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A woman discusses making tiny coffins on a blind date, then learns her date is a midwife and discovers the baby in his stroller is a doll he uses to meet women.
0:20 So funny. 0:22 You know, I, I always thought blind dates were a recipe for disaster, but this, this has been great. 0:29 I've had a great time too. 0:30 Yeah. You know, I got so caught up 0:33 Jeez. 0:34 in our Willa Cather debate earlier that I didn't even ask what you do for a living. 0:39 Oh, I make coffins. 0:41 Oh. 0:42 For babies. 0:46 Why for babies? 0:48 I just have a talent, you know, for making little pillows and little linings, little stitch work, 0:58 tiny engravings of tiny names. Yes, sometimes they don't even have names yet, so I just put like, we will miss you, or why question mark, why question mark. 1:13 So you don't, you don't make coffins for adults? 1:18 Yeah, why don't you make coffins for adults? 1:22 My delicate hands are much better suited for the intricate work of tiny details. 1:27 You know, in fact, just last week I made a beautiful inlaid 3 by 5 inch coffin for a couple in Delaware. 1:41 And once wood gets over 3 feet long, it just becomes unwieldy, and I get frustrated, and, you know, frustration plus woodwork just equals injury. 1:52 Oh, um, doesn't it bother you to be around dead babies all day? 1:57 Yeah, you know, um, I think it'd pretty much freak me out to be around dead babies all day too. 2:03 No. No, I just pretend that they're... 2:08 they're sleeping. 2:11 And I get to dress them up in little, little suits and little dresses. 2:17 And I get to, I get to put makeup on their little faces. 2:23 You know, for parents that want open caskets. 2:28 Sometimes parents want me to dress them up like lawyers or doctors. 2:36 Dreams that'll never be realized. 2:41 How did you get into that line of work? 2:44 Well, my father was a doll maker, so... But enough about me. 2:51 What do you do? 2:53 I'm a midwife. 2:54 Really? Oh, you should totally take my card. 3:04 I also do cats, small dogs, guinea pigs. 3:10 Oh my God, your baby! 3:12 No, I don't need it. That's just a, uh, doll in the stroller. 3:16 I use it to pick up chicks. 3:20 Shh. 
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