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Lucy? I can't find my sweater.

It's the blue one I left out for you.

Lucy?

Did you find the sweater I put out for you?

Yes, Nona.

No eggs for me.

Uh -uh.

You need some protein.

And don't leave your bag on the floor.

Can I have a coffee?

No, you can go to bed before 11.

Did you finish your book report, my little bambina?

That's why I was up until 11.

Oh, I need your son's permission form. Lucy, please don't leave your bag here

for me to trip over. Ma, can you help me with my hair? Can you get this for me,

Lucy, please?

Ma, I didn't know you were still at home.

Yeah, well, my alarm didn't go off. No, God intervened. Oh, is God called

Camilla now?

Maybe. Just sit and have some breakfast for once. I'm hungry, Ma. Enjoy my hair.

Oh, what permission for them? You should wear the red sweater with those pants.

You need to have rent permission to take the bus up to school.

Oh, yeah? Where to?

St. Joe's. St. Joe's? Yeah, the winter concert. It's tonight.

Oh, Severina. I can't.

Doesn't matter.

The president's coming in from the home office.

That's more important.

Nona's going to be there.

I'm sorry.

Ow, Ma.

That hurts.

Geez.

Oh, no, that looks nice. Yeah.

I need some money for Lucy's dance class and your dry cleaning.

Oh, and I got that stain out of your pantsuit.

I don't know why you waste your money with that cleaners.

You want a red skull?

No, it's okay.

Here.

For your hair appointment.

And get Lucy a new leotard.

She's grown so much.

All right, thank you, Ma.

I will not be home for dinner.

Told ya.

It's okay, sweetie.

Come here.

I'm here, okay?

My little pimpina.

What's going on?

Hey, Camilla!

Well, what's up?

Hey, you look good today.

The best.

Ported all the way from Italy.

No. Reason I'm chilly.

You're new.

Tell Joe Camilla Bianca says hello.

And tie your shoelaces. You could kill yourself.

Hey.

I'm here.

She always works late.

Then she falls into bed and rushes out the next morning before seven.

She never eats breakfast, even though I tell her every day it's the most

important meal of the day. So today I turned off her alarm clock, made her a

nice breakfast, and she tells me she's not hungry. Could you tuck this up a

little higher in the back?

Vince would kill me if I touched him.

Really? His alarm clock.

What you call it nowadays?

How romantic.

Lucy's growing up without a mother.

Nor a father. And Severina's missing all the good times with her.

Well, at least Lucy's got you.

All kinds of single mothers find a way to stay involved in their kids' lives.

She's had to work very hard to get to where she is now. I'm not saying she

didn't. She made a choice. Her daughter or her job.

She's great at her job.

Well, we can't all be perfect at everything.

Except for me.

There you go, Cinderella.

You're a knockout, Camilla.

All the men are going to be chasing you home. Oh, stop.

The last guy who chased me was Richie Raposa, fifth grade at St.

Mary's. All he wanted was my Malabar.

Thank you, Julian.

Just pay at the front and be home before midnight.

Why can't you get my hair to look like that?

Because you're the wicked step -sister, honey.

Bye, guys.

Bye -bye.

Bye.

Come aside, Joey.

The wheel's stuck.

Just wanted, like, to hear her wear it all the way home.

Look at her.

She's having a hard time.

Well, you did a good job.

Why make it easy on her?

Camilla doesn't come here because she wants a change. She just likes coming

here.

Miller Bianco.

Time to play in a whole new key.

Change. You could change a world.

Change.

Rearrange your world.

Change.

Take one, divide by two.

Change. If it was only up to you to change.

Give her some room, Becca!

Most people find it odd at first.

What happened?

You got hit by a piano.

Am I dead?

There's someone you need to meet.

Oh, my goodness.

Wait a minute.

Blind justice?

Just attempting to figure out which one of these is ready.

You can't tell anything like that.

Here, let me see.

Heart of the rock.

Yeah, and this one, here, let me see.

Yeah, this one's soft. This one's ready.

See, you have to feel what's inside.

Yes, it's what's on the inside that counts. Thank you, you're so right. This

Judge Othniel from the Book of Judges.

He's not St. Peter?

Oh, well, I do have special dispensation for cases like yours.

There must be some mistake.

I'm not special, I'm just an ordinary woman.

Everyone is special in his eyes.

Yeah, but they're special and they're special.

Is there a problem here?

Don't I get to go to heaven?

We'll see.

Camila Bianco, tell me, do you have any regrets?

Well, there's nothing on my conscience, if that's what you mean.

Maybe my...

Passing was a little sudden. Not that I'm questioning God's will. It's just

I, um... I wish I could have had some time to prepare my family.

Family is the most important thing in your life.

Yeah.

I'm a little worried about how they're going to manage without me.

Well, you survived your husband's death.

Oh, boy.

I have Severina.

Severina has Lucy.

Oh, no.

It's not the same.

She's not going to know how to deal with this.

Or Lucy.

Whose fault is that?

You hold on.

I was a good mother. And grandmother. And an excellent cook.

Those cannoli.

Well, maybe you were too good.

There's no such thing as being too good a mother.

We'll see.

We'll see what?

The future.

Look at my kitchen. It's a mess.

My little Bambina.

She looks so sad.

Lucy, don't go. I just want to be alone.

We need to talk about this. Why? We've never talked about anything before.

you give me a break here?

I love Nona as much as you did. No, you didn't.

fault that she's gone. I wish it was you who died instead.

Lucy.

You know what?

What do I... You're

gonna look after us now.

Oh, Lucy, I don't know.

some time.

They just came back from my funeral.

Judge, all her life, she's put her family's needs above her own. Yeah, but

that's what a mother does.

Well, up to a point.

Because, you see, as long as you were there to take care of Lucy, well, then

Sabrina could stay a child herself.

Yeah, but I tried to get her more involved. She was always so busy with

work. Well, of course.

She wasn't capable.

Taking on the risks or the rewards of parenthood because you were so much

at it. So?

It's good that I'm gone. She's going to have to be a mother now.

Sabrina and Lucy never got over losing you.

They didn't know how to live without you.

Oh, no.

Lucy runs away from home at the age of 15.

And Severina never sees her again.

No.

You can't let that happen.

I can't do anything.

Only you can.

Yeah, but I'm dead.

You could get a second chance, Camilla.

A chance to go back and change things.

Oh, well, then let me go back, Your Honor.

Please. I'll change whatever you say.

Just let me help my girls.

Please.

Camilla Bianco, you will have three days.

And three days only to free your daughter from her crippling dependence

yourself to become your own person.

All that in three days?

I'll be there to help you.

No one will recognize you, apart from Mr. Smith here.

And all your memories will be intact.

And still be able to come.

You are a free agent of the universe.

With the blessing of God Almighty and his book.

I can't wear my hair like this.

Anna.

Anna.

Anna.

Anna. Huh? Your client's waiting for you, Camilla Bianco.

But that's me. I mean, I... I do manicures?

Well, only if you want to get paid, honey.

Now, come on.

Be shy. She's the sweetest woman on earth.

I always knew he liked me best.

Sorry. I just got dropped in here a minute ago.

Oh, that's okay. I'm just glad Julian found someone to fill in for Loretta.

Maybe she'll find her millionaire on this cruise.

Oh, honey, I'm dripping.

Oh!

Sorry.

Look at this beautiful...

Miss!

Oh. You there?

Hey.

Where have you been?

I love the hair.

Everyone, everyone, I want you to meet my new stylist, Smith.

Grade A, top notch, the best.

Just Smith?

Like Cher?

Behave, ladies. We want him to like us.

Your resume just does not do you justice.

You are flirting.

He is not.

Yes, I am.

Come, let's get you into something more comfortable.

What are we doing here?

I only come here once a week. When I walk out that door in an hour, I'll

see me again.

We're looking for a way to influence your younger self.

To keep your eyes and your ears open.

Look for a sign.

Oh, Smith, that color is you.

Now listen, Miss Anganelli is here and she does not like to be kept waiting.

trim and set.

Good luck.

Hannah.

Hannah. Who?

Camilla's waiting.

What? Is there anything I should know about Miss Egan, Ellie? Yeah.

She's stuck up. She hates curls. And she's really vain about her neck. Don't

worry. You can do it.

Great, great, great.

Okay. Watch the push of your hands eight times.

You'll clip a poodle once. I can handle this.

I can do this.

I can't do this.

What? How unusual.

I hope you don't mind me saying so. You have a lovely neck.

I think I'm just going to trim up the ends. Give you some height.

Not curly.

You are an absolute...

Mind reader.

Julian, where did you find this man?

Oh, I think it was... No?

Divine intervention.

Look who's here.

Hi, Severina.

Hello, Julian. Hello, everybody.

I'm so sorry, but you've got to take Lucy for the rest of the day. Oh.

The VP of personnel calls me. There's a vacancy in the hotel management training

program, and I'm going for it. Goodbye, baby.

Thanks, Ma. Wish me luck?

Yeah.

Is this the sign?

It is the day Severina got a job.

I stepped in to help.

And the rest is history.

Now's your chance to rewrite it.

I wasn't going to turn my back on her. She was alone with a tiny baby.

What about her husband?

Tony? She told him the marriage was over and moved out. What choice did he have?

He could choose to stay.

Tell her she should move out if that's her decision.

He's keeping his child.

Oh, you're in the wrong neighborhood, pal. This is Little Italy. Mothers don't

leave babies.

Daughters don't leave mothers either, apparently.

You don't think I'm the reason that the marriage broke up?

I think you made it easy on her to give up on everything in her life.

Her husband?

Her marriage?

Her child?

It wasn't me.

I adored Tony.

Severina just had no idea how hard it is to make a marriage work.

I mean, Michael and I had our problems, but Severina thought her father was

perfect. Tony could never live up to that.

Why didn't you tell her that? You don't talk about things like that with your

daughter. Then how will she learn?

By watching me, by my example.

Because I was a good wife and a good mother.

Perfect. Perfect wife, a perfect mother.

How could she compete?

Compete?

You don't think that I... I think she stayed emotionally

dependent on you for the rest of your life.

She has no relationship with her daughter.

And you're allowing it to happen all over again.

So what do I do?

Severina gets the job tonight, and I agree to keep Lucy.

Camilla, it's just like Othniel said.

Get a life.

But I'm a mother.

I don't know how to do anything else.

Then learn.

No! She can't do this to me!

Oh, I can keep no help.

I'll never find someone to replace her. There's your teacher.

Him?

Okay, so it's all in how you twist the hair.

Yeah. See?

Okay. You tried.

All right. Not too short.

I gotta live with this for eternity.

Young stylists these days, they're so arrogant. I'm glad you felt comfortable

enough to ask me to help you train Anna.

Anna suggested it. She said you were very approachable.

Oh, I am.

Anna's very perceptive.

You know, Anna, you're very good at this. You should go full time.

Besides, I need the help.

You're offering me a job?

Just like that?

Well, I trust my instincts, and you're good people, and the salon hasn't looked

this good.

Since your partner died.

I guess it's no secret. Since

Rob passed away, I have been... What?

Searching.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I love

my ladies. But at the end of the day, they...

Go home to their families and I... Go home.

You know what I really miss?

The conversation.

Yes, yes.

The sound of that caring voice that... That cares if you nicked your finger

day or asked, Are you hungry? Have you had anything to eat today?

Yoo -hoo, Julian.

Have you eaten yet today?

I think you just

found yourself a new assistant.

Mai, you can't go work for Julian.

Why not?

Why would you want to? I mean, it's probably minimum wage, and your friends

all going to look down on you.

Ma, I need you.

Oh, for heaven's sake, Severina, you are 23 years old. Just because I got a job

doesn't mean I'm not going to be a mother anymore. No, no. Ma, I'm counting

you to look after Lucy for me. It's only for a couple of months, and I'll give

you something important to do.

What are you talking about?

Ma, they want me.

I mean, it's going to be night class and a lot of hard work.

Oh, Ma, this is what I wanted to do.

I'm going to be in hotel management.

But... But what about the baby?

That's what I'm saying.

I go to work, you look after Lucy. We could live together, cut down on costs.

Well, maybe you could check out daycare.

Leave Lucy with strangers? Ma, have you lost your mind?

What about Tony? Couldn't he help out? Help out? Ma, Tony thought his

responsibilities ended when he handed out the cigars. Tony wants me to stay

Lucy until it's too late to do anything with my life.

You and Dad agreed about everything.

Tony and I argue all the time.

I can't go back to him.

Ma, I can't take this course unless you look after Lucy for me.

Please, can't you just help me until I get back on my feet?

Ma, please.

I can't trust anybody else.

Oh.

Okay, honey.

What are you doing? You can't go to work in high heels. I should have called you

before you came.

Why? Is something wrong?

Yeah, I promised to look after Lucy.

But this... Oh.

This is your first... What about Julian?

He doesn't need me.

Severina needs me. Who would look after Lucy?

Why doesn't she ask her husband, Tony?

Mr. Italian?

You've got to be kidding.

He might surprise you. Oh, I know exactly what he's saying. I don't want

any of it.

No wonder it's not working out if that's the way you talk to him.

Who asked you to walk in here and take Tony's side?

Kanoe.

Tony's side?

If it's anybody's side, it's your mother's.

I came here today to walk your mother to her first day of work.

If she doesn't go, she's going to spend the rest of her life wondering what it

could have been like to have had a life of her own.

She spent 23 years taking care of you.

She didn't have the baby you did, and right now that baby's crying.

And you need to go and take care of her, capisce?

Thank you.

Oh, Severina, please don't be angry. I really want to try this.

How can you be so selfish?

Now look, don't you dare fall for that.

All right?

She's the selfish one, not you.

Go.

How did it go?

Severina's not going to give up without a fight.

You have to fight harder.

Yeah.

I can't believe how I let Severina get away with so much.

What have I done?

Was I a lousy mother?

Because I've got to tell you, I don't think I can handle knowing that.

More rap, please.

Now, won't that be a little too young for her?

It'll be lovely.

More rap, please.

Darn box.

You've got to be kidding.

Well, when will you have a space open? Six months? Forget it.

Oh, Lucy, Mommy's having a bad day. Things will get better.

Or not.

What do you want?

I had a break off work. I thought I could take Lucy for a walk. You get her

the weekends.

I know.

I miss her.

I guess it would be all right.

Hey, Lucy.

How's Daddy's little girl?

Hi, Lucy.

How are you?

What's all this? Daycare?

I guess you might as well hear it from me. I'm going back to work at the hotel.

Who's going to look after Lucy?

Ma.

So why are you looking at the yellow pages for daycare? Because she's out of

mind right now. She's down at Heavenly Hair to making a fool of herself in

of all her friends.

She's working for Julian? Yeah, I told you, it was crazy.

Let me understand this, because I'm a little bit stupid.

It's okay for you to work outside the home, but not your mother. It's too much

at her age.

I'm sorry, Seb, but I'm a little bit slow. She's too old to work in a beauty

shop, but not to take care of a baby, which, according to experts, is the most

demanding job on the earth. Oh, what experts? You!

You've been trying to dump Lucy off on her since she was born. You don't care

about your mother working. You want her to stay at home for your own selfish

reasons. You want to talk about selfish?

Why did I have to put my career on hold so we could have children?

Come on, look at her. Isn't

she worth it?

Look at her.

Of course she is.

But why is it only my job to look after our child?

Because that's the way it works best, baby.

For you.

I can't talk to you.

Don't worry, baby. He's not mad at you.

She's so hot.

Burning up.

Are you okay, baby?

Are you all right?

Hey! Where is everybody?

Hold on just one minute.

There's only one problem. Edward Scissorhands did not do perms.

Where's Julian?

He's at the bank. But look, we can do this. Just remember, the bigger the

roller, the looser the curve. There's a section on there.

Apply solution. Put on the rollers and set the timer. How long in? One hour.

One hour. One hour.

103. That is not good.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Listen to this.

Saleswoman of the year kicks up her heels in chorus line to feed family.

The Alabama mother of 12 said after her audition, it's real good money and a

heck of a lot easier than selling vacuum cleaner. Whatever it takes to look

after my kids.

Oh, and I thought Camilla was a martyr.

Where do they get these stories?

She's not ready yet.

Now. Just do it.

Let's see how you're doing here.

What did you do?

My beautiful hair!

You said to leave it in for an hour. Not on her hair. That's how...

You. You put him up to this, didn't you?

You were jealous because Michael used to flirt with me. He never even looked at

you.

Teresa, please, let's try and stay calm.

You wait on my husband's season. Then we're going to talk about getting even.

Who's your husband?

Attila the Hun.

Is Camilla Bianca there, please?

Speaking. You're not my mother. I want to talk to my mother, Camilla Bianca.

Well, I'm sorry, but she's not available.

Can I hold?

Severina, is something wrong?

I need to talk to my mother.

Is it Lucy?

What's wrong?

She's really sick. Please, just get my mother.

Did you take her temperature?

She's 103. I gave her some medicine, but it didn't make any difference.

I think we should take her to an emergency.

Oh, it's just a little fever.

Really, Mommy?

No, now we'll make it all better.

Now let's get you out of these clothes and into a nice, cool bath.

I can do it.

You should have done it already.

Go run the water.

She hasn't got a clue how to look after this baby.

Well, how can she learn if you keep taking over?

Look at what you're doing.

This is between me and my daughter.

So you'll just do it all for her? I'm better at it.

The water's running.

Hello?

Yeah, she's here.

Ma, it's for you. Julian. Oh, I'm not going back there.

I'm sorry. She'll have to call you back.

Let's go. Get you into the bath.

Yeah.

I always told myself that I took care of Lucy because Severina was so lousy that

it was better for everyone.

But that wasn't the real reason.

I needed to feel useful, even at Severina's expense and Lucy's.

We all need to feel good about something.

That's why Othniel gave me this job.

He thinks I'm so good at helping other people fix mistakes because I made so

many myself.

Yeah, well, not this time.

You might as well tell him we failed.

I can't change Severina if I can't change myself.

Maybe we're working on the wrong person.

Tony.

Yeah.

The last one.

Whoa. You shouldn't sneak up on a guy like that. What kind of grapes are

Chilean?

Yeah, you bet.

Nothing but the best.

Excuse me. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute, Tony. We've got to talk.

You want to keep your wife and child or lose them forever?

What are you, a friend of Severina's?

Well, sort of.

I work at the salon.

She's got no business talking about family to strangers. No, she didn't,

Okay? So just listen to me.

Look.

Severina's not like your mother or my mother or even her own mother.

Yeah, no kidding. She wants to work, and you should let her.

Lucy's too young. She needs a mother.

Lucy needs two loving parents.

Why couldn't you and Sev take turns?

Italian men don't do that.

Why not?

Well, for one, she never leaves me alone with Lucy for more than two hours. I

don't know what to do after that. What if something happens? You're both so...

I'm afraid you did something wrong with Lucy. So? So.

Babies aren't so delicate, trust me. Lucy is.

You should have seen her when she was born. She was more fragile, more strange

than I ever imagined. I don't think I ever loved anyone so much in my life.

It scared me.

It's okay to admit your feelings.

She should do it.

I was talking about Severina.

You're a good man, Tony.

You know how to tell if these are ready?

Yeah, sure.

Press the center, see if it's soft.

You've got to reach in here and see if it's ready.

Your wife loves you, Tony.

She's just afraid of ending up like a mother.

You want to be the man?

Then be man enough to fight for your family.

How? What do I do?

What if she doesn't show up?

Have faith, Camilla.

Well, I'll just tease for all of them.

Uh -oh.

Vincenterini. Pip!

You tell them.

Okay, I'll tell them. You tell them. All right, all right. Now! Why is everyone

so afraid of this guy? What, is he connected or something?

Just words.

I can't tell you how sorry we are, but accidents happen.

Someone's going to pay for what he did to my wife. There's no need for

I'm not the best litigation lawyer in the neighborhood for nothing, Mr.

Fanshawe. You make my wife look like this, or I'll sue you into bankruptcy.

No problem.

I brought you some cannoli as a peace offering. I am so sorry about yesterday,

Julian. Oh, so we got off to a rocky start.

Oh, it was a disaster.

No, I'm going to stick to what I know.

Just make my Severina beautiful for her first day at work.

Oh, come on, Princess.

Look at you.

Here,

I'll take this.

Yeah. I'm going to make you look fantastic.

Hi, Tony.

What are you doing here?

It's for your first day.

What, did you rob a grave or something?

Look, I don't care if you work anymore. I just... I want you and Lucy to come

home.

See, someone made me see that I could lose you forever.

So something has to change, and if it has to be me, then I'll do it. Lucy's my

child, too, and I'll look after her. I'll do my share, whatever it takes.

that's not just it. We fight all the time.

It's not going to work.

No, I... I got all the books.

We can find the answers.

Severina.

Please. Will you come back to me?

She needs you to let her go.

Heaven's sake, what more do you want?

Marriage isn't perfect all the time. You got that right.

You don't run away from each other. You work it out.

In those moments when you hate each other's guts, you gotta love your

and protect it.

And each other.

And your family.

Sev, life doesn't last forever.

But love does.

Don't waste it.

for heaven's sake.

Should I break out the champagne?

Okay, everyone.

Everyone, listen, listen. To the newest graduate of the Contemporary School of

Beauty. Congratulations.

Thank you.

What happened?

You went to beauty school and got your diploma.

I did?

Then this is my future.

Oh.

Tony and Severina stayed together.

All three of you took turns taking care of Lucy.

Julian didn't stop asking until you came back part -time, but once you were

hooked... I became a hairdresser.

We call ourselves stylists, darling.

You're also part owner in the salon.

Mr. Santorini drew up the papers.

Then I've become my own person.

Just like Othniel said.

So have Lucy and Severina with you as their example.

Do I still have to watch for runaway pianos?

No pianos.

Thank you, Smith.

You loved me enough to tell me the truth.

You were the one brave enough to hear it.

This is your new life, Camilla.

Enjoy it.

You've earned it.

You won't remember me either.

Last three days, but I'll never forget you or your cannoli.

You got your first client, Ma.

Don't you have to work?

So I'll be late. This is more important.

Oh.

I wanted to take my hair blue. All of my dead body.

But it's my hair, my life, my... It's thick.

Thanks, Daddy.

Oh, it's all about choices, baby.

Oh.

What's going on? What's this, blue? Well, Lucy's head blue is that. Yeah.

No,

it's not.

Change! Change! Change! Change!

Change!

Change!