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- MR. GONE NARRATES:
Most of us inhabit at least

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two worlds...the real world,
where we're at the mercy of

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circumstance, and the world
within, the unconscious,

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a safe place where we can
escape.

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The Maxx shifts between these
worlds...against his will.

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Here, homeless, he lives
in a box in an alley.

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The only one who really cares
for him is Julie Winters,

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a freelance social worker.

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But in Pangaea, the other world,
he rules the Outback

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and is the protector of Julie,
his Jungle Queen.

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- There, he cares for her.

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But he always ends up
back in the real world.

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And me, old Mr. Gone...

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Only I can see that
the secret which unites them

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could destroy them.

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I could be helpful.

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Ah, screw it!

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I think I'll have some fun
with them, first.

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- SARA: I was sittin' under
the Jones Street Underpass

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yesterday.

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That's 'cause I wanna be
a writer and writers gotta

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have experiences...
like underpasses.

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There was an old bum there, too.

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"Hi," I said.

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"My name's Sara."

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At first, he didn't say
anything.

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Then he said his name was Maxx.

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- Maxx.

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- It turned out he was
a superhero fighting this

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villain called Mr. Gone.

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But he was also this jungle guy
fighting saber tooth tigers

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and stuff in Australia.

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I didn't have to make any
of that stuff up...even though

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I am gonna be a writer.

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I especially like the part about
Gone's little cow bathroom.

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You say this guy
was seriously nuts.

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Well, duh.

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And then, right out of the blue,
he says he knew my father.

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Dad.

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I can almost see his barbershop
quartet face in my mind.

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He died when I was young...
too young to remember.

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Anyway, the important part
is about three years ago,

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he went to his office with
a rifle and shot everybody

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and then himself.

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I don't see why he had to
do that...erase himself, I mean.

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God, did it hurt.

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I don't see why he had to
leave me...alone.

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- Hey, Sunshine.

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- I don't see why she has to
be like this.

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She wasn't like this before Dad
went and offed himself.

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- Did you catch any bad vibes
today?

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- I mean, like wasn't the '60s
a long time ago?

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- So, how's school...trippy?

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- It's okay.

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- It's not like you were
a disappointment to us

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or anything.

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I hate it when you pull back...
just like he used to.

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I'll never forgive him for that.

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You'd better share
with me, Sara.

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I won't have you ending up
like your father.

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Oh, god, I didn't mean that.

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Why did I say that?

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Tell me I'm not a bad mother.

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Tell me I didn't ruin your life.

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You didn't ruin my life, Mom.

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- Groovy!

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Now we can be like sisters.

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- If Dad had to shoot somebody,
why couldn't it have been her?

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Did my saying that shock you?

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Good.

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Writers are supposed to
shock people.

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We say witty and uncontrolled
things that rip the shroud off

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a decaying society and expose
it for what it is.

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Well, that's the idea anyway.

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- It was like a happening
groove to have this chat with

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you, Sweetie.

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- Mom says she's not angry
at me, not really.

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Sometimes her screaming
and crying fits can last all

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night, so I share, and tell
her it's okay.

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Mother her.

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It's weird.

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Dad left her and, in a way,
she left me.

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About this time, I started
carrying a gun.

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That's what us writers
call "foreshadowing."

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But, first, I have to tell you
about Jimmy.

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Jimmy's cool.

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Jimmy is like me...only shorter.

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He doesn't have friends...just
like me.

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He beats up littler kids
and takes their lunch money.

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- JIMMY: Where's the money
today?

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- I think it's kinda cool.

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No matter how low you are
in the food chain, there's

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always somebody lower.

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I think we're all either one
of us can get.

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Besides, we hate everybody else.

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They're all NecroNerds
and San Freaks.

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They think death is romantic,
but Jimmy knows the truth...

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like me.

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Death is hard and cold and ugly,
not some cute chick.

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- This is a story Jimmy
told me...

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- Me 'n the Frame was scraggin'
this car on the East.

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We pulled out and these
carjackers cut us off.

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Guttard scuzzballs wanted to
steal our stolen car.

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We began to fight back.

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Then Frame, that wussy,
bailed on me.

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It was clear I was gonna have to
kick some ass all by myself.

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I started to really right then.

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I bit off one guy's thumb,
cracked another guy's rib

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like a pencil.

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They were cryin', screamin'
for mercy.

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I only laughed.

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They never had a chance.

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- SARA: At least, that's what
Jimmy said...although, it doesn't

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sound like the Jimmy I know.

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I don't know why my mom makes
me come and talk to Julie...

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like she's even a real
social worker.

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- I said I'd have the money,
Mr. Bruno.

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I just need a little more time.

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You don't have to evict them
today, do you?

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- She does this social worker
thing out of her apartment...

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very weird.

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- Oh, you do.

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Oh, I'm sure that rat-infested
hovel you run is being eagerly

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solicited by other desperate
single mothers.

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Well, you think if I sweeten
the rent with an extra fifty...

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- Uh...
- Come in.

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...you could manage to beat
the hordes for one day while I...

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You will?

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You're a prince, as always,
Mr. Bruno.

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Hi, Sara.

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Your mom tells me you're still
having trouble with your dad.

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- No trouble.

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I'm fine.

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He's gone.

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- She says you brood a lot,
that you seem to live in

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the past.

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- This, from the living fossil?

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Like she knows what's really
going on.

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- She knows she loves you,
Sara.

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- SARA NARRATES: I found
one of my Dad's guns last week.

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It made me feel good
to touch it...like I was

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near him.

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- So, tell me how
you're feeling.

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- Why?

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Feelings are stupid!

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- Sounds like you have some
good reasons to feel that way.

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- Oh, you mean like 'cause I'm
fat and ugly or maybe cause

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I have zits and glasses and most
kids my age think I'm a joke

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and so I try to run away from
myself by shutting every else

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out...you mean like those kind
of reasons.

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- Sara, I know it feels that
way now, but you won't feel

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this way the rest of your life.

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- You don't really believe
that, do you?

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- Yes, I do.

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- And I thought my mom
was naive.

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- That sounds like something
your father might have...

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- Shut up!

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Don't talk about him!

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What do you get out of this
anyway?

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You spend your own money bailing
out a bunch of nobodies out

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of jail trying to buy them.

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I think you can't handle
relationships with anyone

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you're not controlling.

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- Hey, that's enough.

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- I don't get you, Julie.

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You're not a fat and ugly kid
with zits and glasses.

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But between the two of us,
why do I get the feeling that

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you're the one that's running
from herself.

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Finally, Mom showed up.

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- You're just buying
in to the very same macho

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posturing that's been...

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- SARA: They had the same
old argument.

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- JULIE: Well, you're buying
into a crap...

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- SARA: Steinem, Paglia.

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- JULIE: ...professional
helpless.

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- SARA: If all they do is
fight, then why are they still

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friends and why do I still
have to come here?

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- JULIE: I've had a little
more experience than you.

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- SARA: Obviously,
they're both nuts.

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- All right, fine.

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Well, I don't even wanna
talk about it any more.

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- Well, that figures.

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You never wanna talk about it.

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- No, I never do, okay,
so, just...

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Okay, see you next week.

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- Yeah, okay.

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You bring the chocolates
this time.

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- 'Night. Bye.

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- MAXX: Poor kid.

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She's got it kinda tough.

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- She's a brat.

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- Maybe she's just hit the nail
a little too close to the head

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kind of brat.

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- Ouch!

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- And get your friggin' feet
off my coffee table.

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- SARA NARRATES: Like I said,
Jimmy and I are exactly alike.

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We understood each other.

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Or, at least, that's what
I thought.

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Like when we went to the stupid
dance together.

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I'm not a fool.

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I know what we look like.

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- After all, we just went
for laughs.

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Luckily, I don't feel hurt
or surprised any more.

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When someone turns on the lights
it doesn't get to me.

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It's just the kind of joke
Jimmy and his pals play.

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Just for laughs.

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Like I was saying...luckily,
I'm not stupid.

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I don't get hurt any more.

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Yeah, lucky me.

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Don't worry, everybody's gone.

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It's safe to be seen with me.

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- Sorry, Sara, but I had
to do it.

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This is like my only chance
to be like cool.

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See, we're together 'cause
nobody else liked us.

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But now everybody will like me
and I know it's stupid to give

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you up for everybody else,
but I just can't help it.

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Besides, we were just havin'
a laugh.

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Right?

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- I could feel the gun
in my pocket.

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- Nobody really got hurt,
right?

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- But even more, I could feel
the sweet, hot, hatred my Dad

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must have felt.

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- You understand,
don't you, Sara?

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- I understand.

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- You aren't mad, right?

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'Cause we can still be friends
and stuff...as long as nobody

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sees us.

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- I'm not mad, Jimmy.

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SARA NARRATES: And the funny
thing was I really wasn't mad,

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because in that second,
I realized that if they had

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come to me, instead of him,
I would have done the same

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thing.

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I think it's an important thing
for a writer to know...that she

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has the potential to be just
as rotten as everybody else.

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- MAN: Safe home, dear friends,
and come again, to behold the

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mysteries of MTV's "Oddities."