00:00So, did she ask you a question?
00:00He sees himself as quite the estate,
00:04but when she's done with him,
00:05we eatin' red meat and women.
00:07What about you?
00:09You talk about everyone else,
00:10but you never talk about yourself.
00:13I'm not that interested.
00:19I mean, you do have a private life.
00:22I'll let you in on a little secret.
00:25I've invented my own sex.
00:32See how they hushed?
00:34Absolutely hushed when I leaned forward,
00:36all those big ears wondering what old Carr was saying.
00:41You haven't always been old Carr.
00:44In fact, I remember a young Carter Page
00:47who once, I believe, attempted to ask me out.
00:54The 70s were a confusing decade.
00:57A lot of things were blurred.
01:01Still, it was an interesting notion.
01:06You wanna hear a personal story?
01:09Okay, I'll tell you a personal story.
01:11Not about me, of course.
01:12About my grandfather, Carter Page, the first plantation page.
01:17This was before he started dabbling in politics,
01:21became governor, 19 years old, Colesville, Virginia.
01:26He had fallen in love with a photograph of a young woman,
01:32Johanna Combs, of Philadelphia.
01:35For a year, they corresponded daily, my grandfather looking at her picture as he wrote,
01:41I honestly hope that ere another Christmas shall have come, our longings will have been displaced by full fruition.
01:51My grandfather always talked like a man with a Bible half open in his head.
01:59He boarded the National to Philadelphia.
02:02That night, they went to the opera.
02:04At intermission, he got up, returned home to Colesville, married my grandmother.
02:11The two pen pals, Carl and Johanna, never saw each other again.
02:17When my grandfather and grandmother had their first child, they named her Johanna.
02:31And that's it? That's the story?
02:35That's all I ever heard.
02:39I'd give my right arm to know the rest of it.
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