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all right

i'm with you

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we're gonna have to do a hysterectomy

get the hanging clamps going no

get the husband out of here

cut again cut looks like we're losing

the baby

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hello

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my

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oh

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surfing t-shirts i get it i absolutely

get it

he's concurring with it yeah it's

brilliant you know you wouldn't get a

headache if you get somewhere you're

dinner

oh no save room for pie that's right

fresh pumpkin shot at myself

pumpkin oh that's my favorite oh good

with whipped cream

you like whipped cream no you bet yeah

when i was a child

i could eat the whole pie

that's like you're doing that when i was

a child

where's the child

there is no child uncle now

well this child should be here for

thanksgiving uncle al remember

oh yes i remember pamela had the baby

the day before my birthday i lost the

baby uncle remember

it's okay sweetheart

i'm so sorry pamela

i just wanted to stop hurting

it takes time how long

how long terry

i don't know i wish i could tell you

everybody's different i guess

i'm sorry i just i just need

i don't know what i need

when i think about it

it feels like it was yesterday

yesterday

i try not to think about it

mikey was three when he died i just

wonder why i didn't

oh i didn't spend every minute of those

three years with him

i'm sorry

at least you never got to know your baby

i'm so sorry that was so selfish of me

isn't maybe it is

so yeah i mean what are friends for if

we can't make each other miserable huh

you know i never had any children of my

own

never thought i'd be very good at it

uncle owl

you never got married

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hi

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so

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maybe if we hadn't waited so long to

have a baby i wouldn't have had all

those complications

i don't think it's a good idea to keep

going over this all the time

it's not as easy for me to come to grips

with it

i know

you don't know he you know you protect

yourself

just cause i don't go on about it

doesn't mean i don't have feelings

i was there in that delivery room too

and for the nine months

well for the last four anyway

and you noticed i'd gotten big as a

house

you were very sexy for a house

do you love me

i just don't want to lose you

it isn't a good idea to think of

adopting as a way of helping you recover

from a loss

mrs garcia i can assure you that my

husband and i are interested in adoption

because we want to give a child

love and a home and i presume you're

interested in an anglo infant

the average weight is approximately

seven years

if you qualify and why wouldn't we

qualify

well your age doesn't put you at the top

of the list if you're willing to adopt

an older child there are children

waiting as we speak

well well i would take a toddler

but i want to raise a young child so i

can have an impact

all kids need love no matter what their

age

here's the address of the hillside

orphanage why don't you stop by and take

a look

i would definitely go with the uh barry

in my screen with the fawn accents

yeah well you have to take into

consideration the size of the room and

the way the light filters through

yeah can i call you right back

yes thanks hi

i went to the hillside orphanage today

what do you think

well these kids are a little old they're

practically adults

they need love and we have love to give

it's as simple as that

no it's not that simple nothing's that

simple isn't this moving a little fast

well i guess if you're standing still it

seems like it

can we talk about this later and i

didn't know that oh you must have sold

your zeros

as a matter of fact i did how was work

oh i made an invaluable contribution to

mankind decorating helen's house well

helen thanks so much who gives a damn

you know i'm gonna go for a swim you

want a race

i don't believe you i'm having a list

compiled of attorneys who specialize in

adoption

you are it needs to be done right

okay

why did i think this was gonna be easier

i see uh-huh

i cannot believe how many attorneys

there are okay thanks

bye-bye yeah okay she says that um

they put ads in small town papers in

nebraska oregon i think the dakotas

and they also contacted lawyers and it

took them a year

a year so it's been a week since i sent

the letters to the lawyers where do they

get these babies anyway

and why do these lawyers charge

thousands of dollars just to arrange

these adoptions

look people who can't have babies want

them

and people who can don't why do you

think it's so strange

that people want to work something out i

just think it's creepy

all these lawyers manipulating people

for money and women

charging for their babies just gives me

the creeps

what are you so mad about

you know what i'm just feeling sorry for

myself

because i'm never going to be a mother

to anyone except dogs

and my husband why don't you have a baby

or don't i don't know but don't begrudge

me something that's so important to me

i'll be grudging you pam

and i can't just have a baby you know

what a touchy subject it is for terry

he can't even talk about what happened

to his you know

mikey look i'm your friend i want you to

be happy

i just you know i'm just feeling sorry

for myself that's all

does terry know how you feel i don't

even know how i feel

look we agreed when we got married not

to have kids

so he didn't want to open his heart up

to another baby and then have

you know i think he feels guilty about

what

look i love the guy i want to be with

him

it doesn't matter to me whether or not

we have children

i'm sorry don't be sorry don't be

anything oh hell just be yourself come

on come on come on let's just

just you know whatever about this

adoption i'm with you all the way

just never talk about it again okay fine

i'll never talk about it again

fine now about me adopting a baby

have you heard anything no

you know we could go somewhere mexico

new york i don't want to go anywhere get

uh terry and ellis yell on the coast

obama

i don't want to go anywhere know what i

want

okay if you want to go just go

you know i'm not gonna do that

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hello mrs chaney my name is russell

madden and i'm an attorney and i

received a letter

hello hello don't hang up it's the

machine just a minute

hello hi yes

mr man mr madden three thousand dollars

for one meeting

well it covers one meeting and a

retainer to look for another child if

this one doesn't work out

tell me about the father and the mother

well these people are homeless

they can no longer take care of their

child it happens

homeless

tell me about them i mean i mean the

baby

is this all right yes it is the good

news is

that they liked your picture and resume

very much there's a strong chance that

they'll select you

i don't like the idea of competing

couples especially if i'm paying three

thousand dollars

there are a lot of lawyers who charge a

lot more than i do mrs cheney you're

free to shop around

have you gotten any other calls no

and you know why that is because

toddlers are impossible to find

look we both know you wouldn't be here

if you had an alternative

well can you tell me about them i mean

the baby

why are they homeless i need some

details

here's a detail it's a big one

the parents think their daughter is a

living angel it is

excruciatingly painful for them to give

her up

i'll give you a thousand dollars for a

meeting

but here's a stack of interesting want

to be mommies and daddies

1500 if you're as good a mother as you

are a negotiator you should do very well

isn't this a little fast

i mean you just met this guy this

morning and now we're adopting a baby

they are considering other couples great

we're auditioning for a homeless couple

i can't believe you just wrote this guy

a check you don't know anything about

him

i've waited a long time for this i'm not

going to let this pass me by

searching me

where are we just stay on alameda until

you get to santa fe and then

make a ride

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this is like lagunia in mexico city

can you imagine being homeless and

trying to raise a child here

have you thought this through what we

could be getting into

this isn't like giving somebody on the

corner a couple of bucks this is a

lifetime commitment i know i know i just

i just have this feeling that we're

gonna meet our child today

this child could have diseases be

disturbed mentally

what about drugs i mean a lot of these

people usually they're homeless it

doesn't mean that they're drug addicts

okay don't tell me there aren't gonna be

emotional problems psychological stuff

okay i'm committed to this meeting

maybe it's a dumb idea maybe it isn't

great a lot of good locking it'll do

sean will you sit down you look

unbalanced

i feel unbalanced i think we are

unbalanced

look i don't think we should get our

hopes up about this

i just wish you'd gone about it in a way

a more intelligent business-like manner

and not follow my feelings and maybe the

child will be damaged i know

maybe the parents won't choose us i know

maybe we won't want the child maybe the

child won't want us i know

maybe we just slipped over into the

wrong dimension

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oh my god

you're here

she's beautiful

hey hey how you doing i'm gary ward sean

cheney

hey my wife right pam you're like pam or

pamela either

all right you know i had an aunt named

pamela i imagine that's why i wanted to

meet you

how are you that's not really why i

wanted to meet you i got other reasons

why i want to meet you

this is uh my wife lily and this little

angel here

this is emily hello sweetheart

mr cheney russ madden is this all right

this kind of transaction

done all the time

oh that's okay she's just shy all right

you know

we live on the street kind of people we

meet in that uh she'll warm up though

is this good here oh why don't we get

this table sean won't you give me a hand

with this table here it's over here

we don't need this thing all right

right there now lily why don't you sit

right here

honey right here i'll sit here and uh

across from you guys and get a look at

this

pam sean i imagine you want to sit over

there so uh

so we can get a look at you

okay

oh i got menus for everyone you know

we're real hungry we've been on the

street a long time

tired too huh okay are we tired

does she walk oh yeah yeah well she can

but she don't have to

you know the shoes we get are kind of

big so she can grow into them it's hard

for her to get her balance in that

well we could buy her some shoes that

fit uh maybe we can

lay down some ground rules here just so

everybody understands exactly what we're

doing

this is basically an introduction you

understand that

the wards are under no obligation to

assign or deliver their child

nor are you allowed to pay them for this

interview right that's settled

let's see

all right

all right who had the banana split i got

one of them

that's mine

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um she's very quiet oh no she's noisy

she popped your arm off

how many other couples are you

interviewing that's not really the issue

here

the wards have the right indeed an

obligation to try and find the best

possible parents for emily

hey look i know you think we look like

hell

all right now the fact of the matter is

we do look like hell

but that don't mean we ain't worth

nothing all right

and they don't mean that we got to give

up our little girl just anybody drives

in here with a fancy german car

it wasn't our intention to make you feel

like hey i'm just messing with you all

right

i appreciate that car i'm a mechanic

it's a fine car

i'm sure the wards want to know what

kind of a home you can provide for emily

right mrs ward well we have a room

that's all decorated and she would have

her own bathroom

and i work at home

um a good education is critical

she would of course go to excellent

schools camps

for fun for college and uh music lessons

gymnastics

wow wow all the advantages right hey

education now that's the key to all of

it any sean

now what about love i'm sorry

well and then all that stuff you

talk about sounds real nice but and we

like they love

don't you of course we would love her

we would love him i know it's funny

everybody always says the same thing

right as though that's taken for granted

what do you think sean well i i just

think they're trying to tell you that

they're trying to do

whatever's best for the child

everybody's trying to do what's best for

emily including us

ryan don't you think for a minute that

it don't hurt us that we got into this

situation

we could help you with the situation um

we could certainly help emily

honey you got that you got those

photographs we took you got those

pictures

oh all right

here you uh you take these pictures of

us okay

we couldn't lose touch now right i mean

i after all i am her daddy and uh lily

here's her mom

no i i understand

what you're choosing us well yeah you

like her right

well yeah yes she's she's beautiful we

we want her um well yeah ice cream and

bananas wash off

that mean you like her yeah well um

we want her we we like her

yes all right then you should take her

there

no i mean right now

well she's here right now you're serious

sure we can do this it's legal

hey take her home try her out for a

couple days

tony give me the baby okay all right

we're gonna get the baby's pants

sorry come here me babe all right

you're gonna go to pamela okay

oh yeah okay now you're gonna go with

these nice folks amy okay

this isn't to work

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why don't you come with us to our house

it might be easier for there

that's an excellent idea

we ain't got any money for

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good good this is good uh let me get to

work on the paperwork

and uh if anybody needs me contact me

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is this a decision

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am might be your lucky day

the uh the room's up here

i'll go make some coffee that'd be great

sean

i could use a cup of coffee

do you have a crib i mean does she uh

does she sleep in a crib

no she don't need a crib um

it almost seemed very strange for her i

just want to make it as easy as possible

yeah um she's a little dirty i don't

want to mess up your

it's all right it's all right okay okay

okay here we go oh you should have this

room ready quick

it was for my baby i uh

i lost her you lost a child

about a year ago oh

man there is nothing

like the pain of losing a child

that's all right there we go here we put

them all warm

mommy

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she'll be all right

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look

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um i'm going to be outside all right oh

wait you know

you hurry up you kiss your daughter

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it's okay

okay now you sleep okay baby

you sleep good when you wake up here

you're gonna think you're in heaven okay

it's okay sweetie she's all right now

she's all right here we go

yes that's my girl look at these bears

look hello hello

how you doing great you doing good

you sure are fun to play with everyone

want to get in there look at this

look oh look this guy's riding a rainbow

how about it she had a crib once she

liked it

sit down i'll show you this little

rabbit there we go

good girl maybe it's just gonna be for a

couple days right it's no big deal right

hey there go hey there little girl

hey there sweet girl you are

so mucky

i sure wish somebody would adopt me

oh my god lily yeah

you have to be sure

you have to be sure

uh you know it's what's best for the

child

so um i just

i just i mean he got real kind eyes and

i just um

well i don't want any anybody to be mean

or nothing to my little emily

so um i just trust that you'd be nice to

her

okay hey thanks a lot and uh

you know you know where we live at now

right don't be a stranger okay

oh pam you better uh roll your windows

up lock your doors till you get back to

your side of town all right

you don't have to be so smart these nice

people

hey what don't it bother you that

somebody just cause they got a little

luck that they're better than you

no they got our baby they better be nice

aren't you oh we've been put out oh

we spent up all the money hey we got two

more nights here

well right yeah we spent up all our

money on the damn bus right trying to

find emilia home

no we can't go to the damn shelter the

shelter's closed this time

no no no

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oh it's okay

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um

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oh

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is

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okay

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is

you want some cereal look what i have

for you

there you go no

wait wait wait you want a bite come here

see this

what this is spoon can you say spoon

can the kitty cat eat it i guess not

whoops emily they're putting up your

fence so you can't go head first in the

pool

no swimming yet how am i doing

look what i have wanna buy the banana

what are you looking at oh oh oh

oh i'm very stubborn

you must take after me i'm gonna smooch

you again

i'm gonna get you

well that's three another one no i don't

think another one i think three's enough

actually come on let's get you out of

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there

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yeah that's soap

that's very good

you want to put one in you can put it in

throw it in there all right

and what's this lucky

and what's that and we'll throw that one

in

and this funny one over here let me

throw this little one

throw it in good girl and the alligator

how about the baby okay

how about that baby oh not that baby i

didn't mean this baby

well how about this baby you want to get

in there no

you don't want how come you want to get

in the bathtub with the soap

huh huh you do you you want to get in

the bathtub

oh ah stop that short person

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gotcha can't you sweetie hi

you're just in time is she housebroken

oh you might find out

oh we're gonna take him back look at her

little ring

he what's with you three days you don't

call me you know right you don't ask for

money did you see her run

so did you see her walk three days ago

she wouldn't or

couldn't i don't know which walk sorry

come on her first bath

first bath oh that's funny that's very

funny i'm glad you're pregnant no and

we've

had our hair examined for headlights and

we've been to the pediatrician

what did he say ah she helen cronin

she said emily may have some

developmental problems and she's a

little anemic

but otherwise she's she's terrific

she's so gorgeous you know i know this

is going to sound crazy but don't you

think she looks a little like great

yeah greta your dog greta

yeah i mean you know how greta has those

incredible wait wait

comparing my child to your dog greta's

beautiful dog

you're so nuts look at that

do you like it um no it's not

just a minute gary what does he want oh

god

please don't let him wander back come on

come here come here

take take her take her just just what do

i do just just

watch her just hold her hold her hello

uh hi gary hi yeah

oh she's great no she's wonderful as a

matter of fact very happy

oh uh we've been figuring on picking her

up today

oh it don't seem like such a good idea

right because i'm i'm

trying to get this job so um

lily and me we uh we decided that we

like you guys so much

we want to try the 30-day thing the

30-day thing

yeah it's um oh look

the lawyer he's got all the papers in

that and uh

but uh we haven't got any money to get

there on the bus down to the office

well i could pick you up um that'd be

great

okay i'll be back in two or three hours

all right bye sweetie if you want and

now is going to take care of you

um the diapers are in the in the bedroom

and and the uh food's in the kitchen

diapers she's not battery operated you

know

no right right hi honey

um you better not um hi

thanks let me um

um just to make sure you're you know

safe

oh

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hey kid want to go shopping

i petitioned the court for what's

referred to as a babysitting contract

which makes you the legal guardian for

30 days

now if at any time the wards wish to

cancel this arrangement

they have the legal right to do so and

you must relinquish the child

i understand what rights do we have

let's not worry about that right now

you're a worrier sean i like that

i don't like this guy they are the

parents they have to be involved we

don't have any choice

just stay as clear and clean of this as

possible i don't want it to blow up and

you get hurt

thanks for coming okay

going back to work that's what some of

us do

hey you don't have to be smart you know

i got something you want

go on i'll be fine

i have to tell you that part of my job

is to dissuade the wards from going

through with this adoption

why would you do that we have a nice

home lots of love to give this is not

about you

i've met the couple and frankly i'm

concerned about mrs ward

she's very depressed about the loss of

the child and she

clearly is intimidated by her husband

but surely you can see that the child's

better off

here with us it appears that way

but if the natural mother is being

coerced

i will have to recommend that the court

not order this adoption

i ran these people through a national

database

for the parents yeah looks like they

promised emily to another family

palmerston to another family yeah

what's they gonna do with pam well if

they are con artists it's a lot better

to get out of it now

before she's in so deep place you just

blow it out

what about you how deep are you

pam's my life

well here's your life with the new

complication oh hi

the boat prepare to be boarded prepare

to repel girls

you should be so lucky emily decided to

give you guys a shot against my better

judgment i might add well at least one

of my girls has some spirit

here you go sweetheart why don't you put

this on so we can stow you below and

then we'll hit the high seas okay

uh low seas please uh around the harbor

within walking distance to shore

i told you we weren't going to get

outside the breakwater all right that's

oh

stretch that one back huh

no yeah honey you're scaring her

what's she scared for i haven't done

anything it's all new just just take it

easy okay here

why don't you go do it yourself that's

it do it yourself that's it there you go

yeah watch it emily emily

stop her no come back hey look out

somebody get a handgun

she's fine she's just a little scared

she's just a little scared

no it's okay it's all right it's just a

little boo-boo

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um

yeah that's a real good idea right we'll

just we'll just have emily down here so

you can stand on the street with us what

do you think

i can't help it i want my baby what

i can't help it i want my baby

yeah why don't you just go and get her

all right then you can figure it all out

without me

oh why do you have to be so mean all the

time

mean to be smart you know those people

they're just getting used to her we

caught we call him up now at husband he

don't want her he'll be down here to the

santa fe restaurant in about 10 seconds

what do you think

i never been away from her since she was

bored

you know what i didn't know is

where are you going lily wants to see

emily

this is a really bad idea look at least

this way he's not showing up here we

have some control you're stuck between

him and the statement he knows him

i'm stuck you know what i mean yeah i

think i do hey pam what's with the

band-aid

she had a little fall she's fine really

you know the reason i called you is uh

i i want you to come see something i

want you to understand a little bit

what i understand is that this is very

very hard on emily you know

this confuses her you know i guess we're

a little confused too

you know what ain't easy you know

ripping the kid away from her folks

that's a lot of pain i understand it's

just that whatever's best for emily

right come on i want to show you they're

fine okay just come on with me

i want to show you something you know

the adoption lady garcia

she was snooping around she said she's

going to check on your home environment

yes she did everything's fine

yeah she said she thinks that uh

emily should stay with lily thinks i'm

forcing her to give her up

all right it's okay as long as you're

with me

you're fine come on come on

well this is it this is where we stay

sometimes

this is a prized place

all right guys fight over this place

guys who are

real feisty about staying here you know

let me tell you something that welfare

check that we get

for emily that'll get us about 15 nights

in that motel you saw soon

and then after that we'll just go to the

shelter and get about seven nights there

before they kick you out

and then besides that we just um

we'll sleep out in the open on the

street and we'll come here if it rains

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lily drew this

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yep

this is for emily

yeah that's your bed okay get out of

here

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how can you even think of taking emily

back because we love her

all right hey you don't know nothing pam

you may be smart but you don't know

nothing all right

now what do you think lily's life's

gonna be like without that baby huh

well what has she got to live for what

about emily what about

lily what what about us

guys like me all right getting out of

this service

getting a little trouble doing something

stupid going to jail for some stupid

things trying to support your family

you know you get out can't get no kind

of job jobs you do get some idiots just

go

spit on you hey i got no self-respect

all right

all right i'm as good as your husband is

all right just nobody give me a chance

growing up and all

what do you want me to do

emilio just picks this one up now i can

get this work car for 500.

you want me to buy you the car no no

it's a loan

all right now you know you can't do jack

in this town without a car

lily and me we can sleep in it but you

know we're not supposed to have any

financial dealings between the two of us

well what that looks like yeah right

okay fine

fine yeah you can get technical that's

fine hey i i can get technical

you know i mean anybody can get

technical right that's fine we'll be

technical about that gary wait a minute

wait wait for what what till uh until

we're dead

right i'm not a young man we will wait

till hell freezes over

i mean the point of the point of giving

up the baby was so that we could get

ahead right

now hey you know if i can't get ahead by

giving her up i might as well just keep

the one thing in this world i love

but i wish there was something i could

do crazy

yeah maybe you ain't as sweet and nice

as you look

what do you mean well i think

i think maybe either you or shawn are

abusing emily don't be ridiculous she

had an accident

yeah right well i'm taking her back you

can't

uh wha oh yeah i can't right what are

you

you're quoting the law now quoting the

law right you think you're gonna just uh

take our child leave us to rot in the

gutter it's fine

lily come please lily don't let him do

this

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i'll buy you the car

what'd you say

i'll buy you the car

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okay

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his daughter and cake face yeah well he

couldn't get out of a meeting

oh man in their meetings he's trying to

distance himself

oh yeah wait till he finds out about the

car you bought

what is he my father look if i think

it's worth spending some money to get

rid of these people who cares because

maybe you haven't gotten rid of them

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just make sure emily doesn't see it

how are you doing here i'm part of the

party for emily yes

what you're having and lily and i didn't

get any invites

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please please gary just just leave

just leave before emily sees you well

hey hey i got responsibilities to see

that nobody hurts my little girl

you can see that she's fine

where's lily

well he's sick she can't walk no we uh

we only had bus money for one person

yeah i had a job interview this morning

and uh i was on the bus for like three

hours to get here

and uh my ulcer is acting up

so i don't what do you

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all want i did a dumb thing pam you know

um you know that uh that car

you bought we bought i know i shouldn't

trust that emilio

some [ __ ] sold us a car that doesn't

run

you know i mean i learned this lesson

over and over again right but

you know it wouldn't hurt if we bought a

more expensive car you know when it runs

but

there i was trying to save you more

money

you want me to buy you another car no

no no i'm a mechanic hey

i'm a better mechanic than emilio is all

right

he's just he's got tools

and i don't

tools wait a minute

let me get this straight they promised

the child who

mr mrs eric

brady if i get a really big one will you

pop it for me

i better get the phone

hello uh ella hi it's sean yeah

hi sean how's the party going oh um well

it's going fine except um

your wife ran off in the middle of it

where'd you go

well you know that guy came over who

ward

yeah where'd they go

um i don't really know i i told her damn

it

is everything okay no it's not

are you all right why wouldn't you be

all right

let's go let's just go home we're fine

let's just go home your wife's just

helping us out sean all this just to

keep

emily right how will you know this son

of a [ __ ] promised emily to another

couple

wait that ain't true is mr and mrs eric

brady of reno nevada does that ring a

bell

lily how could you do this to emily no

we didn't do

nothing okay i can't do this i can't

just no just shut up

let her talk say okay that couple from

reno

they've got debra mae they call her

natalies

well you've done this before before that

was our little boy joey

we don't know where he is no more

holy how could you do this we ain't got

no choice

have you ever heard of birth control we

don't believe in you no it's murder

that's what they do for a living they

suck in people like us hey you don't

know nothing about

you know what let's just cut through

this right now okay you want something

you want my jacket here

take my jacket you want my shirt down

how about my pants you want everything

yet do you want the car

hey

just go okay just go

get in the room get in there

gorgeous i'll talk to you at home

big guy go on rich man

get out of here

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pam

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that was some stunt you pulled that was

no stunt this guy's never going away if

this loses emily i'll never forgive you

what you'll never forget you'll never

forgive me

there's a twisted manipulative bastard

out there threatening our lives and

you'll never forgive me

i'm not gonna lose this child you may

have to what did you say

there may not be a choice why you giving

up

i am not to spend the next i don't know

what being blackmailed well what's the

alternative

give up emily you're crazy

it's the only thing that makes sense

this guy is crazy it's not going to work

let's just let it go

now it it

give emily up let's start this over

i don't like this lawyer i don't trust

him we'll get a new one and we'll do it

in god's name is going on with you you

lost

we lost a baby

we wanted to adopt to fill that void it

made sense

this doesn't make sense if it makes

this very specific little person

is my child

and and okay maybe at first she did fill

a void

but right now what i feel is her need

not mine and if i thought that she would

be

better off with lily i'd do that

i would but she needs

us she needs us

and if she can have been here for the

last two weeks

and you can't feel that

then i feel sorry for you

so if he's a con artist why don't you

get the authorities involved they don't

call the cops the adoption agents or

something

at least with a con artist you can set

the price make a deal and be done with

it

this guy's much worse there's no water

to it should i just drop the mane

okay i'm so nuts about this baby makes

it easy for him

i think she'd rather break up the

marriage and give up emily

how can i even begin to think that

irrationally i wish i could honest to

god

that'll put me right there with them i

mean what makes me smarter if i do the

same dumb thing as everybody else

i mean there are five billion people in

the world and

and most of them don't give any thought

at all to having a child

a lot of bobbing and weaving in there i

guess i

i don't want to take the chance that

somehow you put all of this into it

and suddenly she's gone

that's what i know about having children

put everything you have into them

all your love making the center of your

universe

when they get a phone call you know that

your child is gone

your marriage is over your whole life

just stops

it sucks

hello lily

i run away because gary's scaring me and

i

had to run away i don't mean to bother

you but i'm just sad

i'm just scared where are you saint

adele's shelter i'll be right there

it's lily can you come with me

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oh you found it okay i'm not too good

with directions

no strong parking must have been

terrible i'm sorry you know gary always

said

no decent woman had ever walked these

streets it was fine when

we got here just fine

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i had to get out of there i ain't sure

what to do

what happened where's gary now

well i don't know the last time he came

here

i don't know the last time i was here he

came looking for me

and they wouldn't let him in because

it's just women and children

oh he was so mad

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and i ain't sure whether they'll let me

stay cause i ain't got a child

you don't think he would go to the house

and try to take emily do you oh no

i don't think so he gary's not a mean

person he just

life don't work

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so good for him you know for me neither

can't you leave him

isn't there some place you can go your

family

oh god that's worse than gary

they got no sense i ran away when i was

14 i don't want them they don't want me

but carrying me

he takes real good care of me sometimes

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he makes real good love

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and sometimes it works and we live real

good a couple of times and you live by

giving up your babies

you think it'd be better for me from us

to keep them and

i mean you see me sitting here with

three babies and

down there at the camp building and

lillian i know that you

you don't believe in birth control i

understand

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maybe you should i mean how you ever

gonna get out of this

it's too late now

you're pregnant

oh lily no but i

i i'm i think that

after this one i'm gonna i might leave

gary i'm gonna figure something out

and what are you gonna do with the baby

i want you to have it

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i know what you're thinking but

i just got a real good feeling about you

and your husband lily no

gary don't want it and even if he did

he ain't fit to be no daddy and he ain't

good to be my husband neither

and i ain't fit for nothing or nobody

neither so

i guess i mean i guess me and gary

belong together

you're coming home with me come on come

on man

just get yourself gary comes in don't

worry about it

rosella where's ella

ella

i was just standing there looking at

these children

i'm too young too poor too

i just started crying like a baby i

don't even know why

i guess i do yeah i'm sorry honey

it's not my fault you know

look we've had a good run what

oh look i've loved you better than than

anybody could be expected to love a

terminal adolescent

oh i appreciate it and i don't think the

way you handled what happened to you was

necessarily the only way to handle it

maybe not fine you know what i won't

bring it up anymore i won't bring it up

anymore

just fine i thought that you'd want to

know the truth but we can live our lives

out we can you know

race each other in our walkers fine but

there are kids out there that need us

and need people that that can give them

the love

and don't say anything cynical about it

i know you'll say something cynical but

we have the love so i

i just thought that we i

never mind

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ella

you know everything is always backwards

it's because it takes too long to grow

up

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let me think about it

people who should be doing one thing

not doing it

kind of like this whole business of the

wrong people having children

just don't tell me because they want a

baby you want a divorce

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look the fact is is

it

i had this wonderful child for a while

and then i had this death

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and i

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what i've been doing is holding on to

the death

oh honey i'm sorry oh god

i don't mean to be dredging this not

listening to me

maybe it would be nice to have a

creature around it

doesn't have fleas and scratch the

furniture

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you want to have a baby

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yes

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baby

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sean

sean

look at you smiling

that's my girl

you're gonna be very happy

i i didn't wake her up she's already

awake and i'm sorry

i'm gonna miss you i'm gonna miss you so

much just stay with her for a minute and

turn out the light she'll go back to

sleep

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hey family you got my wife in here

somewhere

get out of here before i call the police

oh wait the police

was sean in here well look hey it's all

right

don't worry i mean uh we're all family

right there's no need to close the door

in my face

i can see you're a strong woman pamela

you know but uh

if i want to come in there enough i'm

gonna do it

don't you think

okay we'll just we'll leave the door

wide open okay like that just so that

you know if i have to leave here fast in

case you get too rough with me

well come on family you gotta have a

sense of humor

well this life is hard enough without a

sense of humor lily's not going with you

yeah well i know that i'm like i can

force anybody to do anything they don't

want to do

all right now i could go up there and

grab emily i carry her out of here

but uh hell i'd have a hell of a time

carrying lily

oh stop making her scared and get out of

here you ain't and you ain't taking

emily neither

he's silly lily

i just come here i just come here to

apologize to you okay

now i'm sorry i'm sorry that i yelled at

you all right but you know sometimes i'm

an idiot

but i just can't live without your mama

you know that

i'm mad at you gary

yeah well you ought to be the hell i'm

at it myself

come on now how do you expect me not to

turn to much she's standing up here on

the stairs looking all pretty

just like in the movies

all right frankly scarlett i do give a

damn

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lily you don't have to go with him come

here

come here

come on

i told them about our baby and they

well they said that's gonna find

somebody who's gonna get it

anyway that's good well it is a friend

of pants

well that's real nice now it'll be just

like a big family

that's good come here lily please don't

go

with him

please don't go

family ain't nothing but a big old dog

with a lot of

bark on it

oh then you sure didn't make emily's

room look

real beautiful it's a lifetime thank you

come on

where'd you get this don't worry about

it

oh you haven't been a bad boy i ain't

pretty bad you haven't

don't worry about it madam i can't

believe this

gonna get your big booty in there oh my

god oh you look good in there

you like it i

i can't believe this

here take your child and don't wake her

up you'll be sorry

put her in the forward bunk and put up

the rough sea straps

rough shoes

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do you like her

she's peaceful and beautiful get used to

it she's yours

do you like me i guess you're okay

i'll take that as an enthusiastic yes

now

i don't want to have a child without you

i want the package

i want a daddy and a mommy and a baby

and i'm willing to fight for what i want

and i know you are too i know you

now let me teach you to sell yes

you're making golf on sunday

i can try to figure out the meaning of

life so i can tell her before she gets

too old

yes

i see what you mean by rap scene as an

attorney selected by mr and mrs saban i

want to be as clear as possible

and of course as an officer of the court

you understand you know we understand

and we appreciate it sir

good now we've gone over the document

the sabens will be responsible for the

costs of prenatal care

and will make the arrangements for and

assume the cost of the birth itself

mrs ward will refrain from the use of

alcohol cigarettes drugs

medications of any kind not prescribed

by the obstetrician and mutually agreed

upon

now diet and other general health

considerations that means no more banana

splits right

that's not specifically well

i see the sabens have prenatal

visitation at times

also mutually agreeable do you

understand the document

do you agree yeah very well

and then upon signing and after the

usual six-month waiting period

your child will become the child of

mr and mrs saban

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gary

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mrs ward i'm oren moser

and uh this is my wife betty hi bet

i've been really looking forward to

meeting you honestly

well uh i guess the big day's getting

close isn't it

i'm afraid you have the wrong place i

don't think so

uh gary ward yeah that's right

we're gonna be the parents of your new

baby

maybe he didn't tell you it was tonight

he didn't tell me nothing about it well

um

we are uh you know i've got uh

got the cash right here

sorry that you folks are in such

straights no

the baby's going to somebody else it's

already been promised

everything has been signed at the

lawyers and all that's not

possible no um let's see i gave him a

car

i'm sorry i gave him a like

please bang

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oh

wow

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oh it's for you

hello yes it is

um well where

i don't know i

she's got an 18-gauge id with a thousand

lr okay we've only got about four

minutes let's give her a 50 demo i be

pushed out

okay we gotta get this baby out now how

are you feeling sweetheart you still

want the tubal ligation

yeah i know you signed the papers but

are you sure you know what you're

getting into

you'll be all right honey they're gonna

take good care of you okay

come on let's go let's go let's go

thanks you're a great help

it's a good thing you're a little tired

and you came in after safety pins

how's that good fit is it your size

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right there

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running wide open

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get her out of here

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no

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you ain't gonna feel any more pain any

longer

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you know it's not too late to change

your mind about the tubal ligation

just do it lily you're sure yeah just do

it

do it

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oh

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hey pick up the phone

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had a whole carton of cigarettes in that

car right in the glove box

you better fix this let's see his face

turn him this way

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ward are you a relative what am i a

relative i'm mr ward is the father

can you see the baby hey baby

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baby can you say baby

oh i can't i can't just hold her no

matter what leave me help

all right maybe no more next time you

use my phone to spew your self-pitying

invective i'm going to slap you with a

restraining order so fast your head's

going to spin

just a minute i don't know where he

finds guys like you i guess everybody's

got to make a living hey i'm taking back

my kids all right emily and the baby

and you and your cheapskate friends i

don't think so mr ward is well within

the six month probationary period and is

prepared to charge you with kidnapping

my attorneys are getting a court order

right now we're through being

manipulated by this guy

we'll get at least temporary custody and

i'm gonna hold out and i'm gonna sue you

for harassment

and whatever else i can find and since

you don't have any money i'd be happy to

include anybody else who might be

helping him

i don't think that's a very constructive

attitude didn't anticipate guys like

this using babies to compensate for the

fact that they can't keep it together

all right so sue me i'm going down here

i'm taking my kids all right want me to

call hospitals yeah yeah go ahead call

hospital security

go on call now go on call for security

do you like me to call from hospital no

i call him now go on oh wait you're

supposed to fix this complicated

situation right wait

man you said you'd get police i know

just a minute

you have a beautiful baby boy

all right and yeah and you're just gonna

take him too right

before you do anything gary wouldn't you

like to see lily

i see we got us another lawyer

yeah he's useless right but we're gonna

get our babies back don't worry about it

what's his name gary

um i don't know pudding thing

well there's a lot of names we just got

to pick one right before we give them

away

me and then think we ain't

and then maybe we do what

what oh gary you know what

and it's something about us having all

them pretty babies

and then we don't even keep we ain't got

a single one of them

yeah when we're gonna we're gonna leave

so i got myself fixed here

wait what do you mean fixed

i mean i can't have me no more babies

i just can't do it no more

what did pam make you do this right what

what are you her dog

no i i ain't

you listen to me so i did this for

myself

okay i did this by myself

i cannot keep having babies that i

neither

keep nor take care of okay

don't carry no don't don't gary no

no i ain't playing okay

i ain't playing i did this it's done

and there ain't nothing you can do about

it

but you had no right to do that without

talking to me

no we don't have no right to keep doing

this

okay those babies

they all have a chance you know

for them they can't help us not

they can't deny this just little babies

i think gonna help us figure out how to

get along

you know the best thing we can do for

them gary

the best thing is to give me somebody

who's gonna give me a chance in this

life

you know i'd give him anything i had

i'd give him anything i had but i ain't

got nothing

there you got nothing

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i need to talk to my little girl

it's all right

it's all right isn't it gary

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here everyone go for a walk

you wanna fight horsey boys

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i'm still your dad

but i'm an old broken daddy all right

you're gonna get a brand new daddy that

works okay

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it works real good it's all fixed

and he's gonna buy you a mockingbird

you're gonna work diamond ring

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you helped me out all but right

just decide what you're gonna do

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okay

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he's beautiful

it looks like me huh

there's some resemblance

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maybe you'll keep me in mind

he's going someplace

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um

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you