Private Benjamin Page #2
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- 1980
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...and tenderness you and Yale
had the opportunity to share.
My philosophy of life has gotten me
through some very rough times.
Let me share it with you.
Que ser ser.
I got it from the song.
Judith?
Just one thing.
If you can remember...
...what were Yale's last words?
"I'm coming."
I know you don't want to hear this...
...but you got to get
right back into circulation.
When you fall off the horse,
you got to climb right back on.
Aunt Kissy, please!
Could I be alone now?
I'm sorry.
She wants to be alone.
She wants to be alone.
She doesn't want to live in their place.
I can't blame her.
- Sell everything and buy her new.
- Buy her new? She'll live with us.
- What if she doesn't want to?
- She doesn't know what she wants.
And what's she going to do now?
Be my secretary again?
The girl's 29 years old
and trained to do nothing.
I'm 28.
Look what we got!
I've never not belonged to somebody.
Never.
in nursery school. I was two...
...and he was three and since then...
...I've been pinned,
lavaliered, engaged...
...married twice.
The first time, I was twenty.
See, I've been in this room
eight days...
...and it's really the first eight days
I've ever been alone in my life.
If I'm not going to be married...
...I don't know what I'm
supposed to do with myself.
Did you happen to see
Well, I didn't get it.
I would've been
Mrs. Alan Bates so fast...
...that guy wouldn't have
known what hit him.
The thing is, and then I'll shut up...
...I haven't done anything wrong.
And I feel like I'm being punished!
I thought I'd be
filling up my freezer...
...and be getting this new
pine sideboard that I ordered and...
Jessica, I do hate...
...to stop your free association,
but our switchboard's flooded.
So set your phone down
and turn your radio up, okay?
Hello, Night Owl,
you're on the air.
You lucked out. I read in
the Enquirer this morning...
...that marriage causes cancer.
Philadelphia Night Owl,
you're on the air.
About that Palestinian homeland.
In your Bible you'll see...
...that the Arabs had first dibs
on the West Bank.
Not tonight, Del, thanks.
Line 4, have you
got advice for Jessica?
Yes, I do. Hi, Jessica.
My name is Jim.
First let me say
...about your misfortune.
And nobody knows better than you
that things can 't get much worse.
you need guidance, security...
...good friends and a healthy dose
of self-confidence, Jessica.
What I'm saying is,
I think I can help you find a new life.
- Are you Jessica?
- Jim?
Yeah, hi.
Am I late or you early?
I'm just a few hours early.
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