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🗓️ 31 August 2025
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People starting over—sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
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| 0:00.0 | Things were just starting to look up for Jorge when the thing with the TV happened. |
| 0:02.3 | He'd just moved to a new town, started his life over, found some work, got a place. Years of searching around and vagueness were ending. It's going well. Like the way that I'm procrastinating now is by doing work, you know? You know, I'm coming into my own. Like, I feel good. I'm paying bills relatively on time. He'd moved to New York City, which was scary, |
| 0:37.7 | and lucked into an apartment that real New Yorkers told him was a find, a little studio in the East Village, one room, good location, cheap. And then one night he's sitting at his table, watching The Bachelorette on TV. And it's the episode where the Bacheloret has whittled it down to four guys that she's going to pick one from eventually. |
| 0:40.5 | And she's in New York City, visiting one of the potentials. And, you know, she goes out to dinner with his family and they're, you know, they eat and, you know, they've got the shifty-eyed sister. And, you know, like, everybody's family acts the exact same way, you know? Right. And then they get in the limousine and they decide to go back to his apartment. |
| 0:40.2 | Now like... way, you know? Right. And then, and then they get in the limousine and they decide to go back |
| 0:56.4 | to his apartment. Now, like, now I'm, now I'm on the edge of my seat. Because, you know, |
| 1:03.2 | I just moved, I moved to New York, like, it's an enormous city. And I would be so excited |
| 1:08.7 | if I could recognize a street. I would be so excited. |
| 1:11.7 | It would just make me so happy. |
| 1:14.1 | And so I'm totally excited. |
| 1:20.1 | So they get out of the limo, and he hugs are in the street, |
| 1:23.9 | and they pan, and they show a building, they show an awning. |
| 1:32.3 | And it's my awning it's your building it's my building it's the awning to my building it says the address it says the street it's you know it's possibly |
| 1:38.9 | the only place in new york i actually know you You know what I mean? |
| 1:49.4 | And then he opens the door and she comes in and it's my lobby, you know? |
| 1:50.7 | There's my lobby. |
| 1:52.9 | There's the row of mailboxes, you know? |
| 1:56.9 | And I'm just like, I'm out of my chair and I can't talk. I'm like, you know, like pointing at the TV. |
| 2:00.0 | Like, if it were me, I would think, like, are they here right now, like, in the building? |
| 2:05.1 | You, you're too smart. I mean, I was, you know, I was, I couldn't think. I was just like, |
| 2:11.6 | you know, it was, you know what I mean? I was just like, it was, you know, I was just flabbergat. It just couldn't be happening, you know. He watches them take the elevator up to the fourth floor. Jorge lives on the fifth. They walk down the hall to a door. And then Jorge realizes something else. You know, he doesn't just live in the city as me. He doesn't live in the same street as me. He doesn't just live in the same building as me. He basically lives in my apartment. He lives in the exact same apartment. It's the exact same layout. So wait a second. So the camera goes inside this apartment and you see your apartment, basically. A much better version of my apartment. His is much better. The walls are whiter. The place is cleaner. The furniture |
| 2:54.7 | is nicer. He has a half wall. He's got a half wall. A half wall with them brick, glass blocks. It's |
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