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♪ ♪ [WIND BLOWING] ♪ [VEHICLE APPROACHING] ♪ [CELL PHONE CHIMES] [CLICK] ♪ [SPEAKING SWEDISH] [CELL PHONE RINGING] [SIGHS] ♪ [KNOCK ON DOOR] [INDISTINCT CHATTER] ♪ [CLINKING GLASS] [PEOPLE SHUSHING] REMEMBER, WHEN WE WERE CAREFREE TEENAGERS, WE--WE TRULY BELIEVED THAT WE WOULD NEVER BE SEPERATED... [LAUGHTER] THAT WE WOULD STICK TOGETHER FOREVER.
WE HAD OUR SECRETS.
[DIALOGUE FADES] ♪ ...OURSELVES INTO ADULTS...
SO THIS OLD SWEDISH POET, HJALMAR SÖDERBERG SAID, UM, "I BELIEVE IN THE LUST OF THE FLESH AND THE INCURABLE ISOLATION OF THE SOUL," AND YOU FEEL THAT PARTICULAR LONELINESS WHEN YOU MEET THE EXTREMES OF LIFE-- BIRTH, DEATH-- AND, UH, THAT'S WHY WE MARRY.
TO MAKE THAT LONELINESS BEARABLE.
LET'S MAKE A TOAST FOR THE BRIDE AND GROOM!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] ♪ ♪ [ELEVATOR DINGS] ♪ [DING] ♪ [MUSIC PLAYING ON EAR BUDS] ♪ [GROANING] ♪ [DOOR OPENS] [DOOR SHUTS] ♪ [ELEVATOR DINGS] ELEVATOR RECORDING: RELAX AREA.
♪ ♪ [ELEVATOR DINGS] [PEOPLE SPEAKING SWEDISH] ♪ [INDISTINCT CHATTER] ♪ ♪ [MOVIE PLAYING ON TABLET] ♪ [TIRES SQUEALING] [RAIN FALLING] ♪ ♪ MAN: PSST!
♪ [TIRES SQUEALING] SHH.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ HMM.
UM... HMM.
[SIGHS] ♪ [RADIO CHATTER IN SWEDISH] ♪ [TURNING DOWN RADIO VOLUME] ♪ [CAR STARTS] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ MAN: SHH.
♪ [THUD] [CELL PHONE RINGING] ♪ ♪ [CELL PHONE CHIMES] ♪ ♪ [INDISTINCT CHATTER OUTSIDE] ♪ [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] ♪ ♪ [CELL PHONE CHIMES] ♪ [PIANO PLAYING] ♪ [DOORBELL RINGS] GRANNY: HEH HEH HEH!
♪ [CELL PHONE CHIMES] ♪ [BELLS TOLLING] [BOY SINGING IN SWEDISH] ♪ ♪ ♪ [SIGHS] ♪ ♪ ♪ [CELL PHONE CHIMES] ♪ ♪ [DOOR SHUTS] ♪ ♪ [BELL TOLLING] ♪ [MUSIC PLAYING ON EAR BUDS] ♪ [MOANING] ♪ [GASPS] ♪ [SHOWER RUNNING] ♪ [STINA MOANING] ♪ THOSE WHO LIVE UNGODLY SHALL BE SENTENCED TO DEATH.
MAN: WHAT ABOUT THE GIRL?
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