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Rob: Would you find it harder to make those jokes about disease now that we're ten or eleven years older than we were [at the time of writing Human Remains]?

Julia: What, and closer to...?

Rob: And closer to all those diseases, and closer to friends of ours... you know, we're in that age now...

Julia: Which diseases?

Rob: Well, we did lots of jokes... we did different types of cancer...

Julia: We did cancer.

Rob: And I would defend that, when people would sometimes question it, by saying, "Oh, we're confronting our fear of it."

Julia: I really believe that's true.

Rob: And I think there's truth in that. I think there's truth in that.

Julia: Absolutely.

Rob: But I do think that I might make different judgements now. Being that much older, I'm more inclined [to think], "I don't want to confront it; I'd rather just pretend it's not there," because I think, oh, I may have to confront it, you know?

Julia: Mmmm.

[after a thoughtful pause]

Julia: I think I still would.

Rob: Oh, really?

Julia: Yeah.

Rob: You brutal woman.