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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."
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