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I just asked Miss Appleton put us on the

same team for the spelling bee since

we're the only two people in the fourth

grade who can spell perspicacious our

team is sure to win

dear Rob the worst thing about being

sick is not being able to see you or

totsy I'm so lonely and I'm only 12 and

already I've missed a year of school and

parties and everything as soon as mama

will let me out of this bed I'll make up

for it

there's totsy

just now saying goodnight to Rob he gave

me my first real kiss I have waited

months for him to get up the nerve and

yet tonight he took me entirely by

surprise nothing ever seems as if it

truly happens to me until I've shared it

with you

darling Papa happy 1900.

while I'm grateful for the rare

opportunity to attend college after

three years it's clear to me that these

people can't begin to teach me all I

want to know

so why stay here any longer

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a world without Rob I'm coming home and

will be married this Summer please don't

say anything to him as I want to be the

first to tell him

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comes

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is the time you

you tell me

I have something for you mama know

you've been so generous already with the

China and the Linens and the wedding my

mother gave this to me on my wedding day

that every girl should marry with two

rings

one from her husband and one from her

mother

and never forget which came first

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I can't wait to show Rob

you tell me

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you

tell me

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[Applause]

so

expected buyers he's a beautiful home

the sign up front this is for sale 700

in choir with them

it goes inside nobody's there

it sees this beautiful foyer

he says to himself Allah this place is

suddenly a voice is it from the walls

calls out 3 500 square feet

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the house speaks to me

there's a little recipe today

dumps

I think I need to get a look at that

baby

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oh Rob oh this button is loose

I'm gonna fix this let's go put on

another shirt oh no no no you won't this

is your best shirt now if you are going

to approach Mr Lawrence today with that

talking house idea you ought to be

wearing your best shirt don't you think

I will fix it

come in

you set it down right here Annie and

then go put the iron on right now and

come right back from Mr Steve's trousers

showing my trousers there's no crease go

on Annie go on yes

rob you can't talk to Mr Lawrence

without a crease in your trousers

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take your pants off

ER I got to sew on your shirt I got to

sew on your shirt Rob I can't do this

and sew on your shirt

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lights come on

every time the buyer walks in your room

the lights go on like magic

system dearest mama you asked me the

night before my wedding if I had any

questions

I didn't then but now I'm filled with

them

not of a physical nature alone in the

dark Rob an aisle one it is daylight

which destroys that balance

robust my entire life night and day yet

by day I become about a fraction of his

he is driven by a sense of purpose that

I can't share

and I can't seem to grasp what my own

purpose is

here's mama

am I the only wife to feel so wasted so

unused

how I wish you could come to the baby

shower tatsi has given me

Rob's mother and sister will be there

yet somehow I can't imagine confiding

these fears to either Lydia or mother

Steed when I was anticipating Ralph

trying to slip unseen into a back pew on

a Sunday but the preacher shamed me with

such a look that I just turned around

and run directly home for the collection

I hope

we had to drown our cat last week

cried and cried come on dear but you

cannot take any chances I know of three

occasions for the cat

sucked the breath from a newborn

well luckily mother never let me have a

cat

thank you but I'm the one I'm thoroughly

enjoying my confinement no social

obligations no tedious evenings dancing

and heels too high of course it's too

tight I've never felt more free they're

telling me the same thing just the other

day

dearest taxi I can't wait for you to

experience this Blissful isolation for

yourself

confinement is not just for our pleasure

for example if you are out in public and

you see something unsettling that shock

will Mark your baby

oh I remember my anticipations with such

fondness it was just hours and hours of

reading and crocheting

taste in gooseberries now my silver my

silver was never so well polished is

what I was expecting

it's to help the baby learn to walk when

it's older of course

Jessica hey

zip I'm gonna classically sit around

Paula Silva for the next four months

honestly the way I'm sure you think I

suffered from leprosy not maternity

Annie I need you

laughs

why are Americans so upset

by the side

natural

outcome of

lovemaker

oh

why is this so embarrassing

bruh

look at me

why

is this so embarrassing

what do you mean

it's a bank says it

women in Europe who are expecting

they go everywhere

museums or the concert or

the answer nobody Minds

I love to see England in the summer

the Moors of Kathy and heathclair

Elizabeth

Essex

we can increase in my perspectives

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asset floor abundance then hybrid teased

then Grandy floor surrounded with

bourbons and Gallaghers

so changed well my mother always has a

flow of bundles in the center Matthew

just let me do it all right this is my

job I could dig

Annie tell your husband Mrs steed

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[Applause]

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um

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if one more person tells me what a rich

and full life she had I will end theirs

with a fruit knife

where's Rob

inside

showing mothers to eat a headache is not

the onset of stroke

how could she leave me like this I'm not

ready how can I have a baby without her

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I want to talk to you about your

inheritance

even me for years and years

your mother had her own money

she left to you

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well

that I want to spend it all on a

monument to her no

and

I'm speaking about a considerable amount

of money

your mother was a woman of independent

means

didn't she say

she never told me

she was your mother

who knows why she ever did anything

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if I turn it down

Rob don't answer me now just think about

it

I gave you my answer my answer is this

no absolutely not sweetheart this is

misplaced Pride

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yes which is precisely why I can't take

your money

best don't you worry about the

partnership all right the partnership is

my concern I'll deal with it

what if it wasn't a gear dogs what if it

was a loan an investment in my husband's

future

Annie Annie please come get the baby

yes it's all right

wow

wow you have an opportunity to become a

partner in your farm

you could borrow the money from me now

or you could work for the next 10 years

and try to earn the fee above and beyond

our living expenses

I don't know

you have a businessman

tell me which one you think

yeah hello Central

hey folks you got service

yes

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the one that may concern on this day

December 31st 1908 a loan of twenty

thousand dollars was made to Robert

Randolph Steed by his wife Elizabeth

alcottstein to be repaid at the rate of

one thousand dollars a year for 20 years

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retire away to our chamber it's

impossible they will guess your

condition and they will shut up and

faint and never ever let you in they

won't gas I will lace myself up real

tight with my organza with the big

peplum

your mama is incorrigible if she is one

day I will tell you stories this

he's a serious shooter

serious enough to invite me to his

family man's in Connecticut

you didn't tell me

from this

I think he's the one well what do you

find out

I'm afraid I'm gonna breathe too hard

and it'll all fall apart

my hands are of your color but I ashamed

well also Mrs extra Banks Dallas

Shakespeare Society I respectfully

request the opportunity to apply for

membership by reading at your next

meeting my first scholarly essay an

appreciation of Lady Macbeth

membership chair Dallas Botanical

Society please accept my application for

membership in your fine organization the

accompanying Madame plantio rose bushes

are my gift and would look trauma and

Planet at city park

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dearest Papa life is a whirlwind here

I'm so pleased that you'll be joining us

for Thanksgiving dinner in our new homes

Robin can't wait to see you again and I

can't wait for you to meet your new

little namesake

together

Starlight and Dew drops

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in it's not like powerful to be so late

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a day

loved by the Moonlight have all passed

all right

the best Celtic princesses

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I know they say you can't really

appreciate family history unless you

trace your genealogy yourself but

honestly I feel this is the best 24 I've

ever seen amen this is the brass ring

it's the chance of a lifetime I thought

real estate was a chance for a lifetime

a rich man dies the state takes care of

his family right what about the Working

Man when he passes on who takes care of

his wife and kids Saint Rob evidently

seriously here is an opportunity to meet

a real need in society

provide a hard-working Breadwinner with

a little peace of mind to keep a widow

and her kids out of the Poor House

and turn to probably well sure why not

help The Working Man and put ourselves

in Tall Cotton two men we start our own

company

will be like Pioneers in this business

y'all can move to Dallas build a house

Lydia there's a lot not three blocks

away right dumps

yes

fracking will not make the horse

attractive master

it's just not a holiday till your

parents get here

it'll be the berries you're good with

the books I can sell hellfired Lucifer

with this money from St Louis who knows

how far this thing could fly

it's still good to see you shave your

whiskers off look at that Rogue from

Honey Grove hello Andrew

this

yeah I'd like you to meet

Miss Mavis Bromley

hi knickers

make this

what a pleasure to see you again

knickers we were croquet Partners

several years ago at the gleasons you

remember

and this would swing a mallet so hard

her skirts would fly away up and give us

all a peek

only

truly dear

life with its Sorrows

life with its tears

Fades into dreams when I feel you on me

for I love you truly

truly dear

oh

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I should have told you about the age

difference

didn't want to be the bearer of bad news

the bad news

you're a good girl bears

mother Steve please come live with us

we have so much room now Rob misses you

children need you

oh you're the only mother I have left

I can't leave my home

I slept there my wedding night

I brought my children there

I know it's my husband there too

leave all those memories

but we're your family

mother Steve moved in with us and

promptly appointed herself overseer of

my third pregnancy she's so protective

she won't even let me step outside to my

own garden to collect rose hips for my

daily facial Steam

ever since extra Banks told me of the

freedom enjoyed by expected women in

Europe I can't help but dream about

spending this confinement in a place so

I'm confining

all he needs is encouragement

sitting on the chamber part precisely

the same time every day

well the experts say that we're experts

I have raised two children

I just don't think he's ready yet oh yes

this great Robin will still be in

diapers in the second person yes

this is on the front doorstep for you oh

you wanted to go to Europe you sweet

darling person look at all these tickets

get all these tickets fast you cannot go

to Europe in your condition

I thought you'd want to take the boys

Nanny with you

and mother

me to Europe oh wow just be in the way

you would not mother would she best

of course not

they're they're all only five tickets I

know

I'm not going

we're just getting Midwestern life off

the ground and I can't leave what

happens

you wanted to go to Europe go see the

Moors and the ultra stones and I'll do

everything you wanted to do without you

don't the truth is

once you're there you'll hardly notice

I'm not

am I right mother

thank you

darling Rob although I miss you my love

and yearn for your completion I thank

you again for encouraging My

independence and taking this trip

without you right often please no more

letters dictated to your secretary

foreign

I appreciate your writing your letters

in longhand but are you sure your

secretary is not still reading there

when I write to you we are as alone as

we are in our bed

when I read your letters I feel we are

being chaperoned

wow men so shy about saying things they

are not the least bit shy about doing

thank you

dearest Rob I've never been off American

Sorrel and yet setting foot in England I

felt this is as if somehow

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I only wish you'd been here to greet me

I have not heard from you since we

landed

you've been doing to amuse yourself

please be specific as my imagination

tends to run rampant at this distance

and beautiful I noticed that you are in

mourning if I may ask it's nine years

since my husband passed over I know they

say it's sufficient to be six months and

with his wheeze but I feel I owe him

that respect

I'm staying at the fleur-de-lis they

have a lovely Tea Room Perhaps

Perhaps more

bears

mother Steve you make a formidable

cocaine

that influence on me Bass

aren't you glad did you see him kissing

my hand I saw him kissing

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dear Rob

not once have you lamented your

loneliness to me but of course only a

fool would read into that any

implication of infidelity

why are women so afraid they risk their

husbands affections by a certain their

independence

everything in me is drawn to you no

matter how far a field I roam

I trust I have the same effect on you

foreign

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Anderson

I'll be right back

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you tell me Mr and Mrs Roberts D proudly

announced the birth of their first

daughter Eleanor Elizabeth aboard the

USS Nuevo Mondo August 8 1910.

get their toys you get to wear Lacy

camisoles and petticoats you can run

faster Patty coats I want to wear pants

Mrs Banks excuse me Mrs Banks may I

speak with you please Mr Steed I can't

talk right now but I've heard that Mrs

geely and this is Ashton and the

sporting bras will be inducted into the

Shakespeare Society next month whereas I

have been attending much longer I am yet

to receive my invitation please Mrs did

I truly can't talk right now in a minute

Illinois in a minute I've just had the

operation the removal of my floating

ribs doctor says in six weeks I'll be

skipping rope with my 14 inch waist but

at the moment I can barely breathe

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oh

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no

no no oh my God oh my God

[Applause]

[Music]

all right I had a hand and she just

slipped away I'm so sorry

for the doctor said

we just have to wait till she comes out

of the coma

really

it's Daddy

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open your eyes for Dad

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please Ellie

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foreign

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why don't you go home and get some rest

listen to messenger if anything changes

no

all right

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wake up now

it's time to

do it we light

Dear Mr Feynman

thank you for your kind letter

let me assure you again in writing that

my husband and I have no intention of

pressing any legal charges against you

my child ran directly in the path of

your car

no driver could have avoided the

accident that followed

I hold myself personally responsible

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Mommy that hurts

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Rob

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OTs

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she's awake

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don't move

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oh boy do we miss you

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too much

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well it doesn't appear to be any brain

damage

but we're gonna have to keep her

completely immobile until her fractures

heal properly

and then there'll be a long

Rehabilitation process

I mean Steve she may never fully recover

yes you were

you'll have to learn to walk all over

again

she can do that how long will this take

six months

a year

yes

I gotta get back to St Louis

it's been over a week and you know this

is crucial time to come here it's a

crucial time for a family I know

sweetheart

but if I drop the ball in the midwestern

life now

fold

and with these hospital bills we're

gonna need the money Bob I can't do this

alone I have complete

faith in you

it's a shame about the war in Europe

there's nothing to do with us

newspapers here are just using it to

divert our attention away from the real

war here at home the war against the

demon rum it's a hole over there you

gotta lift it higher mama I want ice

cream go tell the cook with your lack of

enthusiasm about the temperance

sweetheart I'm busy God says if you're

not with us please Annie please just

take him out of here

foreign

I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so sorry Robin

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all right

Mrs Steve it's just a red oh husband

cute put it over there with the others

will you

be a deer give me a hand with the bed oh

Mrs Stevia not to alter the pattern of

the room

there's bigly she's been struck by a car

she'd been two weeks in a coma she's

gonna be flat on her back for months the

least we can do is give her the damn Sky

to look at

please help me with the bed

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and moving a whole lot whole lot tickle

tickle tickle tickle

tickle Dear Mr Feynman thank you for the

beautiful gift basket we have missed the

Glorious end of summer being confined to

this hospital room and we're delighted

with the Bounty of sunflowers

since eleanora's accident two months ago

I've hardly stirred from this room

having put aside all social and

charitable obligations as Eleanor's

recovery requires all my time and energy

she's so brave

it breaks my heart

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come on

yes yes

yes look at you look at you

oh stayed

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where where we lost our pumpkin

My Dear Mr Feynman

if it were not for our correspondence I

sometimes think I might give in to

despair

watching Eleanor struggle I am

overwhelmed by Guild

I cannot talk about this with anyone in

my family

not even my husband

you were the only person I can share my

thoughts with for only you can truly

understand the depths of my guild

I've never felt so alone there you go

there you go what a good girl

or as we look here daddy's gonna be so

sorry he missed this

there you are you did it

he did it

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I'm sorry I'm late so I'm late hey boys

Kaiser

Eleanor Eleanor Eleanor

Robin what happened did she fall Eleanor

now don't move don't move Robin what

happened

I shot her I'm an ally

I shot her you're not even playing the

game right now

[Applause]

[Music]

you didn't buy yourself an automobile no

ma'am

I bought you an automobile

me

well I don't want this Rob it's a deadly

dangerous machine and not my love is the

perfect attitude come in here I want to

show you this machine

it's got a two-speed transmission

planetary gears 20 horsepower

single play out of two feet of mud I've

probably been through with Eleanor

I thought you needed a nice gift

Happy Valentine's Day

that's not what I need Rob I never see

you anymore you are never home I know

that's why we're taking a trip

how's New York City sound

it's you and me

we can go to Connecticut visit tots and

her husband how's that

really

I was thinking about the end of the

month I got some business in Hartford

from the 25th so

what oh

yeah

what best come back here huh

Bass

Happy Valentine's Day

darling tatsi how I have missed you

since you married dwy and traded Texas

for Connecticut I've never been closer

to anyone except Rob and that was back

in the days when I was more ambitious

for him than he was for himself

I always thought marriage meant the

merging of two lives but the only

mergers that capture Rob's imagination

now are the ones that show a growth and

profit potential

look at you you're getting younger you

look like your stepdaughtered chemistry

class of course I do I I always cried

after chem class

Nazi

oh long way from Honey Grove aren't we

all just a moment I have been

anticipating this Lone Star State

reunion for weeks now

at least you can do a show up with a

little hard tack and fire water

I'm Rob Steve Dwight Davis

best pleasure how do you do please come

in

this I can't believe you're actually

here

I just have so much to tell you I don't

know where to start

how is Dallas decided still safe under

the auspices of formidable Mrs Banks I

trust him oh

exit bank is really very pleasant once

you get to know us you're kidding me

no I like her

foreign

ER

just wonderful good and the boys will

end up scrapping all the time then

they're defending the Western Front my

life is just filled with these children

you wrote in your last letter though you

all were thinking of adoption

although

Dwight is less enthusiastic

impaled

best form is different one he needs a

consolation crime you poor dear he's

exhausted from work since he started his

own company

I don't believe that he has had five

consecutive hours of sleep I can't

remember the last time I had five

consecutive islands of anything

Rob tell us about your company

well

there's not much to tell

sweetheart that's not true

where he started this company all by

himself about three years ago

it's already turned across how

impressive I'd rather Macabre way to

earn a living there don't you think

making a book on who will Shuffle off

when

do what man's got a point

although nobody cares much with a street

sweeper either to laugh for the parade

that is so true

twice

what is it that you do again

oh don't tell yourself personally I'm

not wrong I'm not taking it personally I

just find it difficult to suck my ball

treating us you as if you're some here

could we you are one of the most

prominent citizens in Dallas for

goodness sakes

the way he just lowers his money over us

as if he has ever done anything in his

life harness

I will never ever understand what toxic

sees in this man

his baby name just paves and went for

him wherever he goes

I would like to know what he has ever

done in his life to earn that kind of

genuflection I thought that was supposed

to be relaxing

I am determined to give our children all

the benefits of wealth and position if

only to show them how meaningless it all

is

you don't like what

you want to raise our kids to be like

Dwight

just so you can prove how meaningless it

is to feed White

I can't talk to you when you're like

this

I'm steaming

no no

Rob can I just come here

oh

I love dogs

hello Robert

that's true

I missed you too

this past Good Friday when President

Wilson declared America War I like all

of you I'm sure was filled with a great

sadness but also the great belonging

sadness of course and all the thousands

of lives that will certainly be lost in

this Noble Pursuit

and longing

to join those boys going over there to

do my part from my country and the world

the question remains

hello

oh such a wonderful speaker your husband

is but we can March through the French

Countryside

but we can provide the boots for those

who do we must be very proud of him yes

and he must be very proud of you by the

way is the 12th convenient

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for the induction ceremony it seems to

be fine for the other ladies

you were notified or we can provide the

medicine oh Beth darling I am so sorry I

can't imagine how such an oversight

you can make it candy yes yes my God the

horseshoes

do it by buying more bomb

foreign

this Crystal needs to be wiped down I

want no fingerprints on the Crystal this

is the Shakespeare Society tonight Beth

the economical Society are coming for

tea what about Thursday no no I have a

symphony motion on Thursday what about

Friday

is the Botanical Society my husband will

be with you presently and the Friday

after that is my Red Cross day mama look

party tonight

young ladies do not paint on their

pantaloons you go upstairs and take them

off bring them down to the laundress

immediately but it's crazy

go on now

how about Monday

s because of this war Mondays are

meatless how can I serve lunch without

me and how can the orchestra come on

Thursday Thursday is wheatless this is

not near finish Joe they'll be here in

three hours it's Thursday's week is how

can I cook lunch without bread I do hope

that is your french lesson young man

mama do we hang quarter people in Texas

no we do not what's that uh-huh

this is the book you read

rice

oh I will never get used to this well I

love rice but we need the bathroom

instead if I had to clean the Rocks I

must have the beater no Annie I want the

girls to wear their Peach uniforms

tonight to match the table in there you

are where's my blue shirt get the tables

why Mr Sun I'll be with you presently

well you're not leaving again what the

dinner party tonight the entire

Shakespeare Society is coming to

celebrate Mom I'm wearing the best war

ones I have to be in Oklahoma City in

the morning oh you know how important

this is to me the war is rather

important too best

Robert

I think you owe Bears an apology

I'm sorry Bess

forgiven

how about Tuesday

here you are Thomas

thank you Mrs dude you're an angel oh

so sweet straight from Gardner Postal

Service

how are all you

all your friends

ripe and Pine and just the way I like

them

Dennis you are looking better today

thank you Mr Steve

a popular person here

I'm sorry where was he stationed

he weren't a soldier man he was run down

by an automobile

got himself in a coma

we can't keep him here

not that innate

dearest Rob

all this afternoon I kept thinking of

how blessed I am to have you working so

hard for our family

providing so generously for our every

need

and how lucky I am that I must only lend

you to the war effort

not lose you to the battlefield

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oh my God oh my God

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[Applause]

[Music]

there's Flames everywhere the Smoke

Filled the air and it was so hot the

fire was touching us touching our feet

dear papa and Mavis I am finally

beginning to understand that nothing is

given to us to keep

our very lives are all alone and none of

us knows when the mortgage will fall due

a sad with relief that this time my

house seemed to be sufficient payment

except for my back no one was harmed

thank God all our servants live out and

mother Steed was visiting Lydia that

night

we are all comfortably installed in

Lydia and Manning's Cozy home

it's such a lovely day why don't we

encourage the children to play outside

children would you like to play outside

no

[Applause]

Hansel and Gretel were now lost in the

wood

they didn't know how they were gonna get

out they did have a packet full of bread

cups and he took those breadcrumbs and

he scattered them all throughout the

force because he thought

he was ever going to get out of there

the only way to do it was if he had a

way to find that path again

so

I don't think so it's not necessary

there's there's so much more work now I

don't want to be a burden

it's no burden

many hands make life work and there are

a lot of hands in this house now yes

yes

but Annie here is a wonderful just a

wonderful wonderful housekeeper

of course I would pay

Beth if I wanted a housekeeper I would

have a housekeeper be a papa and

Neighbors

it is a new position for me to be at the

mercy of friends and family

my only regret is that Rob is not here

to enjoy his sister's kind hospitality

unfortunately he is in St Louis

overseeing the expansion of Midwestern

life and must make do with a hotel suite

and room service

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yeah

what are y'all doing here

sweetheart hello we've missed you so

much what is going on Ellie do not pull

that cord Eleanor I said do not pull

that cord

for business papers please put them back

where you found them through

what is going on didn't you get our

telegram on telegram you can leave those

right there thank you very much telegram

what happened when nothing happened we

just decided to move to St Louis that's

all

the sweet is lovely bedroom in here

thank you hello senator

hello

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to St Louis

Andrews Steve don't even think about

piling clothes up there Ellie stop

jumping on the bed this minute here

here it is

you are not gonna build a fort I put

those pillows back

you are not going to be living out of a

hotel room like a bunch of refugees

[Music]

you ready for room service no we didn't

Ellie I told you not to pull that cord

lost it if we're done oh how tragic

can you tell me sir what is the soup of

the day I come to me fine we'll have a

big terrain of it an ice cream

it's Mom and ice cream yeah all right

thank you gums

we still own the lawn

sweetheart we can't build on that lot

not now during the war but you love

Dallas

is called a lot of proper home why in

God's name would you want to live in a

hotel

me ma'am

if I could make up the beds now

dearest pop and Mavis there's so much to

be said for being transient if one can

afford to do it in style like most

people I suppose I enjoyed a sense of

permanence living in a house built to my

own specifications but the but the fire

destroyed an illusion I had of

permanence in this life although I

enjoyed owning my home in Dallas I can't

be happier with my newfound Freedom

Robert Steed Blackstone Hotel Kansas

City discovered beautiful historical St

Louis home for sale my bed accepted I'm

signing papers tomorrow if you object

please advise immediately

please

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[Applause]

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I feel bad I didn't even get your card

you got me a house

be Valentine's Day

I don't know what to say

I always wanted to be a major

stockholder in midwestern life

sometimes I worry

but with your work and war bonds

traveling so much

I wonder if we aren't moving in

different directions

I look for you

for you you wanna know miles away

I still look for you

you realize this is the longest

uninterrupted conversation we've had in

10 years

yeah well

well business will settle down

kids and grow up and go down out here

all the time in the world

I know mine the best

because it was

of you

you come down sweetheart

now is the time

I tell you man

Dear Mr Feynman I can't tell you how

sorry I was to learn of your wife's

passing you and I have shared so much

through Eleanor's accident and Beyond

please know that my heart goes out to

you and your private sorrow especially

during this time of public celebration

over the war's end

such a hard irony of life that in the

midst of Joy there should be such grief

was equally true that in the midst of

grief one can find Joy comfort and

friendship on this wonderful Christmas

Eve

we recently

learned that a young cousin of mine

Henry steed

thinking about running info State Senate

oh and now I heard Congress Congress yes

that Henry died

not 20 miles

from the little town of etnaham where my

great-grandfather was born

in the circumstances of Henry did you

ever had a republican does it matter

just how interconnected we all are

Americans

and Germans

and French and English

and how on this new day

we must be guided by the Christmas

prayer

peace on Earth

and Good Will to all men

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Merry Christmas to everybody

dear Lydia Manning and mother stayed we

missed you so at Christmas and yet I

understand your reluctance to travel so

far for only a month's visit

the holidays have left us all exhausted

and I'm afraid that the children paid

for their visions of sugar plums with

aching tummies with influenza running

rampant no mother dare dismiss even the

most commonplace childhood illness

fix what darling

just to go to bed by day

and down from the Moon she did did she

it's rest time

all right

now let's see

[Applause]

all right

from breakfast on through all the day at

home among my friends I Stay

laughs

he didn't put on those Rose things in

there did you no

laughs

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sorry oh I'm gonna die I sent a message

this morning to your office well I

thought we'd save a long time leave

directly for the station from here he's

been up all night severe chest pains

horrible cough this this meeting is

crucial if we're gonna open that Kansas

City office on schedule that's it Marvin

he's sick he can't go

I can't I can't make him stay

I need your help

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try to eat

can you eat it

it hurts

travel inside

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there

there you go

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there's nothing else we can do each body

has to fight the disease in its own way

it

is a young man

that's it I mean I'm sorry Mrs I'll call

you later on this afternoon

[Music]

modern medicine may be the new religion

doctor but I am yet to hear a preacher

ever say there's nothing more he can do

at least he'll stay and pray with you to

this

laughs

hey hey

I cannot bear the thought about living

my own child

dear papa and Mavis

Rob seems so weak and helpless for the

first time in his life welcomes every

suggestion I make

suddenly I feel the weight of unspoken

dependence on my shoulders

I'm just beginning to understand what

enormous Demands a wife and children

make on a man

and it terrifies me

hungry

Cole can I get you another coil

I need you to write something

right

no

no I

won't like this

we'll write that Rob I won't do it it's

okay

[Music]

you're gonna be alright

you're gonna open the office in Kansas

City we're gonna travel and have another

baby but we're gonna be all right

I'm going to bed now

and I pray that I will be dead in the

morning

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I want to die grandmother's Not Gonna

Die nobody's gonna die mother Steve

please don't do this to the children

mother

[Music]

's day please go tell the children

you're just upset

but I cannot allow you to see them until

you can assure them you want to go on

living if you intend to die they might

as well get used to your absence right

now

I go to school

though they want to stay

do you know that this is the first time

since the fourth grade

I decided to give you both

you've given me everything

am I too heavy

stuff

[Applause]

[Music]

laughs

foreign

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dear papa and Mavis

I'm glad you stayed in Hannah Grove this

trip would have been too exhausting for

you papa after you recent flare-up of

the gout

I wish I could run back down a Grove

myself

but I must stay and observe the stifling

proprieties of these final farewells

even Rob especially Rob would have found

tedious

Beth what are you doing

this is Rob's last party

I want it to be a party he would have

enjoyed if you like to make the first

toast

you know what I feel about alcohol no

Mother's Day this isn't about alcohol

this is about rock don't do this best

I forbid you to do this

excuse me

I would like to make a toast

I'm not very practiced at this I'm sorry

there's always Robert lift up his glass

and say the perfect thing

right Manning

he was so full of life and so full of

love and joy and he loved to laugh

didn't you Lydia

remember the first time I cooked dinner

at your house mother seed remember I was

16 I made chicken and dumplings you

remember that please mother please

please

mother mother please don't go shame on

you

death is not just another reason for a

party

I want to celebrate his life well then

respect his memory and don't drown it in

liquor or reduce it with Petty anecdotes

they're not Petty to me best you are not

the only one who matters here

would you like to make a toast to your

father

true

you let me stay in the car once

remember all the stuffed animals I did I

still have them all I know you do go

ahead and drink it

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I know you must have something to say

he was always gone

[Music]

Robin your father loved you very much

[Music]

come here sweetie it's all right to cry

come here

Commander it's all right

Eleanor

it's all right

foreign

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Mavis

I feel as if I've just been born

cut apart from the presence that

sustained me

throughout the funeral and the days

following I felt numb

blessedly distracted by the endless

duties and obligations of the newly

bereaved

but all that has passed

and more and more I find myself fighting

a panic that nearly chokes me

the children think of me as someone

strong and brave and so in the daylight

I become what they need

because I don't want you to be afraid

I'm terrified of tomorrow

all the tomorrows I must face alone

I must sleep

if I imagine the two of you holding me

close I may have the courage to close my

eyes

please love me

listen to me

well I am listening Marvin you just

aren't making any sense Andrew please

stop there Marvin

I'd like you to have this

thank you

there are a number of good reasons for

you to forego the monthly siphon and

take the equivalent of a Year's payments

in a lump sum Rob handled all of our

finances he wrote our policy himself he

knew what we would need and when we

would need it

best a lot of things have changed since

Rob wrote that policy

Miss Daly

Robin

please don't leave you stay here with me

epidemic is wiped us out

we've had hundreds of claims come to you

we had to close the St Louis office

even then I don't know how long we can

last

as you've got to take what you can now

by the damn light of the new moon

however Glenda's forces silently

surrounded the city and pitched their

tents of scarlet silk upon the green

sword

this is Steve ma'am it's half ten don't

you want me to put them to bed

just a little while longer Nanny we're

almost through

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I am determined for Rob's sake that

Midwestern life should pay all claims as

promptly as possible in support of this

cause I have decided to shelve my own

claim until the company can better

afford it I am assured that our home

will sail quickly those funds coupled

with my own money should sustain us

nicely and though I have enjoyed living

in St Louis in this house a part of me

looks forward to being untethered to any

one place for the moment

we came to St Louis as Carefree

transients

it's only fitting that we should leave

that way

thank you nanny for all your help

treasure my years with your family

Dear Mr Feynman

thank you for your kind node words of

condolence usually ring Hollow in me

but since Eleanor's accident you have

become such a good friend if only

through correspondence that I truly find

great comfort in your wisdom and

sympathy

I had not realized that your work is in

stocks and bonds

Rob handled all my investments in that

area and I hope I won't be imposing on

our friendship to ask your help in

investing the money from the recent sale

of my St Louis home

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[Applause]

[Music]

foreign

brought me the first bright day I have

known since Rob died

the thought of joining you on Cape Cod

for the summer fills me with delight

what a reprieve from the terrible

reality of my life just now

I am stunned by The Rage Within Me

as well as the fear

I believed myself to be an independent

spirit

but in fact all my life where I was

there in the background to be summoned

at a single cry and without him

I can't seem to find the charity to

forgive those whose only sin is that

they are still alive

[Music]

I've never felt so completely alone

[Applause]

[Music]

I envy you

meetings wide after college like you did

what

because I can't remember a time without

Rob no matter how far back I go

I'm so right

who am I without

daddy where you who you always were

but I was always his

[Music]

how's your wine and their best

almost empty

go

sure

oh mother Steve would have a heart

attack

Robert did you hurt yourself come over

here

sweetie you have a big splatter let me

get it

I keep thinking daddy's coming back

I know

you know what I do sometimes at night

when I can't sleep

I tell myself he's just a way working

late at the officer

on a business trip from Midwestern life

isn't that a lie

no

I know it's not the truth it's just

something that helps me sometimes

time you go on and wash your hands now

okay

[Music]

not you drew just a ghost

your hungry supper's almost ready

that's chicken chicken

it's not chicken it's it's duck

duck was nobody we know

a farmer came by the other day and he

was selling strangers

foreign duck just duck me

Max

it's Vivian

you killed Vivian I didn't kill her I

just cooked her bath very long time I'm

having pies what I'm having I am not

eating that well I'm

okay whether you eat it or not I'm gonna

eat the whole thing we gotta put some

sugar

I got it all right who am I gonna get

this time

I was distressed to learn from Marvin

Hamilton how poorly Midwestern life is

faring in my absence

although we haven't communicated since

Rob's death I know we all want his dream

to survive

I am certain that if we can just hold on

to what we have business will improve

PostScript mother Steed I realize you

are angry with me but your grandchildren

do not understand why you no longer

write to Bam

there you go give it a cast

good you fish off that side

the way you won't get the lines Tangled

teaching them to swim

nice kids

I think you're good with them oh you do

huh

I want to thank both of you for saving

us this summer so you've enjoyed the

rented hobble yes

so much so I am considering renting it

myself for the school year I will never

get through away from that gold

I'm Mrs Steve

I'm sorry

gotta go back to Dallas right away what

are you what are you looking about

please don't leave I'd like to send a

reply they're declaring bankruptcy on

Midwestern life they won't Lydia Manning

won't laugh take us down would you

please lydian Manning are instigating it

along with Mother steed

this goes to Manning Shepherd Dallas

Texas delay bankruptcy hearing pending

my arrival stop

I will be personally responsible for

companies deficit stops you can't do

that I have to oh you don't Rob wouldn't

want you to spend your own money to bail

out Midwestern life he would never

jeopardize his family to save his

company you don't understand children I

want

I want another one please

Arthur Feynman Dallas Texas

please sell all stock purchased in my

name deposit proceeds in my account have

you got that

sure

somebody was Rob's whole life I can't

stand by and watch it die

I watched him die

I can't do that again children

[Music]

thank you

you had a dream

well I had one too

I know mine's best

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

thank you

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