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This is Airfone, my name is Nuria.
May I help you?
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TEN MINUTES
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Yes, good evening.
I'd like some information, please.
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May I please have
your phone number?
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637546189.
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Your name, please?
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Enrique Gonzalez Martin.
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Your identification number?
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Yeah, it's 3356477658.
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And your home address, please?
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91 Principe de Vergara, 4D.
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Yes, sir.
What information would you like?
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Look, it's very simple.
At 19:35
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this afternoon a call was made
from this phone.
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I'd like to know
what number was called.
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I understand.
You say that at 19:35
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you made a call to another number.
Is that correct?
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-The call was made from my phone.
-One moment, please.
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Thanks for waiting.
I'm instructed that you can check
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the last 10 calls made
on your own receiver.
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I know, the problem is I've made
more than 10 calls since then.
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I can't provide you
with that information.
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Why not?
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It's unavailable.
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You have a record of all the calls
I make, right?
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Then I get the bill
with the number called.
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The duration and the time
of the call. Is that right?
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Exactly.
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You can consult the bill
when you receive it.
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But I need it right now.
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I'm instructed not to provide you
with that information.
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Okay, look. Am I Speaking
to a computer or to a human being?
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This is Airfone customer service.
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I just want to know if
you're a computer or a person.
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You're speaking with a person.
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Then don't say you can't provide me
with the information, okay?
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Can I speak with a supervisor?
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I'm instructed not
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to transfer calls.
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Want anything
from the machine?
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Sir, if you have any
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-other questions...
-Yes.
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I want to know
what number was called
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at 19:35 this afternoon
from my cell phone. That's all.
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I understand, but...
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I'm not asking
for the hell of it.
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This information
is extremely important to me.
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Look, my girlfriend left me.
She left earlier today.
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Have you got a boyfriend?
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We're not allowed to give
any personal information.
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Oh, right.
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It was just so you'd understand.
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You've been in love before.
haven't you?
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I understand, but I repeat...
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Hold on a second.
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Look.
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She was here packing her bags
earlier and she called
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a friend to pick her up.
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She used my phone because
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she'd canceled hers.
I don't know her friend's number.
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If you give me the number.
I can call her.
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You see how important
this is for me?
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Nevertheless.
that information is unavailable.
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What does that mean?
“Unavailable"?
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Can't you just look up the call
on the billing program?
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I know the exact time
because I checked the clock.
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It was 7:35.
- 19:35.
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I understand...
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You understand what?
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Can you understand desperation?
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The feeling of powerlessness?
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What's the world coming to.
If we can't help each other?
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Nuria.
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Imagine it's the other way around.
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Imagine I'm there
and you need the number.
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Wouldn't you ask me
if this is customer service?
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Why deny me information I'll get
anyway when I get the bill?
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I'm instructed that I really can't
give you that information.
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Is there a more personal version
of customer service?
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This is the only Airfone
customer service line.
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Can't you ask one of your
coworkers how to find the info?
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Maybe by calling
another department?
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I'm begging you.
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Please hold a moment.
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Thanks for holding.
I'm instructed that
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for user security no telephone
records can be facilitated.
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For my security?
Aren't you listening to me?
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If you have any other questions...
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Look. Nuria.
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I'm not stupid, and neither are you.
So don't treat me like I am.
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We'll be here all night, I'm not
hanging up until I get that number.
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You should know
there's a time limit
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for calls made to this service.
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Or what? I get electrocuted
by my cell phone?
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When the limit is reached
the call is interrupted.
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I'll call back.
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Correct. You can do that.
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But it wouldn't be you, right?
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There's plenty of us.
You might do better.
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Look, you've got
a sense of humor!
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You really are a person!
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Look, Marta, my girlfriend.
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Has taken a job abroad.
A great job in New York City.
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What she's always wanted. Her dream.
She asked me to go with her.
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But I can't decide.
Well. I couldn't.
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Earlier today as she was
cleaning out her drawers
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and closed her suitcase...
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I suddenly felt so empty inside.
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Then she left, closed the door.
and I just sat there.
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Who knows how long.
staring at the door...
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I'd never heard such silence.
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Since she left.
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Nothing makes sense anymore.
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I can't live without her.
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I know it's a cliché.
but it's true.
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It's a matter of life or death.
She's leaving tomorrow.
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Can't you understand?
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Can't you, dam nit?
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I need that number right away.
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Right now!
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Are you there?
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I'm instructed that I really
cannot provide you with
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that information.
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What are we doing?
Is this human contact?
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Who the hell cares
about the rules?
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Imagine you're at a crosswalk.
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It says “Don't walk"
and a little girl
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tries to cross and falls.
A truck is about to run her over.
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Wouldn't you save her?
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You'd be in no danger.
Wouldn't you save her?
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-But...
-Would you?
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Yes or no?
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-Yes or no?
-Yes.
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Yes! Yes! That's the first "yes"
you've given me all night.
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"Yes.“ You'd save her.
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But you'd have to ignore
the "Don't walk" sign to do it.
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You'd have to break a rule.
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And by breaking a rule.
you'd save a life.
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This is the same thing.
Please, give me the number.
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Nuria.
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I know you're not a computer.
Prove it to me.
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Give me the number.
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I can't provide that info.
I'm sorry.
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No.
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Before you said "yes.“
Not “correct."
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Or "affirmative." or "nevertheless."
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I bet they forbid you to say "yes"
in the training course.
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"Yes.“ or “Good day." or anything
that makes you sound human.
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But you said "yes.“ Because you're
human and you were listening to me.
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Part of you understands me
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and knows how important this is
and how long we've been talking.
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It's been almost 10 minutes.
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I hope that isn't
the time limit.
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I'm afraid so.
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Look, I'm very sorry
but there's nothing I can do.
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If you have any other questions.
I'd be happy to answer them.
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You have no idea
how I feel right now.
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How I feel inside, in my gut.
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My whole stomach is empty.
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Like a void.
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Like a huge sphere inside.
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Empty and painful.
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I've only felt like this
once in my life.
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You'll laugh.
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I had a puppy when I was a kid.
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A real ugly one, actually.
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Just a mutt.
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But I loved her.
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Her name was Mina.
We all loved her.
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My dad, my mom, me...
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Then one Christmas Eve
she disappeared.
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My dad and I went shopping
and she disappeared.
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We looked all day.
everywhere.
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But nothing. She was gone.
She was gone.
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So we had dinner anyway.
Imagine the mood.
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And then that TV commercial
came on.
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With the song.
"Come home, come home..."
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"Come home, come home
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for Christmas...
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It's Christmas Eve
and tomorrow's Christmas day..."
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We all started crying.
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I felt that emptiness inside.
just like now.
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They should take that damn
commercial off the air.
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How many people
has it devastated?
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Everyone misses someone
who'll never be home for Christmas.
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Maybe they should just go ahead
and cancel
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fucking Christmas.
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Nuria, are you there?
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Need a hand?
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"I'm instructed that
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Christmas should be
fucking canceled."
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For once your silence
makes you human.
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Did she come back?
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Who, my puppy?
Yeah, we found her
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the next day. Sorry to leave you
hanging like that.
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Have you got a dog?
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It's funny, isn't it?
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Your silence finally
makes you speak.
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What kind of dog? Don't tell me.
It's "personal information."
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German Shepherd?
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No.
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A poodle?
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No.
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Cooker Spaniel?
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You've got a Cooker Spaniel!
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They're very friendly.
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That means you must be
a good person.
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It took some time.
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But it came out in the end.
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Nuria...
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You know the number, right?
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The call
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made at 19:35?
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It's right in front of you.
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I can't...
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But you know it.
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Nuria...
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Is the first number nine?
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No.
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Six?
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It's six.
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A cell phone, right?
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Is the second number zero?
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No.
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-One?
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-Two?
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Three?
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Three.
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It's three.
Is the next number zero?
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-No.
-One?
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-No.
-Two?
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No.
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-Three?
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-Four?
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-Five?
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Six?
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Six?
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Six.
Is the next number zero?
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Is it zero?
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Come on.
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Next number zero?
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-No.
-One?
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-No.
-Two?
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-Two?
-No, no.
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Sorry. Three?
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-No.
-Four?
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-No.
-Five?
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-Six?
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It's six.
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Shit, we're almost
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out of time.
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Next number. Is it...
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one?
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-No.
-Two?
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-Three?
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-No.
-Four?
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-No.
-Five?
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-Six?
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Seven?
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-Eight?
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-Nine?
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That's all of them!
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No!
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Zero?
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Zero! Shit. I forgot zero.
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Is the next number zero?
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-No.
-One?
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It's one.
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Two more, right?
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-Next number zero?
-No.
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-One?
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-Two?
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-Three?
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-Four?
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-Five?
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Six?
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-No.
Seven?
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It's seven!
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One more. Nuria.
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Nine?
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Eight?
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We're sorry to inform you that
the time limit has been exceeded.
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Thank you for calling Airfone.
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Shit! Shit!
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One fucking number!
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I must be an idiot.
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Hello?
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Hello, is Marta there please?
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-You've got a wrong number.
-I'm sorry.
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Hello?
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May I speak with Marta please?
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Yes, hold on. I'll get her.