Seemed appropriate.

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The Show Must Go On.

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On that topic, help me think of a Halloween costume that ain't from Rocky Horror. I wanna actually leave the damn house.

Nineteen, and your old ass is thirty now ain't it?
Nah, that'd be your girlfriends breaking my skull.

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Oh man, I'm bad at these....

Yes. So gross on too many levels.
That too. After she broke my balls.

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Well fuck me.

An' how big's the age gap between your girlfriends?
Like fucking grapes.

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How about... a rockstar?

My girlfriends aren't immature little shitheads.
Yup.

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Too easy.

We sure Aeron's another version of me?

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A werewolf?

Yes.

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Fuck no, I had enough of that makin' Beth's costume last year.

Then she's an immature shithead.

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A fish.

Not the same.

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..Nah I'd end up going full Ariel.

[Richard frowns deeply.] The fuck? What happened to her, make her grow up fast?

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A merman!

I mean Smith is much younger than you both.

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Right out.

By four fucking years! I'm only twenty-five for fuck's sake!

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Why?

Yes, and there's a huge difference in those four years and you know it.

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Ain't going Ariel.

Yeah, an' most people don't bury their dad at nineteen and go fucking crazy.

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I said merMAN, not merreheadlady.

Fine, dropping it, since you clearly have a vastly different relationship with the kid.

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Meremen are fucking stupid.

Probably, but that ain't it. I'm sayin' we grew up way too goddamn fast, you more than me. Smith didn't. Ain't so much that he's immature, he's just goddamn normal.

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Fine.

Okay then.

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Whatcha dressing the kids up as?

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I dunno. Last year I kinda got in trouble for just picking stuff and doing it myself, so I think I'll let the girls decide. Unless the kids want something special.

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Biggest one--Carl, right? He's getting old enough he might.

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He's so big, and so smart.

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Yeah? Bethie's always asking she can go play with him.

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She can! I bet he'd love that. And Aster loves her big cousin.

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Yeah? I tell you Beth wouldn't let me buy her an elephant toy? Kiddo thought I was makin' fun an' she wasn't having any of it.

[He pauses, smiling brightly.] Always wanted this, you know? Cousins for my children to play with.

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She is too sweet!

I'm glad to provide them.

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When she ain't trying her hand at kidnapping.

I love you for it, man.