I love him, but what did I do to deserve him?
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Narrator:
[about a therapist's radio show]
I found the show silly and always imagined my parents on it airing their standard complaints. Mother:
He's a business failure. He never finishes what he starts. We're forced to live with my relatives and thank God for them. And I should have married Sam Slotkin. Father:
Sam Slotkin's dead. Mother:
Yes, but while he was alive, he was working. Father:
She'd be lost without her whole family around her all the time, and you should see 'em. They're like some kind of tribe. They're like the Huns. Maybe if I had married a more encouraging woman, who knows? Mother:
So who do you think is right? Mr. Abercrombie:
I think you both deserve each other. Mother:
What does that mean? Father:
Look, we didn't come here to be insulted. Mother:
I love him, but what did I do to deserve him?
[about a therapist's radio show]
I found the show silly and always imagined my parents on it airing their standard complaints. Mother:
He's a business failure. He never finishes what he starts. We're forced to live with my relatives and thank God for them. And I should have married Sam Slotkin. Father:
Sam Slotkin's dead. Mother:
Yes, but while he was alive, he was working. Father:
She'd be lost without her whole family around her all the time, and you should see 'em. They're like some kind of tribe. They're like the Huns. Maybe if I had married a more encouraging woman, who knows? Mother:
So who do you think is right? Mr. Abercrombie:
I think you both deserve each other. Mother:
What does that mean? Father:
Look, we didn't come here to be insulted. Mother:
I love him, but what did I do to deserve him?
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I found the show silly
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and always imagined my parents on it
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airing their standard complaints
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He's a business failure
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He never finishes what he starts
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We're forced to live with my relatives
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and thank God for them
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And I could have married Sam Slotkin
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Sam Slotkin's dead
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Yes but while he was alive he was working
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She'd be lost without her whole family
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around her all the time and you should see 'em
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They're like some kind of tribe
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They're like the Huns Maybe if I had married
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a more encouraging woman who knows
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So who do you think is right
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I think you both deserve each other
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What does that mean
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Look we didn't come here to be insulted
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Movie Summary
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
