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Character info:
Tsai is a girl and Yun is her boyfriend.

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[dial tone]

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[dialing 10-digit phone number]

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[phone ringing]

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TSAI: Hello?

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YUN: Hey Tsai

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TSAI: Hi

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YUN: Called you a bit earlier.

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TSAI: Yeah... I was out with my family.

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YUN: So what's up?
I was just thinking of you.

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TSAI: Yun...

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YUN: Yeah?

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TSAI: I have something to tell you.

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YUN: Ok.

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YUN: What is it?

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TSAI: ...It's too much.

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TSAI: We have to stop seeing each other.

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YUN: Tsai... what are you talking about?

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TSAI: It's over.

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TSAI: It's my parents! I can't face them!

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YUN: You're kidding me, Tsai,
we've been through this before.

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TSAI: They don't like you.

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YUN: They barely even know me.

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TSAI: They're never gonna change.

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YUN: I think you're over-reacting here.

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TSAI: No, I've made up my mind.
I'm sick of lying to them,

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TSAI: I'm sick of feeling
guilty all the time.

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YUN: Wait, how long have we been
together? And you do this over the phone?

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TSAI: It's just easier that way.

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YUN: Don't you owe it to me to tell me in
person?

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TSAI: Mmm, I once dumped someone over
email, so I guess this is a step up.

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YUN: Typical. You always take the easy
way out.

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TSAI: Trust me, this isn't EASY for me.

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YUN: Well, I'm not going to give up on us
just like that.

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TSAI: Yes! You have to!

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TSAI: Just... give up.

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YUN: Man, you're parents are really
old-school!

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TSAI: I know.

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YUN: Not even my grandmother is as
old-school as your parents!

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TSAI: Yeah, eh?

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YUN: You and me, we have everything in
common.

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YUN: Same jokes, same languages,
same culture.

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YUN: I mean, why do your
parents have such a problem with me?

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TSAI: You're an artist.

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YUN: Yeah! And so are you.

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TSAI: Exactly! Two artists can't be
together. We'll be poor.

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YUN: That's not true. I'm actually doing
really well these days.

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TSAI: Well, it's more than a money thing,
it's a respect thing.

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YUN: Wait a second. Artists used to get
tons of respect in the old days.

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YUN: They were up there with the scholars
in ancient Chinese society.

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TSAI: Maybe, but that's not the way it is
now, so what's the point?

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YUN: I...

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YUN: I just...

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YUN: things were going so
well between us...

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TSAI: Yun,

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TSAI: there's someone else.

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YUN: What?!?

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TSAI: My parents made me meet him.

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YUN: No one makes you do anything, Tsai.

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TSAI: He's a doctor, rich guy. He's 3
years older. They like him a lot.

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YUN: God! What is your parent's obsession
with the number 3?

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TSAI: Umm... I guess it's luckier than 4?

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YUN: Yeah, that makes sense.

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TSAI: Hmm.

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YUN: And a doctor? I mean, how
predictable is that?

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YUN: It's always either
a doctor or a lawyer.

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TSAI: Actually, my parents think lawyers
are mean.

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YUN: So... this is really happening?

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TSAI: Yeah.

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YUN: Tsai...

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TSAI: Yeah?

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YUN: Remember how we met?

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TSAI: Mmmhmmm.

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YUN: Well, if that wasn't meant to be,
then I don't know what is...I mean,

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YUN: ...our lives crossed paths
before we ever met in person.

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YUN: That's gotta count for something.

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TSAI: It was really special, but...

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TSAI: it wasn't meant to be.

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YUN: You know, this situation, really
doesn't make sense to me.

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YUN: We're two people who
are right for each other.

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YUN: So, it should be simple;

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YUN: should be a happy ending.

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YUN: I don't know why this
has to be so...

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YUN: difficult.

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TSAI: Life doesn't always have a happy
ending.

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YUN: Come on, you gotta stop watching
those Korean dramas;

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YUN: they've brainwashed you.

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TSAI: Hey, I like those Korean dramas.

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YUN: Aww, man, it's always about
impossible love. So depressing.

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YUN: And they always use
Pachelbel's Canon for everything.

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TSAI: You're such a geek. Kung Fu movies
are exactly the same.

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YUN: No way, at least they're willing to
stand up and fight.

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TSAI: Yun, please,

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TSAI: You have to stop.

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TSAI: You have to let me go.

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YUN: ...Ok

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YUN: Hey Tsai?

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TSAI: Yeah...

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YUN: You think we can just, maybe talk,

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YUN: I mean, the way we used to?

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YUN: I really just called you 'cause I
wanted to hear how your day was...

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TSAI: Yeah

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TSAI: Ok.

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TSAI: So...

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TSAI: What are you doing right now?

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YUN: I've just been laying here the whole
time.

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TSAI: Do you want me to just stay on the
line?

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YUN: Yeah,

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YUN: that would be nice.

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[soft music fades in]