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3.9sThey were always "too tired." Oh, what awful parents!
3.5sCome closer. I'll tell you the whole story.
2.65sTell you what. Let's get an opaque bubble layer going.
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1.38sOkay, go.
4.05sIt all started a century and a half ago.
3.55sI had a perfectly normal adolescence in New New York.
5.64sBut my parents were simple hedge fund managers who couldn't appreciate my interest in science.
2.7sMom, Dad, look what I made!
3.04s(YAWNING) That's wonderful, dear.
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1.93sHere you go, Squeakers.
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3.09sI was accepted to MIT at the age of 14,
4.19sbut my parents crushed my dreams like a discarded frog head.
2.7sHoney, I'm afraid we can't let you go.
3.27sYou're just not emotionally mature enough for college yet.
2.04s(IMITATING) "Not mature enough..."
7.42s(SHRIEKS) (BLUBBERING) Worried that city life was filling my head with an unhealthy respect for education,