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Sue: I can help with that. It'll be just like the old days.

Debbie: No, I don’t need any help. I just need time to do it. That’s all.

Sue: I’m not saying you need it. If I help, it’ll be done faster and we can spend some time
together.

Debbie: (Sighs in frustration) Sue, it’s nice of you to offer but I’d rather do it myself.

Sue: I used to edit your stuff all the time. What is the big deal here?

Debbie: Sue, I love you and everything, but If you edit, I’ll have to look at it again and in all
likelihood, change it and that pretty much beats the point of getting help. Okay?

Sue: Fine. Here, (she offers Debbie the package she’s holding) I got you cake.

Debbie: I can’t eat that stuff.

Sue: And why’s that?

Debbie: I'm trying to lose weight and that stuff takes forever to shed off.

Sue: Your weight is normal. We checked that chart last time, remember? You’ve only gotten
skinnier since then.

Debbie: Sue, I can’t keep looking like this on camera. You always look chubbier than you are
on camera and right now I've got a double chin and that really really needs to go.

Sue: You're kidding, right?

Debbie: (Rewinds the same tape again) can’t you see it? It’s disgusting.

Sue: It’s a normal chin! And a normal neck! Just like the rest of you!
Debbie: Ugh, you sound just like my mom, who, by the way, said I looked amazing even
when I weighed sixty.

Sue: Um, probably because you did?!

Debbie: (Sighs) Sue, I'm tired. And I have a lot of footage to go over. Just leave me alone for
now. We’ll talk later.

Sue: The being tired part may have something to do with rewinding the same tape over and
over and over.

Debbie: Sue, that’s what we call editing. You'd think that of all people, you'd know that better
than anyone else.

Sue: I do. Which is kind of my point. It’s been edited enough. And yet you're still on the
same tape. The last edit you made was erasing the switchboard from the wall!

Debbie: It was messing with the aesthetic. It looked weird!

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