Love in the First Person
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At twenty, College Photographer of the Year winner Matt Eich has maturity dropped on his lap: his world-class career takes off, just as his girlfriend becomes pregnant. Together, they document their budding lives, as they grapple with some very grown-up choices.
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Main credits
Eich, Matt (filmmaker)
Eich, Matt (photographer)
Eich, Matt (on-screen participant)
Eich, Melissa (filmmaker)
Eich, Melissa (photographer)
Eich, Melissa (on-screen participant)
Stevens, Chad A. (film producer)
Cook, Diane (film producer)
Maierson, Eric (film producer)
Other credits
Photography, Matt and Melissa Eich.
Distributor subjects
photograher, family issues, parenthod, relationship, youth issues,; Expository; WOKeywords
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I think that God knew
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what I needed
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so much more than I knew what I needed.
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And that you were and are
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exactly that person.
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I don\'t ever want to feel like
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I\'m keeping you from going
to the places you want to go
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so I just want you to take me with you.
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Don\'t leave me behind.
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So I hope that means something
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and um, thank you for everything.
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I\'ve always known
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I wanted to be a father at some point.
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Baby in there!
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It\'s all been a question
of timing, I guess,
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so this is a little sooner
than I would have thought.
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You wonder if you\'ll be a good parent
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or a good husband or if
you\'ll just fuck it all up.
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God can change something that
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feels like
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such a shock as finding out
we\'re going to have a child
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into such a blessing and I\'m so excited
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that he gave us the opportunity
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to um create another person,
so that\'s crazy, but.
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And I\'m so excited that they
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will be able to look like you.
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Matthew David Eich you are my favorite.
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Love you.
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If I put my ear down on your belly I can
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hear it moving and kicking.
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And that\'s pretty cool.
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You get really excited every
time you feel it moving.
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It\'s kind of like the world stops.
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Thanks for trusting me.
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For being a part of my life.
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I love you.
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Nothing good comes without
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some sort of struggle. So I
know it\'s going to be difficult
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Packing every stressful event imaginable
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into the next year and half.
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Moving, new job, school, baby, marriage.
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We\'ll see.
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It\'s got to be what
bungee jumping is like or
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jumping out of an airplane
or rappelling or something.
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Where you just get to the
edge and you\'re like ok
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and you just let go and whatever
happens is going to happen.
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I think one of my favorite
pictures taken at the wedding was
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the one of my brother when
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he saw me for the first
time in my wedding dress.
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And it was just kind of this look of,
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Wow this is real; my little
sister is getting married.
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And he just started to cry.
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I guess that...
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that moment where sort
of the realization of,
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We\'re here and this is what\'s happening,
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was when she was walking down the stairs
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and her dad was walking with her.
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She was real pretty.
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When I was walking with my dad I was
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incredibly happy that I
had found this person
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that I wanted to spend
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my life with. But at the same time,
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part of me was sad that,
in some way, I was, like,
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being taken from my dad.
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My dad took my hand and put
my hand in Matt\'s hand.
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I mean that\'s what was happening.
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It was just like I wanted to
laugh and cry at the same time.
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I\'m a true believer in the old saying
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that true love only comes along
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once in your life.
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Um, I know it happened to me.
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I\'ve seen it in my sister\'s
life with her husband.
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My best friend Warren.
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It\'s all around us. I think
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given that, um, you\'ve got a good shot.
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So I\'d like us to all raise a
glass to Melissa and Matt;
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to a lifetime of health,
happiness, prosperity, hope,
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and love. God bless you.
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First dance as a couple.
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We\'ve been coping together
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because we\'re both in a
really strange place
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that we don\'t know and we
only know a few people.
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But I\'ve had to cope alone when it comes to
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stresses from work.
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And you\'ve had to cope alone
when it comes to stresses of
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of preparing to be a mother, and
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not having a job, or, like,
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a community of friends and a
support network around you
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as we\'ve moved out here.
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I think that\'s well put. I agree with that.
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Sometimes there\'s part of me that...
that really wants to go,
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and just kind of get out of here and do
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significant work or do
something that matters
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or do something overseas,
or travel here or there
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or that freedom to... to
go wherever, whenever.
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But...
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it\'s something I\'m willing to
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trade in for a steady family life
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and just the opportunity to be a good dad.
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You know, I mean, what\'s...
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what\'s another award if
I suck at being a dad.