1:27:00
We'd play gin rummy or talk politics
until all hours.
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Had a bucket-Ioad of laughs,
as she liked to say.
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Mom?
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Then one night...
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she stopped laughing.
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I will never forget
and always regret the choice I'd made.
1:27:55
The memory of that night
out on the Old Ridge Road never faded...
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and grew dreamlike, as I expected it would.
1:28:04
I'm sorry, Mom.
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I can't help but think
that maybe George Staub...
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if there really was a George Staub...
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just teased me with a little more time...
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a couple more years.
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But I was glad to have them.
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It unlocked my heart.
1:28:46
Jessica and I got married a year later...
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but it didn't last.
1:28:50
It wasn't anybody's fault.
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We tried, but nothing ever seems to last.