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BUT IT'S ANOTHER THING WHEN

THAT REALITY REALLY LIKES...

YOU KNOW, CLOTHES AND FOOD

AND ALWAYS WILL.

BUT, I MEAN, I SPENT TIME

IN EVERY CLICHE IMAGINABLE.

ARE YOU AN OPTIMIST, DAN?

AN OPTIMIST...

CAN YOU BE:

A CAUTIOUS OPTIMIST?

HOW ABOUT A HOPEFUL OPTIMIST?

- OKAY.

- GOOD.

I WOULDN'T WANT TO DRIVE

TO COLORADO WITH ANYONE

WHO WASN'T A HOPEFUL OPTIMIST.

ESPECIALLY IN THE CASE

OF A DICKENSIAN CHILDHOOD.

YOU KNOW,

WHEN I WAS, UH...

YOU KNOW, 13 I MOVED

IN WITH THIS COUPLE,

WITH A GIRL WHO WAS ABOUT,

YOU KNOW, A YEAR OLDER THAN ME.

SO IT TURNS OU THAT THIS COUPLE,

THEY HAD TWO KIDS WHO DIED,

YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG.

SO, SOMEHOW, THIS COUPLE,

RIGHT, THESE PARENTS,

THEY FOUND A WAY TO GET TWO KIDS

THAT WERE THE SAME AGE

AS THEIR KIDS WERE

WHEN THEY DIED.

BUT THEY ALSO FOUND A WAY--

AND DON'T ASK ME HOW--

TO ENSURE THAT THEY GOT KIDS

WITH SPECIFIC BIRTHDAYS.

THE SAME EXACT BIRTHDAYS

THAT THEIR KIDS HAD BUT,

YOU KNOVV, A YEAR LATER TO ACCOUN FOR THE TIME IT TOOK TO FIND US.

- THIS IS BULLSHIT, RIGHT?

- IT'S NOT BULLSHIT AT ALL.

NOVV, THE BIRTHDAYS THING, IT'S IMPORTAN BECAUSE IT MEANT THAT ME AND THIS GIRL

REALLY FELT THIS STRANGE,

SORT OF CONNECTION.

DOES THIS STORY END WITH YOU

KISSING YOUR SISTER?

SHE WASN'T REALLY MY SISTER.

IT WAS LIKE, OKAY--

PICTURE IT THIS WAY...

RIGHT, WE WERE STUDENTS.

OKAY, ROOMMATES, AT SOME REALLY

INAPPROPRIATE BOARDING SCHOOL.

NOVV, THIS COUPLE, THEY VVERE VVELL-OFF

SO VVE COULD AFFORD SEPARATE BATHROOMS...

OH, AND THAT MAKES IT OKAY.

YOU ASKED ME,

I'M TELLING YOU.

I'M SORRY, GO ON. YOU HAVE THE

BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.

OKAY, IT'S NOT--

IT'S NOT AS WEIRD AS IT SOUNDS,

I MEAN, WE HIT IT OFF...

AS SOON AS WE MET, RIGHT?

SHE WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL,

I WAS IN THE EIGHTH GRADE.

VVE VVERE BOTH NEVV, SO VVE DIDN'T REALLY

HAVE ANYBODY BUT VVE HAD EACH OTHER

AND, YOU KNOW,

WE STARTED TO DATE.

THAT WAS IT. AND I MEAN,

WE TRIED REALLY HARD

TO HIDE IT FROM THIS COUPLE

THAT WE NEVER EVEN REALLY

THOUGHT AS OUR PARENTS ANYWAY.

AND I GUESS:

WE DIDN'T TRY HARD ENOUGH.

AND WHEN THEY FOUND OUT,

IT, YOU KNOW, IT WRECKED THEM.

WHAT HAPPENED?

WELL, SHE TURNED 18

AND THEN, YOU KNOW,

YOU NO LONGER APPLY

FOR FOSTER CARE, THEN,

SO THE PARENTS, THEY DECIDE VVHETHER

OR NOT THEY VVANNA ADOPT YOU

AND I THINK THAT,

YOU KNOW, AT THIS POINT, YEAH,

I THINK THEY CONSIDERED IT,

BUT NOW IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.

SO SHE MOVED OUT AND I WAS

NOT REALLY IN LOVE WITH SCHOOL.

BUT I WAS SORT OF IN LOVE

WITH HER SO I DROPPED OU AND MOVED INTO THE CITY

AND IT WAS GOOD FOR A WHILE,

YOU KNOW, BUT I JUST GOT THIS,

YOU KNOW, THIS WEIRD HEART...

WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY

TO YOU IS THAT SOMETIMES,

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