
Telling the Story of Us
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(0.00 / 0 votes)I don't know why.
I've always been big on happy endings.
To me, the most romantic,
beautiful love stories...
...were the ones where
two people meet, fall in love...
...then 50, 60 years later
one of them dies.
A few days after,
the other one dies...
...because they just can't live
without each other.
Not that that's such a happy ending.
You got two dead people.
That's how I thought things would be
for Katie and me.
Not that we'd be dead,
but that we would be together forever.
Now, High/Low.
Who wants to go first? Erin?
Okay, my high today is that I sat
next to Austin Butler at lunch.
-Nice.
-He has the three-legged dog?
Joel has the three-legged dog.
Austin has the snoring turtle.
And your low?
-Camp.
-What about camp?
I don't know.
You had such a good time last year.
-I know.
-What is it?
Are you afraid you'll lose touch
with Austin?
-I don't know.
-You can write to each other.
You can put X's and O's on there.
Guys love that, right?
Can't get enough of it.
Honey, you'll have a great time.
What about you?
What was your high today?
Gary Ellis' mom bought a new juicer...
...and I went to his house
and drank a chicken.
And your low?
I don't have a low.
You gotta have a low.
I've been racking my brain.
I do not have a low.
We'll enter the chicken smoothie
in the high and low category.
How about you, Mama?
I know. It's your anniversary.
What are you guys doing tomorrow?
-I'm taking her to a romantic dinner...
-Dad's taking me dancing.
...and possibly some dancing.
But you're right.
That is our high.
I'd love to stick around
for your low...
...but the Dodgers are playing the Giants.
-Can I go too?
-Go.
I really don't care what we do
tomorrow night.
Even if we're
at different restaurants.
Just as long as the kids see us leaving
together and coming home together.
On our first anniversary,
I gave Ben a plastic spoon.
You know, the takeout kind
from a Chinese restaurant?
It was the one we had used...
...when we shared our first bowl
of won ton soup in the park.
He was afraid he'd lost it...
...and I remember how
his face lit up...
...when he opened the jewelry box
I had wrapped it in.
I keep asking myself:
"When is that moment in a marriage...
...when a spoon becomes just a spoon?"
When I met Katie,
...and she had been hired as a temp.
I don't know. It's hard to explain.
There was an instant connection...
...this simpatico.
I felt like she just got me.
And there is no greater feeling
in this world than to feel gotten.
The loudest silences are the ones...
...filled with everything
that's been said...
...said wrong, said 300 times.
You're not hearing me.
You're so goddamn critical!
It's hard with two kids.
I don't need a third.
You're perfect, and I've done
nothing right in 15 years!
You're not listening!
You can't let go of anything!
You never listen!
You hold on to everything!
Why should you be responsible
for anything?!
You're critical of every
fucking thing!
I take care of everything here.
-Fine!
-Fine!
-Fine!
-Fine!
Until fighting becomes the condition
rather than the exception.
And suddenly, it turns into
the language of the relationship...
...and your only option is
a silent retreat to neutral corners.
-Okay, are you a person?
-Yes.
Are you a man?
-That's debatable.
-Debatable?
-Do you have a mustache?
-A thick one.
-Aunt Rose.
-Right.
Good old Aunt "5:00 Shadow" Rose.
God, it's almost 9.
We're gonna miss the camp bus.
Now, that is what I call
a mobile home.
Can you get around it?
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