John encounters a panicked groom hyperventilating in a church bathroom just minutes before the wedding ceremony. He delivers a cynical yet ultimately moving speech about the transition from bachelorhood to the fulfillment of marriage to calm the man down, only to undercut the sentiment with his own predatory intentions.
JOHN: Yeah, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, "What have I done? I'm over.. I'm finished. Now it ends." And at what? Twenty-six?
[The groom nods]
JOHN: Twenty-six years of pure uncut premium Grade-A sexual freedom. Yeah, it's a drug. A drug that makes morphine look like skittles, and it's going right down the toilet as you descend into the abyss of country kitchens, dirty diapers, mind-numbing conversation about her "needs" and worse, the same sex with the same person, day after day, night after night, year in, year out.
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