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And we were sitting
in the therapist's office

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and he said,
"Oh, I just molested two boys. "

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And I said, "Two? Two?"
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I said, "I thought
you told me only one. "

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"Well," you know, and he
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"It didn't matter.
It's nothing," you know.

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And then I went berserk.
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And I felt betrayed.
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Yeah, my father
had the magazines

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and yes, my father admitted
that he was a pedophile

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and had these fantasies
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and yes, my father admitted
that he was no saint

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and that there were times
that he slipped

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but I was arrested, too
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and I'm not a child molester.
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And I don't think
it's appropriate

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for me to have to answer
for the sins of my father.


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