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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,208 High and inside for ball one. 2 00:02:25,291 --> 00:02:27,250 Doesn't look like Leonard was trying to get... 3 00:02:29,208 --> 00:02:32,208 but it just didn't want to break for him. 4 00:02:32,291 --> 00:02:34,709 Toes the rubber, starts his wind-up 5 00:02:34,792 --> 00:02:37,542 and delivers a fastball low and outside. 6 00:02:37,625 --> 00:02:40,208 Just missed the corner for ball two. 7 00:02:40,291 --> 00:02:43,250 Looks like he's a little bit uncomfortable 8 00:02:43,333 --> 00:02:44,333 with his rotator. 9 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:47,291 Still having trouble with that shoulder. 10 00:02:48,917 --> 00:02:51,792 Certainly seems to have trouble finding the plate 11 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:52,959 that's for sure. 12 00:02:53,041 --> 00:02:54,291 Come on. 13 00:02:54,375 --> 00:02:55,792 He's already walked four batters. 14 00:02:55,875 --> 00:02:57,583 It appears that's going to be all 15 00:02:57,667 --> 00:03:00,583 as Leonard is going to be pulled by manager Frank... 16 00:03:00,667 --> 00:03:03,875 Sometimes I think the day he made my daddy 17 00:03:03,959 --> 00:03:06,166 God wasn't thinking straight. 18 00:03:12,375 --> 00:03:13,792 She's coming home today. 19 00:03:13,875 --> 00:03:15,458 She's coming home? Uh-huh. 20 00:03:15,542 --> 00:03:16,625 How come? 21 00:03:16,709 --> 00:03:19,291 They've done all they can for her for now. 22 00:03:19,375 --> 00:03:21,333 What's romantic fever, Aunt Nadine? 23 00:03:21,417 --> 00:03:22,583 What? 24 00:03:22,667 --> 00:03:24,333 What Mama has... romantic fever. 25 00:03:24,417 --> 00:03:26,542 It's not "romantic fever." 26 00:03:26,625 --> 00:03:28,125 It's rheumatic fever. 27 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:28,875 What is it? 28 00:03:28,959 --> 00:03:30,375 It's a heart thing. 29 00:03:30,458 --> 00:03:32,375 She's had it since she was your age. 30 00:03:32,458 --> 00:03:33,792 I thought you knew that. 31 00:03:33,875 --> 00:03:35,583 I thought it was "romantic." 32 00:03:47,875 --> 00:03:49,875 What are you doing? 33 00:03:49,959 --> 00:03:51,333 Waiting. 34 00:03:51,417 --> 00:03:52,500 Mama's with her. 35 00:03:52,583 --> 00:03:53,667 We can't go in yet. 36 00:03:53,750 --> 00:03:55,291 Hi, Ellen. 37 00:03:55,375 --> 00:03:56,667 Well, can I go in? No. 38 00:03:56,750 --> 00:03:59,333 Well, move over. 39 00:03:59,417 --> 00:04:02,834 If I was my mother, I'd stay right here in the hospital... 40 00:04:02,917 --> 00:04:06,834 Folks patting your head and bringing you fruit baskets. 41 00:04:06,917 --> 00:04:09,166 I would stay right here. 42 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:18,917 You don't look to me 43 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,834 like you should be leaving here. 44 00:04:20,917 --> 00:04:22,208 You look like the dickens. 45 00:04:22,291 --> 00:04:23,583 I'm okay. 46 00:04:23,667 --> 00:04:25,458 The doctor told me you need 47 00:04:25,542 --> 00:04:28,625 plenty of bed rest and no exertions. 48 00:04:28,709 --> 00:04:29,875 Now, I want... 49 00:04:29,959 --> 00:04:33,250 I want you to come home with me. 50 00:04:33,333 --> 00:04:34,875 What for? 51 00:04:34,959 --> 00:04:37,208 The same reason as always... 52 00:04:37,291 --> 00:04:38,875 To live. 53 00:04:38,959 --> 00:04:41,250 What about Ellen? 54 00:04:41,333 --> 00:04:44,458 My offer is the same as always, too. 55 00:04:44,542 --> 00:04:47,375 You expect me to go and live with you 56 00:04:47,458 --> 00:04:49,583 and leave her with him? 57 00:04:49,667 --> 00:04:52,208 Well, she's his daughter. 58 00:04:52,291 --> 00:04:53,542 She's my daughter, too. 59 00:04:53,625 --> 00:04:56,208 Trash begets trash. 60 00:04:56,291 --> 00:04:58,208 It don't matter who he sires it on. 61 00:04:58,291 --> 00:05:00,875 I'm too tired for this, Mama. 62 00:05:02,875 --> 00:05:05,375 It's the last time I make the offer. 63 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:09,458 Well, that'll be a relief. 64 00:05:30,667 --> 00:05:32,291 Thanks, honey. 65 00:05:45,375 --> 00:05:46,375 Oh! 66 00:05:46,583 --> 00:05:50,291 Looks like Charlotte turned her down again. 67 00:06:22,041 --> 00:06:23,792 You don't have to come in. 68 00:06:23,875 --> 00:06:24,875 Are you sure? 69 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:26,625 I'm fine. 70 00:06:32,375 --> 00:06:34,375 We'll call you later. 71 00:06:34,458 --> 00:06:35,792 Okay. Bye. 72 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:37,000 Bye-bye. 73 00:06:37,083 --> 00:06:38,250 Bye. 74 00:06:56,041 --> 00:07:00,583 It's off the wall, inside corner... 75 00:07:00,667 --> 00:07:01,875 Hey. 76 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:03,875 Hey. How you doing? 77 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:06,542 Not too bad. 78 00:07:06,625 --> 00:07:09,041 Well, you're just in time for lunch. 79 00:07:09,125 --> 00:07:10,291 What we having? 80 00:07:10,709 --> 00:07:15,333 I had to cook for my own self the whole time you was gone. 81 00:07:17,625 --> 00:07:20,709 Maybe you can lie down a bit first. 82 00:07:20,792 --> 00:07:22,500 I'm fine, honey. 83 00:07:22,583 --> 00:07:25,375 Let's go see what we got, huh? 84 00:07:46,667 --> 00:07:49,583 This place is a mess since you been gone. 85 00:07:49,667 --> 00:07:51,458 It needs a good cleaning-up. 86 00:07:53,750 --> 00:07:55,750 I can't stand being in a mess. 87 00:07:55,834 --> 00:07:57,458 It reminds me 88 00:07:57,542 --> 00:07:58,750 of when I was a kid. 89 00:07:58,834 --> 00:08:00,750 I tried to keep it cleaned up. 90 00:08:00,834 --> 00:08:02,000 I know. 91 00:08:02,083 --> 00:08:04,333 I could see that when I first came in. 92 00:08:04,417 --> 00:08:06,583 Well, you ought to teach her 93 00:08:06,667 --> 00:08:08,333 how to do it right. 94 00:08:11,166 --> 00:08:12,709 What are you looking at? 95 00:08:15,166 --> 00:08:16,667 Why don't you eat? 96 00:08:18,500 --> 00:08:20,834 I don't have an appetite. 97 00:08:30,709 --> 00:08:34,083 What was it you turned your mama down about? 98 00:08:34,166 --> 00:08:35,417 What, honey? 99 00:08:35,500 --> 00:08:37,166 At the hospital. 100 00:08:37,250 --> 00:08:38,250 Aunt Betsy said 101 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,792 you turned your mama down about something. 102 00:08:40,875 --> 00:08:43,500 You can tell she was real ticked off. 103 00:08:43,583 --> 00:08:44,625 Well, she wanted me 104 00:08:44,709 --> 00:08:47,041 to come and live with her. 105 00:08:47,125 --> 00:08:48,917 Well, why don't we... 106 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,667 You and me? 107 00:08:50,750 --> 00:08:52,959 We'd be much better off over there. 108 00:08:53,041 --> 00:08:53,917 Can't. 109 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,125 But why not? 110 00:08:55,208 --> 00:08:56,959 She's got that humongous house 111 00:08:57,041 --> 00:09:00,458 and you wouldn't have to be cooking or cleaning or whatnot. 112 00:09:02,125 --> 00:09:03,208 Are you okay? 113 00:09:03,291 --> 00:09:05,458 I'm just catching my breath. 114 00:09:05,542 --> 00:09:08,500 I don't think you should've turned her down, Mama. 115 00:09:08,583 --> 00:09:10,000 Had to, hon. Always had to. 116 00:09:10,083 --> 00:09:11,458 How come? 117 00:09:11,542 --> 00:09:13,834 Oh, 'cause... 118 00:09:13,917 --> 00:09:16,125 she won't take you in, too. 119 00:09:16,208 --> 00:09:19,083 I don't like you knowing that. 120 00:09:19,166 --> 00:09:21,583 Why won't she take me in, too? 121 00:09:23,583 --> 00:09:26,667 She thinks you're more your daddy's daughter than mine 122 00:09:26,750 --> 00:09:29,709 and she has an intense dislike of your daddy. 123 00:09:29,792 --> 00:09:31,208 I think you know that. 124 00:09:31,291 --> 00:09:34,500 She's sure got it wrong about me and him. 125 00:09:34,583 --> 00:09:37,667 If you wasn't here, I'd run away. 126 00:09:37,750 --> 00:09:40,500 You know 127 00:09:40,583 --> 00:09:42,667 you're my favorite person in the whole world. 128 00:09:42,750 --> 00:09:44,208 You know that? 129 00:09:44,291 --> 00:09:46,750 You're my favorite person, too. 130 00:09:46,834 --> 00:09:49,709 You're smart and you're strong 131 00:09:49,792 --> 00:09:52,500 and you can get along no matter what happens. 132 00:09:52,583 --> 00:09:55,458 I absolutely know that. 133 00:09:57,083 --> 00:10:00,041 You remember I told you that, won't you? 134 00:10:00,125 --> 00:10:01,959 Mm-hmm. 135 00:10:14,625 --> 00:10:15,917 Hey. 136 00:10:20,333 --> 00:10:22,250 Mmm. 137 00:10:22,333 --> 00:10:24,583 Here. You want anything else? 138 00:10:27,083 --> 00:10:28,792 No, thank you, hon. 139 00:10:28,875 --> 00:10:31,583 I'll read you something, okay? 140 00:10:31,667 --> 00:10:32,750 From the Bible? 141 00:10:32,834 --> 00:10:34,583 Mm-hmm. My favorite part. 142 00:10:34,667 --> 00:10:36,542 You want to hear my favorite part? 143 00:10:36,625 --> 00:10:37,917 Sure do. 144 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,208 "To everything there is a season 145 00:10:43,291 --> 00:10:46,959 "and a time to every purpose under the heaven. 146 00:10:47,041 --> 00:10:51,083 "A time to be born and a time to die 147 00:10:51,166 --> 00:10:53,083 "a time to plant 148 00:10:53,166 --> 00:10:56,000 "and a time to pluck up that which is planted 149 00:10:56,083 --> 00:10:59,250 "a time to kill and a time to heal 150 00:10:59,333 --> 00:11:03,083 "a time to break down and a time to build up 151 00:11:03,166 --> 00:11:06,166 "a time to weep and a time to laugh 152 00:11:06,250 --> 00:11:10,625 a time to mourn and a time to dance." 153 00:11:13,959 --> 00:11:17,875 I think I'll just have myself a little nap. 154 00:11:17,959 --> 00:11:20,208 You sure you don't want nothing else? 155 00:11:20,291 --> 00:11:21,709 No, thank you, hon. 156 00:11:21,792 --> 00:11:22,792 I'm fine. 157 00:11:32,667 --> 00:11:34,542 I'll stay here with you. 158 00:11:34,625 --> 00:11:37,583 Just for a little while, I'll stay here with you. 159 00:11:39,792 --> 00:11:42,792 I hate it so when people say they're fine. 160 00:11:42,875 --> 00:11:45,834 You know they're not and they know it, too. 161 00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:24,709 Why's all the lights out? 162 00:12:28,792 --> 00:12:33,208 How's a man supposed to see in the pitch dark? 163 00:13:30,333 --> 00:13:31,333 Come on, get up. 164 00:13:31,417 --> 00:13:32,917 Other people got to get in here, too. 165 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,458 I'll sleep where I want to. 166 00:13:35,542 --> 00:13:37,208 Get up. You can go sleep in your truck. 167 00:13:56,333 --> 00:13:58,500 I sleep where I want to! 168 00:14:08,875 --> 00:14:10,375 I sleep where I want to! 169 00:14:16,208 --> 00:14:18,291 Mama, get back in the bed. 170 00:14:18,375 --> 00:14:19,458 Mama. 171 00:14:19,542 --> 00:14:20,834 Shh. 172 00:14:25,250 --> 00:14:26,500 It's okay. Shh. 173 00:14:32,166 --> 00:14:33,166 Shh, Mama. 174 00:14:36,583 --> 00:14:37,750 Shh. 175 00:15:02,625 --> 00:15:04,083 The first day 176 00:15:04,166 --> 00:15:06,834 of every month my daddy's brother Rudolph 177 00:15:06,917 --> 00:15:10,000 would bring some cash money in an envelope 178 00:15:10,083 --> 00:15:13,875 and I would make sure I would get it before my daddy did. 179 00:15:17,333 --> 00:15:21,375 I figured out what I needed and I took it. 180 00:15:21,458 --> 00:15:26,208 You got the lights and the gas to be paid up, food and extras. 181 00:15:26,291 --> 00:15:29,250 And I'd let him have the rest. 182 00:16:02,333 --> 00:16:03,333 Mama? 183 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:06,542 Mama? 184 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,291 Mama? 185 00:16:49,208 --> 00:16:52,959 I should have taken better care of her. 186 00:16:53,041 --> 00:16:55,417 I should have just put my foot down and said 187 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:57,583 "Look here, Mama, you can't be doing 188 00:16:57,667 --> 00:17:00,208 "all this cooking and cleaning up and what-not. 189 00:17:00,291 --> 00:17:04,000 You have to be in bed getting rested like Aunt Betsy said." 190 00:17:04,083 --> 00:17:08,250 I should have put my foot dow. 191 00:17:08,333 --> 00:17:11,917 I think that'll be on my mind for quite a long time. 192 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,083 Mama, I have to go. 193 00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:16,250 Not now, sweetie. 194 00:17:16,333 --> 00:17:17,208 Can't we stop? 195 00:17:17,291 --> 00:17:19,458 Hold it, pumpkin, all right? 196 00:17:36,083 --> 00:17:39,333 "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me 197 00:17:39,417 --> 00:17:41,333 all the days of my life..." 198 00:17:41,417 --> 00:17:43,667 My baby. 199 00:17:43,750 --> 00:17:47,041 "Earth to earth 200 00:17:47,125 --> 00:17:51,959 "ashes to ashes, dust to dust 201 00:17:52,041 --> 00:17:54,500 "in sure and certain hope of the resurrection 202 00:17:54,583 --> 00:17:57,083 "to eternal life through our lord Jesus Christ 203 00:17:57,166 --> 00:18:00,583 "who shall change our mortal body 204 00:18:00,667 --> 00:18:02,375 "that it may be like 205 00:18:02,458 --> 00:18:04,000 "unto his glorious body 206 00:18:04,083 --> 00:18:05,417 "according to the mighty work 207 00:18:05,500 --> 00:18:10,333 whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself." 208 00:18:10,417 --> 00:18:13,667 Oh, you rotten piece of trash! 209 00:18:13,750 --> 00:18:16,333 You're the one who should be in that box 210 00:18:16,417 --> 00:18:17,667 you scum! 211 00:18:17,750 --> 00:18:20,750 Why is it that 212 00:18:20,834 --> 00:18:24,333 somebody like my daughter dies and you don't?! 213 00:18:24,417 --> 00:18:28,166 You took off and ruined her! 214 00:18:28,250 --> 00:18:29,500 Ruined her life! 215 00:18:29,583 --> 00:18:31,041 Broke her heart! 216 00:18:31,125 --> 00:18:33,041 Scarred her soul! 217 00:18:33,125 --> 00:18:37,375 May God in his wisdom strike you dead 218 00:18:37,458 --> 00:18:40,083 If somebody else don't do it for us first! 219 00:18:45,125 --> 00:18:47,375 Seemed to me she might have got hold 220 00:18:47,458 --> 00:18:49,000 on her natural meanness 221 00:18:49,083 --> 00:18:52,083 for her own daughter's funeral at least. 222 00:18:52,166 --> 00:18:56,542 I guess she hated my daddy more than she loved my mama. 223 00:18:56,625 --> 00:18:58,583 It didn't seem proper to me. 224 00:18:58,667 --> 00:19:02,792 I think at a funeral everybody should love everybody else. 225 00:19:19,166 --> 00:19:21,583 Starletta, wait up. 226 00:19:21,667 --> 00:19:22,667 Bye. Bye. 227 00:19:24,166 --> 00:19:26,583 My mama says your mama passed on. 228 00:19:26,667 --> 00:19:28,125 Uh-huh. 229 00:19:28,208 --> 00:19:30,125 That's why you wasn't at school? 230 00:19:30,208 --> 00:19:31,291 Uh-huh. 231 00:19:31,375 --> 00:19:34,125 My mama said to say she's real sorry 232 00:19:34,208 --> 00:19:36,291 and she hopes she'll come by soon 233 00:19:36,375 --> 00:19:38,125 to say it her own self. 234 00:19:38,208 --> 00:19:39,417 Okay. 235 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:42,166 You're going to have to catch up on your homework. 236 00:19:42,250 --> 00:19:43,458 How you doing? 237 00:19:43,542 --> 00:19:44,542 Fine. 238 00:19:53,542 --> 00:19:55,166 What's in the box? 239 00:19:58,875 --> 00:20:00,125 Just some beads 240 00:20:00,208 --> 00:20:01,417 And things. 241 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:03,709 My Mama used to let me play with that. 242 00:20:03,792 --> 00:20:07,417 She won't be letting you play with it anymore. 243 00:20:09,333 --> 00:20:12,333 You tell your daddy 244 00:20:12,417 --> 00:20:15,375 the message is plain and simple. 245 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:18,625 Now get it right. 246 00:20:18,709 --> 00:20:21,083 You listening?! 247 00:20:23,208 --> 00:20:24,333 You tell him 248 00:20:24,709 --> 00:20:29,250 that I'd rather some tramp had my Charlotte's things 249 00:20:29,333 --> 00:20:31,458 than any of you bunch 250 00:20:31,542 --> 00:20:34,542 that drink and carry on like trash. 251 00:20:41,917 --> 00:20:44,583 I'm sorry, hon. 252 00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:16,333 Hi, honey! 253 00:22:16,417 --> 00:22:17,417 Hi. 254 00:22:17,458 --> 00:22:18,458 I just stopped by 255 00:22:18,542 --> 00:22:20,250 to see how you getting along. 256 00:22:20,333 --> 00:22:21,834 Is your daddy here? 257 00:22:21,917 --> 00:22:23,917 He's not home much anymore. 258 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,458 Where is he? 259 00:22:25,542 --> 00:22:26,667 I don't know. 260 00:22:26,750 --> 00:22:29,542 Sometimes he comes home to sleep 261 00:22:29,625 --> 00:22:31,959 but I think all he's doing now 262 00:22:32,041 --> 00:22:34,500 is drinking and sleeping. 263 00:22:34,583 --> 00:22:36,750 What you doing? 264 00:22:36,834 --> 00:22:38,250 Playing catalog. 265 00:22:38,333 --> 00:22:39,041 What's that? 266 00:22:39,333 --> 00:22:41,542 First I pick out a little family 267 00:22:41,625 --> 00:22:44,291 and then house stuff and clothes. 268 00:22:44,375 --> 00:22:47,834 Sleepwear and fancy jackets for the man and pantsuits 269 00:22:47,917 --> 00:22:49,625 and I outfit everybody... 270 00:22:49,709 --> 00:22:51,834 The mom and the dad and the kids. 271 00:22:51,917 --> 00:22:53,041 The kids are cute. 272 00:22:53,458 --> 00:22:58,291 Next, they get some camping equipment and a waffle iron 273 00:22:58,375 --> 00:23:01,333 and bedroom suits and some toys. 274 00:23:01,417 --> 00:23:02,959 And the daddy who works in a factory 275 00:23:03,041 --> 00:23:04,709 and the mama... She works at a bank. 276 00:23:04,792 --> 00:23:07,291 They like to dress up after work. 277 00:23:07,375 --> 00:23:09,959 And I also find the best values. 278 00:23:10,041 --> 00:23:11,917 That's real clever. 279 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,333 How you doing for food? 280 00:23:14,417 --> 00:23:15,333 Okay. 281 00:23:15,417 --> 00:23:19,000 You eating regular? 282 00:23:19,083 --> 00:23:20,000 Sure. 283 00:23:20,083 --> 00:23:22,291 What are you eating? 284 00:23:22,375 --> 00:23:25,333 Frozen stuff from the store 285 00:23:25,417 --> 00:23:26,959 in tin things. 286 00:23:27,041 --> 00:23:28,041 TV dinners?! 287 00:23:28,083 --> 00:23:29,000 I guess. 288 00:23:29,083 --> 00:23:31,709 How are you fixed for money? 289 00:23:31,792 --> 00:23:33,667 Uncle Rudolph's still bringing it. 290 00:23:33,750 --> 00:23:34,625 He is? 291 00:23:34,709 --> 00:23:36,917 Not as much as before, though. 292 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,625 Why is he giving us the money anyway? 293 00:23:39,709 --> 00:23:42,041 It's not Rudolph giving you the money. 294 00:23:42,125 --> 00:23:44,041 I thought you knew that. 295 00:23:44,125 --> 00:23:46,417 How am I supposed to know? 296 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:48,041 Nobody tells me anything. 297 00:23:48,125 --> 00:23:49,041 Who is? 298 00:23:49,125 --> 00:23:52,041 Your grandma. 299 00:23:52,125 --> 00:23:53,500 She's the one 300 00:23:53,583 --> 00:23:55,625 that's been giving us all the money? 301 00:23:55,709 --> 00:23:56,834 For your mother. 302 00:24:00,041 --> 00:24:01,083 Mama's dead. 303 00:24:01,166 --> 00:24:03,417 Well, I guess she just... 304 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:05,000 doesn't have it in her heart 305 00:24:05,083 --> 00:24:07,417 to starve a child, despite her feelings. 306 00:24:07,500 --> 00:24:09,000 Don't tell her I told you that. 307 00:24:09,083 --> 00:24:10,625 It's supposed to be a secret. 308 00:24:10,709 --> 00:24:12,333 Well, how could I tell her? 309 00:24:12,417 --> 00:24:14,542 She hasn't hardly said two words in a row 310 00:24:14,625 --> 00:24:15,875 to me in my whole life. 311 00:24:15,959 --> 00:24:18,375 Well, she never been too good about children 312 00:24:18,458 --> 00:24:19,458 even her own. 313 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:21,709 Except for your mother, Charlotte. 314 00:24:21,792 --> 00:24:23,125 She was her favorite. 315 00:24:23,208 --> 00:24:24,083 The sun never set 316 00:24:24,166 --> 00:24:25,083 on Charlotte. 317 00:24:25,166 --> 00:24:26,583 Which one of these hats 318 00:24:26,667 --> 00:24:28,625 do you think looks better on her? 319 00:24:30,125 --> 00:24:32,083 This one or... 320 00:24:32,166 --> 00:24:33,542 or this one? 321 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:37,875 We got to do something. 322 00:24:37,959 --> 00:24:38,959 Like what? 323 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,000 I don't know. Something. 324 00:24:40,083 --> 00:24:41,417 She can't be on her own over there 325 00:24:41,500 --> 00:24:42,875 with that drunk, eating TV dinners. 326 00:24:42,959 --> 00:24:43,959 It's Charlotte's fault 327 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,184 for marrying him in the first place. 328 00:24:45,208 --> 00:24:46,709 That's water and bridges, Nadine. 329 00:24:46,792 --> 00:24:47,792 We're talking about now. 330 00:24:47,959 --> 00:24:49,518 Well, there's nothing we can do about it. 331 00:24:49,542 --> 00:24:50,417 Why not? 332 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:51,500 He's her father. 333 00:24:51,542 --> 00:24:52,166 He needs a stepstool 334 00:24:52,458 --> 00:24:53,542 to look a worm in the eye. 335 00:24:53,625 --> 00:24:54,750 He's still her father. 336 00:24:54,834 --> 00:24:56,125 She should be with real family. 337 00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:57,500 Why don't you take her? 338 00:24:57,583 --> 00:24:59,083 Me? 339 00:24:59,166 --> 00:25:01,625 Might do you good to have a kid around. 340 00:25:01,709 --> 00:25:02,792 Why would you say that 341 00:25:02,875 --> 00:25:04,583 knowing how I feel about children? 342 00:25:04,667 --> 00:25:07,166 If I wanted a kid, I would have gotten married. 343 00:25:07,250 --> 00:25:08,250 Besides, if I took her 344 00:25:08,458 --> 00:25:10,500 I'd have to deal with Mama all the time. 345 00:25:10,583 --> 00:25:12,125 The less I do with Mama, the better. 346 00:25:12,208 --> 00:25:13,625 Why can't you take her? 347 00:25:13,709 --> 00:25:14,625 No. Dora hates her. 348 00:25:14,709 --> 00:25:16,125 My nerves couldn't stand it. 349 00:25:16,208 --> 00:25:17,542 Also, she makes me nervous. 350 00:25:17,625 --> 00:25:18,726 I guess I know what you mean. 351 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:19,830 She can be weird sometimes. 352 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:21,184 She reminds me of Charlotte sometimes 353 00:25:21,208 --> 00:25:22,542 when Charlotte was her age. 354 00:25:22,625 --> 00:25:24,125 You were always jealous of Charlotte. 355 00:25:24,208 --> 00:25:25,917 Oh, look who's talking. 356 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,583 Let's not get into it. 357 00:25:27,667 --> 00:25:29,000 Water and bridges. 358 00:25:32,709 --> 00:25:33,959 Big smile now. 359 00:25:34,041 --> 00:25:35,750 Good! 360 00:25:35,834 --> 00:25:39,458 Do you believe in Santa Claus? 361 00:25:39,542 --> 00:25:41,625 Sure I do. You? 362 00:25:41,709 --> 00:25:43,542 Uh-uh. I'm glad I don't. 363 00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:44,959 Like my daddy says 364 00:25:45,041 --> 00:25:47,959 "Wish in one hand and spit in the other. 365 00:25:48,041 --> 00:25:50,709 See which one gets filled up first." 366 00:25:50,792 --> 00:25:53,208 I won't be going spitting in my hand. 367 00:25:53,291 --> 00:25:54,750 That's disgusting. 368 00:25:54,834 --> 00:25:57,667 My mama said she believed in Santa Claus 369 00:25:57,750 --> 00:25:59,542 lots longer than I did. 370 00:25:59,625 --> 00:26:02,834 I think she wanted me to believe in him longer. 371 00:26:02,917 --> 00:26:04,500 But that was in the old days 372 00:26:04,583 --> 00:26:05,667 when she was little. 373 00:26:05,750 --> 00:26:06,750 Things change. 374 00:26:06,792 --> 00:26:08,166 I think you're missing something 375 00:26:08,250 --> 00:26:10,125 not believing in Santa Claus. 376 00:26:10,208 --> 00:26:12,208 I'm going to believe in him 377 00:26:12,291 --> 00:26:13,959 as long as I can. 378 00:26:14,041 --> 00:26:15,875 Then you got a good wishing hand. 379 00:26:15,959 --> 00:26:17,166 You want to see what I got 380 00:26:17,250 --> 00:26:18,834 for your Mama and daddy? 381 00:26:21,250 --> 00:26:22,500 See? 382 00:26:22,583 --> 00:26:23,583 Ooh! 383 00:26:23,667 --> 00:26:25,208 It's pretty. 384 00:26:25,291 --> 00:26:27,583 What's it for? 385 00:26:27,667 --> 00:26:29,166 Putting spoons in. 386 00:26:29,250 --> 00:26:33,208 I believe my mom's got one of them. 387 00:26:33,291 --> 00:26:35,250 Well, now she's got two. 388 00:26:59,917 --> 00:27:01,792 Hey, boy, hey! 389 00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:03,208 A merry Christmas! 390 00:27:03,291 --> 00:27:05,542 It █ Christmas Day, isn't it? 391 00:27:05,625 --> 00:27:06,500 Why, of course. 392 00:27:06,583 --> 00:27:08,583 I knew I hadn't missed it! 393 00:27:08,667 --> 00:27:10,542 All the spirits have done it all 394 00:27:10,625 --> 00:27:11,875 in one night! 395 00:27:11,959 --> 00:27:15,750 It couldn't be like it used to be with Mama 396 00:27:15,834 --> 00:27:18,583 but it's a long time till next Christmas. 397 00:27:18,667 --> 00:27:21,291 Maybe things will turn around by then. 398 00:27:24,333 --> 00:27:27,583 Well, would you look here at this? 399 00:27:29,667 --> 00:27:30,667 Always use one of these. 400 00:27:30,959 --> 00:27:33,250 Keeps your spoons from dripping on the stove. 401 00:27:33,333 --> 00:27:35,250 I figured maybe you can use one. 402 00:27:35,333 --> 00:27:39,208 Never can have enough of these. 403 00:27:39,291 --> 00:27:40,291 Well, it looks to me 404 00:27:40,375 --> 00:27:42,709 like we got one more present here. 405 00:27:42,792 --> 00:27:44,750 Says... "To Ellen, from Santa." 406 00:27:44,834 --> 00:27:46,041 I think this child here 407 00:27:46,125 --> 00:27:48,250 is the only one we know called "Ellen." 408 00:27:48,375 --> 00:27:49,625 Ain't that right? 409 00:27:49,709 --> 00:27:50,834 Right as rain. 410 00:27:50,917 --> 00:27:51,625 For me? 411 00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:53,959 You have been a good girl, right? 412 00:27:54,041 --> 00:27:56,208 What is it? 413 00:27:56,291 --> 00:27:58,125 Well, open it up, child. 414 00:27:58,208 --> 00:27:59,208 Open it up! 415 00:27:59,291 --> 00:28:01,333 Open it up! 416 00:28:07,750 --> 00:28:10,000 Oh, it's a sweater! 417 00:28:10,083 --> 00:28:11,625 It sure is. 418 00:28:11,709 --> 00:28:12,375 Can I put it on? 419 00:28:12,667 --> 00:28:14,667 I'd like to put it on right now 420 00:28:14,750 --> 00:28:15,625 if that's okay. 421 00:28:15,709 --> 00:28:16,875 Put it right on. 422 00:28:16,959 --> 00:28:19,583 Color's pretty, Mama, ain't it? 423 00:28:19,667 --> 00:28:21,917 Oh, it just suits her perfect. 424 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,333 Couldn't be prettier. 425 00:28:24,417 --> 00:28:28,709 I was sort of in need of a sweater. 426 00:28:28,792 --> 00:28:31,333 I have to go pretty soon. 427 00:28:31,417 --> 00:28:33,583 Got to get home. 428 00:28:33,667 --> 00:28:34,750 Your daddy home tonight? 429 00:28:34,834 --> 00:28:36,667 Haven't seen hide nor hair of Daddy 430 00:28:36,750 --> 00:28:37,792 in two or three days. 431 00:28:37,875 --> 00:28:39,709 Well, why don't you stay here? 432 00:28:39,792 --> 00:28:41,667 What are you gonna when you get back? 433 00:28:41,750 --> 00:28:43,625 I'll stay busy. 434 00:28:43,709 --> 00:28:45,750 You come on back here whenever you want to. 435 00:28:45,834 --> 00:28:47,000 If your daddy ain't home 436 00:28:47,083 --> 00:28:48,208 when you get there 437 00:28:48,291 --> 00:28:50,333 you come right on back over here, you hear? 438 00:28:50,417 --> 00:28:52,208 You come right on back. 439 00:28:52,291 --> 00:28:53,166 To stay? 440 00:28:53,250 --> 00:28:55,166 How do you mean, honey? 441 00:28:55,250 --> 00:28:57,333 To stay, all the time, here. 442 00:28:57,417 --> 00:28:58,667 Yeah. 443 00:28:58,750 --> 00:29:00,291 Why would you want to stay here 444 00:29:00,375 --> 00:29:01,667 all the time, sweetheart? 445 00:29:01,750 --> 00:29:03,166 I like it much better here 446 00:29:03,250 --> 00:29:05,208 now that my mom's not home anymore. 447 00:29:05,291 --> 00:29:08,083 You got to be missing your mama real bad. 448 00:29:08,166 --> 00:29:09,625 We know that. 449 00:29:09,709 --> 00:29:13,208 Honey, we would take you in in a minute if we could. 450 00:29:13,291 --> 00:29:14,291 Why can't you? 451 00:29:14,333 --> 00:29:16,208 Don't you like me enough? 452 00:29:16,291 --> 00:29:18,041 'Course we like you. 453 00:29:18,125 --> 00:29:19,875 We're very fond, Ellen. 454 00:29:19,959 --> 00:29:21,041 You know that. 455 00:29:23,458 --> 00:29:24,458 It's okay if you don't. 456 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:25,500 No hard feelings. 457 00:29:25,667 --> 00:29:27,875 Truth of it is, we wouldn't be allowed 458 00:29:27,959 --> 00:29:29,208 to take you in permanent. 459 00:29:29,291 --> 00:29:31,417 Allowed by who? 460 00:29:31,500 --> 00:29:33,709 Other folks. 461 00:29:33,792 --> 00:29:34,667 What other folks? 462 00:29:34,750 --> 00:29:35,750 Who'd care? 463 00:29:36,083 --> 00:29:38,375 There's folks that just wouldn't tolerate it. 464 00:29:38,458 --> 00:29:39,959 Well, why the heck not? 465 00:29:41,250 --> 00:29:43,417 'Cause we're different colors, you and us. 466 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,417 But that don't matter anymore. 467 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:46,375 We got integration. 468 00:29:46,458 --> 00:29:49,709 Not altogether, honey. 469 00:29:49,792 --> 00:29:51,625 Not altogether. 470 00:29:54,041 --> 00:29:56,458 But it wouldn't be anybody's business but us. 471 00:29:56,542 --> 00:29:58,834 There's those would make it their business 472 00:29:58,917 --> 00:30:00,417 and that's just the way of it. 473 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:02,333 Now you're welcome to come here 474 00:30:02,417 --> 00:30:04,291 and visit us anytime you please 475 00:30:04,375 --> 00:30:05,792 but that other part... 476 00:30:05,875 --> 00:30:08,291 Well, it ain't in the cards just yet. 477 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,250 Now y'all finish your food 478 00:30:14,333 --> 00:30:15,250 so we can get 479 00:30:15,333 --> 00:30:16,792 some of that sweet potato pie. 480 00:30:18,375 --> 00:30:21,083 "To everything there is a season 481 00:30:21,166 --> 00:30:24,417 "and a time to every purpose under the heaven. 482 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,750 "A time to be born and a time to die; 483 00:30:27,834 --> 00:30:29,041 "a time to plant 484 00:30:29,125 --> 00:30:32,834 "and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 485 00:30:32,917 --> 00:30:36,792 "a time to kill and a time to heal; 486 00:30:36,875 --> 00:30:40,834 "a time to break down and a time to build up; 487 00:30:40,917 --> 00:30:43,750 "a time to weep and a time to laugh; 488 00:30:43,834 --> 00:30:46,792 "a time to mourn... 489 00:30:46,875 --> 00:30:49,000 and a time to dance." 490 00:31:36,625 --> 00:31:38,917 This one's for you. 491 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,792 This one's for your lowlife brother. 492 00:31:41,875 --> 00:31:42,875 May he choke on it. 493 00:31:42,917 --> 00:31:44,875 Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. 494 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:33,333 Now, who told you you could do that? 495 00:32:33,417 --> 00:32:34,875 Who told you you could do it? 496 00:32:34,959 --> 00:32:36,333 Nobody told me. 497 00:32:36,417 --> 00:32:37,458 I had to. 498 00:32:37,542 --> 00:32:39,125 Oh, you had to. 499 00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:40,917 You had to steal my money. 500 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,458 I wasn't stealing. 501 00:32:42,542 --> 00:32:44,000 Stuff had to be paid. 502 00:32:44,083 --> 00:32:46,208 They shut down the electric last month. 503 00:32:46,291 --> 00:32:47,291 Don't you remember? 504 00:32:48,375 --> 00:32:49,625 Get in the closet. 505 00:32:49,709 --> 00:32:50,583 Get in there! 506 00:32:50,667 --> 00:32:51,667 Get in there! 507 00:32:51,709 --> 00:32:54,542 I pay the bills around here! 508 00:32:54,625 --> 00:32:56,625 Any bills to be paid, I pay them! 509 00:32:56,709 --> 00:32:58,250 You understand that?! 510 00:32:58,333 --> 00:33:00,917 I'm the man of this house! 511 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,166 I didn't hit you. 512 00:33:05,250 --> 00:33:07,208 You hear me? 513 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,583 I didn't hit you. Remember that. 514 00:33:10,667 --> 00:33:12,542 In the dark I gathered my head 515 00:33:12,625 --> 00:33:15,250 and all that spinning and flying out from me 516 00:33:15,333 --> 00:33:17,083 and wondered. 517 00:33:17,166 --> 00:33:20,834 Oh, you have to wonder what this world's come to. 518 00:33:48,041 --> 00:33:49,041 Hello. 519 00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:52,000 This is Ellen. 520 00:33:53,166 --> 00:33:54,458 I-I'm fine. 521 00:33:54,542 --> 00:33:56,041 How are you? 522 00:33:59,125 --> 00:34:02,625 I was wondering if I-I could come stay with you. 523 00:34:05,542 --> 00:34:06,709 Okay. 524 00:34:06,792 --> 00:34:09,000 What do you want to do this weekend? 525 00:34:09,083 --> 00:34:11,125 Well, do you still have that fancy bathtub 526 00:34:11,208 --> 00:34:12,458 with the thing in it? 527 00:34:12,542 --> 00:34:13,625 The Jacuzzi? 528 00:34:13,709 --> 00:34:14,917 I guess. 529 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,083 Must be neat to have a bath in that. 530 00:34:17,166 --> 00:34:19,291 You want to take a bath in my Jacuzzi? 531 00:34:19,375 --> 00:34:21,125 You got it. 532 00:34:21,208 --> 00:34:24,000 Just make yourself right at home. 533 00:34:24,083 --> 00:34:26,041 Then we'll go shopping. 534 00:34:26,125 --> 00:34:27,959 What happened to your face? 535 00:34:28,041 --> 00:34:29,333 I fell. 536 00:34:38,542 --> 00:34:40,125 Having fun? 537 00:34:40,208 --> 00:34:41,291 Uh-huh. 538 00:34:43,041 --> 00:34:45,125 We're going to have a lovely day tomorrow 539 00:34:45,208 --> 00:34:47,542 and then I'll take you back after supper. 540 00:34:49,250 --> 00:34:50,667 Take me back where? 541 00:34:50,750 --> 00:34:52,250 Home. 542 00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:53,208 Home? 543 00:34:53,291 --> 00:34:56,125 After supper tomorrow. 544 00:34:56,208 --> 00:34:58,625 I asked if I could come and stay with you 545 00:34:58,709 --> 00:34:59,750 and you said fine. 546 00:34:59,834 --> 00:35:02,125 And I got all the stuff I brought back 547 00:35:02,208 --> 00:35:03,667 in your bedroom closet. 548 00:35:03,750 --> 00:35:06,458 Oh, hon, I meant you could stay for the weekend 549 00:35:06,542 --> 00:35:08,750 and then go back home. 550 00:35:08,834 --> 00:35:10,291 Really? 551 00:35:10,375 --> 00:35:13,250 What did you think I meant? 552 00:35:13,333 --> 00:35:16,041 That I could come and stay with you. 553 00:35:16,125 --> 00:35:20,208 Well, sorry about that misunderstanding. 554 00:35:22,291 --> 00:35:23,500 Me, too. 555 00:35:29,750 --> 00:35:33,458 Little more clay slip, Jocelyn. 556 00:35:33,542 --> 00:35:36,208 These are looking great, you guys. 557 00:35:40,583 --> 00:35:42,750 Try a little more color right in there 558 00:35:42,834 --> 00:35:43,834 why don't you? 559 00:35:43,875 --> 00:35:45,667 Which color? 560 00:35:45,750 --> 00:35:47,083 Surprise me. 561 00:35:53,250 --> 00:35:54,250 Wow. 562 00:35:55,583 --> 00:35:58,125 What happened to your face, Ellen? 563 00:35:58,208 --> 00:35:59,375 I fell. 564 00:36:00,750 --> 00:36:02,667 Let me see. 565 00:36:02,750 --> 00:36:04,041 It's okay. 566 00:36:06,458 --> 00:36:08,208 We only want to help you, Ellen. 567 00:36:08,291 --> 00:36:10,166 You understand that, don't you? 568 00:36:10,250 --> 00:36:12,542 We know things have been a bit difficult for you 569 00:36:12,625 --> 00:36:14,125 since your mother passed on. 570 00:36:14,208 --> 00:36:16,125 We just want to do whatever we can 571 00:36:16,208 --> 00:36:18,125 to help you through this difficult time. 572 00:36:18,208 --> 00:36:19,583 You can tell us the truth, Ellen. 573 00:36:19,667 --> 00:36:21,291 You don't have to be frightened. 574 00:36:21,375 --> 00:36:23,291 You remember last winter 575 00:36:23,375 --> 00:36:26,166 when the lady from Social Services came by 576 00:36:26,250 --> 00:36:28,125 to talk to your dad? 577 00:36:28,208 --> 00:36:29,125 No. 578 00:36:29,208 --> 00:36:30,542 Well, she did. 579 00:36:30,625 --> 00:36:32,208 We understand you've been having 580 00:36:32,291 --> 00:36:33,625 some difficulties at home. 581 00:36:33,709 --> 00:36:36,166 Now, did you really fall down the stairs? 582 00:36:44,458 --> 00:36:47,166 My daddy did it. 583 00:36:47,250 --> 00:36:48,083 But I'm used to it. 584 00:36:48,166 --> 00:36:49,834 Don't everyone get in an uproar 585 00:36:49,917 --> 00:36:51,041 about it. 586 00:36:51,417 --> 00:36:53,875 Do you have somewhere you could spend the night, hon? 587 00:36:53,959 --> 00:36:57,208 Well, I live in a house just like everyone else. 588 00:36:57,291 --> 00:36:58,792 No, Ellen, not your house. 589 00:36:58,875 --> 00:37:00,835 Let's get someone to come pick you up after school 590 00:37:00,917 --> 00:37:03,500 and I'll take care of getting your things from your house. 591 00:37:03,583 --> 00:37:05,583 Who do you know to call? 592 00:37:05,667 --> 00:37:07,583 Do you have any aunts or uncles, say? 593 00:37:07,667 --> 00:37:10,625 I already wore out my welcome. 594 00:37:10,709 --> 00:37:13,417 Can I have a word, gentlemen? 595 00:37:33,291 --> 00:37:35,709 Okay, hon, it's settled. 596 00:37:37,792 --> 00:37:39,667 We've decided what to do with you. 597 00:37:55,875 --> 00:37:57,458 Home sweet home, kiddo. 598 00:37:59,208 --> 00:38:00,625 What about my daddy? 599 00:38:00,709 --> 00:38:02,291 We'll take care of that. 600 00:38:02,375 --> 00:38:04,166 Don't you worry, okay? 601 00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:07,166 He probably won't miss me for about a month, anyways. 602 00:38:08,709 --> 00:38:10,583 Miss Hammond, I presume. 603 00:38:10,667 --> 00:38:12,583 This is my husband, Ellen. 604 00:38:12,667 --> 00:38:15,208 Roy, say hello to Ellen Hammond. 605 00:38:15,291 --> 00:38:16,291 Hello, Ellen Hammond. 606 00:38:16,375 --> 00:38:17,625 Hi. 607 00:38:17,709 --> 00:38:20,625 Two's company, three's a joy. 608 00:38:20,709 --> 00:38:21,709 Come in. 609 00:38:21,792 --> 00:38:24,208 Come in, come in, come in, come in. 610 00:38:32,041 --> 00:38:33,834 This is the guest room. 611 00:38:36,709 --> 00:38:38,625 So here's what's happening. 612 00:38:38,709 --> 00:38:41,917 Social Services is going to talk to your dad tomorrow. 613 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,917 You know what Social Services is? 614 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,291 They take care of folks who need taking care of. 615 00:38:47,375 --> 00:38:49,917 Right. Then I'm going to go over to your house 616 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,291 with one of them 617 00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:53,250 and we're going to get your stuff 618 00:38:53,333 --> 00:38:54,333 and bring it over here. 619 00:38:54,750 --> 00:38:57,417 You can make a list of anything you especially want 620 00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:00,291 any of your stuff, and we'll get it. 621 00:39:00,375 --> 00:39:01,917 Well, I could go with you. 622 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:03,417 It'd be lots quicker. 623 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:04,959 No, uh-uh. 624 00:39:05,041 --> 00:39:07,291 It'll take some time to work things out 625 00:39:07,375 --> 00:39:09,625 but everything's going to be fine, okay? 626 00:39:09,709 --> 00:39:12,250 Just... go with the flow. 627 00:39:12,333 --> 00:39:14,291 Bathroom's downstairs. 628 00:39:14,375 --> 00:39:15,625 So when you're ready 629 00:39:15,709 --> 00:39:18,333 why don't you come down and help me fix dinner? 630 00:39:21,834 --> 00:39:24,291 What's he doing out there? 631 00:39:24,375 --> 00:39:26,375 Drying lettuce. 632 00:39:28,375 --> 00:39:30,291 You're not from around here, are you? 633 00:39:30,375 --> 00:39:32,291 We're from Connecticut. 634 00:39:32,375 --> 00:39:33,709 We always liked the South. 635 00:39:33,792 --> 00:39:35,250 So when we finished college 636 00:39:35,333 --> 00:39:37,291 we decided to settle down here 637 00:39:37,417 --> 00:39:39,000 and have a family. 638 00:39:39,083 --> 00:39:41,333 I used to be a flower child. 639 00:39:41,417 --> 00:39:43,458 You know what a flower child is? 640 00:39:43,542 --> 00:39:44,792 A kid with flowers. 641 00:39:44,875 --> 00:39:47,000 Not exactly. 642 00:39:47,083 --> 00:39:48,333 Close, though. 643 00:39:48,417 --> 00:39:50,333 But now I have to be low-key 644 00:39:50,417 --> 00:39:52,834 so I can hold a steady job. 645 00:39:52,917 --> 00:39:55,834 Oh, boy, when I was young, kiddo 646 00:39:55,917 --> 00:39:58,458 I wanted to save the world. 647 00:39:58,542 --> 00:40:00,000 What from? 648 00:40:00,083 --> 00:40:01,083 Well... 649 00:40:02,375 --> 00:40:04,291 From people like your father. 650 00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:06,250 You mean there's more like him? 651 00:40:06,333 --> 00:40:08,542 Lots more. Too many. 652 00:40:08,625 --> 00:40:09,959 My Aunt Nadine says 653 00:40:10,041 --> 00:40:11,959 my daddy was a mistake for a person. 654 00:40:12,041 --> 00:40:13,750 Right on, Aunt Nadine. 655 00:40:13,834 --> 00:40:16,625 So, you have a birthday coming up. 656 00:40:16,709 --> 00:40:18,333 Boy, I forgot. 657 00:40:18,417 --> 00:40:19,458 How'd you know? 658 00:40:19,542 --> 00:40:21,625 Your school records. I looked it up. 659 00:40:21,709 --> 00:40:24,500 What do you have in mind by way of a celebration? 660 00:40:24,583 --> 00:40:26,417 What would you do if you was me? 661 00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:27,542 Were me. 662 00:40:27,625 --> 00:40:29,375 Were me. 663 00:40:29,458 --> 00:40:31,417 How about a party? 664 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,917 The only girl good enough to invite is Starletta. 665 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,375 Starletta wouldn't be a party by herself. 666 00:40:36,458 --> 00:40:37,834 We'll find out. 667 00:40:37,917 --> 00:40:39,083 Hey, do you like gardening? 668 00:40:39,166 --> 00:40:40,792 We have a vegetable garden. 669 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:42,875 I used to help my mama. 670 00:40:42,959 --> 00:40:44,875 She liked to work in the garden 671 00:40:44,959 --> 00:40:46,834 in the morning when it was cool. 672 00:40:46,917 --> 00:40:48,583 She... 673 00:40:48,667 --> 00:40:50,625 She would pull up the weeds 674 00:40:50,709 --> 00:40:53,417 and put them in little piles along the rows 675 00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:58,417 and my job was to pick up the piles and dispose of them. 676 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:01,125 When the beans were grown, ready to pick 677 00:41:01,208 --> 00:41:03,125 she'd let me help pick them. 678 00:41:03,208 --> 00:41:06,125 She'd give me an example of a good bean 679 00:41:06,208 --> 00:41:10,000 to hold up in one hand while I picked with the other. 680 00:41:10,083 --> 00:41:12,542 If I wasn't sure about a particular bean 681 00:41:12,625 --> 00:41:14,959 if it was at the right stage for picking 682 00:41:15,041 --> 00:41:18,959 I could just hold up my example of a good bean and know. 683 00:41:19,041 --> 00:41:22,625 It took a long time to pick that way. 684 00:41:22,709 --> 00:41:26,125 My Mama always hummed in the garden. 685 00:41:26,208 --> 00:41:28,000 That was when I was little. 686 00:41:31,500 --> 00:41:33,959 What's a flower child? 687 00:41:38,834 --> 00:41:41,125 I didn't have a birthday last year. 688 00:41:41,208 --> 00:41:42,750 How come? 689 00:41:42,834 --> 00:41:44,125 My mama was too sick. 690 00:41:44,208 --> 00:41:47,166 Okay, have a look-see. 691 00:41:47,250 --> 00:41:48,667 What am I looking at? 692 00:41:48,750 --> 00:41:50,542 You're looking at euglena. 693 00:41:50,625 --> 00:41:52,417 It's my favorite. 694 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:55,458 I think it might make a nice name for a girl. 695 00:41:55,542 --> 00:41:56,792 Euglena. 696 00:41:56,875 --> 00:41:59,792 I might keep it in mind if I ever get a baby girl. 697 00:41:59,875 --> 00:42:03,500 I also have diatoms on a slide and one of a paramecium 698 00:42:03,583 --> 00:42:05,542 but euglena's my favorite. 699 00:42:06,583 --> 00:42:08,542 Come and get it, birthday girl. 700 00:42:46,250 --> 00:42:48,542 Thank you, guys. 701 00:42:48,625 --> 00:42:49,667 Starletta, hold on. 702 00:42:49,750 --> 00:42:51,542 Cake, balloons. 703 00:42:51,625 --> 00:42:52,625 Thank you. 704 00:42:53,750 --> 00:42:54,834 Bye. 705 00:42:54,917 --> 00:42:56,709 Bye, darling. 706 00:42:59,250 --> 00:43:02,000 I'm real pleased you looked up my birthday. 707 00:43:02,083 --> 00:43:03,166 Me, too. 708 00:43:26,083 --> 00:43:27,917 Watch out, you dummy! 709 00:43:35,792 --> 00:43:37,542 The Tennessee Waltz. 710 00:43:46,291 --> 00:43:47,291 Ellen! 711 00:43:47,333 --> 00:43:49,125 What in the world? 712 00:43:50,667 --> 00:43:51,667 Ellen! 713 00:43:53,667 --> 00:43:54,750 Ellen! 714 00:43:54,834 --> 00:43:57,041 Ellen Hammond! 715 00:43:57,125 --> 00:43:59,959 You better get out here right now! 716 00:44:01,166 --> 00:44:02,917 You better get on out here! 717 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:04,351 Ellen, you better get out here right now! 718 00:44:04,375 --> 00:44:05,583 You don't want me 719 00:44:05,667 --> 00:44:07,000 coming in there. 720 00:44:07,083 --> 00:44:08,875 Call the police. 721 00:44:08,959 --> 00:44:10,792 You all get back to your desks. 722 00:44:10,875 --> 00:44:12,917 Back to your desks right now. 723 00:44:14,208 --> 00:44:15,250 Ellen? 724 00:44:15,333 --> 00:44:17,959 Do you know this person? 725 00:44:18,041 --> 00:44:19,750 He's my daddy. 726 00:44:19,834 --> 00:44:22,625 You get your little britches out here right now 727 00:44:22,709 --> 00:44:25,542 before I count to three or you're going to rue the day! 728 00:44:25,625 --> 00:44:28,583 One... 729 00:44:28,667 --> 00:44:31,291 two... 730 00:44:31,375 --> 00:44:33,917 Daddy, go home! You're getting everyone in an uproar. 731 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,291 Go home. 732 00:44:35,375 --> 00:44:36,625 Three! 733 00:44:36,709 --> 00:44:38,542 Hey! Hey, I'm counting here! 734 00:44:38,625 --> 00:44:40,583 I said three. Get out here! 735 00:44:40,667 --> 00:44:42,750 Oh, you're asking for it now. 736 00:44:42,834 --> 00:44:44,750 You're asking for it! 737 00:44:49,750 --> 00:44:51,750 Hey, I just want my kid out of there. 738 00:44:51,834 --> 00:44:53,542 Ain't nobody going to stop me, all right? 739 00:44:53,625 --> 00:44:54,625 Mr. Hammond, please. 740 00:44:54,917 --> 00:44:56,717 I will get my little baby girl out, all right? 741 00:44:56,750 --> 00:44:58,125 Mr. Hammond, please. 742 00:44:58,208 --> 00:44:59,250 Please, nothing. 743 00:44:59,333 --> 00:45:00,792 That's my baby girl in there. 744 00:45:00,875 --> 00:45:02,792 You understand? I'm going to get her out. 745 00:45:02,875 --> 00:45:04,291 I can take care of her. 746 00:45:04,375 --> 00:45:06,083 Hey! I got money. 747 00:45:06,166 --> 00:45:07,166 I got money. 748 00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:08,333 I understand, sir... 749 00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:13,625 That's a public school. 750 00:45:13,709 --> 00:45:15,834 My girl is in a public school. 751 00:45:19,250 --> 00:45:21,250 You want some of me?! 752 00:45:21,333 --> 00:45:22,667 Want a piece of me?! 753 00:45:22,750 --> 00:45:24,166 Oh, my. 754 00:45:25,750 --> 00:45:28,333 Get your damned hands off of me! 755 00:45:28,417 --> 00:45:29,792 They stole my little girl! 756 00:45:29,875 --> 00:45:31,208 She's in for it now. 757 00:45:31,291 --> 00:45:32,709 You ain't got the right! 758 00:45:32,792 --> 00:45:36,000 They stole my little girl! 759 00:45:36,083 --> 00:45:38,667 I'm her father! 760 00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:41,834 Hey! They stole my little girl! 761 00:45:41,917 --> 00:45:43,667 That's my little girl! 762 00:45:50,250 --> 00:45:51,792 Here. 763 00:45:54,208 --> 00:45:56,959 You're sure there isn't going to be any problem? 764 00:45:57,041 --> 00:45:58,875 That would be very unlikely. 765 00:45:58,959 --> 00:46:01,750 I don't want there to be any problems. 766 00:46:01,834 --> 00:46:05,625 It would be very unlikely. 767 00:46:07,792 --> 00:46:09,250 Who believes it? 768 00:46:09,333 --> 00:46:10,834 The authorities... 769 00:46:10,917 --> 00:46:12,166 The legal authorities. 770 00:46:12,250 --> 00:46:13,709 They generally believe 771 00:46:13,792 --> 00:46:15,667 that children should be with their families 772 00:46:15,750 --> 00:46:17,166 when it's at all feasible. 773 00:46:17,250 --> 00:46:19,333 Well, if we were walking down the street 774 00:46:19,417 --> 00:46:21,291 everybody would think we was a family. 775 00:46:21,375 --> 00:46:23,417 We think so, too. 776 00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:26,208 This is such a bummer. 777 00:46:26,291 --> 00:46:28,417 They going to send me back to my daddy? 778 00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:30,834 No. Not your daddy. 779 00:46:30,917 --> 00:46:32,291 Well, who, then? 780 00:46:39,792 --> 00:46:41,417 Your Honor, I just want you to know... 781 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:42,792 I'm not really interested... 782 00:46:42,875 --> 00:46:44,917 He has no right to say anything... 783 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,250 Would you...? 784 00:46:54,792 --> 00:46:55,959 Would you please sit down? 785 00:46:56,041 --> 00:46:58,125 They just want to take her... 786 00:46:58,208 --> 00:47:00,125 Sir, sit down! 787 00:47:04,041 --> 00:47:06,166 They talked mainly above my head 788 00:47:06,250 --> 00:47:07,875 and usually, I can jump in 789 00:47:07,959 --> 00:47:10,083 and hang on to what people are saying 790 00:47:10,166 --> 00:47:13,917 but I felt so dazey in my head that not a word made sense. 791 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,417 Then the judge who was up in the box 792 00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:21,792 he talked right to me for the first time. 793 00:47:21,875 --> 00:47:24,750 Ellen, honey 794 00:47:24,834 --> 00:47:26,750 I have grandchildren of my own... 795 00:47:26,834 --> 00:47:29,250 Six of them, to be exact... 796 00:47:29,333 --> 00:47:31,709 And if any solitary one of them 797 00:47:31,792 --> 00:47:33,792 was ever in a, in a difficult situation 798 00:47:33,875 --> 00:47:35,834 and needed caring in a special way 799 00:47:35,917 --> 00:47:37,208 because of that situation 800 00:47:37,291 --> 00:47:40,333 I wouldn't hesitate for one minute 801 00:47:40,417 --> 00:47:43,125 to clasp him or her to my bosom 802 00:47:43,208 --> 00:47:45,291 and cherish and protect him or her. 803 00:47:45,375 --> 00:47:47,500 The family is 804 00:47:47,583 --> 00:47:49,917 the cornerstone of society 805 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:51,792 and when it begins to crumble 806 00:47:51,875 --> 00:47:53,750 we are bound to rush in with mortar 807 00:47:53,834 --> 00:47:56,750 and bricks and whatever else there is to hand 808 00:47:56,834 --> 00:47:58,333 to shore it up. 809 00:47:58,417 --> 00:48:00,458 I know that you're old enough 810 00:48:00,542 --> 00:48:02,834 and clever enough to understand 811 00:48:02,917 --> 00:48:04,041 and I'll say it again: 812 00:48:04,125 --> 00:48:09,291 The family is the cornerstone of society. 813 00:48:09,375 --> 00:48:12,083 Do I get a chance to say something? 814 00:48:12,166 --> 00:48:14,083 No, you don't. Now, hold it right there, please. 815 00:48:14,166 --> 00:48:15,792 But, Judge... Just hold, please. 816 00:48:15,875 --> 00:48:17,959 What could she possibly have to say, Judge? 817 00:48:18,041 --> 00:48:19,500 This matter has been concluded 818 00:48:19,583 --> 00:48:20,583 as far as I can see. 819 00:48:20,750 --> 00:48:22,470 Can't we please find out what's on her mind? 820 00:48:22,542 --> 00:48:24,792 After all she is the bone of contention here! 821 00:48:24,875 --> 00:48:27,417 And I think it's only fair that she gets to put 822 00:48:27,500 --> 00:48:30,041 her two cents in. 823 00:48:30,125 --> 00:48:32,125 Now you speak right up, honey. 824 00:48:42,458 --> 00:48:45,208 All that stuff you've been saying about the family 825 00:48:45,291 --> 00:48:47,125 and the cornerstone of society? 826 00:48:47,208 --> 00:48:48,542 I heard about that in school 827 00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:50,542 but if you don't mind me saying as families 828 00:48:50,625 --> 00:48:53,542 you've got us mixed up with a different bunch of folks. 829 00:48:53,625 --> 00:48:54,625 Judge... 830 00:48:54,667 --> 00:48:55,959 Shh! 831 00:48:56,041 --> 00:48:57,041 Ever since my mama died 832 00:48:57,333 --> 00:48:59,375 things have been like she used to say sometimes: 833 00:48:59,458 --> 00:49:00,917 "Up in the air." 834 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,917 When I asked her what was going to happen 835 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,291 about one thing or another, she'd often say 836 00:49:05,375 --> 00:49:07,875 "Well, that's up in the air just at this moment." 837 00:49:07,959 --> 00:49:11,250 Well, then, along came Mr. and Mrs. Hobbs 838 00:49:11,333 --> 00:49:13,375 and they just pulled me right down 839 00:49:13,458 --> 00:49:14,542 from all that floating. 840 00:49:14,625 --> 00:49:15,917 Judge, I protest! 841 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,208 Mrs. Nelson. 842 00:49:17,291 --> 00:49:19,250 Please! 843 00:49:19,333 --> 00:49:21,917 I can't figure out why my mama's mama wants me. 844 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,417 She don't even like me. 845 00:49:23,500 --> 00:49:25,375 I don't even remember her looking at me nice 846 00:49:25,458 --> 00:49:27,166 in my whole life though I don't know why. 847 00:49:27,250 --> 00:49:29,083 Have we had enough of this? 848 00:49:29,166 --> 00:49:30,250 Have we? 849 00:49:30,333 --> 00:49:32,458 Mrs. Nelson, justice for all in my court. 850 00:49:32,542 --> 00:49:33,959 Please. Justice for all! 851 00:49:34,041 --> 00:49:35,417 Plus, it beats me 852 00:49:35,500 --> 00:49:38,542 why a person can't live with whoever they like best 853 00:49:38,625 --> 00:49:40,458 and who likes them best 854 00:49:40,542 --> 00:49:43,959 so I'm just hoping you'll let me. 855 00:49:45,709 --> 00:49:47,834 I guess that's all my two cents. 856 00:49:59,959 --> 00:50:02,125 Kid's got a mouth on her, ain't she? 857 00:50:10,291 --> 00:50:12,417 Honey... Ellen. 858 00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:14,917 I surely do appreciate your giving us 859 00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,875 your side of the story, and you may be even right 860 00:50:17,959 --> 00:50:20,041 about a couple of things here and there 861 00:50:20,125 --> 00:50:24,959 but the fact of the matter is that when it comes to family 862 00:50:25,041 --> 00:50:27,375 blood is blood 863 00:50:27,458 --> 00:50:29,625 and the law 864 00:50:29,709 --> 00:50:31,542 is the law. 865 00:50:31,625 --> 00:50:36,291 When you grow up, you'll understand 866 00:50:36,375 --> 00:50:40,166 and I surely hope you'll thank me for it. 867 00:50:42,083 --> 00:50:43,083 My ruling stands. 868 00:50:43,125 --> 00:50:45,000 This hearing is concluded. 869 00:50:47,041 --> 00:50:48,208 That's okay. 870 00:50:54,041 --> 00:50:56,333 I'd rather go to reform school 871 00:50:56,417 --> 00:50:58,959 or get on a chain gang than go stay with her. 872 00:50:59,041 --> 00:51:00,375 So would we. 873 00:51:00,458 --> 00:51:01,959 She makes a knot in me 874 00:51:02,041 --> 00:51:03,417 just thinking about her face. 875 00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:04,500 We'll have visits. 876 00:51:04,917 --> 00:51:06,959 I wouldn't count on letting her visit if I was you. 877 00:51:07,041 --> 00:51:08,041 Were you. 878 00:51:08,083 --> 00:51:10,375 Were you. 879 00:52:24,417 --> 00:52:27,500 When does school start again? 880 00:52:27,583 --> 00:52:28,667 Well, it just ended 881 00:52:29,083 --> 00:52:32,625 and I sure am looking forward to the summer at your house. 882 00:52:32,709 --> 00:52:35,250 I asked you when school starts. 883 00:52:35,333 --> 00:52:38,125 I do not need the commentary. 884 00:52:41,166 --> 00:52:43,375 If I'd have known then all I know about her now 885 00:52:43,458 --> 00:52:46,125 I would have jumped out of that big car moving 886 00:52:46,208 --> 00:52:49,125 and hightailed it. 887 00:53:07,125 --> 00:53:08,542 It's big. 888 00:53:08,625 --> 00:53:10,125 Good thing, too. 889 00:53:10,208 --> 00:53:14,125 You won't be under my feet every minute of the day. 890 00:53:14,208 --> 00:53:16,291 Show her where she's staying. 891 00:53:16,375 --> 00:53:19,125 Maybe some of her mama will rub off on her 892 00:53:19,208 --> 00:53:21,125 staying in that room. 893 00:53:21,208 --> 00:53:24,083 Yes, ma'am. 894 00:53:24,166 --> 00:53:25,667 How you doing, Miss Ellen? 895 00:53:25,750 --> 00:53:26,792 Remember me? 896 00:53:26,875 --> 00:53:29,083 We done met before. I'm Mavis. 897 00:53:29,166 --> 00:53:30,583 Taking my mama's clothes. 898 00:53:30,667 --> 00:53:32,250 That's me. 899 00:53:32,333 --> 00:53:34,125 Come on along, then. 900 00:53:34,208 --> 00:53:38,125 This place is heaps fancier than the one you was living in. 901 00:53:38,208 --> 00:53:39,458 Does anyone else live here? 902 00:53:39,542 --> 00:53:41,792 Just your grandma... till you, now. 903 00:53:41,875 --> 00:53:43,125 I ain't much to fill it up. 904 00:53:43,583 --> 00:53:46,625 Need a lot more like you to fill up this place. 905 00:53:46,709 --> 00:53:47,709 Don't you live here? 906 00:53:47,750 --> 00:53:49,166 Lord, no, child. 907 00:53:49,250 --> 00:53:51,875 Me and Alvin got our place out back. 908 00:53:53,834 --> 00:53:55,166 Who's Alvin? 909 00:53:55,250 --> 00:53:56,417 Alvin's my husband. 910 00:53:56,500 --> 00:53:58,208 Drives your grandma's car. 911 00:53:58,291 --> 00:54:00,667 Here you go. 912 00:54:00,750 --> 00:54:01,834 Oh! 913 00:54:01,917 --> 00:54:04,333 Used to be your mama's room. 914 00:54:04,417 --> 00:54:05,750 You knew my mama? 915 00:54:05,834 --> 00:54:08,834 Since she was about like you are now. 916 00:54:08,917 --> 00:54:10,583 And this was her bedroom? 917 00:54:10,667 --> 00:54:11,834 Sure was. 918 00:54:11,917 --> 00:54:13,625 Not a lot of changes, neither. 919 00:54:13,709 --> 00:54:15,375 Not since the night she run off. 920 00:54:15,458 --> 00:54:17,500 Run off where? 921 00:54:17,583 --> 00:54:19,375 To be with your daddy... 922 00:54:19,458 --> 00:54:21,250 'fore he was your daddy 923 00:54:21,333 --> 00:54:23,166 of course. 924 00:54:27,959 --> 00:54:32,709 Yeah, I know Miss Charlotte good as I know myself. 925 00:54:32,792 --> 00:54:35,917 I never knowed nobody sweet like your mama. 926 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,875 Smart as a whip, too. 927 00:54:37,959 --> 00:54:39,250 She was? 928 00:54:39,333 --> 00:54:40,333 Lord, yes. 929 00:54:40,417 --> 00:54:41,834 Maybe you're smart like her 930 00:54:41,917 --> 00:54:44,166 since you were her little girl. 931 00:54:44,250 --> 00:54:45,458 I don't know. 932 00:54:45,542 --> 00:54:47,291 Yep, your mama 933 00:54:47,375 --> 00:54:49,917 was her mama's favorite of the bunch 934 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,875 and you know, the others didn't care for that... 935 00:54:52,959 --> 00:54:54,792 Not Miss Nadine, Miss Betsy 936 00:54:54,875 --> 00:54:57,250 Not even Mr. Robert. 937 00:54:57,333 --> 00:54:58,375 Who's he? 938 00:54:58,458 --> 00:54:59,792 Mr. Robert? 939 00:54:59,875 --> 00:55:02,250 That was your grandma's boy. 940 00:55:02,333 --> 00:55:04,417 He passed a long time ago. 941 00:55:04,500 --> 00:55:07,250 Throwed off a horse at the age of 16. 942 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,417 Between me and you and the fence post 943 00:55:12,500 --> 00:55:15,375 I'd say your grandma went peculiar 944 00:55:15,458 --> 00:55:17,417 the night Miss Charlotte run off 945 00:55:17,500 --> 00:55:20,875 and since she passed... Rest her soul... 946 00:55:20,959 --> 00:55:23,875 Well, I'd call her downright touched 947 00:55:23,959 --> 00:55:25,542 your grandma. 948 00:55:25,625 --> 00:55:27,875 Don't you go telling her I said that. 949 00:55:27,959 --> 00:55:30,792 Lord, child. 950 00:55:30,875 --> 00:55:34,417 You look just like your mama. 951 00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:38,291 Got them beautiful eyes. 952 00:55:39,500 --> 00:55:41,917 Why don't you go wash up a bit 953 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,875 then come on down to the kitchen 954 00:55:43,959 --> 00:55:48,333 and I'll introduce you to Rosaleen. 955 00:55:48,417 --> 00:55:51,250 Rosaleen does the cooking 956 00:55:51,333 --> 00:55:53,625 I do the taking care. 957 00:56:36,875 --> 00:56:38,417 Reverend, how is your missus? 958 00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:40,375 Much better. Thanks for asking. 959 00:56:40,458 --> 00:56:41,083 I'm so glad. 960 00:56:41,375 --> 00:56:42,583 Good morning, Miss Ellen. 961 00:56:42,667 --> 00:56:43,667 Good morning. 962 00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,625 You go sit down and give this baby to me. 963 00:56:53,709 --> 00:56:55,000 Aw... 964 00:56:57,542 --> 00:56:58,792 Here we go. 965 00:56:58,875 --> 00:57:00,333 We're going to sit down. 966 00:57:00,417 --> 00:57:01,959 Yes. We're going to sit down. 967 00:57:02,041 --> 00:57:05,375 Things are going to be okay. 968 00:57:12,875 --> 00:57:14,417 Stop that. 969 00:57:16,667 --> 00:57:21,375 Aw, yeah, girl. You'll be fine. 970 00:57:21,458 --> 00:57:22,333 Yes, you are. 971 00:57:22,417 --> 00:57:24,083 You're going to be fine. 972 00:57:24,166 --> 00:57:26,875 Absolutely, my little honey bun. 973 00:57:26,959 --> 00:57:31,083 You'll be having your dinner in here on Sundays. 974 00:57:31,166 --> 00:57:35,417 The other days, you'll eat in the kitchen with the help. 975 00:57:35,500 --> 00:57:36,750 You hear me? 976 00:57:36,834 --> 00:57:37,917 Uh-huh. 977 00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:39,709 "Uh-huh"? 978 00:57:39,792 --> 00:57:42,125 That's trash talk. 979 00:57:42,208 --> 00:57:43,458 Say, "yes, ma'am." 980 00:57:43,542 --> 00:57:45,458 Yes, ma'am. 981 00:57:45,542 --> 00:57:47,500 And in case you have it in your mind 982 00:57:47,583 --> 00:57:49,834 that you'll be lazing around here 983 00:57:49,917 --> 00:57:52,875 like the Queen of Sheba, get it right out. 984 00:57:52,959 --> 00:57:57,125 Idle hands do the devil's mischief. 985 00:57:57,208 --> 00:57:59,375 Don't you break that. 986 00:58:01,166 --> 00:58:03,667 Why aren't you eating? 987 00:58:03,750 --> 00:58:06,667 I'm not awful hungry just at present. 988 00:58:06,750 --> 00:58:09,041 Oh. 989 00:58:09,125 --> 00:58:11,834 I hate picky eaters. 990 00:58:11,917 --> 00:58:14,625 We'll need to work you up an appetite. 991 00:58:14,709 --> 00:58:16,875 Am I going to be working? 992 00:58:16,959 --> 00:58:18,458 Oh, you bet. 993 00:58:19,834 --> 00:58:21,375 Am I going to get paid? 994 00:58:21,458 --> 00:58:22,667 "Paid"?! 995 00:58:22,750 --> 00:58:25,625 You're getting your room and board. 996 00:58:25,709 --> 00:58:27,750 Huh! 997 00:58:27,834 --> 00:58:29,834 You're a greedy one, aren't you? 998 00:58:31,667 --> 00:58:33,959 What will I be working at? 999 00:58:37,125 --> 00:58:39,458 She didn't pay me a cent 1000 00:58:39,542 --> 00:58:41,583 but I kept figuring up 1001 00:58:41,667 --> 00:58:43,834 how much I was worth by the hour. 1002 00:59:05,291 --> 00:59:07,583 You being real careful, child. 1003 00:59:07,667 --> 00:59:10,625 She hasn't broken a thing yet in these couple of weeks. 1004 00:59:10,709 --> 00:59:12,750 Don't bear thinking about it if she did. 1005 00:59:12,834 --> 00:59:14,166 Can I make a telephone call? 1006 00:59:14,250 --> 00:59:16,166 You're not to be calling far. 1007 00:59:16,250 --> 00:59:17,583 I don't know anybody far. 1008 00:59:17,667 --> 00:59:19,125 Who you calling, sweetheart? 1009 00:59:19,208 --> 00:59:20,792 Just a friend of mine. 1010 00:59:20,875 --> 00:59:22,208 I'd say you better be doing it 1011 00:59:22,291 --> 00:59:24,208 while your grandmama's not home. 1012 00:59:24,291 --> 00:59:25,500 I'd say that's the way. 1013 00:59:33,875 --> 00:59:35,083 Hello? 1014 00:59:35,166 --> 00:59:37,000 It's me... Ellen. 1015 00:59:37,083 --> 00:59:39,166 Oh, it's so good to hear your voice. 1016 00:59:39,250 --> 00:59:40,917 How you doing, sweetie? 1017 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:44,166 I was wondering if you want to visit my mama. 1018 00:59:44,250 --> 00:59:46,000 What do you mean, hon? 1019 00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:48,500 Well, it would have to be Thursday 1020 00:59:48,583 --> 00:59:49,583 this one coming. 1021 00:59:49,834 --> 00:59:52,250 It'll be the first year since she's passed. 1022 00:59:52,333 --> 00:59:54,709 Thursday is when her mama gets her hair fixed 1023 00:59:54,792 --> 00:59:55,792 so she won't know. 1024 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:58,000 I don't think your grandmother would mind 1025 00:59:58,083 --> 01:00:00,041 you going to visit your mother, hon. 1026 01:00:00,125 --> 01:00:01,750 Don't count on it. 1027 01:00:01,834 --> 01:00:03,792 There ain't much she doesn't mind. 1028 01:00:03,875 --> 01:00:05,166 Isn't much. 1029 01:00:06,875 --> 01:00:09,041 Isn't much. 1030 01:00:09,125 --> 01:00:11,250 Can we get some flowers to put down? 1031 01:00:14,959 --> 01:00:16,750 There it is, over there. 1032 01:00:31,667 --> 01:00:34,250 I would have loved to have known your mom. 1033 01:00:34,333 --> 01:00:38,208 She would have been real fond of you. 1034 01:00:38,291 --> 01:00:40,083 I'm going to take a little walk. 1035 01:00:40,166 --> 01:00:42,542 Why don't you hang out here for a while? 1036 01:00:48,792 --> 01:00:50,083 I think the two of you 1037 01:00:50,166 --> 01:00:52,625 would have gotten along real good. 1038 01:00:52,709 --> 01:00:54,083 Maybe you're looking down on me 1039 01:00:54,166 --> 01:00:57,709 and feeling fairly okay about me being her friend 1040 01:00:57,792 --> 01:01:01,208 but she ain't anything like you. 1041 01:01:01,291 --> 01:01:04,208 She could never be my mama like you. 1042 01:01:04,291 --> 01:01:08,125 But Julia, she'd be my... first second choice 1043 01:01:08,208 --> 01:01:10,625 if you know what I mean. 1044 01:01:10,709 --> 01:01:13,792 But don't you worry about me being with your mama. 1045 01:01:13,875 --> 01:01:16,583 I'm going to manage it one way or another. 1046 01:01:16,667 --> 01:01:19,000 And like you used to say, "Nothing's forever" 1047 01:01:19,083 --> 01:01:22,667 Though it does seem like it sometimes. 1048 01:01:24,375 --> 01:01:28,000 I'm doing okay in school. 1049 01:01:28,083 --> 01:01:31,041 Don't worry, okay? 1050 01:01:40,667 --> 01:01:43,333 He's been put away for a long time 1051 01:01:43,417 --> 01:01:44,917 your trash of a father. 1052 01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,875 Beat a man to death 1053 01:01:47,959 --> 01:01:49,667 fighting in a tavern. 1054 01:01:49,750 --> 01:01:51,667 They threw the book at him. 1055 01:01:56,125 --> 01:01:59,000 As long as they threw away the key 1056 01:01:59,083 --> 01:02:01,041 after they threw the book. 1057 01:02:03,083 --> 01:02:04,667 Pass. 1058 01:02:04,750 --> 01:02:06,834 One, no trump. 1059 01:02:06,917 --> 01:02:07,917 Pass. 1060 01:02:26,166 --> 01:02:28,667 That's 700 points for our side. 1061 01:02:28,750 --> 01:02:30,750 You want to play another? 1062 01:02:30,834 --> 01:02:32,166 Excuse me, ma'am. 1063 01:02:32,250 --> 01:02:34,375 There's somebody here to see you. 1064 01:02:34,458 --> 01:02:35,333 Who? 1065 01:02:35,417 --> 01:02:37,041 Mr. Rudolph, ma'am. 1066 01:02:38,208 --> 01:02:40,375 Excuse me, ladies. 1067 01:02:40,458 --> 01:02:41,792 Hannah? 1068 01:02:41,875 --> 01:02:42,959 Oh... 1069 01:02:43,041 --> 01:02:45,667 Oh, thank you. 1070 01:02:45,750 --> 01:02:47,166 Mm-hmm. 1071 01:02:47,250 --> 01:02:50,166 What the devil do you want? 1072 01:02:50,250 --> 01:02:51,750 Our business is concluded. 1073 01:02:51,834 --> 01:02:53,333 Yes, ma'am. I understand. 1074 01:02:53,417 --> 01:02:55,291 I just come by to drop something off. 1075 01:02:55,375 --> 01:02:56,291 What? 1076 01:02:56,375 --> 01:02:57,667 Uh, something for Ellen. 1077 01:02:57,750 --> 01:02:58,667 What?! 1078 01:02:58,750 --> 01:03:00,667 Her... Bill's medal. 1079 01:03:00,750 --> 01:03:02,667 What are you talking about? 1080 01:03:02,750 --> 01:03:04,083 The medal he got in 'Nam... 1081 01:03:04,166 --> 01:03:05,709 Vietnam. 1082 01:03:05,792 --> 01:03:07,250 Bill was a veteran, you know. 1083 01:03:07,333 --> 01:03:09,417 And should have come back in a box. 1084 01:03:09,500 --> 01:03:12,166 Not walking to torment my daughter some more 1085 01:03:12,250 --> 01:03:13,417 till the day she died. 1086 01:03:13,500 --> 01:03:15,250 Well, with the house up for sale 1087 01:03:15,333 --> 01:03:17,250 I've been over there cleaning up some 1088 01:03:17,333 --> 01:03:19,792 and that's how I come across it... the medal. 1089 01:03:19,875 --> 01:03:20,917 I thought it'd be nice 1090 01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,208 for Ellen to have it... 1091 01:03:22,291 --> 01:03:23,291 Her daddy's Purple Heart. 1092 01:03:23,375 --> 01:03:24,750 Get out of my house. 1093 01:03:24,834 --> 01:03:25,750 Get out! 1094 01:03:25,834 --> 01:03:26,959 Y-Yes, ma'am. 1095 01:03:27,041 --> 01:03:28,834 I'll just leave that right there. 1096 01:03:28,917 --> 01:03:31,125 That's for you, Ellen. 1097 01:04:24,542 --> 01:04:26,834 Well, we need to make up. 1098 01:04:26,917 --> 01:04:28,208 Have another one here. 1099 01:04:28,291 --> 01:04:29,458 Thank you, honey. 1100 01:04:29,542 --> 01:04:31,959 I hope nobody's peeked a look at my cards. 1101 01:04:36,834 --> 01:04:39,834 What in the dickens is that woman doing? 1102 01:04:39,917 --> 01:04:41,792 She didn't have to do that. 1103 01:04:59,834 --> 01:05:04,917 O perfect love 1104 01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:09,458 All human thought transcending 1105 01:05:09,542 --> 01:05:14,291 Lowly, we kneel 1106 01:05:14,375 --> 01:05:19,291 In prayer before thy throne 1107 01:05:19,375 --> 01:05:24,417 That theirs may be 1108 01:05:24,500 --> 01:05:29,959 The love which knows no ending 1109 01:05:30,041 --> 01:05:36,834 Whom thou for-er-more doth join 1110 01:05:36,917 --> 01:05:43,000 In one. 1111 01:05:43,083 --> 01:05:44,834 Please be seated. 1112 01:05:44,917 --> 01:05:47,125 Please listen as I read 1113 01:05:47,208 --> 01:05:49,458 Chapter four, Verse five... 1114 01:05:49,542 --> 01:05:50,917 Who's that lady? 1115 01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:52,875 What lady? 1116 01:05:52,959 --> 01:05:54,917 That one there with all the kids. 1117 01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:57,834 What do you care? 1118 01:05:57,917 --> 01:05:59,875 I was just wondering. 1119 01:05:59,959 --> 01:06:03,917 She looked like a real special mama. 1120 01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:07,625 I bet she was the perfect one for all those kids. 1121 01:06:07,709 --> 01:06:11,625 She was like someone having a nice dream 1122 01:06:11,709 --> 01:06:14,834 and they turn out to be real. 1123 01:06:54,041 --> 01:06:55,625 Ma'am? 1124 01:07:01,083 --> 01:07:04,917 Ma'am? 1125 01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:06,000 Mavis! 1126 01:07:06,083 --> 01:07:07,125 Mavis! 1127 01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,291 Don't know what happened, ma'am, but we got her into bed though. 1128 01:07:12,375 --> 01:07:14,041 Mavis is seeing to her right now. 1129 01:07:14,125 --> 01:07:16,041 Well, did you call a doctor? 1130 01:07:16,125 --> 01:07:17,393 Sure did... same doctor was here 1131 01:07:17,417 --> 01:07:18,959 when she had the flu last winter. 1132 01:07:19,041 --> 01:07:20,081 Says he's on his way over. 1133 01:07:37,250 --> 01:07:38,917 She still alive? 1134 01:07:42,083 --> 01:07:43,667 What's happened? 1135 01:07:43,750 --> 01:07:45,959 Your mama has suffered a stroke. 1136 01:07:46,041 --> 01:07:47,500 Shouldn't she be in the hospital? 1137 01:07:47,583 --> 01:07:48,500 Certainly. 1138 01:07:48,583 --> 01:07:49,643 Have you made arrangements? 1139 01:07:49,667 --> 01:07:50,667 She wouldn't let me. 1140 01:07:50,834 --> 01:07:52,354 Wouldn't let you put her in a hospital? 1141 01:07:52,417 --> 01:07:54,458 Adamant refusal was her response 1142 01:07:54,542 --> 01:07:56,333 to my repeated suggestion. 1143 01:07:56,417 --> 01:07:58,458 Says hospitals are where you die. 1144 01:07:58,542 --> 01:07:59,625 How bad off is she? 1145 01:07:59,709 --> 01:08:01,291 It was a relatively 1146 01:08:01,375 --> 01:08:02,375 mild incident. 1147 01:08:02,417 --> 01:08:03,458 Can we see her? 1148 01:08:03,542 --> 01:08:05,000 I've given her a sedative. 1149 01:08:05,083 --> 01:08:07,500 I'll leave a couple of prescriptions. 1150 01:08:07,583 --> 01:08:09,291 Fill them as soon as possible. 1151 01:08:09,375 --> 01:08:10,417 Give them to me. 1152 01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:12,709 I'll go get them at the drugstore. 1153 01:08:12,792 --> 01:08:14,208 I'll be back in the morning. 1154 01:08:14,291 --> 01:08:16,083 Prevail on her to be hospitalized 1155 01:08:16,166 --> 01:08:17,417 if you can. 1156 01:08:28,125 --> 01:08:30,417 What a bummer. 1157 01:08:34,834 --> 01:08:37,959 Well, isn't this a mess? 1158 01:08:38,041 --> 01:08:40,041 It could have been worse, I guess. 1159 01:08:40,125 --> 01:08:41,125 I-It didn't kill her. 1160 01:08:41,208 --> 01:08:42,750 I've heard of people with strokes... 1161 01:08:42,834 --> 01:08:44,166 They'd rather be dead. 1162 01:08:44,250 --> 01:08:45,500 Not to mention the people 1163 01:08:45,583 --> 01:08:47,041 who have to take care of them. 1164 01:08:47,125 --> 01:08:48,208 The timing's rotten. 1165 01:08:48,291 --> 01:08:50,051 My trip... New Orleans... I'm leaving Monday. 1166 01:08:50,125 --> 01:08:51,393 Do you think you might want to think 1167 01:08:51,417 --> 01:08:52,434 about canceling that, Betsy? 1168 01:08:52,458 --> 01:08:53,667 Let's see how it goes. 1169 01:08:53,750 --> 01:08:54,750 He said it was mild. 1170 01:08:55,125 --> 01:08:57,625 Probably one of us should move in here for a while. 1171 01:08:57,709 --> 01:08:59,083 Who did you have in mind? 1172 01:08:59,166 --> 01:09:00,083 What about you? 1173 01:09:00,166 --> 01:09:01,083 Uh-uh. 1174 01:09:01,166 --> 01:09:01,875 Well, I'm not doing it. 1175 01:09:02,166 --> 01:09:04,041 A nurse, then... Around the clock. 1176 01:09:04,125 --> 01:09:06,125 Fine. There's no refund on the airfare. 1177 01:09:06,208 --> 01:09:07,417 I wonder if she made a will. 1178 01:09:07,500 --> 01:09:08,500 She'd better have. 1179 01:09:08,583 --> 01:09:10,125 Maybe you should call the lawyer. 1180 01:09:10,208 --> 01:09:11,750 You helped him, didn't you? 1181 01:09:11,834 --> 01:09:14,792 Helped who? What? 1182 01:09:14,875 --> 01:09:18,375 Your daddy, that lowlife. 1183 01:09:18,458 --> 01:09:20,458 Helped him how? 1184 01:09:20,542 --> 01:09:24,083 To kill my Charlotte. 1185 01:09:26,166 --> 01:09:28,375 I never did. 1186 01:09:28,458 --> 01:09:31,125 There. You best take better care of me 1187 01:09:31,208 --> 01:09:33,041 than you did your mama. 1188 01:10:00,166 --> 01:10:03,041 Can I ask you a question? 1189 01:10:03,125 --> 01:10:05,083 Like what? 1190 01:10:05,166 --> 01:10:09,375 Well, I know you hated my daddy. 1191 01:10:09,458 --> 01:10:11,417 But what about me? 1192 01:10:11,500 --> 01:10:14,542 Can't you see I'm not like him? 1193 01:10:16,959 --> 01:10:22,458 All I know is, when I look at your face, I see that trash 1194 01:10:22,542 --> 01:10:26,667 and everything he did to my Charlotte. 1195 01:10:26,750 --> 01:10:29,834 But I didn't do anything. 1196 01:10:29,917 --> 01:10:36,792 You set up there in that house like the world owed you a living 1197 01:10:36,875 --> 01:10:41,125 and you left her to die. 1198 01:10:41,208 --> 01:10:45,667 Then someone comes to my house 1199 01:10:45,750 --> 01:10:48,500 and tells me that they found you 1200 01:10:48,583 --> 01:10:51,834 all laid up next to her like a little idiot. 1201 01:10:51,917 --> 01:10:57,375 That lowlife never got what was coming to him 1202 01:10:57,458 --> 01:11:00,291 but I swear... 1203 01:11:00,375 --> 01:11:04,792 you will never stop paying for your part. 1204 01:11:04,875 --> 01:11:08,542 Heigh-ho. 1205 01:11:08,625 --> 01:11:12,208 I've got you now. 1206 01:11:12,291 --> 01:11:14,583 Sometimes I was scared that she was right 1207 01:11:14,667 --> 01:11:17,208 about me not taking better care of my mama. 1208 01:11:17,291 --> 01:11:20,834 So I tried the best I could to take of her 1209 01:11:20,917 --> 01:11:24,333 figuring maybe Jesus would give me a break 1210 01:11:24,417 --> 01:11:27,166 when it came my time to pass. 1211 01:12:34,333 --> 01:12:36,250 Aunt Nadine? 1212 01:12:36,333 --> 01:12:38,250 This is Ellen. 1213 01:12:38,333 --> 01:12:40,000 She's passed. 1214 01:13:09,125 --> 01:13:10,834 Well, at least you didn't die 1215 01:13:10,917 --> 01:13:12,834 and lay up in the house all alone 1216 01:13:12,917 --> 01:13:14,875 no one to hear you stop breathing. 1217 01:13:14,959 --> 01:13:17,417 I think everyone should have someone there 1218 01:13:17,500 --> 01:13:19,583 to know when they stop being alive. 1219 01:13:19,667 --> 01:13:22,917 So here I am. 1220 01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:28,000 You'll look nice when they come, pretty as a picture. 1221 01:13:30,333 --> 01:13:33,333 I don't want a soul to say that I didn't do my part... 1222 01:13:33,417 --> 01:13:35,750 to the fullest. 1223 01:14:03,500 --> 01:14:06,375 Later on I reminded Jesus 1224 01:14:06,458 --> 01:14:09,000 that I did lots better for my grandma 1225 01:14:09,083 --> 01:14:10,542 than I did for my mama. 1226 01:14:10,625 --> 01:14:13,417 I hoped he'd give that some thought 1227 01:14:13,500 --> 01:14:17,333 and help me find somebody good who could love me. 1228 01:14:26,166 --> 01:14:27,458 If you do 1229 01:14:27,542 --> 01:14:28,542 I'll run away! 1230 01:14:28,583 --> 01:14:30,041 Now calm down, honeypie. 1231 01:14:30,125 --> 01:14:31,125 Calm yourself down. 1232 01:14:31,208 --> 01:14:33,125 How could you do that to me? 1233 01:14:33,208 --> 01:14:35,083 Well, because somebody has to. 1234 01:14:35,166 --> 01:14:36,083 I hate her! 1235 01:14:36,166 --> 01:14:37,375 Oh, now listen... 1236 01:14:37,458 --> 01:14:40,000 I'm not too crazy about her myself. 1237 01:14:40,083 --> 01:14:42,917 Oh, but if there was any other solution 1238 01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:45,417 I'd jump at it, believe you me. 1239 01:14:45,500 --> 01:14:48,083 But the judge says we have to take her... 1240 01:14:48,166 --> 01:14:50,500 And we're stuck with it, baby. 1241 01:15:09,709 --> 01:15:11,875 I think that room's going to do you fine... 1242 01:15:11,959 --> 01:15:13,083 Don't you, Ellen? 1243 01:15:13,166 --> 01:15:14,041 Uh-huh. 1244 01:15:14,125 --> 01:15:15,583 Though I'm getting real weary 1245 01:15:15,667 --> 01:15:18,125 of packing and unpacking my stuff in so many places. 1246 01:15:18,208 --> 01:15:21,083 Is that bag everything you have? 1247 01:15:21,166 --> 01:15:23,166 All my worldly possessions. 1248 01:15:23,250 --> 01:15:25,792 Just stay out of my room, is all. 1249 01:15:25,875 --> 01:15:27,500 Well, why shouldn't I? 1250 01:15:27,583 --> 01:15:30,458 We have to pick you up a few more things... some clothes. 1251 01:15:30,542 --> 01:15:31,583 Would you like that? 1252 01:15:31,667 --> 01:15:33,083 I'm growing out of stuff. 1253 01:15:33,166 --> 01:15:35,709 Maybe some of Dora's dresses might fit you 1254 01:15:35,792 --> 01:15:37,166 that she doesn't wear anymore. 1255 01:15:37,250 --> 01:15:39,041 She's not wearing my clothes. 1256 01:15:39,125 --> 01:15:40,792 Well, there's some things that 1257 01:15:40,875 --> 01:15:42,417 you don't wear anymore, pumpkin. 1258 01:15:42,500 --> 01:15:44,417 I don't care if I wear them or not. 1259 01:15:44,500 --> 01:15:46,458 She's not wearing any of my clothes. 1260 01:15:46,542 --> 01:15:49,458 Well, who wants to wear your old clothes anyways? 1261 01:15:49,542 --> 01:15:50,208 Girls, girls. 1262 01:15:50,500 --> 01:15:51,834 We'll go shopping next week. 1263 01:15:51,917 --> 01:15:54,000 You'll need new things for school anyway 1264 01:15:54,083 --> 01:15:55,542 which, need I remind you 1265 01:15:55,625 --> 01:15:57,125 starts again the week after next. 1266 01:15:57,208 --> 01:15:59,208 Who wants to be reminded of that? 1267 01:15:59,291 --> 01:16:01,750 Well, I kind of favor school. 1268 01:16:01,834 --> 01:16:03,166 You would. 1269 01:16:03,250 --> 01:16:04,959 Smarty-pants. 1270 01:16:05,041 --> 01:16:08,834 Well, you could turn me loose in the store with some money 1271 01:16:08,917 --> 01:16:11,750 and I could get exactly what I have to have. 1272 01:16:11,834 --> 01:16:12,917 We'll see. 1273 01:16:13,000 --> 01:16:14,875 Come and get it. 1274 01:16:20,250 --> 01:16:22,875 Is that my imagination or are your hands shaking 1275 01:16:22,959 --> 01:16:24,417 the teensiest little bit? 1276 01:16:24,500 --> 01:16:27,542 They've been doing that now and again of late. 1277 01:16:27,625 --> 01:16:29,250 Wonder what that could be? 1278 01:16:29,333 --> 01:16:31,041 Are you feeling nervy? 1279 01:16:38,125 --> 01:16:40,583 Could you please pass me the bread? 1280 01:16:48,250 --> 01:16:50,542 Stay out of my room. 1281 01:16:50,625 --> 01:16:54,208 How many doughnuts did it take? 1282 01:16:54,291 --> 01:16:56,083 You got new jeans. 1283 01:16:56,166 --> 01:16:57,458 They're cool. 1284 01:16:57,542 --> 01:16:59,208 Where you at now? 1285 01:16:59,291 --> 01:17:01,208 At my Aunt Nadine's. 1286 01:17:01,291 --> 01:17:03,542 She's Sora Banning's mother. 1287 01:17:03,625 --> 01:17:04,709 She stay there, too? 1288 01:17:04,792 --> 01:17:06,166 Certainly. It's her house. 1289 01:17:06,250 --> 01:17:07,542 Poor you. 1290 01:17:07,625 --> 01:17:09,750 She told me to stay out of her room... 1291 01:17:09,834 --> 01:17:11,083 So I went right in 1292 01:17:11,166 --> 01:17:13,250 the first chance I got when they were gone. 1293 01:17:13,333 --> 01:17:15,542 I rambled through that room top to bottom. 1294 01:17:15,625 --> 01:17:18,542 Romance books in the back of her underwear drawer. 1295 01:17:18,625 --> 01:17:19,750 You name it. 1296 01:17:19,834 --> 01:17:21,750 She ain't got a secret from me. 1297 01:17:21,834 --> 01:17:25,208 Her mama would be shocked at the stuff I came across. 1298 01:17:25,291 --> 01:17:26,917 Hi. 1299 01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:28,208 Hi. 1300 01:17:28,291 --> 01:17:29,917 Isn't the first day of school 1301 01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:31,542 just about the worst day 1302 01:17:31,625 --> 01:17:32,291 of the year? 1303 01:17:32,542 --> 01:17:33,834 You can say that again. 1304 01:17:33,917 --> 01:17:35,250 How you doing, Starletta? 1305 01:17:35,333 --> 01:17:36,750 How are you, Miss Hobbs? 1306 01:17:36,834 --> 01:17:38,250 I'm very well, thank you. 1307 01:17:38,333 --> 01:17:40,750 Ellen, stay after class for sec, okay? 1308 01:17:40,834 --> 01:17:41,709 Okay. 1309 01:17:41,792 --> 01:17:42,917 All right. 1310 01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:44,625 So then what did he say? 1311 01:17:44,709 --> 01:17:46,750 Honey, you don't want to know. 1312 01:17:46,834 --> 01:17:48,583 We're talking nightmare. 1313 01:17:52,667 --> 01:17:55,625 Okay, everybody, smocks in the basket. 1314 01:17:55,709 --> 01:17:59,959 Don't forget to bring in autumn leaves tomorrow. 1315 01:18:00,041 --> 01:18:02,583 Ellen, I'll see you after school, okay? 1316 01:18:02,667 --> 01:18:03,667 Bye. 1317 01:18:20,417 --> 01:18:22,583 So, ¿Que pasa? 1318 01:18:22,667 --> 01:18:23,583 What? 1319 01:18:23,667 --> 01:18:24,583 It's Spanish. 1320 01:18:24,667 --> 01:18:26,125 It means "What's happening?" 1321 01:18:26,208 --> 01:18:27,917 What's happening... 1322 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:29,000 ¿Que pasa? 1323 01:18:29,041 --> 01:18:30,041 Okay. 1324 01:18:30,083 --> 01:18:32,166 How's it going? 1325 01:18:33,792 --> 01:18:34,709 Well, Dora hates my guts. 1326 01:18:34,792 --> 01:18:37,166 What's your Aunt Nadine like? 1327 01:18:37,250 --> 01:18:40,333 She wouldn't be anyone's first pick for a mama 1328 01:18:40,417 --> 01:18:41,750 if you had your pick. 1329 01:18:41,834 --> 01:18:43,667 She got me some new clothes. 1330 01:18:43,750 --> 01:18:44,667 This is new. 1331 01:18:44,750 --> 01:18:45,834 Cool. 1332 01:18:45,917 --> 01:18:46,625 Ugh. 1333 01:18:46,709 --> 01:18:47,959 Um... 1334 01:18:48,041 --> 01:18:51,000 I found the most beautiful dress 1335 01:18:51,083 --> 01:18:52,083 I ever saw. 1336 01:18:52,250 --> 01:18:54,667 And it was just with the ordinary dresses 1337 01:18:54,750 --> 01:18:57,000 and I said, "This is the dress for me." 1338 01:18:57,083 --> 01:18:58,667 And the price was right. 1339 01:18:58,750 --> 01:18:59,959 And it's like... 1340 01:19:00,375 --> 01:19:03,625 it's just the kind of dress you catch someone's eye with. 1341 01:19:03,709 --> 01:19:04,709 And when I put it on 1342 01:19:04,750 --> 01:19:05,790 and I looked in the mirror 1343 01:19:05,834 --> 01:19:07,083 I just said 1344 01:19:07,250 --> 01:19:10,166 "Lord, I could just fall right in love with myself." 1345 01:19:14,166 --> 01:19:16,250 I have something to tell you. 1346 01:19:18,750 --> 01:19:21,792 Roy and I are going away. 1347 01:19:23,208 --> 01:19:24,625 Well, where to? 1348 01:19:24,709 --> 01:19:27,208 Atlanta, Georgia. 1349 01:19:27,291 --> 01:19:29,333 An old friend of ours from college 1350 01:19:29,417 --> 01:19:31,166 has a terrific job for Roy. 1351 01:19:31,250 --> 01:19:32,625 So, we're going to go. 1352 01:19:33,750 --> 01:19:36,667 And we're going to have a baby. 1353 01:19:38,959 --> 01:19:40,709 You are? 1354 01:19:40,792 --> 01:19:41,959 Yeah. 1355 01:19:42,041 --> 01:19:43,333 Around next spring. 1356 01:19:43,417 --> 01:19:47,667 Well, if it's a girl baby, Euglena's a good name. 1357 01:19:47,750 --> 01:19:49,917 We'll put it on the list. 1358 01:19:53,125 --> 01:19:55,000 I wish you weren't going. 1359 01:19:55,083 --> 01:19:57,709 We'll write to you. 1360 01:19:57,792 --> 01:19:59,250 Will you write back? 1361 01:20:01,291 --> 01:20:03,792 Boy, are we going to miss you. 1362 01:20:06,291 --> 01:20:09,458 Thanks for wanting to keep me that time. 1363 01:20:11,166 --> 01:20:12,792 You're a keeper. 1364 01:20:20,542 --> 01:20:22,250 Hello, Mrs. Abigail. 1365 01:20:22,333 --> 01:20:23,333 Hello, Reverend. 1366 01:20:23,375 --> 01:20:25,041 Do you know that lady? 1367 01:20:25,125 --> 01:20:26,375 What lady? 1368 01:20:26,458 --> 01:20:28,709 Her with all the girls. 1369 01:20:28,792 --> 01:20:30,917 It's a foster family. 1370 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:32,250 A foster family? 1371 01:20:32,333 --> 01:20:34,792 Mama says she'll take in anything 1372 01:20:34,875 --> 01:20:37,792 from crippled orphans to stray cats. 1373 01:20:37,875 --> 01:20:41,083 Oldest girl has a baby out of wedlock. 1374 01:20:41,166 --> 01:20:42,458 Take them in where? 1375 01:20:42,542 --> 01:20:44,792 In her house, stupid. 1376 01:20:44,875 --> 01:20:46,750 You know where she lives? 1377 01:20:46,834 --> 01:20:48,291 In a big blue house 1378 01:20:48,375 --> 01:20:50,959 by the school the little kids go to. 1379 01:20:51,041 --> 01:20:52,792 Why? 1380 01:20:52,875 --> 01:20:53,959 Just wondering. 1381 01:20:54,041 --> 01:20:55,875 I'm trying to figure out 1382 01:20:55,959 --> 01:20:57,834 how to get a new mama. 1383 01:20:57,917 --> 01:20:58,959 Can't get a new mama. 1384 01:20:59,041 --> 01:21:01,250 Only got one mama and your one's dead. 1385 01:21:01,333 --> 01:21:03,792 I think maybe you can get a new one 1386 01:21:03,875 --> 01:21:05,709 if you figure it out right. 1387 01:21:30,166 --> 01:21:32,166 I was a bit confused. 1388 01:21:32,250 --> 01:21:34,875 Then I figured out the way it must be. 1389 01:21:34,959 --> 01:21:37,792 It must be that the foster family lived in it 1390 01:21:37,875 --> 01:21:39,959 but somebody named Montford owned it. 1391 01:21:40,041 --> 01:21:42,208 And then I knew I'd got it right. 1392 01:21:52,542 --> 01:21:54,041 Hi. 1393 01:21:56,125 --> 01:21:58,542 Are you looking for somebody, darlin'? 1394 01:21:58,625 --> 01:21:59,875 No, ma'am. 1395 01:21:59,959 --> 01:22:02,417 Just riding around hither and yon. 1396 01:22:16,709 --> 01:22:18,375 You see what I mean? 1397 01:22:18,458 --> 01:22:19,834 It's most curious. 1398 01:22:19,917 --> 01:22:21,375 When did this start? 1399 01:22:21,458 --> 01:22:22,500 Last week sometime. 1400 01:22:22,583 --> 01:22:25,083 She does it on everything she turns in. 1401 01:22:25,166 --> 01:22:26,875 Have you asked her about it? 1402 01:22:26,959 --> 01:22:28,875 No. I try to be careful about her. 1403 01:22:28,959 --> 01:22:30,917 She's had a hard time, this child. 1404 01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:33,125 Her family dying off right and left. 1405 01:22:33,208 --> 01:22:35,375 You know, I never once seen her smile. 1406 01:22:35,458 --> 01:22:37,125 How has she progressed socially 1407 01:22:37,208 --> 01:22:38,917 since last term, would you say? 1408 01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:40,917 Same as ever, as far as I can tell. 1409 01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,458 The only child she seems at all close to 1410 01:22:43,542 --> 01:22:45,625 is that colored girl, Starletta Douglas. 1411 01:22:45,709 --> 01:22:47,500 Emotionally isolated... 1412 01:22:47,583 --> 01:22:50,542 Insecure as to her social skills... 1413 01:22:50,625 --> 01:22:52,792 traumatic home environment. 1414 01:22:52,875 --> 01:22:54,625 You're the doctor. 1415 01:22:55,500 --> 01:22:57,166 So how are you today, Ellen? 1416 01:22:57,250 --> 01:22:58,500 Fine. 1417 01:22:58,583 --> 01:23:00,500 I understand from Mrs. Cudahy 1418 01:23:00,583 --> 01:23:02,125 and some of your other teachers 1419 01:23:02,208 --> 01:23:05,417 that you still don't seem to be making any progress 1420 01:23:05,500 --> 01:23:06,542 in the social way. 1421 01:23:06,625 --> 01:23:08,709 I don't want to be social. 1422 01:23:08,792 --> 01:23:12,166 I might after I get my own business straight. 1423 01:23:12,250 --> 01:23:14,750 What business is that? 1424 01:23:14,834 --> 01:23:16,458 Personal stuff. 1425 01:23:19,041 --> 01:23:21,625 I think he liked it when I wasn't too friendly... 1426 01:23:21,709 --> 01:23:23,917 Because if everyone was friendly and sweet 1427 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,500 he wouldn't have a job. 1428 01:23:25,583 --> 01:23:27,208 I understand from your teachers 1429 01:23:27,291 --> 01:23:30,500 that you've taken to signing your papers differently. 1430 01:23:30,583 --> 01:23:31,917 Did you realize that? 1431 01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:34,750 Well, sure I realized it. 1432 01:23:34,834 --> 01:23:38,458 You've been signing "Foster" as your last name. 1433 01:23:38,542 --> 01:23:40,125 You do realize that? 1434 01:23:40,208 --> 01:23:44,458 Well, I guess I know my last name, all right. 1435 01:23:45,542 --> 01:23:46,875 Uh-huh, okay... 1436 01:23:46,959 --> 01:23:48,834 Then tell me your name. 1437 01:23:49,875 --> 01:23:51,667 Ellen Foster. 1438 01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,166 But that isn't your last name. 1439 01:23:55,250 --> 01:23:57,166 Your name is Hammond. 1440 01:23:57,250 --> 01:23:58,500 Hmm? 1441 01:23:59,542 --> 01:24:00,917 Ellen Hammond. 1442 01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:03,709 Would you like to talk about it? 1443 01:24:04,917 --> 01:24:06,166 About what? 1444 01:24:06,250 --> 01:24:08,208 About why you're using that name. 1445 01:24:10,917 --> 01:24:11,917 You see, Ellen... 1446 01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:13,875 Sometimes children such as yourself 1447 01:24:13,959 --> 01:24:15,208 who've experienced 1448 01:24:15,291 --> 01:24:16,583 a high degree of distress 1449 01:24:16,667 --> 01:24:18,500 tend to have identity problems. 1450 01:24:18,583 --> 01:24:20,542 It's not uncommon for such a child 1451 01:24:20,625 --> 01:24:21,625 to pretend he's... 1452 01:24:21,709 --> 01:24:24,166 She's somebody else, you see? 1453 01:24:24,250 --> 01:24:27,542 So what matters is that you open up 1454 01:24:27,625 --> 01:24:28,709 and talk to me. 1455 01:24:28,792 --> 01:24:31,834 Get that pain out of Ellen Hammond 1456 01:24:31,917 --> 01:24:35,500 and she won't have to be Ellen Foster. 1457 01:24:35,583 --> 01:24:37,208 Hmm? 1458 01:24:37,291 --> 01:24:39,208 Tell me what you're thinking. 1459 01:24:39,291 --> 01:24:40,625 It's okay. 1460 01:24:42,083 --> 01:24:46,583 It may not be the name God or my mama gave me 1461 01:24:46,667 --> 01:24:48,750 but that's my name now. 1462 01:24:48,834 --> 01:24:52,083 My old family kind of wore the other one out. 1463 01:24:52,166 --> 01:24:53,583 And I figured 1464 01:24:53,667 --> 01:24:55,709 I could start practicing my new name 1465 01:24:55,792 --> 01:24:57,166 of my new family 1466 01:24:57,250 --> 01:25:00,125 for when they are my new family. 1467 01:25:01,625 --> 01:25:03,542 Foster. 1468 01:25:03,625 --> 01:25:06,625 It's a clean, fresh name. 1469 01:25:13,375 --> 01:25:16,959 I notice your hands are trembling a bit. 1470 01:25:18,875 --> 01:25:20,625 Are you frightened, Ellen? 1471 01:25:22,083 --> 01:25:23,750 No. 1472 01:25:23,834 --> 01:25:25,208 I used to be scared 1473 01:25:25,291 --> 01:25:28,583 but I'm getting to be not so scared anymore. 1474 01:25:28,667 --> 01:25:31,333 See, Ellen, the problem isn't in the name. 1475 01:25:31,417 --> 01:25:32,583 The problem is 1476 01:25:32,667 --> 01:25:35,041 why you think you need a new name. 1477 01:25:35,125 --> 01:25:37,000 Well, I just told you. 1478 01:25:37,083 --> 01:25:39,709 You're the one who's mixed up. 1479 01:25:39,792 --> 01:25:44,333 Well, why don't we discuss it some more next week. 1480 01:25:44,417 --> 01:25:48,208 I don't plan on discussing anything with you next week 1481 01:25:48,291 --> 01:25:49,667 or any other time. 1482 01:25:49,750 --> 01:25:51,667 Excuse me. 1483 01:25:53,208 --> 01:25:54,875 So long. 1484 01:26:04,834 --> 01:26:07,208 Oh, yes! 1485 01:26:07,291 --> 01:26:10,125 Sweet pumpkin, that's a perfect place for that one. 1486 01:26:10,208 --> 01:26:12,166 It's pulling down the branch? 1487 01:26:12,250 --> 01:26:13,959 So what? 1488 01:26:14,041 --> 01:26:16,917 Ellen, what would you like for Christmas 1489 01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,709 by way of a present? 1490 01:26:18,792 --> 01:26:20,125 Well, you already got me 1491 01:26:20,208 --> 01:26:22,917 all that stuff and clothes and all. 1492 01:26:23,000 --> 01:26:24,667 But it's Christmas! 1493 01:26:24,750 --> 01:26:27,125 Everybody in this house gets a present 1494 01:26:27,208 --> 01:26:29,000 don't they, pumpkin? 1495 01:26:29,083 --> 01:26:31,625 Well, I could use a handypack of white paper. 1496 01:26:31,709 --> 01:26:33,834 Oh! Writing paper? 1497 01:26:33,917 --> 01:26:35,667 No. The painting kind? 1498 01:26:35,750 --> 01:26:37,667 I only got four sheets left. 1499 01:26:37,750 --> 01:26:39,667 Is that all? 1500 01:26:39,750 --> 01:26:41,959 It's all I can think of right now. 1501 01:26:42,041 --> 01:26:43,041 Oh. 1502 01:26:43,208 --> 01:26:45,792 How you doing with that tinsel, sweetie? 1503 01:26:45,875 --> 01:26:47,625 Good. 1504 01:26:47,709 --> 01:26:49,667 Oh! 1505 01:26:49,750 --> 01:26:52,333 It's sweet. 1506 01:26:52,417 --> 01:26:55,125 Perfect. 1507 01:26:57,542 --> 01:27:01,166 All that mattered was that this time would be different 1508 01:27:01,250 --> 01:27:02,875 from last year. 1509 01:27:02,959 --> 01:27:04,959 And what with Christmas spirit 1510 01:27:05,041 --> 01:27:09,041 I figure maybe they'll both get to like me after all... 1511 01:27:09,125 --> 01:27:14,125 though you have to be careful with dreaming like that 1512 01:27:14,208 --> 01:27:17,542 especially with people you don't know good. 1513 01:27:20,959 --> 01:27:23,000 I'm going to make them a present. 1514 01:27:23,083 --> 01:27:24,542 What you going to make? 1515 01:27:24,625 --> 01:27:26,208 I'm going to make them a picture 1516 01:27:26,291 --> 01:27:27,667 for them to hang on the wall. 1517 01:27:27,750 --> 01:27:29,709 Miss Hobbs always said you were real good 1518 01:27:29,792 --> 01:27:30,792 at picture painting. 1519 01:27:30,875 --> 01:27:32,166 It has to be a picture 1520 01:27:32,250 --> 01:27:34,542 of something friendly they'd like. 1521 01:27:34,625 --> 01:27:36,750 Maybe some cats or a bunch of flowers. 1522 01:27:36,834 --> 01:27:40,792 I don't think they'd care for one of my experiment pictures 1523 01:27:40,875 --> 01:27:42,041 or a brooding ocean. 1524 01:27:42,125 --> 01:27:43,250 A what? 1525 01:27:43,333 --> 01:27:44,542 Well, that's where the ocean 1526 01:27:44,959 --> 01:27:47,750 looks real strong and beautiful and sad all at the same time. 1527 01:27:47,834 --> 01:27:50,542 They wouldn't like it 'cause it looks so evil 1528 01:27:50,625 --> 01:27:52,542 when you first look at it. 1529 01:27:52,625 --> 01:27:53,709 They would miss the point. 1530 01:27:53,792 --> 01:27:55,291 I paint a lot of brooding oceans. 1531 01:27:55,375 --> 01:27:58,041 And I can paint cats a heap easier 1532 01:27:58,125 --> 01:28:00,291 than brooding oceans anyways. 1533 01:28:00,375 --> 01:28:02,083 So, they get fuzzy cats. 1534 01:28:02,166 --> 01:28:03,750 King me. 1535 01:28:05,125 --> 01:28:07,625 Let me see how you're doing there, sweetie. 1536 01:28:07,709 --> 01:28:10,208 Oh, you're the Christmas angel. 1537 01:28:10,291 --> 01:28:11,875 Look how perfect that is. 1538 01:28:13,166 --> 01:28:15,542 Um, I want to give you my present tonight 1539 01:28:15,625 --> 01:28:17,875 instead of waiting for tomorrow, okay? 1540 01:28:17,959 --> 01:28:20,709 Oh! Well, that'd be very nice, Ellen. 1541 01:28:20,792 --> 01:28:21,792 You bet. 1542 01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:27,917 So, what do you think? 1543 01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:29,000 Uh... 1544 01:28:29,041 --> 01:28:31,792 Well, Ellen, that's really nice. 1545 01:28:31,875 --> 01:28:33,709 Did you trace it? 1546 01:28:33,792 --> 01:28:35,291 No, I didn't trace it. 1547 01:28:35,375 --> 01:28:39,542 I painted it my own self for you and your mama to hang 1548 01:28:39,625 --> 01:28:41,125 anywhere you see fit. 1549 01:28:41,208 --> 01:28:44,125 Why, it's awful sweet of you, honey. 1550 01:28:44,208 --> 01:28:47,166 We'll hang that up first thing in the morning. 1551 01:28:47,250 --> 01:28:49,166 What's wrong with right now? 1552 01:28:49,250 --> 01:28:52,291 Well, that picture needs a frame, honey. 1553 01:28:52,375 --> 01:28:55,291 A picture as pretty as that calls for a nice frame. 1554 01:28:55,375 --> 01:28:57,625 I already got some nice frames 1555 01:28:57,709 --> 01:28:59,709 I made out of colored paper. 1556 01:28:59,792 --> 01:29:01,667 You can pick the one you like best. 1557 01:29:01,750 --> 01:29:03,875 We can assemble the whole business tonight. 1558 01:29:03,959 --> 01:29:05,792 We going to put some old 1559 01:29:05,875 --> 01:29:08,667 tacky paper frame on our wall? 1560 01:29:08,750 --> 01:29:10,625 Oh, Dora, be nice. 1561 01:29:10,709 --> 01:29:11,375 This is so cute! 1562 01:29:11,625 --> 01:29:13,166 It's not supposed to be cute. 1563 01:29:13,250 --> 01:29:14,625 She's lying, Mama. 1564 01:29:14,709 --> 01:29:16,667 I bet she traced those cats. 1565 01:29:16,750 --> 01:29:18,166 No, I did not trace them. 1566 01:29:18,250 --> 01:29:20,000 I painted them my own self 1567 01:29:20,083 --> 01:29:22,625 and you're just too stupid and selfish and fat 1568 01:29:22,709 --> 01:29:24,750 to appreciate a present made special for you 1569 01:29:24,834 --> 01:29:27,709 instead of spending a fortune on something out of the store! 1570 01:29:27,792 --> 01:29:30,667 How dare you speak to my Dora in that manner! 1571 01:29:30,750 --> 01:29:32,000 You need a good spanking. 1572 01:29:32,083 --> 01:29:33,333 Touch me, I'll kill you. 1573 01:29:33,417 --> 01:29:35,667 I had enough getting beat up from my own daddy. 1574 01:29:35,750 --> 01:29:36,810 Don't you dare kill my Mama! 1575 01:29:36,834 --> 01:29:38,709 You killed your own mama and my grandma. 1576 01:29:38,792 --> 01:29:40,667 I want you out of here. 1577 01:29:40,750 --> 01:29:41,417 Do you hear me?! 1578 01:29:41,709 --> 01:29:42,893 I didn't want you to begin with 1579 01:29:42,917 --> 01:29:44,709 and neither did Betsy; nobody wants you. 1580 01:29:44,792 --> 01:29:46,959 I'll call that judge first thing in the morning 1581 01:29:47,041 --> 01:29:49,375 right in his own home, Christmas or no Christmas 1582 01:29:49,458 --> 01:29:51,000 and get you out of my house. 1583 01:29:51,083 --> 01:29:52,917 Mama, there's butter in my hair. 1584 01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,041 Oh, baby, I'm so sorry. 1585 01:29:58,417 --> 01:30:02,792 You won't have to be calling any judges. 1586 01:30:51,834 --> 01:30:54,291 Joy to the world! 1587 01:30:54,375 --> 01:30:57,291 The Lord has come 1588 01:30:57,375 --> 01:31:02,208 Let earth receive her king 1589 01:31:02,291 --> 01:31:07,000 Let every heart prepare him room... 1590 01:31:07,083 --> 01:31:09,458 Hi, pookie... hi... 1591 01:31:09,542 --> 01:31:12,000 And heaven and nature sing 1592 01:31:12,083 --> 01:31:17,375 And heaven and heaven and nature sing 1593 01:31:17,458 --> 01:31:19,417 Joy to the world! 1594 01:31:19,500 --> 01:31:21,458 The Savior reigns 1595 01:31:23,458 --> 01:31:26,291 Let men their songs employ 1596 01:31:26,375 --> 01:31:32,291 While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains 1597 01:31:32,375 --> 01:31:33,834 Repeat the sounding joy... 1598 01:31:33,917 --> 01:31:34,834 Yes? 1599 01:31:34,917 --> 01:31:36,291 Is Mrs. Foster home? 1600 01:31:36,375 --> 01:31:38,959 You must have the wrong house. 1601 01:31:39,041 --> 01:31:41,250 Nobody named Foster lives here. 1602 01:31:41,333 --> 01:31:44,000 Isn't this the Foster family house? 1603 01:31:44,083 --> 01:31:46,875 Oh, well, yeah, we're the foster family 1604 01:31:46,959 --> 01:31:48,792 but her name is Montford. 1605 01:31:48,875 --> 01:31:51,125 It says it right on the mailbox. 1606 01:31:51,208 --> 01:31:52,375 Didn't you see the mailbox? 1607 01:31:52,458 --> 01:31:54,583 I guess I had it figured out wrong. 1608 01:31:54,667 --> 01:31:55,875 Is she home? 1609 01:31:56,417 --> 01:31:57,417 What's this? 1610 01:31:59,458 --> 01:32:01,125 Somebody looking for you. 1611 01:32:01,208 --> 01:32:03,291 What child is this... 1612 01:32:03,375 --> 01:32:04,750 Are you looking for me? 1613 01:32:04,834 --> 01:32:06,792 Why don't you come on in out of the cold 1614 01:32:06,875 --> 01:32:08,208 for starters? 1615 01:32:14,375 --> 01:32:15,542 What's your name? 1616 01:32:15,625 --> 01:32:17,000 Ellen. 1617 01:32:17,083 --> 01:32:18,875 Are you lost, honey? 1618 01:32:18,959 --> 01:32:19,959 No, ma'am. 1619 01:32:20,041 --> 01:32:21,500 And you're looking for me? 1620 01:32:21,583 --> 01:32:22,583 Mm-hmm. 1621 01:32:22,625 --> 01:32:24,792 You look a bit familiar. 1622 01:32:24,875 --> 01:32:27,500 Have I seen you someplace before? 1623 01:32:27,583 --> 01:32:28,834 Maybe at church. 1624 01:32:28,917 --> 01:32:31,041 And I was outside your house one time. 1625 01:32:31,125 --> 01:32:32,500 Yes, now I remember. 1626 01:32:32,583 --> 01:32:35,125 Well, why don't you take your coat off 1627 01:32:35,208 --> 01:32:37,166 and tell me what's happening? 1628 01:32:37,250 --> 01:32:38,542 "¿Que pasa?" 1629 01:32:38,625 --> 01:32:40,208 Who taught you that? 1630 01:32:40,291 --> 01:32:41,875 A friend of mine. 1631 01:32:41,959 --> 01:32:44,542 Oh, my, what a pretty dress! 1632 01:32:44,625 --> 01:32:48,125 I wanted to look good. 1633 01:32:48,208 --> 01:32:50,208 You like hot chocolate? 1634 01:32:50,291 --> 01:32:52,542 I'm very fond of hot chocolate. 1635 01:32:52,625 --> 01:32:54,709 My mama used to say that hot chocolate's 1636 01:32:54,792 --> 01:32:57,125 one of the most comforting things in life... 1637 01:32:57,291 --> 01:32:58,792 on-on a cold day. 1638 01:33:00,917 --> 01:33:04,542 Tell me, honey, have you run away from home? 1639 01:33:04,625 --> 01:33:07,208 No, but I need a place to stay. 1640 01:33:07,291 --> 01:33:10,875 What do you think about me staying here? 1641 01:33:10,959 --> 01:33:12,458 Are you sure you didn't run away? 1642 01:33:12,542 --> 01:33:13,917 I bet your mama and daddy 1643 01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:16,083 are pretty worried about you right now. 1644 01:33:16,166 --> 01:33:18,875 My mama's dead and my daddy's in jail 1645 01:33:18,959 --> 01:33:22,166 and I've been thrown out of my aunt's house. 1646 01:33:22,250 --> 01:33:23,875 She showed me the door. 1647 01:33:23,959 --> 01:33:25,375 I see. 1648 01:33:25,458 --> 01:33:28,875 And how did you know to come here? 1649 01:33:28,959 --> 01:33:31,417 I seen you in church, you and your girls 1650 01:33:31,500 --> 01:33:34,375 and I asked Dora who you were and she told me... 1651 01:33:34,458 --> 01:33:35,500 That's my cousin... 1652 01:33:35,917 --> 01:33:39,083 And I figured since you already got some girls my size 1653 01:33:39,166 --> 01:33:40,500 you might be able 1654 01:33:40,583 --> 01:33:42,083 to squeeze me in, too. 1655 01:33:42,166 --> 01:33:43,959 I see. 1656 01:33:44,041 --> 01:33:47,625 Well, I usually have children referred to me by the court. 1657 01:33:47,709 --> 01:33:50,417 I never had a situation like this. 1658 01:33:50,500 --> 01:33:53,959 Well, I got something to help you make up your mind. 1659 01:33:54,041 --> 01:33:55,417 Really? 1660 01:33:55,500 --> 01:33:57,166 It's $166 there. 1661 01:33:57,250 --> 01:33:58,333 You can count it. 1662 01:33:58,709 --> 01:34:02,250 I saved it up from when before my daddy was in jail. 1663 01:34:02,333 --> 01:34:04,000 Various sources here and there. 1664 01:34:04,083 --> 01:34:05,959 Julia and Roy gave me an allowance. 1665 01:34:06,041 --> 01:34:07,291 They've gone off now. 1666 01:34:07,375 --> 01:34:08,625 They're friends of mine. 1667 01:34:08,709 --> 01:34:10,458 I want to pay you this money 1668 01:34:10,542 --> 01:34:13,125 so we can keep this all on the up and up. 1669 01:34:13,208 --> 01:34:15,291 That way, you and me can be even. 1670 01:34:15,375 --> 01:34:17,083 You get the money 1671 01:34:17,166 --> 01:34:21,166 and I can stay here till I graduate from high school. 1672 01:34:21,250 --> 01:34:23,375 How does that sound to you? 1673 01:34:23,458 --> 01:34:26,917 Look, you put this back in your pocket. 1674 01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:29,041 No deal, huh? 1675 01:34:29,125 --> 01:34:32,500 Tell you what I'm going to do. 1676 01:34:32,583 --> 01:34:36,166 I have to get lots more information about this situation 1677 01:34:36,250 --> 01:34:38,041 and first thing in the morning 1678 01:34:38,125 --> 01:34:40,125 I'm going to call County Social Services 1679 01:34:40,208 --> 01:34:42,458 and see if we can't get the ball rolling. 1680 01:34:42,542 --> 01:34:44,500 I can't promise you anything. 1681 01:34:44,583 --> 01:34:47,041 That's okay. I'm used to it. 1682 01:34:57,250 --> 01:34:58,583 It's okay, honey. 1683 01:35:01,041 --> 01:35:02,542 You're safe here. 1684 01:35:20,375 --> 01:35:23,291 Nobody else put up a fight to get me. 1685 01:35:23,375 --> 01:35:26,041 Surprise, surprise. 1686 01:35:26,125 --> 01:35:31,041 There've been more than plenty of days 1687 01:35:31,125 --> 01:35:34,125 when my new mama has put my hands in hers 1688 01:35:34,208 --> 01:35:39,041 and said if we relax and breathe slow together 1689 01:35:39,125 --> 01:35:41,709 I could slow down shaking. 1690 01:35:41,792 --> 01:35:44,041 And it always works. 1691 01:35:44,125 --> 01:35:46,750 Every day, I try to feel a little better 1692 01:35:46,834 --> 01:35:50,000 about all that went on when I was little. 1693 01:35:50,083 --> 01:35:54,291 I will eventually get it straightened out in my head. 1694 01:35:59,709 --> 01:36:04,083 I came a long way to get here. 1695 01:36:04,166 --> 01:36:07,125 That will always amaze me. 114400