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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

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Hey,Louis,want to do some bowling later in the day?

Yeah, how about O'Reilly’s?

Hey,you always win,let's take a loser along to night

All right,Eddie Carbone

Hey,Mike,watch out

Hurry up

Watch out,put something on it

Watch up, O'Reilly,will you?

How are you Mike? OK,take it easy

Tell you,longshoremen,to working

Stop talking how he is to do the work

Where is Eddie Carbone?

Where is he?

Eddie?

Come on

Come on,come on

Hi,Mike,what happened to you?

I slipped on a banana peel

Be quiet,first aide for him

I don't know,might be a break

I got to go and call an ambulance

You do that

Don't move your arm,Mike

Call Alfieri

Looks like a compensation case

That's for a lawyer to decide

You're gonna be right,Mike

I'll be all right until the Doc comes

Ok,fellows,back to work

Yes,we wasted enough time already

Hey,Eddie

Got something to show you over the next pier,only take a minute

Time to surprise

Hey,Louis,you're always so mysterious, this time have a surprise

You'll see,maybe,you'll see

I want to talk to Alfieri, yes Mr Alfieri

OK,boys,it's me,Louis,right,your friend

What do you think,Eddie?

Submarines

Where are they from?

Sicily

Funny,we're expecting a couple illegals from Sicily

Cousins on my wife's side

You,Carbone?

Carbone,that's my name,how do you know?

That's a surprise,imaging turning up practically next door

You? You Marco?

Si,Marco

And my brother,Rodolpho

We're happy to see you

You get here

Beatrice, my wife,she wasn't expecting you till next week

Yes,but they put us on this boat

Had a nice trip?

The ocean is always vast, but we are good sailors

Well,you got here

Don't worry about nothing

Yes,it's get dark, Louis here, he will bring you right to the house

I'll think about nine o'clock,if that's fine.

Ready,you know

We are ready,we cannot wait until we meet you're a father again

I got plenty sucked over in boat myself the last couple of years,and now

My own relatives,you'll be welcome

Must be quick here, we have to get your passes

If the company negligent, the company must pay

This guy was asleep,this wasn't a work accident,this was a sleep accident

Hello,Mr Alfieri,will you'll be engaged here?

Up to you,Eddie,did you see it?

Check with the boys

You know what they are going to say

Eddie will get the facts,they'll be right

I'll tell you he guy was asleep on his feet

You'll think

Eddie?

I'll be back

How does it look?

He'll be able to work in a week

That's not bad

See how I'll get a bandage out of this

How do you get home,Mike?

I got to ride on the ambulance,right?

You have to be dead to get a ride in that thing

Come on

I'm gonna meet the club mouse of yours

Take care of that arm,Mike

See you

It's good to have you around when these things happen,Alfieri

It's an advantage for a lawyer to live among his clients

This is my world,little troubles, little accidents,things have changed

I'm not an old man now,but I remember not so long ago

When the telephone rang, the accident was more serious

I used to keep a pistol in my filing cabinet

I remember violence here, killings on these streets

Me too

Now we are all civilized,it's the law

we settle for half,and I like it better that way

I hear you just want to grab it

That's happens to all of us,Eddie

That's the way it goes

Eddie,wait

Be seeing you,Mr Alfieri

Quiet,you

Hi,Eddie,it is stuck

Admit it's Irish,I'll fix it

Quit pushing that machine

What's the matter Lipari, trying to get rich of little kids

Shame on you

They're using slugs in the machine

Quiet what do you expect with kids

You're teaching them how to steal

They know it already from hanging around you

B.,B.,anybody home?

Where is B.?

Hi,Eddie

I got a little surprise for her

What a surprise?

She went to the store and be back in a minute

Tell me,what surprise?

Tell me,Eddie

No secrets between us,Eddie,tell me

Where are you going all dressed up?

I just got it,like it?

It's nice

What happened to your hair?

Mrs Griffin,don't you like it?

Beautiful,turn around let me see the back

If your mother was alive to see you now

She wouldn't believe it

You like it?

Yeah

You look like one of them girls that went to college

Where are you going?

I'll get you a beer,all right?

Yeah

Guess how much we paid for the shirt

I think it is too short,aint't it?

No! Not when I stand up

Yeah,but you got to sit down sometimes

Eddie,it's the style now

I mean if you see me walking down the street

Listen

You've been giving me to willies, the way you walk down the street.I mean it

Why?

I'm telling you,you're walking wavy

I'm walking wavy?

No,don't aggravate me, you're walking wavy

I don't like the looks they're giving you in the candy store

And with them new high heels on the sidewalk – clack,clack, clack

The heads are turning like windmills

But the guys look at all the girls, you know that

You ain’t all the girls.

What do you want me to do?

Listen

You're my niece. Yes or no?

Yes

I promised your mother before she died

I'm the father for you

You’re getting to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more

You know,oh

Hi,B.

Hi,Eddie

How are you today?

I heard in the butcher shop about Mike

He's looked at

Now.Put your bags down because what I'm going to tell you,you'll drop the bag

What's are you going to tell me?

For once,good news about your family

You're cousins got in!

B.,your cousins,they're here

I just saw them in the ship

How are they?

They look fine,wonderful,was a good trip

Where? How?..

They're still on board

After dark,nine ten o'clock, Louis will bring them here

Marco and what's his name?

Rodolpho

You should see them,they can't wait

B.?

Don't worry about them,B.

In a couple of hours they'll be here

What are you crying about?

I didn't expect them until Thursday

So what?

I don't know.Oh.It feels,I can't believe it

I was going to wash the walls I didn’t even have a new table cloth

Maybe Mrs. Dondero upstairs

No,no.No, hers is worse than ours I don’t even have enough to eat for them!

Hey, hey! Take it easy.

I know.I know.I'm just nervous. I'll make the fish

You’re saving their lives, what are you worrying about the table cloth?

Listen,as long as they know where they are going to sleep.

I told them in the letters. They’re going to sleep on the floor

Beatrice,all I’m worried about is

you got such a heart

that I’ll end up on the floor with you, and they’ll be in our bed

Because as soon as you see a tired relative, I end upon the floor

All right

I’ll tell them to go someplace else

Now wait a minute. Beatrice! Why are you so touchy?

Listen, if it doesn’t turn out good you’ll be mad at me.

I can keep them two three months,OK?

A man should be honored to give someone a place to sleep

Thanks

You see what he is? You’re an angel!

God bless you.You’ll see, you’ll get a blessing for this!

I’ll settle for my own bed.

Honey,Kath's got a job..

You are not finished school?

You won't believe it

No,no,you gonna finish stenography school

What kinda job? All of a sudden you

Listen a minute, it’s wonderful.

Why didn’t you ask me before you take a job?

She’s asking you now, she didn’t take anything yet

Listen

This is a company you should go right away

and the principal said I’m the best student in the whole class,so

Where’s the job? What company?

It’s a big plumbing company over Nostrand Avenue.Near the Navy Yard

I don’t like that neighborhood over there.

But it’s fifty a week, Eddie.

Look, did I ever ask you for money? Please, do me a favor, will ya?

I mean if you’re gonna get out of here then get out

don’t go practically in the same type of neighborhood.

Go, Baby, bring in the supper

Eddie,please,think about it a little bit

She’s crazy to start work

It’s not a little shop, it’s a big company. Some day she could be a secretary.

I don't understand what's worrying you

She can take care of herself

She’ll get out of the subway and she'll be in the office in two minutes

I know that neighborhood, B., I don’t like it

Listen, if nothing happened to her in this neighborhood

it ain’t gonna happen no place else

You gotta get used to it,honey

She’s no baby no more

You gonna keep her in the house the rest of her life?

What kind of a remark is that?

I don’t understand when it ends

First it was going to be when she graduated high school

so she graduated high school

Then it was going to be when she learned stenography, so she learned stenography

So what are we waiting for now?

With your hair that way you look like a madonna,you know that?

You wanna go to work, heh, Madonna?

Yeah

Yeah

Go to work

I’m gonna buy all new dishes with my first pay!

I mean it.I’ll fix up the whole house! I’ll buy a rug!

And then you’ll move away.

No,Eddie

And you’ll come visit on Sundays, then once a month, then Christmas and New Year’s

No please

The first thing I buy you is a rug,B.

I don't mind

I smelled coffee all day today. You unloading coffee today?

Yeah, a Brazil ship,she'll go tomorrow

I smelled it too. It smelled all over the neighborhood.

That’s one time more to be a longshoreman is a pleasure

I could work coffee ships twenty hours a day.

You go down in the hold, you know?

It’s like flowers, that smell. We’ll bust a bag tomorrow, I’ll bring you some

Just be sure there’s no spiders in it, will you? I mean it.

I still remember that spider coming out of that bag he bring home.I nearly died.

You call that a spider? You should see what comes out of bananas

Don’t talk about it!

I seen spiders could stop a car

Shut up

Well, who started with spiders?

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it. Just don’t

OK,the men are going off,we just walk off with them,see,that's all right

We should not be scared

No one should ask nothing, it's all taking care of

Just follow me and act naturally,OK

-Nice time? -Yeah,nice time

We carry the bags?

One bag each is OK

Come on,come on

What time is it?

A little after nine

They'll bringing my cousins after half past

Eddie, suppose somebody asks if they’re living here

Now look, Baby, I can see we’re getting mixed up again here

No, I joust mean,people will see them going in and out

You don’t see nothing and you don’t know nothing

This is the United States government you’re playing with now

this is the Immigration Bureau

Yeah, but Eddie, suppose somebody

You don't know nothing. They got stool pigeons all over this neighborhood.

It could be your best friend. You hear?

Like, Vinny Bolzano, you remember?

That was terrible,poor kid he wasn't even fifteen

He was fifteen

No,he was fourteen,I remember, I went to his confirmation in Saint Agnes.

But the family was hiding his uncle and he snitched to the Immigration.

Kid snitched?

His own uncle

His father

No,was his uncle

OK you tell it

Oh, it was terrible. He had five brothers and the father

And they grabbed out of the kitchen and pulled him down the stairs – five flights

Three

Five.His head was bouncing like a coconut

And they spit on him in the street, his own father and brothers.

The whole neighborhood was crying

I've never seen him again

-Did you? -Him? We'll never see him no more

A guy do a thing like that? How’s he gonna show his face?

I won't say a word to nobody,swear

Gonna rain tomorrow. We’ll be sliding all over the decks.

Beatrice, maybe you should put something on for them, they'll be here soon.

I only have the fish, I hate to spoil it if they ate already

So you gonna start Monday, heh, Madonna?

I’m supposed to, yeah.

I hope you have good luck. I wish you the best. You know that, kid.

You sound like I’m going a million miles!

I know. I guess I just never counted on one thing

That you would ever grow up

I lost my cigarettes

Stay there! I’ll get it for you.

What are you mad at me lately?

Who is mad? I'm not mad. You're the one that's mad

Here! I’ll light it for you!

Don’t worry about me, Eddie, heh?

You are on your own now, just be careful,that's all

First floor

Thank you

I'll see you on the pier tomorrow,OK?

You’ll go to work.

Thank you

This will be the first house I ever walked into in America!

Imagine! She said they were poor!

Come on

Hey,come in,come in

Are you my cousin?

Beatrice

Eddie,you know,this is Catherine, my sister Nancy’s daughter.

My brother,Rodolpho

I want to tell you now, Eddie – when you say go, we will go

Oh,no

I see it’s a small house, but soon, maybe, we can have our own house

You’re welcome, Marco, we got plenty of room here.Katie, give them supper, heh?

Come here, sit down. I’ll get you some soup.

We ate on the ship.Thank you

Get some coffee,Catherine. We’ll all have coffee. Come sit down.

How come he’s so dark and you’re so light, Rodolpho?

I don’t know. A thousand years ago, they say, the Danes invaded Sicily

He’s practically blond!

How’s the coffee doing?

I’m getting it.

No trouble getting here

No,no.The man brought us.A very nice man

He says we start to work tomorrow. Is he honest?

No. But as long as you owe them money

they’ll get you plenty of work

-Did you ever work on the piers in Sicily? - Piers? No

So what kind of work did you do?

Whatever there is,anything.

It's bad in our town

Bad,yes,more worse then when you left

The war,the war finished everything

Yeah,terrible

We stand around in the piazza all the day

listening to the fountain like birds. Everybody waits only for the train.

What's on the train?

Nothing. But if there are too many passengers

and you’re lucky you make a few lire to push the taxi up the hill.

You gotta push the taxi?

Yes.It’s a feature in our town. In our town the horses are skinnier than goats.

So if there are too many passengers we help to push the carriages up to the hotel.

Why don’t they have automobile taxis?

There is one. We push that too. Everything in our town, you gotta push!

So what are you wanna do, you gonna stay here in this country or you wanna go back?

Go back?

Well, you’re married, ain’t you?

Yes. I have three children.

Three? I thought only one

I start with one but I have three now

Four years, five years and six years

Wonderful,Marco

The older one is sick in his chest

My wife – she feeds them from her own mouth

I'll tell you the truth

If I stay there they will never grow up

How long are you going to stay,Marco?

We will stay maybe four or five,six years I think

Maybe if you make enough, you can go back quicker

How much? We hear all kinds of figures

We work hard, we’ll work all day all night

Thirty,no,no,forty a week, over the whole year

Dollars?

Sure,dollars

Ma,come far settanta mille lire

Cettenta mille lira co cose

So we can stay here a few months, Beatrice

Of course,Marco,you're welcome

Because I could send them a little more if I stay here

Of course,we have plenty of room

My wife I want to send right away maybe twenty dollars –

You could send them something next week already

Eduardo I..

Don't thank me,Marco

What happened to the coffee?

I got it on

-You married too,no? -Me,no, I have no money to get married

I have a nice face, but no money.

He’s a real blond!

You want to stay in America for good?

Me? Forever! I want to be an American.

Daydreams,he dreams

I'm also a singer

Oh,yeah

Yes,a singer

You mean a regular singer?

Yeah,one night last year Andreola got sick.Baritone

And I took his place in the garden of the hotel

Three arias I sang without a mistake! It was magnificent.

Thousand-lire notes they threw from the tables

We lived six months on that night ,eh, Marco

Two months

Can’t you get a job in that place?

No,Andreola got better. He’s a baritone, very strong

You sing too loud

Why too loud?

Too loud,the guests in that hotel are all Englishmen

They don't like too loud

Nobody ever said it was too loud!

I say,too loud

I knew it as soon as he started to sing. Too loud.

Why did they throw so much money?

They paid for your courage. The English like courage.But once is enough

I never heard anybody say it was too loud

Did you ever hear of jazz?

I sing jazz.

You could sing jazz?

Oh, I sing jazz, bel canto,Napolitano

I sing ‘Paper Doll’, you like ‘Paper Doll?

Sure,I’m crazy for ‘Paper Doll’. Go ahead,sing it

Come on,sing it,come on

Can I?

Just once

"I'm going to buy a paper doll that I can call my own,

A doll that other fellows cannot steal and when those flirty, flirty guys with their flirty, flirty eyes"

Will have to flirt with dollies that are real"

Hey, kid – hey, wait a minute

Leave him finish, it’s wonderful! He’s terrific! It’s terrific, Rodolpho.

"When I come back at night"

Hey, kid; you don’t want to be picked up, do you?

(Marco)No – no!

Because we never had no singers here

and all of a sudden there’s a Caruso in the house, you know what I mean,Marco?

Yes, yes. You’ll be quiet, Rodolpho

-They got guys all over the place, Marco. -Yes.He’ll be quiet.You'll be quiet Rodolpho

You like a beautiful cake?

It's food and that

What's the high heels for,Garbo?

I figured for tonight, I could at least get dressed

Please,do me a favor,will you?

Go ahead

All actresses, who we have around here.

In Italy too! All the girls

Especially when they are so beautiful!

You like sugar?

Yes,I like sugar very much

I'm enjoying to watch

We are planning for all, in America everything is planned,OK?

Looks what's coming,fellows?

A canary bird

Very good

How about a dance,Paper Doll!

Yah,walk,Canary

I don't dance,I sing

You could pay your work with that,Rodolpho

Too loud,Rodolpho,too loud

Perché

Anything for the paper doll!

How about some feeds for the canary,making his ways at our area

Keep it all right,Sam

We were just kidding around,Eddie

What's the matter with you,Eddie?

He doesn't like my singing

Yeah,but this is not a singer's school

Hey,Eddie

How about some bowling tonight?

I'm too tired

Hey,Mike,are you in shape for bowling?

I'm a left handed bowler,did you know that?

Hey,Eddie,the submarines,popular guys

on the dock couple of weeks getting work all the time

Yeah,they are doing all right

Hey,that's what we ought to do?

That’s what we oughto do. We ought to leave the country and come in under the water. Then we get work

You are kidding

Believe me,Eddie,you got a lot of credit coming to you

I say,they don’t bother me, don’t cost me nothing

Hey,that older one,he is a regular bull

You said it

But that other one,the blond one, what a sense of humor

Hey,Louis,whitening the US,I did to you

What are you talking about?

A real, sweet one,ain't he?

Hey,Mac,you get fat from lobbying

You need exercise,Mike,let's keep you moving,come on

Get him up

I want to knock you out,fellow

Wait,wait a minute,I'm hungry for a little fight,Ben

Time,foul

What do you think about the situation..

It's after eleven

Well, it’s a long show at the Paramount

They must have seen every picture in Brooklyn by now.

He’s supposed to stay in the house when he ain’t working.

He ain’t supposed to go advertising himself

Well, that’s his trouble. If they pick him up they pick him up,that's all

What do you want from him?

He's a nice kid

That’s a nice kid? He gives me the heeby-jeebies

You’re just jealous

Of him?

Boy, you don’t think much of me

He’s a nice,he is hard working, he’s a good looking too

He sings on the ships, do you know that?

What do you mean, he sings?

Just what I said, he sings. Right on the pier, all of a sudden

a whole song comes out of his mouth – with motions

You know what they call him now? Paper Doll they call him now, Canary.

He comes out on the pier, one-two-three,

It's a regular free show

He’s just a kid; he doesn’t know how to behave himself yet

And the blonde hair; he’s like a chorus girl or something

So he’s blond, so

I just hope that’s his regular hair, that’s all I hope

Listen, you never saw a blond fellow in your life? What about Whitey Capetone?

Whitey Capetone don’t sing; he don’t do like that on the ships.

Maybe that’s the way they do in Italy

Why don’t his brother sing? Marco goes around like a man; nobody kids Marco.

I’m surprised I have to tell you that B.

Listen, don't try to start anything

I had enough of it

Besides I have my own worries

Why? What worries you got?

You want me to tell you that?

Yeah

When am I gonna be a wife again, Eddie?

They bother me since they came

They've been here a couple of weeks

A long time,Eddie

I don't know, dear, I don't want to talk about it

What's the matter? Don't you like me anymore?

What do you mean, I don’t like you?

Am I doing something wrong?

Talk to me!

I’ll be all right, B., just layoff me, will you?

I'll be all right

If you talk to me,maybe I could help?

B.

I'm worried about her

She is eighteen years old, Eddie,it's time already

He's taking her for a ride,I see

It's her ride.You going to stand over her till she is forty?

I want you to cut it out,you see me?

I don't like it

I want to take a walk, I’ll be in right away

They ain’t going to come any quicker if you stand on the street. It ain’t nice.

I’ll be in right away

Hey,Eddie

What a picture we saw! Did we laugh!

-Where would you go? -Paramount

It was with those two guys, you know?

Brooklyn Paramount?

Sure, the Brooklyn Paramount. I told you we wasn’t going to New York

All right,I only ask you

I just don’t want her hanging around Times Square, see?

It’s full of tramps over there

Eddie,I would like to go to Broadway once

Since I was a boy I see pictures of those lights.

I want to talk to her a minute, Rodolpho. Go inside, will you?

Eddie, we just walk together in the streets. She teaches me.

Why can’t we go once to Broadway ?

Look, I gotta tell her something

Maybe you can come too,the lights.

I’ll walk by the river before I go to sleep

Why don’t you talk to him, Eddie?

He blesses you, and you don’t talk to him hardly

I bless you.And you don't talk to me

I don't talk to you?

What do you mean?

I don't see you no more.I come home you’re running around someplace

Well, he wants to see everything, that’s all, so we go

Are you mad at me?

No. It’s just I used to come home, you was always there.

Now, you're running, you’re running. I don’t think you listen anymore to me.

Eddie,sure I do

What's the matter?

I don't understand,he only blesses you

He don’t bless me

But he does! You’re like a father to him

-Katie -What,Eddie?

You gonna marry him?

I don’t know

We just been going around,that’s all

What have you got against him? Please, tell me,once

He don't respect you

No, Eddie, he’s got all kinds of respect for me.And you too!

When we walk across the street he takes my arm – he almost bows to me!

Katie!Katie!

He’s only bowing to his passport

Passport?

That’s right. He marries you he’s got the right to be an American citizen.

Listen I've come into this continent in broad daylight on a quota

I met your Aunt Beatrice, I was a citizen,you understand?

I didn't use no tricks,this guy is looking for his break

I told you so before

No,Eddie,I don't think so

You don't think so?

Is that a working man?

What does he do with his first money?

A snappy new jacket he buys, records, a pointy pair new shoes

and his brother’s kids are starving over there with tuberculosis?

That’s a hit-and-run guy, baby; he’s got bright lights in his head, Broadway

Them guys don’t think of nobody but themselves!

He never said a word about his papers or

You mean he’s supposed to tell you that?

I don't think he is even thinking about it

Listen,what’s better for him to think about!

He could be picked up any day here and he’s back pushing taxis up the hill!

I don't believe you

Katie

Don't break my heart,listen to me

I don't want to hear you

-Listen -He loves me

Don't say that.This is the oldest racket in the country

I don't believe it

Katie

Katie,Katie,come back

Katie,what happened?

He got so annoyed,he met us coming home,Rodolpho went off, and Eddie and I

Listen

Catherine

What are you going to do with yourself?

I don't know

Don't tell me you don't know? You are not a baby anymore

What are you going to do with yourself?

He won't listen to me

I don't understand that

He’s not your father,Cathy. I don’t understand what’s going on here

What am I going to do, just kick him in the face with it?

Look, Cathy, you wanna get married, or don’t you wanna get married?

What are you worried about, Katie?

I don't know,B.

It just seems wrong if he’s against it so much

Sit down,honey,I want to tell you something

Was there ever any boy he ever liked for you?

There wasn’t, was there?

He says Rodolpho’s just after his papers

He’ll say anything. If a prince came here for you it would be no different

You gotta give him to understand that he can’t give you orders no more

How am I going to do that? He thinks I’m a baby.

Because you still think you’re a baby

I told you fifty times , you can’t act the way you act

You still walk around in your slip in front of him

I forgot

Well you can’t. The way you sit on the edge of the bathtub

talking to him when he’s shaving in his underwear

When did I do that?

I seen you in there this morning.

Well,something to tell him

And every time he comes home

you throw yourself at him like when you was twelve years old

I like to see him and I’m happy so I

I’m not telling you what to do honey, but

I’m all mixed up

He looks so sad now and it hurts me.

Katie, if it’s going to hurt you that much you’re gonna end up an old maid here

No

I tried to tell you a couple of times in the last year or so. I mean it.

Katie

It’s wonderful for a whole family to love each other

but you’re a grown woman and you’re in the same house with a grown man.

You’ll act it, heh?

Yeah,I would

I will remember

Because it is not just up to him, Katie, you understand?

I told him the same thing already

What?

That he should let you go. But, if I tell him

he thinks I’m just bawling him out, or maybe I’m jealous or something

He said you was jealous?

No, I’m just saying he might think that.

You think I’m jealous of you, honey?

No

It’s the first I ever thought of it

Why didn't you thought about it before?

But I'm not

No

We'll be all right.Just give him to understand

you don’t have to fight, it's just

You’re a woman, that’s all, and you found a nice boy

and now the time came when you said good-bye

All right?

All right

So I can..

Honey . . . you got to

Edward

I am going on a date

Why not?

Dinner,movies

I love them.What's wrong?

I'll be a good boy

Hey

Hello,Eddie

That's all

Eddie

Come in,Eddie

Sit down

On a cold night like this

After a stroll

You might call it,yeah

You're working late

No.Home work.There seems to be more of it as I grew older

At least it keeps me indoors

But at my age I'd prefer a warm room,friends,talk yeah

But sometimes,you know,there are too many people alike in one room

In your own house,I mean

How is the law these days?

For me,always interesting,Eddie

As you never know what the next case will be

After all they come like strangers, which has happened

What's the matter,Eddie?

My wife's cousins,one of them just a kid, I don't like him getting my niece crazy

I don't see how I can help you,Eddie? Is there a question of the law anywhere?

That’s what I want to ask you.

Because there’s nothing illegal about a girl falling in love with an immigrant.

Yeah

but what about it if the only reason is to get his papers?

First of all you don’t know that.

I see it in his eyes

Eddie,I'm a lawyer I can only deal in what’s provable

You understand that, don’t you?

Now,can you prove that?

I know what’s in his mind, Mr Alfieri

Eddie,can you prove that?

Listen .Will you listen to me a minute?

A man, when he comes into the country illegal

don’t it stand to reason he’s gonna take every penny and put it away?

Because they don’t know from one day to another, right?

All right

He’s spending. This guy ain’t worried. This guy is here.

So it must be that he’s got it all laid out in his mind already he’s staying,right?

What about it?

The guy ain’t right, Mr Alfieri

What do you mean?

I mean he ain’t right

He seems

Which is,I mean he is all right but sometimes he hits a note

I turn around,I mean,high high

You know what I mean?

That's a tenor

I know a tenor, Mr Alfieri. This ain’t no tenor

I mean if you came in the house and you didn’t know who was singing

you wouldn’t be looking for him you be looking for her

Please,Mr Alfieri,I'm telling you something

I’m trying to bring out my thoughts here

Couple of nights ago my niece brings out a dress

which it’s too small for her, because she shot up like a light this last year.

He takes the dress, lays it on the table

he cuts it up; one-two-three, he makes a new thing

A new dress,Mr Alfieri,I mean he looks so sweet like an angel

you could kiss him he was so sweet

Now,look,Eddie

They’re laughing at him on the piers.I'm ashamed

Paper Doll they call him. Blondie now.

His brother thinks it’s because he’s got a sense of humor, see, which he’s got

but I know what they laugh him at

and when I think of that guy

Look,Eddie,I have children of my own,I understand you

but the law is very specific, the law does not

You mean to tell me that there’s no law

that a guy which he ain’t right can go to work and marry a girl

Nothing you can do,Eddie,believe me

Nothing

Nothing at all

There is only one legal question here

What?

The manner in which they entered the country

But I don’t think you want to do anything about that, do you?

You mean?

Well,they did enter illegally

No,I wouldn't do nothing about that

All right then,let me talk now,will you

Mr Alfieri, I can’t believe what you tell me

I mean there must be some kind of law

Eddie

I want you to listen to me, come here,sit down

Sometimes God mixes up the people

We all love somebody,the wife, the kids, every man’s got somebody he loves,

Sometimes . . . there’s too much. You know what I mean?

A man works hard, he brings up a child

sometimes it’s a daughter, sometimes it's a niece

never realizes it, but over the years, there is too much love for the daughter,

there is too much love for the niece. Do you understand what I’m saying ?

What do you mean?

I shouldn’t look out for her good?

The child has to grow up and go away, and the man has to learn to forget

Because after all, Eddie, what other way can it end?

Let her go.You did your job,now it’s her life; wish her luck, and let her go

Because there’s no law, Eddie

make up your mind to it, the law is not interested in this

Even if he is a punk?

There is nothing you can do

All right.Thanks

Thanks very much

What are you going to do?

What can I do?

I’m a patsy, what can a patsy do?

I worked like a dog twenty years so a punk could have her, so that’s what I done.

I mean, in the worst times, in the worst

when there wasn’t a ship coming into harbor

I didn’t stand around looking for relief

I hustled.When there was empty piers in Brooklyn

I went to Hoboken,Staten Island, the West Side, Jersey, all over

because I made a promise. I took out of my own mouth to give to her.

I took out of my wife’s mouth.There were plenty days I walked hungry in this city!

And now I gotta sit in my own house and look at a no good stinking punk like that

which he came out of nowhere! I take the blankets off my bed for him

and like a dirty scum he comes and puts his dirty filthy hands on her !

But,Eddie,she's a woman now

He’s stealing from me!

I gave you my advice, Eddie. That’s it.

Thanks

Thanks very much

Eddie

Put it out of your mind. Can you do that?

I'm

I’ll see you around

You know where they went B.?

Where?

They went to Africa once

On a fishing boat

Oh,it's true,Eddie

I don't say nothing

I was never even in Staten Island

You've been missing nothing

How long did it take you, Marco,to get to Africa?

Two days.We go all over

Once we go to Yugoslavia

They pay all right on them boats?

If they catch fish they pay all right

Marco

I don’t understand, the ocean is full of fish and everybody is starving

They gotta have boats, nets, they need money

I mean,couldn't they fish from then beach, you know,like they do in Coney Island

Sardines

How are you going to catch sardines on a hook?

Oh, I didn’t know they’re sardines

Sardines

They follow them all over the ocean, Africa, Yugoslavia . .

It’s funny,you never think about it, sardines swimming all over the ocean

It’s like oranges or lemons on a tree

I mean,Eddie, you ever think of oranges and lemons on a tree?

Yeah, it’s funny

I heard that they paint the oranges to make them look orange.

Paint?

I heard that they grow like green

No, in Italy the oranges are orange

Lemons are green

I know lemons are green

don't you think I remember seeing those lemons when I was a kid?

I said the oranges,they paint

I didn’t say nothing about lemons

Your wife is getting the money all right, Marco?

Oh, yes. She bought the medicine for my boy

That’s marvelous. You feel better, heh?

Oh,yes

But I’m lonesome.

I will go home.In three, four years, I hope

My wife she says,I send everything

My wife is very lonesome

She must be nice. I bet she is pretty too? heh?

No

but she understand everything

You've got a clever wife!

I bet there’s plenty surprises sometimes

when those guys get back there, heh?

Surprises?

I mean, you know – they count the kids and there’s a couple extra than when they left?

No

The women wait, Eddie. Most. Most. Very few surprises

It’s more strict in our town. It’s not so free.

It ain’t so free here either, Rodolpho, like you think.

Just because a girl don’t go around with a shawl over her head

don't be saying she is not strict, you know?

I always have respect

I know,I know

but in your town you wouldn’t just drag off a girl without permission?

You know what I mean, Marco? It ain’t so much different here

Yes

Well, he didn’t exactly drag her off

I know,I know

but I seen some of them get the wrong idea sometimes.

I mean it might be a little more free here but it’s just as strict

I always have respect. I do anything wrong?

Look, kid, I ain’t her father, I’m only her uncle

Be an uncle then?

No, Beatrice, if he does wrong you must tell him.

What does he do wrong?

Well,Marco,till he came here

she was never out on the street twelve o’clock at night,never

You come home early now

Well, you said the movie ended late, didn’t Cathy?

Yeah

Tell him,honey

The movie ended late

Like that

Look, B., I’m just saying,he thinks she always stayed out like that

You come home early now,Rodolpho

All right,sure

But,Eddie,I can't stay in the house all the time

Look, kid, I’m not only talking about her

The more you run around like that the more chance you’re taking

I mean suppose he gets hit by a car or something.

Where’s his papers, who is he? You know what I mean?

Who is he in the daytime? It’s the same chance in the daytime

Yeah, but he don’t have to go looking for it, Beatrice

If he’s here to work, then he should work

if he’s here for a good time then he could fool around!

But I understood, Marco, you were both coming

to make a living for your family. You understand me, don’t you, Marco

I beg you pardon,Eddie

I mean, that’s what I understood in the first place, see

Yes. That’s why we came

Well, that’s all I’m asking

You wanna dance, Rodolpho?

Hey,that's a good idea

No thank you,I'm tired

Oh,come on,dance, Rodolpho

Ah, come on. They got a beautiful quartet, these guys. Come.

Come on

What’s that, a new record?

The same one,we bought it the other day

They only bought three records

Ah,good

Ah,he's marvelous

Must be marvelous going all over the world in them fishing boats.

I'd like that myself. See all them other countries?

Hi,Eddie

Yeah

Women don’t go along,do they?

No, not on the boats. Hard work

What have you got, a regular kitchen and everything?

Yes, we eat very good on the boats

especially when Rodolpho comes along; everybody gets fat

Oh, he cooks?

Sure, very good cook. Rice, pasta, fish, everything

He’s a cook, too! He sings, he cooks . . .

Well it’s good, he could always make a living

It’s wonderful. He sings, he cooks, he could make dresses . . .

He’s lucky, believe me.

That’s why the water front is no place for him

I mean,like me I can’t cook, I can’t sing

I can’t make dresses, so I’m on the water front

But if I could cook,if I could sing, if I could make dresses

I wouldn’t be on the water front

I would be someplace else

I would be like in a dress store.

What do you, say, Marco, we go to the fights next Saturday night

You never seen a fight, did you?

Only in the moving pictures

I'll treat you

What are you saying,Danish?

You want to come along?

I’ll buy the tickets

Sure. I would like to go.

I'll make some coffee,heh?

Go ahead

Make it nice and strong

You wait, Marco, you'll see some real fights here. You ever do any boxing?

No, I never

Never

Bet you have done some, heh?

No

I’ll teach you

What’s he got to learn that for?

You can’t tell,come on Danish, I show you a couple of passes

Go ahead, Rodolpho. He’s a good boxer, he could teach you.

Well,Eddie,I don't know how to

Come here,I'll teach you

The first,keep your left up, because you lead with your left

Like that

Now,what you are going to do is

You are going to bluff me

When I come in like that

Very good

Come in,now

Come in to me

I don't want to hit you

Just throw it

I'll show you how to bluff it

Very good

Very good,very good

Very good

Very good.Terrific

Now I'm going to hit you

You bluff

You bluff me

What are they doing?

Very good

You bluff me

There you go,Danish

Now,watch out

Here you come,Danish

Why?

I didn't touch him

Is that a patch off his?

No,he didn't hurt me

I was only surprised

-That’s enough,Eddie -He could be very good

I'll teach you again

You dance?

Catherine

Can you lift this chair?

What do you mean?

From here

Sure,I know

From here?

Gee, that’s hard,I never knew that

It’s on an angle, that’s why, heh

You hungry?

Not for anything to eat

Catherine, I have nearly three hundred dollars.

Catherine

I heard you

You don’t like to talk about it any more?

Sure, I don’t mind talking about it

What worries you, Catherine?

I been wanting to ask you about something. Could I?

All the answers are in my eyes. But you don’t look in my eyes lately.

You’re full of secrets.

What is the question?

Suppose I wanted to live in Italy

You going to marry somebody rich?

No, I mean live there – you and me

When?

Well . . . when we get married

You want to be an Italian?

No, but I could live there without being Italian.Americans live there.

You’re fooling me

No I mean it

Catherine, if I ever brought you home with no money, no business, nothing

they would call the priest and the doctor and they would say Rodolpho is crazy

I know, but I think we would be happier there

Happier! What would you eat? We can’t cook the view!

Maybe you could be a singer, like in Rome or

Rome is full of singers

Well, I could work then

Where?

God, there must be jobs somewhere!

There’s nothing! Nothing, nothing. Now tell me what you’re talking about.

I’m afraid of Eddie here

We wouldn’t live here

Once I am a citizen I could find better job,and we would have a house, Catherine

Promise! And we're not quite in

Just tell me,would you still want to do

it if it turned out we had to go live in Italy?

I mean just if it turned out that way

This is your question or his question?

I would like to know, I mean it.

To go there with nothing

Yeah

No

No

You wouldn't?

I will not marry you to live in Italy.

I want to be a citizen. Tell him that, or I will.

And tell him also,please and tell yourself

that I am not a beggar

and you are not a gift,a horse a favor for a poor immigrant

Well, don’t get mad!

I am furious! Do you think I am so desperate? My brother is desperate, not me.

You think I would carry on my back

the rest of my life a woman I don't love just to be an American?

It’s so wonderful? You think we have no tall buildings in Italy?

Wide streets? Electric lights? No automobiles?

Just work we don’t have.

I want to be a citizen so I can work, that is the only wonder here – work!

How can you insult me, Catherine?

I didn’t mean that

Why are you so afraid of Eddie?

I don't know

Cathrine,do you trust me?

It’s only that I – He was good to me

I want him to be happy; I mean. I like him, Rodolpho, and I can’t stand it!

Catherine

My little girl

I love you,Rodolpho,I love you

Then why are you afraid of him? That he’ll spank you?

Don’t, don’t laugh at me! I'm not a baby

I know a lot more than people think I know

Beatrice says to be a woman

Then why don’t she be a woman?

If I was a wife,I would try to make a man happy instead of going at him all the time.

I can tell a block away when he’s blue in his mind

and just wants to talk to somebody quiet and nice

I can tell when he’s hungry or wants a beer before he even says anything.

I know when his feet hurt him, I mean I know him

and now I’m supposed to turn around and make a stranger out of him?

I don’t know why I have to do that,I mean

Catherine

If I take in my hands a little bird

And she grows and wishes to fly

But I will not let her out of my hands

because I love her so much

is that right for me to do?

I don’t say you must hate him; but anyway you must go, mustn’t you?

Catherine

Hold me

My little girl

Teach me

I don't know anything

Teach me

Go on,teach me

Hello,Eddie

What's matter with you? Knocked off early?

What about a tree?

If you have one,we practically giving them away

Lipari,when you giving anything away

it's a clog around the heel or other tricks

Let me see this one

You see

The same height and look at the difference

Yeah,but you've got the money

Take it,I know when you are light

Hurry

Beatrice

Beatrice

You got home early?

We got Christmas early

You?

Pack it up. Go ahead. Get your stuff and get out of here

Where are you going?

I think I have to get out of here,Eddie

No, you ain’t going nowhere, he’s the one.

I am not going to be a baby anymore

Stop that.Let her go

She’ll be my wife. That is what I want. My wife

But what are you going to be?

Wait outside; don’t argue with him!

Come on, show me! What are you going to be?

I'll show you what you are going to be

What you are

What you are

Eddie! Let go, ya hear me!

You see

You see

I give you till tomorrow, kid.

Just get out here. Alone.

I'm going with him,Eddie

Not with that

Don’t make me do nothing, Cathy

Watch your step, submarine

By rights they ought to throw you back in the water

But I got pity for you. Just get out of here and don’t lay another hand on her

Don't let lay another hand on her

Don't let another hand on her

Will you do that for me?

Show her what he is

So she would see once and for all

What do I got to do now,tell me what to do

This is my last word,take it or not,that's your business

Morally and legally you have no rights, you cannot stop it she is a free agent

Didn’t you hear what I told you?

I heard what you told me,and I'm telling you that the answer is

I'm warning you

The law is nature

The law is only a word for what has a right to happen

When the law is wrong it’s because it’s unnatural

but in this case it is natural

Let her go,Eddie,and bless her

Sooner or later somebody had to come for her

I'm telling you,no illegal punkies going to use her to get a citizenship

Are you out of your mind,Eddie?

You won’t have a friend in the world

Even those who understand will turn against you

Turn it out of your mind,Eddie

Eddie

Eddie,wants bowling?

No,I'm in no form,take it easy

Give me the number of the Immigration Bureau.Thanks.

Hello

I want to report something

Illegal immigrants. Two of them. That’s right.

They are at 17 Saxon Street, Brooklyn,first floor

I’m

I'm just round the neighborhood, that’s all.

Where is everybody?

I said where is everybody?

I decided to move them upstairs with Mrs. Dondero

Oh, they’re all moved up there already?

Yes

Where’s Catherine? She up there?

Only to bring pillow cases

She ain’t moving in with them

Look, I’m sick and tired of it. I’m sick and tired of it!

All right, all right

Who brought them here?

So I moved them out, what more do you want?

I want my respect

I moved them out,you got your house now

Got your respect

This is my house

And she is my niece

And I'm responsible for her

That's why you done that to him?

I done what to him?

You know what I'm talking about

What you done to him in front of her

She goes around shaking all the time, she can’t go to sleep!

That’s what you call responsible for her?

That guy ain’t right ,Beatrice

How do you know?

Because I know,I don't go around making accusations

And I don’t like you saying I don’t want her marrying anybody

I broke my back paying her stenography lessons

so she could go out and meet a better class of people

Would I do that if I didn’t want her to get married?

Sometimes you talk like I was a crazy man or something

She is a young girl,sure,sure

She get married some day

They are going to get married

Next week

Who said that?

Eddie,please

Please,take my advice, go to her.She loves him

Why can't you say a good word to her?

But I know she'd like if you could be

like a friend

if you could tell her you’d go to the wedding.

She asked you that?

I know she would love it.I’d like to give a little party for her here

A really nice send-off,you know

She’ll have trouble enough in her life

let’s start it off happy. What do you say?

Speak up!

I know,she still loves you,Eddie

I know it

Go . . . why not you go tell her you’re sorry?

She’s coming down. Come on, shake hands with her.

I can't

I can't talk to her

Eddie,give her a break; a wedding should be happy!

Wait,please

Please,honey,come on,ask him

Eddie

It's all right

No,she wants. Ask him,please me.Ask him come to the wedding,we’ll have a party!

What are we going to do, hate each other? Come on!

I’m gonna get married, Eddie. So if you want to come, the wedding will be on Saturday

OK

I only wanted the best for you, Katie. I hope you know that.

OK

Katie!

I was just telling Beatrice

If you want to go out, like, I mean I realize maybe I kept you home too much

Because he’s the first guy you ever knew

Now,you got a job

you might meet some fellows

and you get a different idea,you know?

Oh,it's all settled,Eddie

Wait a minute

No,I've made up my mind

Katie

Suppose he gets picked up

That’s why we going to do it right away

Soon as we get married the sooner we can get his papers

I made up my mind, Eddie. I’m sorry

Can I take two more pillow cases for the other guys?

Sure, go ahead. Only don’t let her forget where they came from

She’s got other boarders up there?

Two guys that just came over

What do you mean,just came over?

From Italy. Lipari's nephew. They just got here yesterday

I didn’t even know they were there, before Rodolpho and Marco moved in

It’ll be nice, they could all talk together.

What are you,Katie, got no brains? You put them up with two other submarines?

Why?

How do you know they’re not tracking those guys?

They’ll come up for them and find Marco and Rodolpho!

Get them out of the house!

Get them out of the house!

Why?

Why? Why?

How do you know what enemies Lipari’s got?

Which they’d love to stab him in the back?

Well what will I do with them?

The neighborhood is full of rooms

Can’t you stand to live a couple of blocks away from him?

Get them out of the house!

Well maybe tomorrow night I’ll

Not tomorrow, do it now

How I’m I gonna find a place for them today?

Will you stop arguing with me and get them out of the house!

I never told you nothing in my life that wasn’t for your good.

Nothing! And look at the way you talk to me! Like I was an enemy! Like I

Get them out of the house, go to the fire escape, go,go,go

Over the back there

Immigration! Open up in there!

Go! Go!

Well, what are you looking at!

What's all this?

Where are they?

Where’s who?

Come on, come on, where are they?

Who?

We got nobody here

What’s the matter with you?

Dominic

Maybe it’s a different apartment

There’s only one more floors up there

I’ll take the front, you take the fire escape

I’ll let you in. Watch your step up there

-Number 17 isn't it? -That's right

What's the matter with you?

Oh,my God

Leave them ,let them go

What do you want from them? They work, that’s all

They’re boarders upstairs, they work on the pier

Please

He was born in Philadelphia.

Step aside, lady

Wait a minute

Please let him go

Take it easy,lady,take it easy

All right,all right what street were you born?

What do you mean, what street? Could you tell me what street you were born?

Yes. Four blocks away, One-eleven Union Street. Come on.Let's go.

That one

Marco

I accuse that one

He kills my children

That one stole the bread from my children!

Move away

I kill you for that,Marco

I can't forget that,Marco,Marco

I give them the blankets off my bed

Six months I kept them like my own brothers

Lipari

Catherine

I kept them like my own brothers

Mike

Louis

They'll attempt them back

Yes,they'll attempt them back

Or I kill him

Will you help me!

He’s gonna take that back or I’ll kill him!

I'll kill him,I'll kill him,I'll kill him

Rodolpho,Marco Paccia prisoners

I can bail you out,Marco, until your hearing comes up

But I’m not going to do it, you understand?

Unless I have your promise. You’re an honorable man

I will believe your promise. Now what do you say?

In my country he would be dead now. He would not live this long.

All right,Rodolpho,you come with me

No! Please, Mister. Marco,promise the man. I want you to watch the wedding

You’re not going to do anything,you know,Marco, you’re not.

Don’t you understand,Marco? He can’t bail you out if you’re gonna do something bad

I have no chance?

No, Marco. You’re going back.The hearing is a formality, that’s all

But him?

There is a chance?

When she marries him he can start being an American

They permit that, if the wife is born here

Well – we did something

Marco, tell the man

What will I tell him?

He knows such a promise is dishonorable

To promise not to kill is not dishonorable

No?

No

Then what is done with such a man?

Nothing. If he obeys the law, he lives. That’s all

The law? All the law is not in a book,Mister

Yes. In a book. There is no other law

He degraded my brother. He robbed my children

I work hard to come here,Mister

I know,Marco

Well? What is your answer? You have five or six weeks you could work

Or else you sit here. What do you say to me?

All right

You won't touch him

This is your promise

Don't worry

Maybe he comes to apologize to me

We're not talking about God, Marco. You hear? Only God makes justice

All right

Good

Let's go

I’ll go and get B. and meet you at the church

Marco

Only God,Marco

I’ll be back in about an hour, Eddie. All right?

What, have I been talking to myself ?

Eddie, for Heaven’s sake, it’s her wedding day

Didn’t you hear what I told you?

You walk out that door to that wedding you ain’t coming back here, Beatrice

Eddie

What do you want?

I want my respect

Didn’t you ever hear of that? From my wife?

It’s after three,B. We’re supposed to be there already.The priest won’t wait

Eddie,it's her wedding day.Nobody from her family will be there.

For my sister let me go. I’m going for my sister

He’s going to come here and apologize to me

or nobody from this house is going into that church today

Now if that’s more to you than I am, then go. But don’t come back

Who the hell do you think you are?

You got no more right to tell nobody nothing!

Nobody! The rest of your life, nobody

-Stop that, Katie -You're going to come with me

I can’t, Katie, I can’t

How can you listen to him? This rat!

Don’t you call him that!

What are you scared of ? He’s a rat! He belongs in the sewer

He bites people when they sleep!

He comes when nobody’s looking and poisons decent people

Whatever happened,Cathy, we all done it, and don’t you ever forget that

Go to your wedding, Katie, I’ll stay home

God bless you,Katie, God bless your children.

Eddie?

Who said you could come in?

Marco is coming

He’s praying in the church

You understand?

Eddie. Let’s go someplace

I don’t want you to be here when he gets here. I’ll get your coat

Where? Where am I going? This is my house

Eddie,what’s the use of it!

You got nothing against Marco, you always liked Marco!

I got nothing against Marco?

Which he called me a rat in front of the whole neighborhood?

Which he said I killed his children. Where you been?

It's my fault,Eddie

Everything. I wish to apologize

I know it was wrong that I did not ask your permission.

Eddie, he’s apologizing!

I have made all our troubles. But you have insulted me too

Maybe you did not mean that at all to insult me

I think, maybe when Marco comes

if we can tell him we are comrades now

Then maybe Marco will not

Now, listen

Eddie, give him a chance!

What do you want! Eddie, what do you want!

I want my name!

Marco’s got my name

Come on

Come on.Where is he? Take me to him

Eddie, listen to me

-I heard enough! -Listen to me

Who could give you your name?

Eddie, I love you,I'm talking to you,I love you

If Marco went on his knees,in the street and if he kissed your hand

what is he got to give you?

That’s not what you want

Don’t bother me!

You want something else, Eddie, and you can never have her!

B.!

The truth is not as bad as blood, Eddie!

I’m telling you the truth, please,tell her good-bye

Forever

That’s what you think of me

that I would have such thoughts?

Carbone

Eddie Carbone

Yes,Marco,Eddie Carbone

Eddie Carbone

Eddie Carbone

Eddie Carbone

Yes,Eddie Carbone

No,Marco please,no,Eddie

He has children,you'll kill a family

Please,come in the house

Please

Mr Alfieri,stop this,Mr Alfieri

Hey,Marco

Maybe he come to apologize to me. Heh, Marco?

For what you said about me in front of the neighborhood?

He knows that ain’t right. To do like that? To a man?

Which I put my roof over their head and my food in their mouth?

Like in the Bible? Strangers I never seen in my whole life?

To come out of the water and grab a girl for a passport?

And now accusations in the bargain!

Wiping the neighborhood with my name like a dirty rag! I want my name, Marco

Now give me my name and we go together to the wedding

Eddie! Eddie, don’t! Eddie!

No, Marco knows what’s right from wrong

Tell the people, Marco, tell them what a liar you are!

Come on, liar, you know what you done!

You lied about me, Marco. Now say it. Come on now,say it

Vigliacco(Scoundrel,coward)

You go on your knees to me

Eddie

I never meant to do nothing bad to you

Then why – Oh, Be!

Police

My B.

My B.

Get me the police

Hello,reporting a death 17 Saxton street

An accident,yes

It will be very difficult to explain

My name is Alfieri

I'll be here

Waiting

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