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There's a great documentary
on the Reverend Al Green.

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Anybody ever see it here?

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We should all get it
from Netflix this week.

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[LAUGHTER]

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There's this amazing
scene where Al Green--

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you know, he had a conversion
experience, you know?

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He was, you know, singing.

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Did you see Barack Obama
sing with Al Green?

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Yeah.

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Wasn't that adorable?

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[LAUGHTER]

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That's the guy we
elected, right?

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[LAUGHTER]

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There's an amazing scene
where Al Green is preaching

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in his church, and
he's telling the story

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about the woman who
thinks, if I just

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touch the hem of his
garment, and she thinks,

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you know, I'll be healed.

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And she touches--
she grabs ahold

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of just the edge
of Jesus's tunic,

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and he says "somebody
touched me."

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And, but he's Al Green,
right, so he goes, "somebody--

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I mean, somebody touched me."

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[LAUGHTER]

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And then he does it again, and
again, and then pretty soon

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he's singing it, right?

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Somebody touched me!

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And it's so amazing.

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It's such an amazing,
amazing thing.

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I can't-- wow.

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If you want to just be lifted
up, go go watch this thing.

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I'm telling you.

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Here's a poem called,
"After the Movie."

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It really should be called
"After the Divorce."

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[LAUGHTER]

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OK?

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I think I mis-titled it.

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It really needs to be called
that, "After the Divorce."

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And anybody here relate to this?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Raise your hands.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"After the Divorce."

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The movie was The
Talented Mr, Ripley.

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Remember?

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Early Matt Damon.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So there's that.

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And there's a reference
to Matt Meister Eckhart,

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the great 14th century
theologian, a reference

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to the great 20th century
philosopher, theologian,

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Simone Weil, and a
reference to Janis Joplin.

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"My friend Michael
and I are walking home

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arguing about the movie.

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He says that he
believes a person can

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love someone and still be
able to murder that person.

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I say, 'no.

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That's not love.' "

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[LAUGHTER]

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" 'That's attachment.'

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Michael says, 'no.

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That's love.

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You can love someone, then come
to a day when you're forced

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to think, it's him or me,
think me, and kill him.' "

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Oh my god.

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" I say, 'then it's
not love anymore.'

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Michael says, 'it was love
up 'til then, though.'

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I say, 'maybe we mean different
things by the same word.'

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Michael says, 'humans
are complicated.

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Love can exist even in
the murderous heart.'

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I say that what he might
mean by love is desire.

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'Love is not a feeling,' I say.

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And Michael says,
'then what is it?'

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We're walking along West 16th
Street, a clear, unclouded

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night, and I hear my
voice repeating what

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I used to say to my husband--

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'love is action,' I used to
say, and say, and say to him.

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Simone Weil says that
when you really love,

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you are able to look at someone
you want to eat and not eat

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them."

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Janis Joplin says, 'take
another little piece

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of my heart right now.'

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Meister Eckhart says that as
long as we love any image,

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we are doomed to
live in purgatory.

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Michael and I stand on
the corner of 6th Avenue,

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saying good night.

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I can't drink enough of
the tangerine spritzer

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I've just bought.

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Again and again, I bring
the cold can to my mouth

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and suck the stuff from
the hole the flip-top made.

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'What are you doing tomorrow?'

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Michael says.

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But when I think he's saying
is, 'you are too strict, Marie.

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You are a nun.'

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Then I think, do I love
Michael enough to allow

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him to think these things of me,
even if he's not thinking them?

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Above Manhattan, the
moon wanes and the sky

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turns clearer and colder.

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Although the days
after the solstice

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have started to
lengthen, we both

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know the winter has only begun."

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