WIP TRANSCRIPT IS NOT FINAL Santiago, Chile FADE IN Details, pastries and the table set. María Teresa (VO) about pictures of her friends. My friends and I get together for tea once a month. For the last 60 years. Photographs of years passed gathering at the table, reached “60 years after high school“. María Teresa sitting at the table. The nuns in school were so mean. I remember when I dated Willy, he was in Valdivia and I was in Santiago - - I was about 16 years old — he sent me a beautiful picture and I kept it in a French chrestomathy. -Chrestomathy? = The nun asked for the chrestomathy, she opened it and Willy’s photo fell out. Then she said: María Teresa, no wonder you are on the margins of the class. And I asked myself, what does that mean, on the margins? Within the margins or outside? Awful, how embarrassing. Angélica sitting at the table. I think all men are unfaithful. Unfaithful by nature. Who said that? I did, and the Bible says it too. Remember that everyone was a polygamist. There is always a secretary stalking. I say men are unfaithful by nature, and when they are not it’s because they haven’t had the opportunity. Text CARD “One year later” Picture “61 years after high school” Pastries (Detail) María Teresa (VO) She was pretty mean to me; mind you, I was dating Willy then and he would write to me from Valdivia... María Teresa at the table He sent me a beautiful photo, he was a man already. The nun saw the photo in the chrestomathy...== We did say chrestomathy, didn’t we? ?????????????? She saw me flipping through the chrestomathy and said: Give it to me and I gave it to her and she saw Willy and said, María Teresa, no wonder you are on the margins of the class. And I thought: What does that mean? Within the margins, or outside? Ximena laughing, María Teresa (VO) I literally had my mom´s blessing to date Willy. María Teresa at the table My mother would receive my letters at our house; she used to receive them and read them. No, she didn’t open them, but once I had opened them, she would read them I caught her once and said to her: Mom, why are you reading my letter? You leave your letters lying around everywhere, she said. And she added: Look, we mothers have a right to read the letters. Oh? Who told you that? The mailman told me. Details of the food on the table Angélica at the table I believe that since the beginning of the world, men have been unfaithful. Men are polygamists by nature. Men disseminate. According to my theory, the one who’s faithful is faithful because he’s had no opportunity to be unfaithful. That´s the whole truth because I think that every man . . . Well, maybe not Saint Joseph . . . . . . every man in front of a flirty woman blinking her eyes and moving everything else, falls for her. Text CARD “Another year later” Photograph “62 years after high school” Details of the food preparation. María Teresa at the table The letter anecdote. Willy would send one letter a week to my house from Valdivia; my mother loved him - my mother always liked to marry people off — so when the letters arrived she would put them on my nightstand. And she would always tell me: Willy says this or that . . . Until one day I said: Mom, you are reading my letters. Yes . . . Who authorized you? Well . . . It’s illegal, isn’t it? She goes: No, it’s not illegal. I say: How do you know? I asked the mailman. And she added: There are no secrets for mothers. Mothers can do it . . . Look what she invented! Angélica at the table I believe all men are unfaithful by nature. The other day I spoke with my doctor, she agreed that men are polygamists by nature. Or bigamists at least. Those who are faithful, are faithful because they haven’t had a chance to be unfaithful. No, no. Look, I believe that all those who had the opportunity, have been unfaithful. Those who haven´t, maybe those didn´t meet the secretary ... or the office bimbo. The friends taking pictures of themselves on the couch. Angélica(VO) A very important aspect to note about our friendship is that we can repeat the same story two or three times and nobody will say: “You already told me so.”