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2.67sAh, Pop, don't get me wrong. It's great to be here.
2.6sBut how's a guy like you wind up with a son like me?
4.67sAh, Larry, my lad, I've gone over this story in my mind a million times.
2.77sIt was 1941, the--
4.6sNo, '39, my 25th Yale reunion.
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3.14sWho should appear but the unrequited love of my college years--
1.93sMimsie Bankcroft.
2.97sOf course by then, Mimsie had her share of wrinkles...
4.74sand a gray hair or two, but my adoring eyes saw past those minor imperfections,
2.17sto her 21-year-old daughter, lily.
2.4sI took lily to the local "cinematorium,"
5swhere our passions were inflamed by Clark Gable's reckless use of the word "damn."
2.77sWe sneaked into the nearby Peabody Museum.
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2.97sThere, under the smiling eyes of four stuffed Eskimos,
2.44swe expressed our love physically,
2.3sas was the style at the time.