My Life Without Me
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1:15:03
It's my birthday today.
Wish me a happy birthday.

1:15:06
Happy birthday, mom.
1:15:13
Aren't you going to start the car?
1:15:16
I've got something to tell you, Mom.
1:15:19
It must be serious, otherwise
you'd tell me while you were driving.

1:15:25
I need to know
where my Dad is.

1:15:28
Are you going to go and see him?
1:15:31
Because that bugs you?
1:15:35
No,
1:15:38
not even that can make me mad anymore.
1:15:46
This time last year,
1:15:48
this very same day,
my birthday,

1:15:50
I thought I should do something,
I don't know why.

1:15:54
So I... I put on some makeup
1:15:57
and the least old clothes
I could find

1:15:59
and I went to a bar.
1:16:02
And I ordered a whisky
1:16:05
and started talking to
the bartender.

1:16:08
He was just a kid,
1:16:11
he'd just started at the hotel,
it was his first job,

1:16:17
and we chatted about this and that,
1:16:19
and I told him it was my birthday.
1:16:24
About five minutes later
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he presented me with a bowl of peanuts
with a candle in.

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And I...
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I started to cry.
1:16:36
I cried so hard the kid got scared,
1:16:40
and he blew out the candle,
and hid the bowl of peanuts,

1:16:44
and I said
"No, don't blow out the candle.

1:16:47
Don't hide the peanuts."
1:16:49
And all this year,
all I could think about was

1:16:52
that bowl of peanuts
and how I started to cry.

1:16:56
So this year,
I baked myself a cake.


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