Elizabethtown
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and it actually ate me.
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I went to the bank
and the teller looked at me strangely...

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and I got home
and I looked at myself in the mirror...

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and my face was still green
from a facial mask...

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that I had forgotten to take off.
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And I called our insurance man
of 30 years...

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whose son Mitch had actually helped
to get into West Point...

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to tell him that Mitch was gone.
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He didn't call me back for two days.
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The car, the bank, the insurance man,
the world.

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I mean, nobody truly cared.
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Not like us.
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I always wanted to learn to tap dance...
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so I took tap dance lessons.
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And I wanted to learn.... Yeah, I did.
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And I wanted to learn
to cook organically...

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and so I attempted that.
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And I fixed the toilet.
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Yeah. All by myself.
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And I wanted to learn to laugh.
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Why couldn't I be funnier
when Mitch was alive?

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But you know, I figured it out.
It takes time to be funny...

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and it takes time to extract joy from life.
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So I enrolled in comedy school.
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Yeah, I did. I know, I know.
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I was the oldest one in the class.
Thank you.

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And we were told to tell a story.
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Something true,
something that really happened to us.

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So I got up there
and I talked about my husband...

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and the love he left behind.
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A few days after Mitch died...
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I was walking through the yard
and I saw our neighbor...


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