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- What did you dream about?

How young were you when you first

experienced hugging or kissing?

- Necking?

- Petting?

- Oral sex?

How young were you when you no longer

thought of your parents' home as your own?

Al, it's getting late. Let's make the rounds.

- Al.!

- Be right down!

Pack of Fatimas.

Okay, son. That'll be 15 cents.

You're a criminal, sir. I shall report you

at once to the local authorities.

DearJesus,

a goddamn Protestant.

- Did you not sell this vile weed to a minor?

- What business is that of yours?

It is the Lord's work to protect

the young from temptation.

- Men like you, sir, men of weak character...

- Get the hell out of my store.

- I've given you proper warning.

- Are offensive to right-thinking

American citizens...

Shut up! You know

what you are, Father? A prig.

- Al.

- A skinflint, a petty tyrant and a hypocrite to boot!

You think you matter?

You don't matter.

There's something wrong with him.

- Come on, Al.

- No.

Maybe your workload is too heavy.

You could drop mechanical drawing.

I've withdrawn from Stevens.

That's impossible.

I'm a senior member of the faculty.

Someone would've informed me.

Why? Everyone there hates you.

I'm going to Bowdoin to study biology.

And how do you intend to pay for that?

They've given me a partial scholarship.

And I've socked away

most of my scouting money.

You've become a shady person, Al...

a person who keeps secrets.

I had no choice.

What a disappointment

you turned out to be.

- How many years

of schooling did you complete?

- Twenty.

After taking my undergraduate degree

at Bowdoin...

I received my doctorate

from the Bussey Institute at Harvard.

I took a position

as assistant professor of zoology...

here at Indiana University.

At first I studied

the Rhaetulus didieri...

or stag beetle.

Then I discovered

a far more fascinating insect.

This is the American Cynipidae,

or gall wasp.

Here the wasp deposits an egg...

into its host plant.

In this case, an oak tree.

The adult wasp chews its way

through the tree...

and copulates.

At which point

it has the good sense to die.

The animal kingdom includes...

at least two million insect species.

So, what makes the gall wasp

so fascinating?

I've spent the last three years...

crisscrossing the continent,

collecting gall wasps.

And what have I learned from my tiny friends,

half the size of the household ant?

That you need a date.

Shh!

After studying thousands of these pesky

creatures under the microscope...

I've yet to find a single gall wasp

that's the same as another.

In fact, some are so different...

that the offspring of one generation...

bear no more resemblance to their parents

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