Nine Lives Page #2

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- You do?

- I heard.

From who?

You know...

Lorna.

Lorna.

I don't really know any of them anymore.

I'm married, too.

- To anyone I know?

- No.

God, I was just thinking about you

a couple weeks ago.

I had this...

My car broke down, and this guy

who towed me was from Dubrovnik.

He barely spoke English.

- Oh, no.

- I was just...

Did you tell him about

your nighttime adventures in the Adriatic?

- Yeah. No. He didn't ask.

- I didn't think so.

So, I'm sorry I look like a cow, but...

You look great.

You having a party,

or just drowning your sorrows?

No, we're having a little picnic tomorrow.

- It's supposed to rain.

- Is it?

Sh*t. Let's hope it doesn't.

God, it's good to see you.

You, too.

We should...

We should get together and have, like,

a cup of coffee or something. Is that...

I mean, can I call you?

It's okay if you don't want me to.

I understand.

- It's okay.

- Is it okay?

I still have the same number.

You kept it?

So...

Anyway, the machine picks up.

It'll give you options and stuff.

There's a mailbox for me.

All right. We can e-mail, if you prefer.

No, he knows who you are.

I can't believe it.

Anyway, I gotta run.

- But it's good to see you.

- Yeah.

Actually, I think about you all the time.

Stuff we did. Things that happened to us.

The people we were.

It was lovely for a long time, wasn't it?

It was lovely by fits and starts.

I think we should talk about something else,

if we're gonna talk.

Like what?

We already talked about the weather.

Do you have kids?

No.

And what's your wife's name?

Lisa.

Lisa?

What's your husband's name?

No?

If I say his name out loud to you right now,

I won't know if I'm coming or going.

And that's a great feeling when you're 21,

but right now...

Let's not f*** around with all this, okay?

Okay.

Okay.

What are you doing for work?

I'm a producer on public radio.

- Yeah?

- Yeah. City affairs show. You know it?

It's a zoo over there,

but the show's pretty good, I think.

What kind of programming?

Everything. Little bit of...

A lot of social stuff, a little bit of education,

economic policy, portraits...

not famous people, regular people...

and humor.

We did a piece last night

on a child's concept of time.

It's interesting stuff, you know. It's...

You never really opened up to me,

you know.

That's not true.

- It's not.

- It is true.

You made me sad for a long time, Damian.

Anything else?

I'm not hurt and I'm not angry.

It's how I remember it.

But none of it matters anymore, anyway.

Right?

- I'm sorry.

- No.

- Sh*t.

- Forget it.

No. I'm sorry.

I run into you and I make you feel like sh*t...

for l-don't-know-what

that happened 10 years ago, so...

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