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♪ Thank you for being a friend
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♪ Traveled down the road
and back again
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♪ Your heart is true
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♪ You're a pal and a confidante
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♪ And if you threw a party
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♪ Invited everyone you knew
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♪ You would see the biggest
gift would be from me
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♪ And the card attached
would say
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♪ "Thank you
for being a friend" ♪
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Blanche, would you mind coming
over and actually doing something?
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Well, Dorothy Zbornak, are you
implying I'm not pullin' my weight?
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That's between you
and the laws of physics.
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Come on, honey.
These are your father's things.
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You should be helping.
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The auction's less than a week away.
There's a lot to do.
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It's just so hard for me.
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Big Daddy's only been
gone for a year.
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Here I am, already
selling off his things.
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Oh, honey, it has to be done.
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I know it. I just didn't realize
how seeing these things
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would bring back
so many memories.
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Like Big Daddy's Bible.
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Never went anywhere
without this.
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Whiskey. That explains why
every Sunday after services,
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he'd stand up and yell, "I can
lick any man in this church."
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Huh.
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Oh, Pussycat.
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Just the person
I was looking for.
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I have a question for you,
strictly hypothetical.
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Let's say a man wants to take you out on a date.
Why is that hypothetical?
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Check your calendar, Pussycat.
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Uh, now, would you
rather this man
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had looks,
personality or money?
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Personality.
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Looks?
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Money?
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Why did you ask me that?
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No reason. Just wanted
to get your honest opinion.
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Here are the answers to
that questionnaire. Aha.
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If Dorothy finds out I hired a
matchmaker for her, she'll kill me.
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Oh, I understand.
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By the way, I'd like to change
the answer on number ten.
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I think a prison record
does matter.
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OK, but you just
cut her chances in half.
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Never mind.
Whatever you got.
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Sophia, are you sure you know
what you're doing? Of course.
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What do you think of a woman who cries
herself to sleep every Saturday night
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because she's bored and lonely?
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Your daughter does that?
I do that.
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If you can fix Dorothy up
with somebody,
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maybe I can get out of the
house once in a while.
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Or at least stay in
and walk around naked.
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Look, you better be goin'. OK.
I'll call you tomorrow.
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Oh, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
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You forgot to answer
the questions on the back.
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And I still need a picture.
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Would you settle for a
thousand words? No.
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All right.
I'll get you a picture.
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Now move, move.
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Hey, that sign says
"No soliciting."
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Come back hereand I'll blow
your head off, capisce?
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(telephone rings) I'll get it.
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Pussycat, I have another
hypothetical question.
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Let's say a man
is interested in you.
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This isn't gonna stop until
one of us dies, is it?
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No.
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Which of the following
characteristics could you live with?
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Body odor.
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Schizophrenia.
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Extra toes.
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Ma, I couldn't live
with any of those.
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Look, I am perfectly capable
of attracting a man
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who is charming, good looking
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and interested
in personal hygiene.
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Are you gonna take this
seriously or not?
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Blanche, are you all right?
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I'm stunned.
I'm just stunned.
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Honey, what's wrong?
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That call.
It was Viola Watkins.
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She used to be my mammy.
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Your what?
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My mammy - the woman who took
care of me when I was little.
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Oh, I'm sorry.
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I don't think I ever heard
anyone called "Mammy" before.
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What about Mrs. Eisenhower?
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"Mammy" Eisenhower.
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I think only the Nixon kids
got to call her that.
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Anyway, Mammy says she's gonna be in town
in a few days, and she wants to see me.
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You don't sound very happy about it.
Didn't you like her?
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Oh, I adored her.
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She was like
another mother to me.
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In fact, she was
the only friend I had.
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I was a lonely child.
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My sisters refused
to play with me
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because I was so beautiful.
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Do you know what that's like?
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No, course you don't.
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I loved her,
and I thought she loved me.
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And then one day,
when I was ten years old,
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she left - no goodbyes,
no explanation.
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Just disappeared.
I was devastated.
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We Southerners don't
forget things like that.
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It's true.
Possum is brain food.
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You know, I had a nanny
when I was a child.
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She was my best friend.
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I could tell her anything, and
I'd know she'd keep it a secret.
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Oh, we used to spend the days
running and playing in the meadow.
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Or playing hide-and-seek
in the barn.
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My nanny treated me
just like I was her own kid.
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Excuse me.
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Is there anyone here who doesn't
think she was talking about a goat?
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Hi, Pussycat.
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Gee, you look nice tonight.
Thank you.
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But lean over here and smile.
I think you have something on your teeth.
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Oh, really?
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Ma, why did you do that?
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Playboy is running a spread
on the substitute teachers of Miami.
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(doorbell rings)
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Oh, I'll get it.
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Excuse me.
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I'm looking
for Blanche Devereaux.
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Mammy?
Mammy Watkins?
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Blanche?
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I sure could use a hug.
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Okey-dokey.
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I was speakin' to Blanche. Oh.
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Dumplin'.
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Um... Mammy, I want you
to meet my friends.
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This is Dorothy Zbornak.
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How do you do?
Nice to meet you.
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And this is Rose Nylund.
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We've met. (laughs)
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Won't you sit down?
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Blanche, I wanted to
tell you how sorry I was
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to hear
of your father's passin'.
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He was a wonderful, wonderful man.
Thank you.
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As a matter of fact, that's
really the reason I've come here.
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Oh? My friends in Atlanta
read in the papers
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where you'd be sellin' off
his things here in Miami,
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and before you did, there's
something I'd like to ask you for.
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The Bible? No, thanks.
I don't drink.
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There was a music box.
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I gave it to your family,
and I just can't bear
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the thought
of a stranger buying it.
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I'm afraid I'm in no position
to bid for it myself,
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and I was hoping you could
give it to me as a gift.
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Let me get this right.
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I don't hear from you
for years and years,
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then out of the blue
I get a phone call,
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and you come waltzing
through that door
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and want me
to give you a music box?
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Oh, wait. It's Mamie!
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Just under the buzzer, Rose.
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It was of great
sentimental value, Blanche,
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I assure you.
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It just so happens we haven't
found any music box.
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Yes, we have. It's in that box
- Shut up, Rose.
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I'm sorry you wasted
a whole trip out here,
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but we're not handin' out
free gifts today.
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Why don't you drop by again
in another 30 years or so?
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We'll see what we can do.
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They grow up so quickly,
don't they?
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I had a wonderful time
tonight, Jack.
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Good. So did I.
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You know, I don't ever
go out on blind dates,
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but Ma was so insistent,
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and you sounded so nice
on the phone.
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I am nice.
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They don't call 'em "correctional
facilities" for nothin'.
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And a sense of humor, too.
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OK.
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Boy, I bet we're both relieved
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Mrs. Contini did such a great
job matching us up, huh?
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I'll have to thank her
in the morning.
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Wait. Could we
back that up a second?
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Who is Mrs. Contini?
What do you mean "matching us up"?
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You know, Mrs. Contini, the
matchmaker who brought us together.
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I realize the process
is hopelessly old-fashioned,
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but it's a lot more personal than those
video-dating services, don't you think?
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I'm afraid there's been
a terrible mistake.
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I think you'd better go.
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W-Wait. C-Can I see you again?
Probably not.
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I will be at the Florida
State Women's Prison.
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The one in Jacksonville?
They used to come to our dances.
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Why are you going there?
Murder.
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Oh, you're gonna meet
some great gals.
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Hi, Pussycat.
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Say goodbye, old woman.
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Have a good time?
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Do I sound like
I had a good time?
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How the hell should I know?
You're always like this.
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Your matchmaker set me up
with a criminal!
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White-collar.
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Ma, will you stop meddling
in my life? I am sick of it.
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I told you, if I want a date,
I can find one for myself.
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Oh, Dorothy. Dear, sweet,
delusional Dorothy.
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Blanche, if you don't mind, I'm having
a heart-to-heart with my mother.
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Now listen up, you withered
old Sicilian monkey...
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I don't have to take this.
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Keep it up, and I'll take you
to Shady Pines.
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That's where I take you.
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Ouch. Guess I backed
into that one.
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Blanche, what do you want me to do
with Big Daddy's encyclopedias?
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Oh, put 'em with the Bible
in the liquor cabinet.
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(doorbell rings)
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What are you doin' here?
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Blanche, I came here for more
than just the music box.
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It was wonderful to see you
after all these years.
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You are still
my little dumplin'.
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That's all very sweet, but you're
not getting the music box.
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Now, if you will please
excuse me.
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Blanche Marie Hollingsworth, sit down.
I'm not a little girl anymore.
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You can't tell me -
I said sit!
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Now, Blanche, that music box is a lot more
important to me than you can possibly know.
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I didn't give it
to your family.
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I gave it to your father.
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It was a special gift.
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I don't understand.
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Blanche, I loved your father.
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Of course you did.
Everybody loved Big Daddy.
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No, I mean I loved your father.
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Get outta here.
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We were lovers, Blanche.
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That's impossible.
Big Daddy was a Republican.
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These are letters he wrote me.
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They're personal.
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I wouldn't normally
have another person read them,
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but they explain everything
better than I ever could.
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I'm sorry, Blanche.
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I know this comes
as a surprise.
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(Rose) Look, Blanche.
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Oh, hi. I found this picture
of your mother and father.
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What do you want me
to do with it?
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Mrs. Zbornak.
Mrs. Petrillo.
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Oh, good.
You two are talking.
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We're not talking.
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I'm still furious with Ma for
hooking me up with that matchmaker.
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That reminds me of a story
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about St. Olaf's
most famous matchmaker.
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Oh, please, Rose, spare me
the endless inane details
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of how
Heidi Flugendugelgurgenplotz
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successfully matched a bull
with a duck.
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And how their daughter
was a bull duck
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who ran a small tattoo parlor
in Carmel.
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Honey, what's the matter?
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I just found out that Mammy
Watkins and Big Daddy
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had an affair.
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They were lovers.
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For over 50 years.
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And we can't even get anybody
to do our windows.
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Honey, are you sure?
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Yes. Mammy Watkins gave me these
letters Big Daddy wrote to her.
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"I'd swim across many oceans
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"for a glimpse of your face.
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00:14:13,586 --> 00:14:16,219
"I'd climb
the tallest mountains
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"for the sound of your voice.
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I'd walk a million miles
for one of your smiles."
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Seems authentic.
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I just can't get over it.
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Over what?
San Juan Hill, Rose.
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Over the fact that her father
had an affair with her mammy.
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I don't know what to think.
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00:14:42,682 --> 00:14:45,349
This changes everything I
ever thought about Big Daddy.
264
00:14:45,351 --> 00:14:48,852
I always assumed that he and
Mama had a wonderful sex life.
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I walked in on 'em once
when I was a little girl.
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There was all this huffin' and
puffin' and high-pitched sounds.
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Then suddenly Big Daddy
shouted "Glory!"
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and they both
lit up cigarettes.
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I vowed then and there I would
never do anything so repulsive.
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So what happened?
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Oh, Bobby Joe Porter
explained to me
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that the cigarette part
was optional.
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Remember that one time you
walked in on me, Dorothy?
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Oh, yeah.
I still remember what you said.
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"Mommy's sick.
Get help."
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I would have died if I'd ever
caught my parents having sex.
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You never walked in on them?
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Once, but they were
only playing leapfrog.
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00:15:47,379 --> 00:15:50,147
Have you seen Blanche?
I think she's in her room. Why?
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I really need to talk to her.
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00:15:51,951 --> 00:15:53,850
Every time you need
to talk to somebody,
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you go to your mother
or to Blanche.
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00:15:55,854 --> 00:15:58,655
Why doesn't anybody ever talk to me?
Your advice always comes
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00:15:58,657 --> 00:16:02,292
with one of those
damn St. Olaf stories.
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00:16:02,294 --> 00:16:05,962
I can give advice without a damn St.
Olaf story.
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00:16:05,964 --> 00:16:08,065
Now, what's wrong?
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00:16:08,067 --> 00:16:10,434
Well, I just don't think
it was right of Ma
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to hire that matchmaker
behind my back.
289
00:16:12,839 --> 00:16:16,107
Now, why does she always
meddle in my life?
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00:16:16,109 --> 00:16:19,343
Dorothy, I recently read
about a man in...
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00:16:19,345 --> 00:16:22,747
Paris, France...
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00:16:22,749 --> 00:16:25,883
named Frudensteufer -
Rose...
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00:16:25,885 --> 00:16:28,419
Pierre Frudensteufer.
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00:16:28,421 --> 00:16:30,921
He worked
in his father's herring -
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no, quiche factory,
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and his father Lars Fr-
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00:16:35,561 --> 00:16:39,263
Do I look like I just fell
off the turnip truck?
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00:16:39,265 --> 00:16:44,000
No. But you do look like
the woman who used to drive it.
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00:16:46,772 --> 00:16:48,638
Her name was Uma Van Hefflan.
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00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:51,408
No relation.
Although she, too, collected string.
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00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:52,943
Well, one day -
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00:16:52,945 --> 00:16:54,344
Rose, stop yourself.
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00:16:54,346 --> 00:16:57,581
You're doing two of them
at the same time.
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00:16:59,016 --> 00:17:02,085
I know, and I'd like
to try to handle it.
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00:17:06,291 --> 00:17:09,660
I feel like
Hans the Plate Spinner.
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00:17:09,662 --> 00:17:10,995
Funny thing about -
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Rose!
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00:17:12,131 --> 00:17:16,300
Oh, my God, Dorothy.
I need help.
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00:17:16,302 --> 00:17:18,201
Rose, you're headed
for a meltdown.
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00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:21,005
Now make a point, any point.
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00:17:21,007 --> 00:17:25,142
The point of the story -
actually, two of the stories -
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is that you let your pride
get in the way too often.
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00:17:28,714 --> 00:17:31,715
The only reason your mother
did what she did
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was she didn't want you
to be lonely.
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00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:38,355
When you think about it, the idea
of a matchmaker is kinda sweet.
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00:17:38,357 --> 00:17:41,892
Dorothy, can we talk?
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I just want you to understand
why I did what I did.
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Pussycat, I realize I was wrong
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00:17:47,099 --> 00:17:50,201
by not talking to you
before hiring a matchmaker,
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00:17:50,203 --> 00:17:52,602
but what you don't understand
is where I come from,
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00:17:52,604 --> 00:17:55,005
matchmaking
is an age-old tradition.
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00:17:55,007 --> 00:17:57,074
For centuries,
people have been happy
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00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:59,310
being brought together
by a third party.
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00:17:59,312 --> 00:18:00,811
Ma, I understand.
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00:18:00,813 --> 00:18:05,015
I-I really appreciate
what you're trying to do.
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00:18:05,017 --> 00:18:07,251
Good. And in keeping
with that spirit,
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00:18:07,253 --> 00:18:11,722
I sold you to the sultan of Fatah.
Ma.
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00:18:11,724 --> 00:18:13,423
What?
You're a substitute teacher.
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00:18:13,425 --> 00:18:15,526
It'll be just like
The King and I.
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00:18:15,528 --> 00:18:18,395
Ma, why do you do this?
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00:18:18,397 --> 00:18:20,663
I want you to be happy.
I am happy.
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00:18:20,665 --> 00:18:22,665
Look, Ma, I know that you think
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00:18:22,667 --> 00:18:25,402
there's something missing
from my life, but there isn't.
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00:18:25,404 --> 00:18:27,905
If the right person
comes along, great,
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00:18:27,907 --> 00:18:30,808
but I don't need a man
to be happy.
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00:18:30,810 --> 00:18:32,742
I didn't realize that
about you.
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00:18:32,744 --> 00:18:34,244
On Mrs. Contini's
questionnaire,
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00:18:34,246 --> 00:18:36,513
there's a box about that.
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00:18:37,916 --> 00:18:39,750
Anybody for barbecued chicken?
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00:18:39,752 --> 00:18:41,552
Oh, I'm afraid we're
out of charcoal, honey.
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00:18:41,554 --> 00:18:44,354
Who needs charcoal?
That's what these letters are for.
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00:18:44,356 --> 00:18:47,892
Now, if I can just find that music
box, we'll have us a big ol' fire.
343
00:18:47,894 --> 00:18:49,493
Blanche, what are you doing?
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00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:52,062
I certainly can't let Mammy
Watkins have these things.
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00:18:52,064 --> 00:18:54,898
That'd be just like giving
my consent to what happened.
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00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,234
For my sake and my mama's,
I cannot do that.
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00:18:57,236 --> 00:19:02,072
Blanche, your father
obviously loved this woman.
348
00:19:02,074 --> 00:19:04,141
You loved this woman.
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00:19:04,143 --> 00:19:07,644
I think you'll feel a lot
better if you talk to her.
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00:19:07,646 --> 00:19:11,448
All right, I'll talk to her, but
I can't promise anything else.
351
00:19:13,718 --> 00:19:16,320
I once wrote some letters
to my nanny.
352
00:19:16,322 --> 00:19:18,989
We know, Rose.
She ate them.
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00:19:25,397 --> 00:19:27,998
(doorbell rings)
354
00:19:34,105 --> 00:19:35,306
Thank you for coming.
355
00:19:35,308 --> 00:19:37,074
I'm glad you called.
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00:19:37,076 --> 00:19:39,009
Please, sit down.
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00:19:46,718 --> 00:19:48,952
Well, this has been
very difficult for me,
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00:19:48,954 --> 00:19:51,388
but I want you to know
I forgive you.
359
00:19:51,390 --> 00:19:53,324
I don't need your forgiveness.
360
00:19:53,326 --> 00:19:55,826
I'm not ashamed
of anything I've done.
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00:19:55,828 --> 00:19:58,562
Blanche, your father and I
were in love.
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00:19:58,564 --> 00:20:00,731
We didn't mean for it
to happen, but it did.
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00:20:00,733 --> 00:20:03,467
In another time and place,
we would have been married,
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00:20:03,469 --> 00:20:06,503
but at that time in the South,
it wasn't an option.
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00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:09,306
And it wasn't only physical,
either.
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00:20:09,308 --> 00:20:12,876
You just don't go through what Curtis
and I went through just for sex.
367
00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:15,613
Although
that was reason enough.
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00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:18,449
Blanche, did I shock you?
369
00:20:18,451 --> 00:20:23,787
Yes. I've never heard anybody call
Big Daddy by his first name before.
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00:20:23,789 --> 00:20:25,822
He was the only man
I ever loved,
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00:20:25,824 --> 00:20:28,558
and now he's gone.
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00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,462
I'd like to have the music box.
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00:20:33,397 --> 00:20:34,765
No.
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00:20:34,767 --> 00:20:37,100
Fine.
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00:20:37,102 --> 00:20:38,869
Oh, yeah, that's right.
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00:20:38,871 --> 00:20:42,139
Walk out, just like the last time.
What are you talkin' about?
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00:20:42,141 --> 00:20:43,807
You didn't even say goodbye.
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00:20:43,809 --> 00:20:46,944
I woke up one morning,
and you were gone.
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00:20:46,946 --> 00:20:48,445
I loved you.
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00:20:48,447 --> 00:20:51,281
I spent the next few years
wondering what I'd done,
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00:20:51,283 --> 00:20:53,951
what I'd said
to make you leave me.
382
00:20:53,953 --> 00:20:56,319
So that's what this
is all about?
383
00:20:56,321 --> 00:20:58,622
Honey, you didn't do
anything wrong.
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00:20:58,624 --> 00:21:04,061
I had to leave that night because your
mother found out about your father and me.
385
00:21:04,063 --> 00:21:06,896
Well, you don't love a
little girl for ten years
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00:21:06,898 --> 00:21:10,033
and then just walk
out of her life!
387
00:21:10,035 --> 00:21:12,035
Aw, face it.
You didn't care.
388
00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:15,973
Did you or did you not
wear your very first formal -
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00:21:15,975 --> 00:21:19,443
white with pink trim -
to the junior prom?
390
00:21:19,445 --> 00:21:22,712
And did you not come home
wearin' a football jersey?
391
00:21:27,352 --> 00:21:30,988
It was dark in that hay loft.
392
00:21:30,990 --> 00:21:32,990
Your father and I
spent many an hour
393
00:21:32,992 --> 00:21:35,993
trying to figure out
what to do with you.
394
00:21:35,995 --> 00:21:38,228
You drove that man
to distraction.
395
00:21:38,230 --> 00:21:42,533
Maybe you talked about me, but that's
not the same thing as bein' there.
396
00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:44,401
I know that.
397
00:21:44,403 --> 00:21:46,503
I remember a wedding reception
398
00:21:46,505 --> 00:21:48,038
early one June
399
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,908
when the most beautiful bride
I'd ever seen
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00:21:50,910 --> 00:21:54,278
danced with her
equally handsome father.
401
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:55,412
You were there?
402
00:21:55,414 --> 00:21:57,681
The song was "Tennessee Waltz,"
403
00:21:57,683 --> 00:22:00,017
and you asked the band
to play it twice
404
00:22:00,019 --> 00:22:02,619
so you could dance with your
daddy as long as possible.
405
00:22:02,621 --> 00:22:05,555
I stood in the back
with the caterers
406
00:22:05,557 --> 00:22:07,458
so no one would notice.
407
00:22:07,460 --> 00:22:11,395
You don't know how much
I wanted to hug you.
408
00:22:11,397 --> 00:22:14,731
I just had to see my dumplin'
on her weddin' day.
409
00:22:24,442 --> 00:22:26,210
Here.
410
00:22:28,146 --> 00:22:31,348
I think Big Daddy
would want you -
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00:22:31,350 --> 00:22:33,383
I want you to have this.
412
00:22:33,385 --> 00:22:36,854
Blanche, I don't know
what to say.
413
00:22:38,323 --> 00:22:41,091
This isn't the right music box.
414
00:22:41,093 --> 00:22:43,160
That's the only music box
there is.
415
00:22:43,162 --> 00:22:44,994
The music box
I gave your father
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00:22:44,996 --> 00:22:47,898
was black enamel
and played "Stardust."
417
00:22:47,900 --> 00:22:50,233
(♪ "Bonanza" theme)
418
00:22:57,541 --> 00:22:59,876
Theme from Bonanza.
419
00:23:01,445 --> 00:23:07,184
Well, then, I guess we went
through all this for nothin'.
420
00:23:07,186 --> 00:23:09,987
I wouldn't say for nothin'.
421
00:23:11,388 --> 00:23:16,760
Then who the hell
gave him this music box?
422
00:23:19,697 --> 00:23:20,897
Hmm.