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I will tell you the story of a man.

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My man, Billy.

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And how he got lost for a while.

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Until beauty found him.

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How are we doing?

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BILLY AND MOLLY
LOVE STORY OF AN OTTER

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EVENTS

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We moved here
in search of a better life.

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Billy took me to Shetland,

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the last British outpost
before the Arctic.

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Cetaceans?

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Yes, it was a good year
for tourists

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who come to see the cetaceans.

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He was born here,
but he's been gone too long.

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It was in his blood.

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I asked him
what exactly did it mean,

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and he said he didn't know.

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We got an old house
near the sea

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and we set about renovating it.

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Pretty soon, we're at it again
find yourself immersed in routine.

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Lerwick Thistle, zero,

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No Unite, zero,
Wastside Rebels, zero.

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Sometimes, when you realize
all your desires,

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you convince yourself that it is all of that
that you need.

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You convince yourself that you are happy.

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We have been both
guilty of this.

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After all, who isn't?

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Billy had a void in his heart.

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Maybe it's the emptiness a man feels
who never became a father.

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He would never have let you see it,
in fact he convinced you of the opposite.

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Just as he had convinced
himself.

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I would never have imagined that one
little creature appeared at his feet

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it would have changed everything.

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Hey, hello!

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It was March.

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It was the third of March when I had it
lucky enough to know her.

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It was all bones.

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What are you doing here?

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He ate a crab. When
an otter eats a crab,

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it's more energy it uses
than the nourishment it draws from it.

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It wasn't a good sign.

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Here the otters are very wary.

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For being so calm with me,
she must have been desperate.

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HI.

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I don't know where it came from,

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but an otter had been killed
nearby.

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I thought it was his mother

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and that she was too small
to get by on their own.

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Maybe I was his last chance.

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She was vulnerable, and she was alone.

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He brought me back
at a moment in my life,

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of my childhood,
where I too had felt alone.

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A horrible feeling,
the feeling of being exposed.

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And I immediately projected
that feeling about her.

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Good morning, beautiful, how are you?

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Are you hungry? Come on, let's go.

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Watch your fingers.

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The stronger it became
and the more time we spent together.

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What had begun
like a chance encounter,

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it turned into trust.

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Leave the engine alone, otter.

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Yes, it's the gas can.

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I called her Molly, I don't know why.

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It came to mind like this.

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Let's go.

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It made me smile,
and the smile remained imprinted on me.

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I don't know if Billy had at the time
idea of what Molly needed.

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He didn't need a friend.

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He needed a mother.

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- What are you planting?
- Your favorites.

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Daisies Livingstone?

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Beautiful. Until it arrives
Molly to dig them up.

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If that otter digs them up,
I will hold you accountable.

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Jade would never do that.

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Molly had lost her family,
so it became part of ours.

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She seemed to be lonely
and that he wanted company.

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Billy picked up a book about otters
to understand what he needed.

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But it didn't contain the answers.

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So he decided to give it a try
to find out for yourself.

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Come in, I've filled your bathroom.

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It's not a sea otter,
even if it lives in the sea.

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It's a river otter

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and its fur needs fresh water
to remove the salt.

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He has no body fat and no hair
that's all he has to keep warm,

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therefore, if conditions worsen,
he will die quickly.

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Do you enjoy rubbing yourself?
Come on, rub yourself and dry yourself.

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Sometime
I'll have it washed.

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Maybe that's why it rubs
in my jacket after swimming.

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He sleeps a lot.
So she needs a nice bed.

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Getting to know Molly is important
understand his different moods.

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Sometimes he comes to visit us
to stay with us.

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Sometimes she throws tantrums and is angry,
as if he were in a bad mood.

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Sometimes he just wants to dig up
Susan's flowers.

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And she's picky,
sometimes even too much.

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His favorite food is salmon,
but I can't afford it often.

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So they have to eat
cod or mackerel.

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In spring, treat Molly
it had become our whole life.

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In the end, everything seemed
rotate around the fish.

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That? Did he take the bait? Nothing.

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Don't think I don't know
why we are here.

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- What do you mean?
- You know what I mean.

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We're fishing for dinner.

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- Fishing for Molly, you mean.
- Didn't you want cod?

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I would like some cod, but I don't see any
much of what you take home.

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- He ate a small one.
- She eats them all!

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A cod.

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Hold the bucket still, I'll put it there.
Two moving targets are too many.

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Well! We know they are there.

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Hold here so I can... release it.

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Molly will like it.

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When we didn't go fishing,
Billy was on the phone,

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calling anyone he could
to find more fish.

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It cost us a fortune!

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But it was clear that Molly
it became stronger and stronger.

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Billy decided
that we needed a new freezer.

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The other was full of fish
for Molly.

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Okay, can you stabilize it? So do I
I lift it and place it on the ground.

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Do you clean it before putting it in?

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I could, but it's clean inside.

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- But it's dirty outside!
- Yes, ok, but... We can clean it.

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- Is that bird poop?
- No!

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- Ready?
- Yes.

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Without haste. Watch your back.

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Okay, next.

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OK perfect.

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Do you like driving along the B9076?

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Do you also like Muckle Roe?

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Then visit the island
of Northmavine.

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It was impossible
take it out on Billy.

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Because he loved Molly.

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To be honest with myself,
I have no idea what I'm doing.

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I can do the obvious things,
make sure you eat well,

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take a bath every now and then, but a
apart from this, I don't know what to do.

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I don't know how old he was
when we met.

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Probably no more than six months.

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It wasn't big enough
to survive the winter.

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So it must have more
many skills to learn.

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And he won't learn them from me
that I throw her the fish.

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The otters here feed on
small fish found in algae.

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Molly. Molly. Here, here.

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If I taught her to take them,
maybe it would be a start.

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Molly!

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Molly, come. Molly, baby.

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Look here.
Not there, look what I show you.

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Come on, you're the otter,
you should be good.

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Molly, come on! Molly, beautiful.

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Molly.

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You're not getting carried away, are you?

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Is it good? Do you like dinner?

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How is dinner, good?
I'm happy to help you.

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Where are you going now? Where are you going?

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It seems like it has
a switch in the head.

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When it clicks, she leaves.

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Billy and Molly
they weren't very different.

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Both seemed to have
the extraordinary ability...

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...to focus on just one thing.

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For about 15 minutes.

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When you build
an extension of the house...

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...and you're a year late...

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...sometimes it's hard to live with.

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One day I went to the shed
and I found a package from Amazon.

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I usually do the shopping.

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But it didn't have my name on it,
Billy's was there. I opened it.

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There were two bags
of colored balls.

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My first thought was:

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"He couldn't have bought them
for Molly!"

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I don't know if it's the right thing.
Sometimes I feel a little stupid.

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But then I see how happy he is
when he plays.

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If he had a family,
they would be abrupt and playful.

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But she only has me,
and I have bills to pay.

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Billy's job at the station

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meant that he was often
away from home for long shifts.

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Then I had to be his substitute.

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HI.

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Hi, this is a strange case.
I'm not calling about the dog.

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We have a wild otter that
he comes to visit us almost every day.

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We noticed that he is vomiting
on his chest and coughs a little.

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We wondered
if he needed help.

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Of drugs.

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BILLY 3.14pm
HOW IS THE LITTLE GIRL TODAY?

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SUSAN 15:14 HE IS WELL,
HE SLEEP UNDER THE BOAT.

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BILLY 3.14pm DID HE EAT THE COD?
TELL ME WHEN HE GET UP.

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SUSAN 15:14 I SHOULD BE
AT WORK. YOU TOO!

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Crab fingers, mercy!

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Crab fingers in soup.
It's not the best.

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For those tuning in now,
let's talk about Cullen Skink.

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I love oxtail, but it seems
no longer be in fashion in 2020.

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It's a dying soup!

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Hi, little one.
This will make you feel better.

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Ready?

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Good. Good.

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Having Molly in your life is great
Billy a sense of responsibility

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which helped him a lot.

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But part of being a parent

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is to understand when the responsibility
satisfies a child's need...

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and when it satisfies
your need.

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Billy didn't want to bring Molly
out of our garden.

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It was as if he wanted to convince himself

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that she needed him
more than he really had,

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pretending he didn't have a life
beyond the garden.

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But he had it.

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Jade and I found out
during a walk.

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HI! HI.

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Hi, Molly.

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A lot of time passed
fishing in the lake.

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Quite far from home.

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I had seen another side of her.

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She was more confident and independent.

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Live like a wild otter

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it was probably good for her
to health.

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And he had friends.
He played with other otters.

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One was the male who came
at our house from time to time.

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Billy called him Bozo.

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He was a tough guy.

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But seeing Molly with Bozo...

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it made me understand

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that even though she was fundamental
in Billy's life,

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he was just a part of hers.

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I didn't know
how it would make him feel.

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So I kept the secret
between me and Molly.

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I was happy he had it
another life, besides ours.

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Otherwise, probably
I would never see my husband again.

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But after all, she made him happy
and he made me happy.

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Isn't that what love is?

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Letting someone be themselves,

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because that person is all of that
that you need.

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Jade.

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Jade.

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Jade. Do you want to go for a walk?
Let's go. Stroll.

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Jade, come. Jade, come! You come!

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Jade! Jade, come.

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Molly, are you coming too?

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Come on, let's go rummaging!

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You come! Molly.

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You come.

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Good. Get one too.

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At a certain point, the relationship
of Billy with Molly has changed.

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From him helping her...

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to her helping him.

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Molly, you understand how it works.

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You take more than how many
I can find some.

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Look at you! You are a professional.

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Molly awakened a part
of me who was asleep.

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Oh, hi.

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It's like he shows me
like being a kid again.

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That charm,

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00:34:41,287 --> 00:34:47,752
that joy that somehow
we seem to lose as we age.

248
00:35:57,321 --> 00:36:01,993
Today it is unusually hot
to Shetland. The good weather will last.

249
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,789
In the next few days, the high
pressure will come from Scotland

250
00:36:06,956 --> 00:36:08,666
and from Northern Europe.

251
00:36:08,833 --> 00:36:12,628
Temperatures will reach
20-25 degrees.

252
00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:15,923
Molly needed them
less time and attention,

253
00:36:16,090 --> 00:36:19,760
so Billy could finally
finish the house.

254
00:36:21,304 --> 00:36:25,099
The delay was taking
a lot of pressure.

255
00:36:26,809 --> 00:36:32,106
I was happy that our lives
were getting back on track.

256
00:36:43,117 --> 00:36:47,121
Until one evening he came home
with a big smile

257
00:36:47,246 --> 00:36:53,461
and told me he was done
the house and if I wanted to see it.

258
00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:02,553
I almost didn't suggest it
to go and live there.

259
00:37:17,443 --> 00:37:19,362
We call them "but and ben".

260
00:37:19,528 --> 00:37:22,907
There is only kitchen, living room
and bedroom.

261
00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:27,745
Like at our home.

262
00:37:30,915 --> 00:37:34,043
Today I installed Wi-Fi
at Molly's house.

263
00:37:37,046 --> 00:37:40,883
- Have you installed Wi-Fi?
- Wi-Fi? Yes.

264
00:37:41,092 --> 00:37:43,886
- Does Molly have Wi-Fi at home?
- Well, yes.

265
00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:48,516
- And I don't have Wi-Fi at my house.
- She doesn't know she has Wi-Fi.

266
00:37:48,683 --> 00:37:50,268
It's for the camera.

267
00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:56,023
But yes, it technically has Wi-Fi
throughout the house, okay?

268
00:37:56,232 --> 00:38:01,237
Honey, we can work this out.
I'll get you another little thing.

269
00:38:01,445 --> 00:38:03,447
But you've been saying that for a long time.

270
00:38:03,572 --> 00:38:04,740
I know, but...

271
00:38:04,907 --> 00:38:07,451
And then I find out what you put
Wi-Fi from Molly.

272
00:38:07,576 --> 00:38:09,120
Wait. Look.

273
00:38:09,287 --> 00:38:13,332
And as you say,
he doesn't even know he has it, Wi-Fi!

274
00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:25,928
I'll buy you a new Wi-Fi router
for the birthday.

275
00:38:26,095 --> 00:38:29,265
Don't even think about it.

276
00:38:31,142 --> 00:38:32,601
At Christmas?

277
00:38:42,695 --> 00:38:45,781
I installed a video camera
in his house.

278
00:38:45,948 --> 00:38:49,535
And a special app
who tells me when he's home.

279
00:39:22,443 --> 00:39:25,863
Molly's new house
it was fun,

280
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:29,992
and as much as we liked it
look inside it,

281
00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:33,537
I think he made the point
where Billy understood...

282
00:39:35,748 --> 00:39:38,501
that he had perhaps pushed himself
too far.

283
00:39:52,390 --> 00:39:55,184
Billy always said
that he was supposed to bring Molly

284
00:39:55,351 --> 00:40:00,523
to the point of surviving
to winter without his help.

285
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:06,904
And as summer gave way
to the long autumn nights,

286
00:40:07,071 --> 00:40:12,201
whether he wanted it or not, he was forced
to keep that commitment.

287
00:40:18,374 --> 00:40:24,088
We began to see another otter
who came to us at sunset.

288
00:40:28,926 --> 00:40:33,013
And then, one evening,
we realized who he was.

289
00:40:34,598 --> 00:40:41,021
It was Bozo. And he was looking for Molly.

290
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:02,168
I should be happy for her.

291
00:41:07,882 --> 00:41:11,677
But instead I feel protective.

292
00:41:13,012 --> 00:41:18,309
She's my little girl. It's tough
to see her leave with "him".

293
00:41:37,578 --> 00:41:40,831
But I can't do anything about it.

294
00:41:44,168 --> 00:41:48,672
I can only leave them
a little space.

295
00:42:15,449 --> 00:42:17,785
I will stop feeding her.

296
00:42:19,828 --> 00:42:21,705
I do not want.

297
00:42:23,874 --> 00:42:25,834
But I know I have to do it.

298
00:44:41,887 --> 00:44:45,265
I will never forget that morning.

299
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:53,190
It was such a fragile moment.

300
00:44:55,234 --> 00:44:57,820
And I think Billy knew it.

301
00:45:05,411 --> 00:45:08,997
It was like he was
collecting memories.

302
00:45:11,083 --> 00:45:13,836
He knew it couldn't last.

303
00:46:13,562 --> 00:46:17,858
Molly came back a few times
in the following two weeks.

304
00:46:27,451 --> 00:46:30,412
Then he stopped the farce alive.

305
00:46:42,549 --> 00:46:46,053
Winter came quickly
in Shetland that year.

306
00:46:46,053 --> 00:46:48,388
And again,

307
00:46:48,555 --> 00:46:52,768
life was governed by the wind,
from the cold...

308
00:46:54,561 --> 00:46:57,648
and from North Atlantic rage.

309
00:47:33,559 --> 00:47:36,353
I found a dead otter
on the beach.

310
00:47:39,815 --> 00:47:44,319
I thought it was Molly,
but as I get closer,

311
00:47:44,444 --> 00:47:46,989
I saw it was a puppy.

312
00:47:49,032 --> 00:47:54,371
Maybe he got lost in a storm,
separated from his mother.

313
00:48:10,262 --> 00:48:15,767
I wanted to leave it to the seagulls,
but I couldn't.

314
00:48:19,396 --> 00:48:24,568
There was a bit of personality,
a little life there.

315
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:39,249
It wasn't an animal like everyone else
the others. It was a creature.

316
00:48:42,294 --> 00:48:46,131
Like Molly. Just like me.

317
00:49:42,604 --> 00:49:46,274
Billy was sorry
that he stopped feeding Molly.

318
00:49:47,401 --> 00:49:51,363
He pretended it wasn't like that,
but I knew it.

319
00:49:54,741 --> 00:49:57,911
He started leaving her fish again.

320
00:49:59,496 --> 00:50:01,623
Hoping he would come home.

321
00:50:06,253 --> 00:50:08,630
But only seagulls ate.

322
00:50:24,271 --> 00:50:27,149
A month passed, then two.

323
00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:33,572
There was no sign of her.

324
00:50:54,092 --> 00:50:58,597
The only peace Billy found
it was out there...

325
00:51:00,348 --> 00:51:02,100
in the storm.

326
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:00,867
At the end of January I took Billy into town

327
00:52:01,076 --> 00:52:03,954
to see the procession
by Up Helly Aa.

328
00:52:06,331 --> 00:52:09,042
People build
a Viking rooster,

329
00:52:09,042 --> 00:52:13,839
and parades it through the city.
Then he burns it on the playground.

330
00:52:15,674 --> 00:52:17,509
A tradition?

331
00:52:17,676 --> 00:52:22,097
Or maybe just a distraction
from the brutal Shetland winters.

332
00:52:25,725 --> 00:52:28,562
I was hoping it would lift a little
Billy's spirit.

333
00:52:30,605 --> 00:52:33,191
But his mind was elsewhere.

334
00:52:46,163 --> 00:52:48,373
I have never had children.

335
00:52:52,794 --> 00:52:56,590
Maybe those who have it don't realize it
that there is always a part of you

336
00:52:56,756 --> 00:52:59,926
mourning the loss of something
that you never had.

337
00:53:03,221 --> 00:53:06,474
You live with it and deal with it.

338
00:53:09,269 --> 00:53:12,522
But the loss is always
a little deeper.

339
00:53:58,109 --> 00:54:00,820
It always seemed crazy to me.

340
00:54:03,114 --> 00:54:06,826
Spend so much time
to build something beautiful.

341
00:54:08,995 --> 00:54:11,706
Only to raze it to the ground.

342
00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:57,669
Susan.

343
00:54:59,421 --> 00:55:01,047
Susan.

344
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:11,933
Molly! Molly! Molly, baby.

345
00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:24,070
Molly!

346
00:55:26,573 --> 00:55:32,495
Molly! Where the hell have you been,
little scoundrel?

347
00:55:32,662 --> 00:55:34,414
You're home.

348
00:55:35,915 --> 00:55:38,752
You chose the right evening!

349
00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:48,803
You have no idea what
you got us through.

350
00:56:08,531 --> 00:56:13,745
Oh, you're my little one,
my little one.

351
00:56:31,930 --> 00:56:35,433
It was so beautiful
see him happy again.

352
00:56:37,769 --> 00:56:41,106
It was the sparkle in his eyes.

353
00:56:44,943 --> 00:56:46,903
And you know what?

354
00:56:47,070 --> 00:56:51,533
Better a man who knows how to love
and loving...

355
00:56:53,410 --> 00:56:56,079
than one who is indifferent.

356
00:57:57,724 --> 00:58:02,770
- Is that a breast?
- Yes.

357
00:58:02,896 --> 00:58:04,397
Wow.

358
00:58:06,524 --> 00:58:09,903
It squirms a lot.

359
00:58:10,987 --> 00:58:13,156
He has no rest.

360
00:58:17,327 --> 00:58:20,038
Look at that belly.

361
00:58:23,917 --> 00:58:27,754
She's pregnant, there's no doubt about it.

362
00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:38,681
Look, he's making his bed.

363
00:58:38,848 --> 00:58:42,852
It doesn't have all those pillows
to worry about.

364
00:58:50,652 --> 00:58:52,487
Oh, look at her.

365
00:58:55,365 --> 00:58:59,869
Indeed, the way
he puts, the way he lies down...

366
00:59:01,329 --> 00:59:05,083
I'd say she doesn't miss much
to give birth.

367
00:59:39,951 --> 00:59:43,162
What an effect it has on me
that Molly is pregnant?

368
00:59:52,463 --> 00:59:57,468
When your children grow up,
you prepare them, you look after them...

369
00:59:58,845 --> 01:00:01,431
help them in any way
to become adults

370
01:00:01,598 --> 01:00:03,808
and live their lives.

371
01:00:06,853 --> 01:00:11,691
Molly. Are you having children?
Are you having children?

372
01:00:19,532 --> 01:00:24,162
In a strange parallel way,
I feel like I did it with Molly.

373
01:00:31,127 --> 01:00:34,130
It's like Molly coming back
with a child.

374
01:00:36,215 --> 01:00:38,593
I feel like I've done my job.

375
01:00:41,721 --> 01:00:43,514
I have arrived.

376
01:01:49,163 --> 01:01:54,210
In May, Molly showed up
regularly.

377
01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:57,338
We had noticed a change
in his behavior.

378
01:02:00,133 --> 01:02:03,177
She looked exhausted.

379
01:02:04,846 --> 01:02:09,267
Instead of wanting to play
and fish around the pontoon,

380
01:02:09,434 --> 01:02:11,853
he just wanted to sleep.

381
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:18,860
And he slept a lot.

382
01:02:26,534 --> 01:02:31,956
Then, one day, when she came
to visit us, we found out why.

383
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:45,303
Oh, look.

384
01:02:51,601 --> 01:02:54,395
Oh, but look!

385
01:02:58,149 --> 01:03:00,485
And well done Miss Molly.

386
01:03:05,198 --> 01:03:07,325
How cute she is!

387
01:03:12,580 --> 01:03:14,749
Molly has become a mother, Jade!

388
01:03:37,647 --> 01:03:41,526
He must be nine or ten weeks old.

389
01:03:48,157 --> 01:03:50,243
He's a bit short-tempered!

390
01:03:59,585 --> 01:04:01,879
Move!

391
01:04:06,259 --> 01:04:08,553
Teeth out, little one!

392
01:04:50,636 --> 01:04:53,764
I'm trying to sleep.

393
01:04:55,266 --> 01:04:58,978
Come on, I'm tired, go away!

394
01:05:08,446 --> 01:05:12,033
He must have left it there
to go fishing,

395
01:05:12,158 --> 01:05:15,620
then she came back,
and remained there alone.

396
01:05:15,786 --> 01:05:17,788
Molly looks happy.

397
01:05:24,712 --> 01:05:29,175
Puppy soon
he will follow her everywhere.

398
01:05:31,427 --> 01:05:35,097
And that's when Billy
will have to take a step back.

399
01:05:36,766 --> 01:05:39,185
Must conserve
fear of humans.

400
01:05:42,897 --> 01:05:47,443
But he told me it was there
one last thing he had to do.

401
01:05:50,988 --> 01:05:52,949
Say goodbye.

402
01:05:56,494 --> 01:05:58,579
So I bought him a gift.

403
01:06:02,833 --> 01:06:05,127
Come on, undress!

404
01:06:07,546 --> 01:06:09,882
Your skin is all red.

405
01:06:13,177 --> 01:06:17,139
{\an8}- It's very narrow.
- It is true!

406
01:06:18,641 --> 01:06:22,269
{\an8}- But it has to be tight.
- I do not know.

407
01:06:23,437 --> 01:06:26,732
{\an8}Help me put on
his arm in the other sleeve.

408
01:06:33,072 --> 01:06:36,575
That's it. Ready!

409
01:06:46,419 --> 01:06:51,132
It's been over a year since
we found Molly on the dock.

410
01:06:54,635 --> 01:06:56,595
And there is a part of his world

411
01:06:56,595 --> 01:06:59,932
that I have never seen
and of which I am not a part.

412
01:07:08,274 --> 01:07:10,484
She always enters my world,

413
01:07:10,484 --> 01:07:13,279
but I never did
a step into his.

414
01:07:21,370 --> 01:07:24,623
But I know I should.

415
01:07:28,127 --> 01:07:30,212
I want to see him with her.

416
01:09:01,971 --> 01:09:06,892
Now that she's a mom,
takes life more seriously.

417
01:09:29,081 --> 01:09:32,835
He still has a sense of fun.
That's still there.

418
01:09:42,803 --> 01:09:45,806
And I think I inherited that a little bit.

419
01:10:09,121 --> 01:10:13,918
Don't bother me about the fish,
doesn't demand attention,

420
01:10:14,126 --> 01:10:19,465
does not dig up Susan's flowers,
he doesn't poop in my boat,

421
01:10:19,632 --> 01:10:22,468
he doesn't steal the ball from Jade.

422
01:10:24,553 --> 01:10:26,472
Here she is herself.

423
01:10:28,098 --> 01:10:31,060
Completely independent of me.

424
01:10:46,867 --> 01:10:49,787
I see the creature,
beyond the character.

425
01:10:54,625 --> 01:10:59,755
So graceful,
absolutely in his element.

426
01:11:03,550 --> 01:11:07,096
It's simply perfect.

427
01:11:25,197 --> 01:11:31,829
And then that little switch
it clicks in his head. And he goes.

428
01:11:38,544 --> 01:11:40,754
And I remain alone.

429
01:11:47,803 --> 01:11:51,265
Except… they're not, right?

430
01:12:50,866 --> 01:12:54,745
I'm cold, the wetsuit
he hugs me around the neck.

431
01:12:55,954 --> 01:13:00,334
The mask leaks,
the salt water burns my eyes

432
01:13:00,501 --> 01:13:02,461
and I have to pee.

433
01:13:03,754 --> 01:13:05,631
But I don't care.

434
01:13:12,304 --> 01:13:14,765
Because I'm lost in this world.

435
01:13:43,168 --> 01:13:48,424
And the line that separates us
from nature...

436
01:13:52,344 --> 01:13:54,680
Molly's world from my...

437
01:14:01,353 --> 01:14:03,772
If you showed me one thing...

438
01:14:05,107 --> 01:14:07,234
is that there is no line.

439
01:14:42,769 --> 01:14:48,025
Molly came into our lives
when we needed it most.

440
01:14:50,777 --> 01:14:53,113
And it changed us.

441
01:14:55,574 --> 01:14:57,868
It's quite big.

442
01:14:58,035 --> 01:15:00,787
It opened our eyes again.

443
01:15:00,996 --> 01:15:02,498
Look.

444
01:15:03,916 --> 01:15:08,212
It reminded us of who we were,
not who we had become.

445
01:15:10,756 --> 01:15:13,717
I lost them. Oh, there they are.

446
01:15:17,763 --> 01:15:22,059
Beauty is powerful
when it takes you by surprise.

447
01:15:23,644 --> 01:15:26,146
And Molly showed us.

448
01:15:27,898 --> 01:15:31,193
And she didn't have a clue.

449
01:16:05,811 --> 01:16:07,896
What are we having for dinner?

450
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:16,446
- Cod?
- I'm tired of cod.

451
01:16:18,031 --> 01:16:22,119
Well, we have a lot to finish.

452
01:16:22,286 --> 01:16:24,746
We have a freezer full of them.

453
01:17:17,424 --> 01:17:21,261
I have a gift. This is for you.

454
01:17:32,314 --> 01:17:36,318
You take? Good!

455
01:17:39,279 --> 01:17:41,281
Translated by: Paolo Ferrarini