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But I still believed that Anna
was the true love of my life.
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But then a month later,
Caroline flew to the States to see me,
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and it was then that the trouble started.
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You see,
Anna became jealous of Caroline
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and insisted that I choose between them.
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I didn't want to choose between them.
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I wanted to be able to see them both.
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But then Anna got
a summer internship in New York,
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and Caroline and I ended up
spending the summer together.
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Which is why when her visa expired.
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I offered to marry her
so that she could stay in the States.
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Now, I should probably explain
that I wasn't exactly the marrying type.
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In fact, I was totally against marriage.
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You see, I had grown up
during the Vietnam War
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and I saw marriage as pat
of the same capitalist system
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that had produced
the genocide in Vietnam.
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(explosions)
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(screaming)
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But I was also influenced
by performance at...
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(screaming)
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... and by the idea of life itself
as a kind of performance piece.
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And to me the institution of marriage
was so inherently absurd
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that I tried to subvert it
by treating it as performance art.
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I do.
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Except that the joke,
as it turned out, was on me.
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Because when Anna found out
that I had gotten married to Caroline,
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she didn't take it so well.
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(phone slams)
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And then I did something
incredibly dumb.
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You see, Caroline and I were
about to run out of money...
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... and the idea of having to get a job was,
in my mind, a fate worse than death.
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The only occupation I was interested in
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was that of famous filmmaker.
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But the few experimental films
that I had made
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hadn't exactly been greeted
with enthusiasm by the film world.
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(indistinct)
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To remedy this situation,
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I had recently written a script
about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud
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which I was convinced
would revolutionize cinema...
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... and which Caroline insisted it would
be easy to raise money for in France.
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It will be easy to raise money
for this in France.
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But moving to France
turned out to be a disaster.
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Most of the film producers I approached
wouldn't even talk to me.
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The few that did
just told me that I was nobody.
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Meanwhile, my relationship
with Caroline had started to unravel.
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(crying)
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Caroline was insanely jealous of Anna
and would cry hysterically
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whenever I would write her a letter
or talk to her on the phone.
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Hi, how are you doing?
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I was starting to feel trapped,
and it was hard not to blame Caroline
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for having gotten in the way
of my relationship with Anna.
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And then one day,
I got a letter from Anna
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saying that she was going
to be in Amsterdam
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and asking
if I would like to meet her there.
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(crying)
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I was ecstatic.
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I felt that I was finally being given a chance
to get back together with Anna.
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But Caroline knew that if I left
I would never come back,
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so she decided to jump out a window.
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The thought of being responsible
for her death
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- was way more guilt than I could handle.
- (siren wails)
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- Caroline! Caroline!
- No! No!
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(grunting)
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So I agreed never to see Anna again.
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It was by far the most
painful decision I ever made.
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But I did it because years
of going to Sunday school
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had taught me to equate virtue
with sacrifice.
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- Can I come down?
- MAN: One more time.
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I should probably also explain
that when I was in college
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I had once asked my friend Arnold...
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(coughs)
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What's your, like, ultimate goal in life?
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And he had said...
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To be a saint.
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I'd been blown away by his answer...
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... and I decided that I too
would try to become a saint.
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Which is why,
when Caroline asked me
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to cut all ties with the only person
I had ever truly loved,
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I agreed.
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(ting)
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When I found out much later
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that Anna had gotten married
to someone else,
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I was devastated.
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I had still been secretly hoping that Caroline
and I would eventually break up
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and that Anna and I
would one day get back together.
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But now I realized that it was really over.
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I tried my best to transcend my feelings
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and to resign myself
to a life of quiet desperation.
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But the truth is I was incredibly angry.
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I was angry at God,
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I was angry at Caroline,
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and I was angry at myself.
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But mostly I was angry at Caroline.
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And then one day
I was walking down the street
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when I saw... this prostitute.
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There was something about her
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that turned me on in a way
that I had never been turned on before.
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It was as if I had been hypnotized.
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And then I suddenly found myself saying
something that I had never said before.
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I said the words...
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Now, I should probably explain that I had
always considered myself a feminist
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and had even marched
in an anti-pornography rally once.
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Which is why
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when I suddenly found
myself saying the words...
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...I half expected the prostitute
to run screaming...
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(gasps)
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... or to slap me in the face.
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The fact that she didn't,
but smiled instead and said...
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... made my head spin.
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Afterwards, I was a nervous wreck.
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I couldn't get her out of my mind.
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- CAROLINE: Hi.
- Hi.
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I thought that if I masturbated,
I would get her out of my system.
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But it didn't work.
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So after several days
of compulsive masturbation,
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I decided that I