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How do you manage envy?

Oh, my gosh. I had a lot of it early on. Like I had a really hard time being able to enjoy like John

Krasinski and Zach Braff because I was like, they're taking up my spot.

I'm Rachel Martin and this is Wildcard, the show where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.

Pick a card one through three.

Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped them.

My guest this week is filmmaker Mark Duplas.

I have made more art and reached more people than I possibly could have anticipated.

In the summer of 2012, I was overdue with my first child, and so I went to the movies to get my mind off the fact that, you know, everything was about to totally change.

The movie was called Safety Not Guaranteed,

and Mark Duplas plays this guy who is dead set on traveling through time.

He's the kind of person who is dismissed and laughed at,

and he is so vulnerable, like his heart's just walking around in the world exposed, and at any second it could be crushed into a million pieces,

but it's not.

The script treats him with so much dignity, and he's all right in the end.

The credits rolled when the movie finished.

People filed out, and I sat there and sobbed.

Really sobbed.

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