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Jane: Well, JFK is a very young man, during World War II. I'm willing to suspend disbelief.

Jack: How long do you have to suspend it for?

Jane: About four hundred words altogether.

Jack: Who's the first couple?

Jane: Adam and Eve. I would have started with Gaia and Uranus, myself, and gotten some Big Bang theory in.

Jack: Maybe he's a Biblical Creationist.

Jane: He's not especially reverent otherwise. But you have to start somewhere.

Jack: Read me a line.

Jane: "The sex was so good that even the neighbors had a cigarette." He gives that to Milton Berle.

Jack: ( laughs) That was good.

Jane: He's having sex with Aimee Semple McPherson.

Jack: How does she like it?

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