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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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(door opens)
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Why are you both wearing black?
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Did you just come
from a funeral?
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No, Rose. We were singing
backup for Johnny Cash.
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Of course we were at a funeral.
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Who died?
My best friend, Edith Flannery.
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I thought Mildred Feinberg
was your best friend.
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She was, but we've grown apart.
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I think her death
had something to do with it.
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I really thought Edith
would be around longer.
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She was only 88
and in perfect health.
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Then one night, bingo, she
closes her eyes and she's gone.
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She died in her sleep.
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Are you deaf? I said
she died playing bingo.
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Well, I guess Phyllis Glockman
will be my new best friend.
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Ma, I thought you hated
Phyllis Glockman.
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I do, but the rate
my friends are going,
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I won't have to spend
much time with her.
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I think Sophia's
really been shaken up by this.
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She's not the only one.
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Dorothy, what do you mean?
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Ma's 82 years old. Edith was
only six years older.
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You can guess
what I'm thinking.
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You're thinking your time with
Sophia may be running short.
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Wow, Blanche.
That's amazing.
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Now guess what I'm thinking.
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I was talking to Edith's
daughter after the funeral.
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She'd flown in
from San Francisco.
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She kept telling me how bad she felt that
she hadn't seen her mother in over a year.
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It's hard to stay close to someone when
they live clear across the country.
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I live in the same house with my mother,
yet we spend little quality time together.
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You know, sometimes we'll be
watching TV and I start wondering...
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how many more times
I have left like that.
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And I find myself
staring at her,
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like I'm trying to freeze
her face in my memory.
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Like I never want to forget
one single line or wrinkle.
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Suddenly she'll say,
"Why are you staring at me?
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I've been wanting to pick
my nose for the past half hour."
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Well, Dorothy, I live by
one simple rule.
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Share your love
with people today
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'cause they may be
gone tomorrow.
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That's a beautiful
sentiment, Blanche.
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Comes from dating
a lot of traveling salesmen.
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I heard a fable when I was a little girl in St.
Olaf that might help. Can I tell you?
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That's right, Rose. Wait till my defenses
are down and take advantage of me.
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Okey-dokey.
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Once upon a time in the magical
land of Flafluevenhaven...
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lived Toonder
the mediocre tiger.
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He was mediocre because there
was nothing special about him.
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He wasn't talented,
he wasn't smart,
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he wasn't rich,
he wasn't handsome.
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He wasn't good at anything.
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If he also wore a bad toupee,
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she could be describing
my Stanley.
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Anyway, it made
Toonder's wife miserable
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that her husband was best known
for being mediocre.
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I understand Marilyn Quayle
feels the same way.
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So she asked her fairy godmother
to grant Toonder the ability
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to perform incredible
feats of magic,
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and her wish was granted.
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Toonder the Mediocre
became Toonder the Magnificent.
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I guess he didn't want to change
the monograms on his towels.
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Well, Toonder the tiger
spent so much time performing
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that he didn't have enough time
to spend with his wife.
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She told him that she missed the time they
had together when he was just mediocre,
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so Toonder used his magic
only once more,
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and that was to make
his powers disappear.
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And they lived
happily ever after?
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No, actually she got bored and ran
off with Wiseblat the weasel -
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Toonder's old business manager.
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But they lived happily ever after.
What happened to Toonder?
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Oh, who cares, Blanche?
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Hey, once you hear
"happily ever after," it's over.
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Well, Dorothy, did you get
anything out of this?
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Actually I did get an idea.
You know what I'm gonna do?
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I'm gonna take Ma away for the weekend
to a cabin in the Florida Keys,
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where we can spend
some quality time together.
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You got that idea
from her fable?
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No, I got it from this brochure
somebody left on the table.
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But I'll tell you, I never would've read
it if her fable hadn't bored me to tears.
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Thank you, Rose.
You're welcome.
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Ma, I have a surprise for you.
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You've got a date
Saturday night.
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Better. Ma, we're going away for
the weekend, just the two of us.
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So pack your bags, we're off
to a cabin in the Keys.
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Wait a minute, Dorothy, you pulled
this one on me once before.
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Remember Shady Pines
Retirement Village?
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She told me we were
going to a resort.
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We pull up to this place
that looks like the Bates Motel
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and two goons in white coats
drag me inside.
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For the next year and a half, I'm forced
to make lanyards against my will.
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Ma, you know
that's not how it was.
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You're right. Sometimes they
forced me to make moccasins.
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No thanks. Not again.
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Ma, all I want us to do
is go away together,
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just the two of us.
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Ma, we'll go anywhere
you want to go.
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Great. I want to go to
Disney World.
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Then that's where we're going.
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Oh? All of a sudden you're gonna take
me after I've been asking for years?
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That's right.
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Leave your shoe sizes and whether you
want your moccasins in brown or black.
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Oh, hello.
This is Dorothy Zbornak.
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I'd like to confirm my reservation
on flight 505 to Orlando.
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Uh-huh.
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Uh, now, let's go over
the arrangements I made
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to have my mother taken away
at the departure gate.
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You don't know
what I'm talking about?
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Neither do I. Goodbye.
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Hi, Ma. Are you ready to go?
You bet, pussycat.
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I'm glad you stopped
being so suspicious.
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Oh, please, if you can't trust
family, who can you trust?
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(car horn) There's our cab.
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Oh, girls, don't forget to pick me
up one of those hats with ears.
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We won't forget, Rose.
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It's not for me, it's for one of the
girls in my Sunshine Cadet troop.
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Yeah, we know, Rose.
I'm too old for that silly stuff
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but the girls love it.
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Right, Rose.
You want R-O-S-E sewn on the back?
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If it's not too much trouble.
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Space Mountain, here I come.
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Ma, I told you, no scary rides.
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Then we'd better find another way to get to the airport.
The cabby is wearing a turban.
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They are going to have such
a great time.
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What are you doing?
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Oh, just doodling.
What do you think?
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Let's see.
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Oh, it's a tiger.
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With multicolored stripes,
wearing a tuxedo,
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a top hat,
and holding a magic wand.
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Oh, my gosh, it's Toonder
the magnificent tiger.
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Yes.
Oh!
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I've been thinking about him ever
since you told us that fable.
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You know when you just can't
get something out of your head?
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Oh, yeah, water's the worst.
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That's why I always wear
earplugs when I shampoo.
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I was talking about your fable.
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Listen, Rose, I've come up
with an idea.
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With your stories
and my illustrations,
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we just might have
a bestseller here.
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What do you say to us teaming up and
writing a kids' storybook together?
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Oh, Blanche,
that's a terrific idea.
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When my children were small, I bought those
illustrated storybooks all the time.
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And I bet your kids loved them.
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No, they had their own books.
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Ma, you've been in there for 20
minutes, now, what are you doing?
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Painting a fresco
on the ceiling.
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It's a bathroom.
What do you think I'm doing?
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What are you writing?
Oh, nothing.
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What do you mean nothing?
What is that?
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Well, Ma, you have such
a great sense of humor.
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I can never remember all
the funny things you say,
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so I've decided to keep
a journal.
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Journal? Who the hell are you?
Bill Moyers?
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That is classic.
"Bill Moyers."
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Fine. I'll give you great stuff
while we're on Space Mountain.
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Not so fast. Ma, I have a
surprise for you. What is it?
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Remember all those photos we
kept in Pop's old cigar boxes?
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I've organized them
into these albums.
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Ma, they're for you.
They're for us.
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They're for later.
Let's go.
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Come on. Ma, the park can wait.
Let's do this now.
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OK, but let's make it quick.
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Oh, Ma, look. Here's you
holding me when I was a baby.
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Do you remember what was
going through your mind then?
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Oh, yeah.
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I'll never forget that summer
day in 1932. I was thinking,
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"Boy, am I blessed to have such
a precious baby in my life."
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Oh, Ma, that's beautiful.
Things are going just great.
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Look at this. You're holding
my hand while I'm skating.
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What were you thinking then?
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I'll never forget that winter
day in 1934. I was thinking,
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"Boy, am I blessed to have such a
precious two-year-old in my life."
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Oh, look.
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Here's one of us
on a bicycle built for two.
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I'll never forget that spring
day in 1940. I was...
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Ma, you're making this up.
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Of course I am. How the hell should I
remember what I was thinking back then?
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I still look for Ed Sullivan
on Sunday nights.
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The scary part is
sometimes I find him.
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Ma, why can't you make me happy?
I want to do this.
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OK, OK, if a trip down memory lane
is gonna make you happy, pussycat,
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I'm willing to take
a short stroll.
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Listen, I'll tell you
what we'll do.
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We'll order dinner in, we'll
finish looking at the photos,
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and then we can reread
these old letters.
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Gee, it's too bad you didn't
bring along the slides.
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Ma, now you've got the spirit.
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I finished a sketch of Toonder's
little pals, the Dingleheimer twins.
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Wow. This book is
really coming along.
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Yeah, and you can chalk it
all up to synergism.
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Yeah, synergism. What would
we ever do without it?
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Good old synergism.
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You have no idea
what it means, do you?
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Not a clue.
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Synergism is
the powerful energy
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that is generated by two people
engaged in the same activity.
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Up till now, I had no idea it could occur
outside a Howard Johnson's motor lodge.
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You still have no idea
what I'm talking about, do you?
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Nope.
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Oh, but I can't tell you, Blanche,
how much I enjoy working with you.
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Me too. You know why?
'Cause we're not just partners,
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we're friends.
We're good friends.
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I feel I could say anything to you.
Of course you can, sugarplum.
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Even criticize your artwork.
Of course.
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The whole point of
collaborating is to
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get beyond our egos and come up
with something we both like.
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What do you think?
This could use a few minor changes.
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Drop dead.
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Whatever happened
to getting beyond your ego?
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My ego has nothing to do with it.
These drawings are brilliant.
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I have lived with
these characters all my life.
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I'll determine if your drawings are
brilliant, and that one needs work.
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What's wrong with it?
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You forgot Melvin the loneliest sea otter's
little beanie with the propeller on top.
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No, I didn't.
It blew away.
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It did not.
It did too.
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Big wind came along,
blew it right off his head.
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That couldn't have happened.
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I say it did and you're gonna
write it in the story.
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And what if I refuse?
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You see this eraser?
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I'm going to rub out Melvin's
little friend, Mookie the sailor.
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You wouldn't.
Try me.
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No, please, Blanche.
I'll do anything you say.
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I thought you'd see it my way.
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00:14:20,558 --> 00:14:24,562
Oh, Pop was sure a lousy
photographer. Who is that?
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Uncle Vittorio. His head's cut off.
How can you tell?
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Because that's exactly how
he looked in the morgue
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after he turned state's evidence
against Benny the Blade.
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Oh, Ma, this is so special,
spending this time together.
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Yeah, right.
242
00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:45,782
You know, Dorothy, I think
we're missing a box of slides.
243
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They must be in the suitcase
in the closet.
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Oh, I'll take a look.
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00:14:57,029 --> 00:14:59,830
Ma, where are you going?
I can't stand it anymore.
246
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Your life is supposed to flash
before your eyes when you're dying,
247
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not on when you're on vacation.
248
00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:10,141
I've waited my whole life to ride Space
Mountain and nothing is gonna stop me.
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(thunder)
250
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Why are you always
taking her side?
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(thunder)
252
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Who'd have thought it would rain
for 24 hours straight?
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Red sixes.
254
00:15:47,645 --> 00:15:51,015
Does this look like a game of
solitaire? It's your turn.
255
00:15:51,017 --> 00:15:56,120
I'm sorry, Ma. I was trying to remember
when was the last time I said I love you.
256
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After lunch, when I said you had
grilled cheese stuck to your chin.
257
00:16:00,226 --> 00:16:02,326
Now will you make your move,
for God's sake?
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You're really making
this difficult for me.
259
00:16:04,864 --> 00:16:08,332
You know I'm not great when it
comes to dealing with emotions.
260
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Whenever someone starts talking
about their deepest feelings,
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I usually get uncomfortable
and tune out. I don't know why.
262
00:16:16,175 --> 00:16:18,376
Where do you think it
comes from, Ma?
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Huh? Oh, sorry, Dorothy.
264
00:16:21,046 --> 00:16:23,981
My corn pad slipped.
You were saying?
265
00:16:23,983 --> 00:16:27,751
Never mind. You think the
rain is ever gonna let up?
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You know something?
I honestly don't care.
267
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Who needs outside distractions?
268
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What we have here is
more important.
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What we have is getting on my nerves.
Ma, where are you going?
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Someplace where there are
no pictures, no slides,
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and no walks down memory lane.
I'll come with you.
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What? Are we nuns? We don't have to
travel in pairs. I'm outta here.
273
00:16:58,683 --> 00:17:01,685
Hey, Sam.
What's that you're playing?
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Oh, just a little something.
275
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Stop it. You know what
I want to hear.
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No, I don't.
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You played it for her.
You can play it for me.
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00:17:10,863 --> 00:17:15,566
But I don't think that I...
If she can stand it, so can I. Now play.
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OK. You're the boss.
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♪ It's a world of laughter
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♪ It's a world of tears
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♪ It's a world of hopes
283
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♪ And a world of fears
284
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♪ There's so much that we share
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♪ That it's time we're aware
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♪ It's a small world after all
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Ma.
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Of all the saloons and gin joints in
the world, she had to walk into mine.
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00:17:58,845 --> 00:18:00,310
Ma, I've been looking
everywhere for you.
290
00:18:00,312 --> 00:18:03,280
We really need to talk.
291
00:18:04,982 --> 00:18:07,551
Ma, why are you trying so hard
to ruin my weekend?
292
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You don't get it, do you?
293
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This weekend could've
been a lot of fun,
294
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until you decided we were
gonna have quality time.
295
00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:16,493
Is that so horrible?
296
00:18:16,495 --> 00:18:20,231
Ma, all I wanted to do was have
us finish unfinished business
297
00:18:20,233 --> 00:18:23,234
and say things to each other
that we never said before.
298
00:18:23,236 --> 00:18:25,669
Dorothy, this isn't
On Golden Pond.
299
00:18:25,671 --> 00:18:28,072
I know, Ma.
And you're not Jane Fonda.
300
00:18:28,074 --> 00:18:30,607
All right.
You made your point.
301
00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:32,943
Quality time has to
come naturally
302
00:18:32,945 --> 00:18:34,478
it happens when you're not
thinking about it.
303
00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,748
Like when we're cutting
vegetables. That's quality time.
304
00:18:37,750 --> 00:18:41,485
I was hoping for something
a little more magical than that.
305
00:18:41,487 --> 00:18:42,686
Let me tell you a little story.
306
00:18:42,688 --> 00:18:47,290
When I was a kid in Sicily,
I loved lightning bugs.
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I'd stand out in the field and
watch them light up the night sky.
308
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That was magical.
That was spectacular.
309
00:18:54,667 --> 00:18:58,802
I tell you, I saw
a thousand points of light.
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It was a kinder,
gentler America.
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I turned to my wife,
Barbara, and I said...
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00:19:05,411 --> 00:19:09,046
Ma, what the hell are
you talking about?
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00:19:09,048 --> 00:19:14,585
Oh. Sorry, I must have lapsed into George
Bush's inauguration speech. Where was I?
314
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Lightning bugs.
Right.
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I liked them so much,
I'd catch them in glass jars
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so I could watch them light up
whenever I wanted,
317
00:19:21,460 --> 00:19:23,527
but they always died.
318
00:19:23,529 --> 00:19:26,830
I see what you mean.
They needed their freedom.
319
00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:31,302
No, they needed their air.
I always forgot to punch holes in the lid.
320
00:19:31,304 --> 00:19:34,071
The point is it's the same
with all magical moments.
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00:19:34,073 --> 00:19:38,676
You can't capture them forever,
no matter what Kodak tells you.
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00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:42,379
So what you're saying, Ma,
is that,
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00:19:42,381 --> 00:19:46,550
like a lightning bug,
I put you in a glass jar
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00:19:46,552 --> 00:19:51,889
and, waiting for you to light
up, I nearly suffocated you.
325
00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:56,527
Jeez, Dorothy, you sure know
how to beat a metaphor to death.
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Ma, I love you.
I love you too, pussycat.
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Promise you'll never make me
do this for the rest of my life.
328
00:20:03,435 --> 00:20:06,469
OK. Only if you promise
you'll live forever.
329
00:20:06,471 --> 00:20:08,872
OK, I promise.
330
00:20:08,874 --> 00:20:11,141
How can you make
a promise like that?
331
00:20:11,143 --> 00:20:14,945
Hey, if I don't come through,
what are you gonna do to me?
332
00:20:22,019 --> 00:20:25,789
Blanche. Rose, listen.
I think maybe I owe you an apology.
333
00:20:25,791 --> 00:20:29,593
When we were having our argument, I
may have said things I didn't mean.
334
00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:31,428
Like when you said
I was a dummy?
335
00:20:31,430 --> 00:20:34,832
No.
336
00:20:34,834 --> 00:20:38,201
Anyway, the important thing is to
stay partners and finish our book.
337
00:20:38,203 --> 00:20:41,639
Forget it. There isn't gonna be any book.
Now what are you saying?
338
00:20:41,641 --> 00:20:44,875
Did I just lapse into Swedish?
339
00:20:44,877 --> 00:20:47,344
Read it and weep.
340
00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:49,913
"Tales of Toonder the Tiger
and His Friends,
341
00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:54,551
by Hans Christian
Lockerhueven."
342
00:20:54,553 --> 00:20:57,855
Well, who's Hans Christian
Lockerhueven?
343
00:20:57,857 --> 00:21:00,256
Only St. Olaf's
greatest author.
344
00:21:00,258 --> 00:21:05,662
He wrote the classic fairy tale,
"Hansel and Hansel."
345
00:21:08,633 --> 00:21:12,336
You told me your parents
made up these stories.
346
00:21:12,338 --> 00:21:15,638
I thought they did, but when I
called my sister for more stories,
347
00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,043
she suggested I pick up the book
that Mom and Dad got them from.
348
00:21:19,045 --> 00:21:22,913
This is great. We've been writing
stories that have already been written.
349
00:21:22,915 --> 00:21:29,186
Well, if it's any consolation, they do
it all the time on Mr. Belvedere.
350
00:21:29,188 --> 00:21:33,557
Well, my dream is crushed.
I always wanted to be rich and famous
351
00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:35,859
and now it's not gonna happen.
352
00:21:35,861 --> 00:21:39,196
I know a poem that might help.
It goes:
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00:21:39,198 --> 00:21:41,431
"Never, ever give up
your dreams,
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00:21:41,433 --> 00:21:43,534
"even when they're doused
in sorrow,
355
00:21:43,536 --> 00:21:45,769
"because even though
they seem far away,
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00:21:45,771 --> 00:21:48,639
they could come true
tomorrow."
357
00:21:48,641 --> 00:21:51,141
I wrote that, Blanche.
358
00:21:51,143 --> 00:21:53,376
You know, it isn't half bad.
359
00:21:53,378 --> 00:21:56,547
It's better than a lot of them
you read on greeting cards.
360
00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:58,248
I have hundreds of them.
361
00:21:58,250 --> 00:22:00,417
You know what
I'm thinking, Rose?
362
00:22:00,419 --> 00:22:03,386
That with your drawings
and my poems,
363
00:22:03,388 --> 00:22:06,656
we might go into the greeting
card business together?
364
00:22:06,658 --> 00:22:10,661
No. I'm thinking about
a place out at the beach
365
00:22:10,663 --> 00:22:12,829
where the waves break so hard,
366
00:22:12,831 --> 00:22:19,703
they knock the bathing suits right
off the men coming out of the water.
367
00:22:19,705 --> 00:22:24,207
Come on. Maybe we can salvage the rest of
this day after all. Come on, let's go.
368
00:22:58,042 --> 00:22:59,743
Hi, Ma, how's
the packing going?
369
00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:02,045
It'd go a lot better
if I had a screwdriver.
370
00:23:02,047 --> 00:23:05,949
I just bought some postcards
to remember the trip.
371
00:23:05,951 --> 00:23:08,151
I don't need postcards,
pussycat.
372
00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:11,220
I'll remember this trip
for a long time.
373
00:23:11,222 --> 00:23:15,191
Oh, just our luck.
The rain lets up when we're leaving.
374
00:23:15,193 --> 00:23:19,796
Hey, Ma, we still have a little time and
there's one more thing I want to show you
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00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:22,766
to make this terrific weekend
complete.
376
00:23:22,768 --> 00:23:27,104
Oh, no, Dorothy. We looked
at pictures and slides
377
00:23:27,106 --> 00:23:30,407
and letters and diaries
and locks of hair.
378
00:23:30,409 --> 00:23:34,077
What's left? Our family history
in shadow puppets?
379
00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:36,480
Ma, better.
380
00:23:36,482 --> 00:23:39,716
(Sophia) Now, this is
what I call quality time.
381
00:23:39,718 --> 00:23:42,218
(screaming)