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you didn’t hear? ... yeah, i’ve always thought little green men took her away in their space ship. it’s the only explanation that’s ever made sense.
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oh, yeah. realistically none of ‘em last more than a year. but that’s why there’s always a bunch of sequels where shit happens that just makes it so they’re stuck together.
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(a laugh —— small, brief —— escapes him at the question.) oh, y’know, a lotta people were callin’ me crazy and the like. couple o’ the older folks blamed me for it. mostly people were lookin’ down at me, but you were nice.
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?!?!?! baby owls are cute! they’re all fluffy, an’ their eyes are huge! (own eyes are all but popping out their sockets.) all this time y’thought i called you ugly after you said the nicest thing anybody had said to me in months????
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nah, by the end of the movie the uptight business hotshot realises he actually likes living in a small town, so he quits his job t’become a farm lawyer. (if he had a tail, it’d be wagging.)
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(rolling eyes————but there's a renewed lightness in the way she carries herself as they fall into banter.) you already got to leave once. it should be my turn.
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really? (he’s fully laughing now: hands on knees, tears in eyes.) y’ve been holdin’ a grudge over that for years? (wiping at his eyes, smiling.) it wasn’t even an insult! you were just ... your eyes were so big an’ earnest!
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... okay you got me there. (raising a brow, laughing gently.) yeah, y’caught me. i’m givin’ you shitty information so that all the big city hotshots will choose to whisk me away an’ not you.
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no. i mean, i’ve had partners, but nothin’ ever serious enough to write home about. (own arms mirroring hers.) and still, no. th’ whole point is for the meet——cute to be authentic, it can’t be authentic if y’go lookin’ for it.
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nobody's been takin' up your time in all of these years? (crossing arms.) should venture down to the local mechanic shop right now? pounce upon the first businessman who got too much dirt under his luxury car's wheels i see?