"A euro?" "A meal voucher?" "A euro?" "Dope?" "A euro?" "A meal voucher?" "A euro?" "Got a euro?" "Anything you can spare A euro?" "Don't got a euro?" "Fucker" "You okay?" " Nothing happened" "C'mon!" "Something sure did" "She picked on you, not someone else" "The slap was meant for you Nobody else I'm okay" "Hold on" "You don't look like someone to destroy" "Yet she wanted to" "You enraged her somehow" "Thatwas real anger Notjust gratuitous" "What is it that's infuriating aboutyou?" "How about a coffee?" "Stupid bitch" "Gotta light?" "And a pen?" "It's important" "Say, she really got one!" "persecution" "You getting that?" "It's okay I got it" "Who told you I was here?" "You did You said you" "Don't smash the door in lt's the only thing thatworks I was knocking normally You really didn't hear me?" "Didn'tyou drop thesejobs?" "No one had this address" "But if I have visitors, it may as well be you" " That's nice - lt's not to be nice I don'twant to see some people right now" "I don't mean you" "This might be my lastjob" "Still, it's good money in one go lt's a decent operation lt'd be dumb to quit" "They're not operations, justjobs For the money" "I don't know how I do it, but I feel it'll all fall apart" "You're not the most lost" "Even if people think so I never thought so" "Thatwhat people think?" "I couldn't give a damn" "But I don'twantyou thinking that" "So, Michel what's new with you?" " l'm okay" " Really?" "Yeah, I'm okay" "Yeah?" "Maybe I should drop everything and work with you" "Even if I keep my mouth shut?" "I doubtyou could" "You reach out and take whatyou want" "My own arm is always too short That's life" "What do you want?" "See, no one knows!" "If that isn't screwed up!" "Tell me again" "Talking about it makes itworse" "You don't mind living from hand to mouth lt makes me a wreck" "We shouldn't even be friends I think you're tired and the beer isn't helping" "The beer was for you" "Maybe we don't react the same" " See you" " Tomorrow" "Your arm's not too short You just don't reach for anything lt happens to lots of people" "Maybe you'rejust conventional, but ashamed of it" "So you pretend to be going through the ringer" "You don'twant to change" "You use me to make you forget the mess you're in I can keep it up, no sweat off my back!" "Butyou need a good reason to go on" "Nobody can find it for you!" "Say, you really take things to heart" "Daniel!" "There's mail" "With what's left, I take the bus I have to" "Tell me when it comes" "Just ask" "Ask" "I have a ticket" "Daniel?" " lt's me - l have the ticket here" "Your number flashed several times I left a message on your cell l'll leave one here, too I think it's yourjob site Your secret one I have the keys I'll be in Paris Monday, in any case" "I'm leaving a message here I have the keys" "Take care We'll talk soon" "I got to the store at closing One minute to" "You still have some left I don't like to run out" "There was no hurry" "The others know you do my errands?" "Not a word I'm counting on you" "This one didn't come out right I won't give it to you" "You already have one" "And I can't give it to you after saying I mucked it up I don't have one I never wanted one" "You offered me one a long time ago, and I said no" "And you sulked" "Don't remember" "You didn't know me well enough to give me something" "So you don't think we should give each other gifts?" "That's how I understand it lt's not that" "We can I just think that you have to deserve things" "You have to work for them" "When you do things right, give them your all, things work out" "Then, one person gives another something" "And that's a gift I think there's a right moment" "A right moment with the right people, and then something clicks" "You didn't eat?" "It's awful" " ls ityou next week?" " Why?" "You want me?" "I don't like surprises" "Less and less so" "Bruno, are you here?" "You're back?" "Then I gotyour return date wrong" "Are you here?" "I'm in the back bedroom" "What the fuck is this!" "What do you want?" "I thoughtyou'd never come I waited downstairs, and then like a jerk, I started drinking" "Stop it I'm calling the cops!" " l'm really sorry" " Cut that out!" "I don't know why I drank so much I was nervous as hell I was so afraid of how you'd react" "Which things are yours?" "I know I had no reason to be afraid" "What's yours?" "Hold me" "Cut it out Let go of me!" "Which things are yours?" "Where are your shorts?" "Are these yours?" "Get dressed I wanted everything to go right and I just fucked it up" "Stop or I'll clobber you!" "I can't love without being scared I thought I'd gotten over that" "I forgot my keys" "I know the way out" "It's Michel Are you atwork?" "Okay, see you later" "Daniel lt's me, Sonia I won't be back from Marseille until tomorrow, late I won't feel up to drinks with the gang l'll go right to bed" "I hope we can get together Wednesd" "Hey, Daniel I hear you're working" "Ajob in the 16th, and one at a friend's place, which I do when I can lt takesjuggling But being out of work was tough" " So I'm fine" " Don't mind me I'll find a seat" "Still staring at people?" "What else should I stare at?" "It's not really a very kind look" "Really?" "Whatwould it take to be kind?" "I don't give a damn!" "Let's say I have a nasty look" "Can I sit down?" "You do have an incredible look I'm literally charmed" "You okay?" "Sorry This is Thomas" "Sonia I'm Sonia Daniel's girlfriend" "Really?" "Fine" "Does that seem weird?" "Not at all I just didn't know" "For almost three years now" "Really?" "Oh, sure Sonia" "Of course" "Coming to Marie's?" "Take my seat" "Don't move I spend the day bent over I'll stand I'm off, but I might be short" "Not time to fetch the rug rat?" "It is Shit" "Don't call him that, okay?" " l'm sick of it" " Just quoting you" "Okay, but I'm his father" "So that gives you the right?" "I take it back Don't say it and I won't" "Does he work with you?" "Who, him?" "No, Michel has a job" "He may look out of it, but he's an accountant" "Alone all day in a tiny office" "He starts real early, an insomniac" "So he gets off early, like 4:30 p m , and then doesn't know what to do with himself, so he comes to me lsn't it tragic?" "Lots live like that lt's not necessarily tragic lf that's not tragic" "He's not on the road to ruin" "Talk to him, you'll see:" "He's twisted" "Be right back" "You can't tell just like that He hides it" "Everyone does But he's got his system worked out to a T I find that dishonest For that alone, I'd punch him out" "The guy whojust left?" "You gotta try and be I dunno consistent!" "Michel went to the best schools, speaks 3 or 4 languages" "And suddenly, he fell apart lt's a calamity!" "Hejustwants to self-destruct" "Daniel once told me:" ""Thomas is like a brother "" "He quit a greatjob" " l'm really touched" " That's why I told you" "Afew of us try to keep him on his feet" "But I don't think he sees many people besides me" "Something must have happened to make him change" "You can see he's a mess He clings to Daniel, as if we'll bite him lt's almost unpleasant" "You know what?" "When he was 23, he fell for an older woman with kids, gorgeous, smart She took him for a ride" "She'd never met a guy that sincere" "She couldn't resist the temptation to wreck him" "She must have figured, "Morons are like that" ""Could I really love a guy like him?"" "Too much goodness, too much whatever" "Anyway, one day she took off, in two weeks itwas all over" "He had a nervous breakdown, big time!" "He wound up in an asylum, sleep cure and all" "And now, he lives with Annette, a glum woman with big tits" "They have a kid She got pregnant in three months" "Michel's really miserable" "Wait for me I'm coming with you" "See you next time" "What's with him?" "You stand itwhen he's a jerk?" " He's not a jerk ls he out to make enemies?" "He can get thatway But that's notwhat matters" "He's anything but mean" "You okay, Marie?" "Not cold?" "I'll be going" "Sonia?" "It's me" "Why, what time is it?" "You're beat, you say Then I find you at the cafe" "Don'twe deserve better?" "You feeling okay?" "You sure?" "What if I came by just for a few minutes?" "Okay Go back to sleep" "Sorry, sorry, sorry" "Yes No, I answered lt's Michel" "No, he's not here I'm alone I don't ask He doesn't always tell me where he's going" "Sure, okay, Sonia I'll tell him lf l see him" " Everything all right?" " Fuckin' A" "It rang, but I didn't answer in time" "What did you do?" "Fucking shit" "Any message?" "It only rang once By the time I answered, it had stopped" "Fuck" "What a fucking pain!" "Sonia's a bit cold, isn't she?" "You outta your mind?" "She's a great girl" "Sonia works like a slave" "Shejust got a promotion" "She's a real hard worker and she loves that" "She's a workaholic and has no time for us" "Butyou can make time if you want lt's up to me to point it out to her I do it because I love her" "But she can't see that" "She doesn't get it" "And me?" "I have to march to her orders?" "Be alone when she is, available when she is, relax when she does?" "That's not how itworks, no way!" "Sometimes I get pessimistic about Sonia" "Want me to get it?" "No I wait" "Others can wait" "is something the matter?" "You sure barricade yourself" "No point locking yourself in like that" "When did you get back?" "Weren'tyou out tonight?" "How did it go?" "What is it?" "Never drop in on a woman, don'tyou know that?" "You never know whatyou'll find I don't like to see you like this" "Well, no" "I love you" "Can I stay?" "How's life since the other day?" "It's been a double workload at the office:" "My colleague's outwith the flu lt's not the season, but she's not faking it She really has something called the flu" " And then what?" " Then nothing" "When I got in yesterday, I went to a movie with Marie" "You saw Marie?" "Afilm from Thailand ltwas really good" "How aboutyou?" "I wanted to see you" "You're the only girl I know who does that" "Want some wine for a change?" "I'm out of beer" "Hang on" "We really shouldn't be drinking this bottle together" "We celebrating something?" "I gave it to a friend for his 30th, three years ago" "Last spring, he came to dinner and brought it as a gift" "Thatvery bottle" " lt'sjust the same vintage" " No, it's the exact same bottle" "He went home and took a bottle out of his cupboard" "He had no idea how it ended up there" "No, he knew you liked it" "We're drinking someone else's wine, I tell you!" "Are you here?" "You still here?" "Didn't stay to see my face?" "Sonofabitch" "Hi." "What is this crap?" "Take it all down And give me back my photos" "You piece of shit!" " Fuck you!" "I'll fucking murder you!" "Hands off!" "This is my place You watch it!" " Let go of me!" " Sicko!" "My place!" "Open up, asshole!" "Why won'tyou understand?" "I'll hang on because I love you" "Yes, I love you" "Stop laughing, goddammit!" "We gotta make headway now, get things moving" "Butwatch out" "Watch out or I'll murder you!" "Maybe that's what I like least about myjob:" "the seminars" "Butyou're polite I'm not polite, I say what's on my mind" "Did that sound ungrateful?" "I didn't say that" "You've been there for seven years" "They've given you responsibility, you're well paid and you're good atwhatyou do" "You have a pretty good life" "I gotta tell you Some guy's been on my tail" "A nutcase" "He's always there He knows my movements" "He comes to the flat I'm redoing He thinks I live there" "But don'tyou, sort of?" "is he dangerous?" "He gives me the creeps" "He's in love with me" "He loves me He thinks I'm great lt's a problem" "He wants me to hold him" "He's after more He doesn't push it, but let's say that's where it's headed" "Why are you telling me this?" "Because This has been going on for a while now" "So what'd you think of Thomas?" "We didn't talk much, but he seems like a nice guy I was starting to think you'd invented him, that Thomas, "your friend, your brother, " didn't exist" "You hardly said a thing to him I put up with your friends I don't snub them" "But it doesn't matter lt'sjust odd thatwe only met now I talk to him aboutyou" "You're notjealous?" "Not at all I know my place I'm a resourceful girl" "You know that You chose me" "Sure, but itwasn't for that" "Then for what?" "Your eyes" " Nervous?" " Not at all" "On the contrary, I'm very relaxed I'm not even tired I'm listening and answering And I'm talking to you" "And in my mind, you're my sweetheart" ""ln your mind "" "When I think of you, I think of your name I think of the fact a boy named Daniel is my sweetheart I think of you as my sweetheart" "I don't have my keys I had them earlier I must've left them at the cafe" " What cafe?" " l had them" "Sure you looked everywhere?" "I have the keys I have them" "Hang on When you think about me" "You don't know if you love me when I'm around?" "When you're around, I'm not sure I'm less sure" "But it's interesting, too lt's interesting?" "You really think saying that won't tear me up?" "When you're around, it's true, I find it complicated sometimes" "Maybe that's what I mean" "And so, now what?" "We stop seeing each other?" "See how you twist things?" "Like I impose an agenda that's really your own?" "Shit!" "I'm going home" "For chrissakes, I had the keys!" "See you tomorrow?" "After that I'm gone again" "Not tomorrow I can't I'm seeing Michel" "He needs me" " Just a minute!" " Don't bust my balls!" "Watch how you talk!" "Fuck off!" "It's me I'm with a client I'll call you back Sure it's the meter?" "If I can't, I'll tell you what to do" " Where were you?" " Parking's a nightmare" "Easy." " Where were you?" " l went around the block" "Daniel, it's me" "Are you there?" "Maybe you're asleep" "Sonia?" "You're back?" "I still have three days to go" "And we're not in town anymore, we're up in the mountains" "Then you're even farther lt sounds like you're in the next room" "Call you back?" "No, I'm calling you lt's nice to getyou I'm glad" "You don't usually call when you travel" "Are the people interesting?" "Where are the mountains?" "It's two hours north of Philadelphia" "They put us up in a sort of company resort lt's sort of ugly and sort of nice lt's both" "Go on" "The halls are wide enough for 10 people to walk side by side" "The linoleum's so shiny thatyou can fix your hair in it" "There's no cell phone service" "Only a telephone at the reception desk" "So I'm standing next to a woman smiling at me from the switchboard" "Isn't that creepy?" "That's what it's like here ' lt seems creepy, but it isn't" "One impression, then another" "Unpleasant, and pleasant" "How aboutyou?" "Everything all right?" "I'm at loose ends when you're not around I see lots of people, but I don't care" "Remember that colleague I always run into at the coffee machine and I avoid because he smiles at me?" "The guy from the finance department" "Well?" "You want to move in with him?" "Yes I thought I should tell you right away" "He likes men Can I go on?" "He's always made my blood run cold, I told you" "He's here at the seminar with Laurence and me" "The other day, he took us to a place he knew, a sort of bar where you can dance I had to force myself to go, but once we were there itwas really fun, the music, the people, everything" "I didn'twant to move, I justwanted to watch people dance" "And then I felt this weird sensation" "As if someone was stroking my hair lsn't that gross?" "There I was thinking '" ""You depress the whole floor with your coffee-machine smile," ""but all you have to do is take us to this lousy bar one night" ""for me to feel this way, relaxed "" "Do you think I close too many doors?" "That I'm too blunt" "That I'm unfair?" "You're beautiful the way you are" "You have an opinion and you act on it" "And you say whatyou think" "There." "That can't be a flaw" "How's your nutcase?" "Did he come back?" "You say not to close doors" " Normally" "You really have no idea who he is?" "As long as he doesn't hurtyou" "No, but I I want to hurt him" "So you're the lunaticl" "He moved in across the street" "When I don't see him, he's still there, I just can't spot him" "He's here to stay Like some disease" "Like a "before the lunatic" and a "during "" "but no "after " He'll be around forever" " ls that him?" " No, he doesn't call yet" "There's a line for the phone, I have to go" "Big hugs Thank you" "Don't forget to come back When?" "Remind me" "You wheeze when you sleep" "You must have a cold I'd like some tea" "They all look like morons" "You must have seen some, they insist on coming to visit" "My mother's not among them" "You might have liked her face" "She was a mean woman" "Just this morning I thought:" "I'll pack them away in a plastic bag, so I won't have to look at them" "We hold on to too many things lf l had it to do over again, I wouldn't let anything slide" "Because I let people stew in their folly, even when they were on the wrong track" "I kept my mouth shut, figuring that they were entitled to be thatway" "But tolerating that isn't respecting people, it's abandoning them" "That's how I lost a man I loved" "He finally upped and left" "People your age don't usually do visits like this lt occurred to me when I remembered today was your day" "There's no rule, is there?" "Sure there is" "Generally, it's prim little women with painted lips" "They're not our age yet so they figure they're lucky" "They're voyeurs" "So you're a meddler, does that make you happy?" "Are you a voyeur, too, Daniel?" "I drive people nuts, I meddle in everything" "Do you have family?" "My parents are dead" "Afiancee, a partner?" "A girlfriend, sure" "I have her, but I don't know if she has me I don't know what she's up to" "I think she has someone else" "Do you have proof?" "How can you tell?" "She's calm Too calm" "People with things to hide are gentle like that" "The one thing that's getting to me is her schedule lt's getting to be too much" "But I act like itwas nothing I keep it all in" "Was yesterday's talk good?" "Thomas?" "You're super early" "Let me get the keys" "Put me up My place burned!" " Please!" " Enough is enough!" "Get the hell out!" "When you looked at me, everything fell into place" "Everything in my life lt's logical Don't leave me" " Beat it" " Wait!" " Please" "You're a pain!" "Beat it, dammit!" "You'll love me" " Beat it!" "Get lost!" "You'll love me You must" "You okay?" "I'll explain I'll change and be right down" "Never let a customer buy you a drink" "Or else, take a sip then down your glass" "The customer won't feel hurt l'd sure like a drink" "She keeps her distance" " Sophie, right?" " Whatever" "Does she talk to you?" "This is my first time here isn't her face striking?" "Such gentleness on offer?" "I say it's very rare" "You're terrific Don't be so guarded" "Enough Cut it out" "That girl's got it rough" "But her smile, isn't it amazing?" "Never neglect people" "Thomas can get her teaching hours" "Really?" "History, too?" "Her subject's Spanish" "She keeps quiet, doesn't bother anyone" "What's she keep quiet about?" "She asks for nothing" "Did you and Thomas get to talk?" "Bashful?" "Shy?" "You okay?" "I give, I set things up, then people are on their own I can't do any more Myjob ends there" "We've talked lots, haven'twe?" " l'm not shy" " Me neither" "And you know what?" "She doesn't need me" "She doesn't miss me" "Ever" "I'm sick of drinking so much every time we meet I have class at 8 a m See you" "You see, it's been ages since I've cared about anyone lt's not contempt, or a sense of superiority or anything" "Maybe I feel less and less, but I feel a whole lot more intensely" "A guy who's locked in who sees nothing, he wouldn't see you" "No siree!" "Whereas I did, I saw you" "When you say you love me, what's that mean?" "I'm not asking to annoy you, it's to know" "Only losers do whatyou do, get hung up on guys like me" "That's what moves me" "You totally miss over half of what goes on" "You don't do it on purpose, I know" "But it moves me lt makes me want to cry sometimes, to see how out of ityou are" "The day you looked at me, itwas like a curtain being torn I saw you so clearly, I mean so clearly!" "You can't imagine thejoy the sheerjoy" "when you looked at me" " l never looked atyou!" " Man!" "Suddenly, everything started to flow again ideas, blood" "People can be mistaken You imagine things, have illusions about somebody" "That's no longer my case I'll tell you:" "I'm never sick anymore I used to catch everything going around" "Not anymore!" "I discovered my body" "My body's my best ally, I take it everywhere" "And you?" "What aboutyour body?" " Hold me tight!" " Cut it out!" "Forget it, I won't hold you" "Sharing space is as far as I go Got that?" "Why are you so negative?" "I'm here, everything will be fine I came to receive, but that's okay, I can give" "Giving to you is okay, it makes sense" "Because now, I no longer feel like a poor asshole waiting to kick the bucket" "And that's really beautiful" "I thoughtyou didn't like Sonia's friends" "They're okay Not old friends, just locals she met" "Not like us" "So you tell my life story to the first moron you meet?" "My life is fucked up enough for you to blab about it?" "Your life?" "You must be bored shitless with Sonia to bring me up like that" "As a topic You must be so bored to blather about my life" "Hey!" "Thatwas ages ago!" "You told everyone about your disastrous romance I did not!" "Besides my parents, only you know" "The asylum and all Only you!" "If you'd told me itwas a secret, I'd have clammed up lt should've been obvious" "You're too close!" "Watch out!" "Back off, asshole!" "You're not "just anyone" for me lt's dumb When you chew me out, my poor fried brain thinks:" "It's tough and hard to swallow but it's for my own good" "Because I matter to you" " Well, yeah" " But that's not it" "We'rejust names on the damn list of people that interestyou" "With your spiel, we think you care, or worse, you love us" "Butyou're not there!" "I only realize that now, because my chronically depressed brain is slow on the uptake!" "Hey, I don't force anybody to stick around with me" "What's all this lunacy?" "An epidemic?" "I got my critique, and next it's Sonia's turn Right?" "Or has she had hers?" "Does Sonia know you screw around with other people's lives?" "including hers?" "I'll clue Sonia in I'm really fond of her" "Why stop?" "You leave Sonia alone" "Get on her case, we're through You know that?" "I know" "Sure, I get the picture" "You're a real asshole!" "Dickhead, go fuck yourself!" "Sure I can borrow it?" "I'm the one who offered I'm glad when it gets used Come on" "Do you need it right now?" "Yeah, I need it" "Mine broke down" "I think it's over there" "What's the matter?" "Sorry lt's Michel" "He's flipped" "After all I did for him, this is what I get I feel betrayed, you see?" "I have to think things over and make a decision I'm left on my own in this" "How did he betray you?" "Somebody I take care of, bust my ass for, do what I can so that something decent happens in his shitty little life" "Everything I do is in vain He's wrong all the way down the line About me" "He lays into me, and I don't know why" "You sure you don't know?" "It's easy enough to know what really matters to me" "You know why you're with me, don'tyou?" "Yes, I do" " Okay" "And you're okay with that?" "Well, you see lf l take an interest in him, it's because I see good things in him, things he doesn't see, that he ignores" "Because he has real qualities" "He must have" "Maybe you complicate things for yourself" "Loving is simpler than that" " lt's not simpler" " Then why be sorry?" "What is this?" "If you're sick of him, stop" "You can tire of people And leave them" "And that's fine I can't leave people, I can't" "There are lots of ways to leave" "Have you left lots of people?" "Plenty Of course" "Hang on" "We've never talked about that" "Besides betrayal, why did you leave them?" "When there's no understanding" "Or else, out of anxiety" "Or when you feel lonely even when you're with someone I don't know" "Do you want my opinion or my permission?" "To do what?" "Space B318 when you come back" "I didn't get it Are you leaving me?" "Why?" "You want to end it?" "You're crazy" " Tired of me?" "You're nuts!" "Butyou always keep your distance l want to love you, butyou don'twant to" "You flee, you run away lt kills me" "We don't see each other every day or live together because we decided itwas better" "You thought so, too I can't be with somebody all the time I told you a hundred times" "We never see each other, so the problem's settled" "Whatever we do, it boils down to the same thing:" "People disappear, and it's normal" "When do you leave again?" "Tomorrow night" "Six weeks I hope it goes well" "No one's going to disappear" "No one" "We'll get things off our chest Everything will be fine" "Oh, Daniel, it's been a while" "You have Mr Michon today" "Are you okay?" " Are you hurt?" " l'm okay" "My leg I'll be all right" "I'll be okay, thanks" "I'll leave it here" "Will you be okay?" "I'll be fine" "Gotta go see thatjerk" "Have fun" "Make way" "Out of the way" "Mister, can you hear me?" "Can I talk to you?" "Are you awake or do you want to sleep?" "How should I know?" "What the hell is it now?" "I was thinking about things, and one question's been nagging me" "Not right here and now but I'd like an answer to it" "What's this retirement home business?" "What do you go there for?" "Who's there?" "My father moved there to that retirement home, when I was 20 or so" "My mother had died, so he split, sold everything and retired there" "He said that since my mother was dead," "he had no more attachments to anything" "That's all" "He wanted to move there I'd already left home, I was crashing at friends'" "There you have it" "What'd your mother die of?" "Hit by a bus" "No" "What d'you mean, no?" "You don't get "hit by a bus "" "I'll never buy that one" "You throw yourself in front of a bus" "You're such a pain!" "My story doesn't interestyou" "Only the opinion you have about it Shit!" "She was sick Something incurable I'll go for that" "And then?" "So my father split" "The retirement house had everything he wanted:" "a bed, a roof, people to talk to down at the cafeteria" "He decided thatwould be his life until he died I went to see him 2 or 3 times a year" "It surprised him, but he never said so" "When I went" "I had to think up things to talk about, because he never had a thing to say" "And then, one day, something happened" "He finally told me something" "We were in his room" "He finally told me" "What had gotten him through life" "what had made each day possible" "He wasn't trying to tell me ltjust came out like an offhand remark" "Maybe because itwas hot out that day and his card partner didn't show" "So all of a sudden, it came out" "Every day of his life, he went to pray" "An hour in the morning, an hour in the evening" "Without that, he said he'd already be dead" "Because he had no taste for life" "Whatwas your family, Catholic?" "My family was nothing at all" "My mother was against all that We were nothing at all" "Except him ln the 15th arrondissement, where we lived," "he'd go to the Protestant church nearby" "Even as a kid, I never saw him go in or out" "Near the retirement home he found one like it, only smaller" "And he was content" "And so, did you talk to him about it?" "Not a word" "Itwas as if he'd told me a dirtyjoke I felt like puking I split" "I never went back" "And then he died" "But now, you go back" "Yes, I do" "I thought I'd drop by" "Or we can meet up afterwards I'll go for a walk" "Have something to tell me?" "It's not like you to pop in I got off work early, that's all" "What about the lunatic?" "That him?" "Did you put him to work?" "Cut it out, it's Michel" "Since you left, I've had time to think I said to myself" "You're so levelheaded and rational" "With me, I get the feeling thatyou just ran into me" "That I'm here by force of circumstance I didn't run into you, I chose you" "I can tell you all the details, the weather that day, everything" "You didn't notice me the first time, but I saw you I can tell you all about it" "Whatwould that prove?" "If I fell in love, you could fall out of love" "Don't feel obliged to be with me lt's too much of a chore for you" "Yes, it is a chore" "Yet, complications are normal" "Smooth sailing gives me thejitters" "We're in synch, then I don't like smooth sailing either" "What are you doing with me?" "Tell me that" "Tell me" "We could go out, couldn'twe?" "You don't have to finish tonight, do you?" "I don't have to, but that's what I plan to do" "Why are you with me?" "Because you've taken a place in my life that no other man has ever taken" "Before, when I was with somebody, I had the feeling that men were dealing with some other girl than me" "Her name was Sonia, too" "But she didn't talk like me, she didn'twant the same things as I did," "I had the feeling I was filling in, replacing the real Sonia" "With you, I told myself right away that there would be no filling in" "You took me the way I am" "You were sure of me" "And?" "Itwas selfish I don't know" "It had never happened to me before ltwasn't selfish" "You felt happy" "Now we have to leave each other alone" "I thoughtwe'd make it" "but I don't have the strength" "And neither do you" "Stop it" "Take care of yourself" "Sonia" "Please" "Subtitles:" "Cynthia Schoch  Lenny Borger" "DVD Subtitling:" "CNST, Montreal"