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I loved my mother so much
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She was drug addict
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She was an alcoholic
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She was legally blind
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She was a schizophrenic
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But I never forgot that she loved me
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even if she did
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all the time
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all the time
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all the time
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Give me the money!
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it's mine!
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it's mine, the state gave this to me!
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If you do not like us do not eat!
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Do not touch me, touch me not!
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Where are they, eh?
Where are they?
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Where is it ?
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Please, give it to me
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-I gave it to you,
-Let go MoM!
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I gave a 100 to you
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When the check came
I gave $ 100 to you to one of you.
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to keep them from,
you understand?
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Those for us to live on
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every month it's the same damn thing
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so you can put it to your arms
so we can starve
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it's mine
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I didn't have it.
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You are a liar
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Give it to me,
it's mine!
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it's mine!
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We are hungry!
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I can't
We need food MoM
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what do you ever do for me, hah ?
I gave you life
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Do you want me to go on the streets
as prostituitmi
hah?
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do you want me to do that ?
I know I do that sometimes, right?
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I need it
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I need it
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I need it
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what is Medina?
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what is Medina, that gives you $ 15,200
at the end of the round of double jeopardy.
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I wanted that smile,
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Oh God, I wantedthat smile so much
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I was pathetic, wasn't I?
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don't take the Acquedotto
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Mom!
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Dady ...
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-she's taking the Acquedotto.
-What the hell difference does she make?
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- she'll get mugged !!
- Who cares!
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Help her father, she can't see,
she'll get mugged
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always a big production
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see, They said they'll fix the light for change
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The muggers will break them again
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No,No
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No, you see she's okay
the water runs down hill
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There is no water
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You are wrong,
dont you know what the aqueduct is?
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The aqueduct carried water to New York City
Well, for over 100 years it did that
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Then they closed it down but now
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the ghost water,right?
it carries your mother along.
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My father, you could sitdown on a couch
and talk to my father
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He just couldn't talk to him for long
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Hey Jane!
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He knew so much,
he got all the answers righ on jeopardy.
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He's a genius, he've the answer every time!
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Watch where you going
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That's the thing
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Your parents all you gots
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I looked at them as example of what
should I find every where in the world
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and they paid so litle attention to my needs
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but then it felt their needs
was so powerful
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it didn't make me feel gurt or angry
but they didn't look into me
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because I felt okay this,
This must be the human condition to be so
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And then the world came in
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you took my husband Elisabeth
I'll kill you!
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No, Mom!
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I'm not your mother
I did you a favor
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Help me cleanup Liz, if they see
this they're gonna take us too!
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No, noo!
get out of my house!
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you're not taking me
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I do not come with you,
you understand? Noo, noo!
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what happen to the window?
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she threw the cat out
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leave me alone
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Why don't you take the medication and be a good girl?
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She takes it
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she just take too many other things
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- This place is a mess
- what happened here
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He took a knife!
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I fell down
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- she got a knife
- put the knife down
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Alright,Where's the phone?
we don't have one
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- This woman is unfit
- you're kidding
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look you girls have a choice
clean this place up
help your mother!
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Tell our father!
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Ignore her she's a feminist.
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I can take you anytime I want
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you keep skipping school
you keep living like fealthy animal
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hey, hey, Where you going? comeback here ,come back!
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you're gonna go to a home and you don't know what it like ?
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They've girls in there they'll beat you down
take everything you got
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you can't have anything
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You'll have to clean bathrooms
you'll work there if you don't work here
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back off! back off! it's not a show
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got nothing better to do, hah?
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Mom!
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mom
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mom
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Couldn't they see?
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anyone could see
she was in so much pain
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The strugle was so much on the surface
so there if anyone cared to look
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it wasn't like she was running of a good mother
to somebody else
or not that was a good mother
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she just didn't have anymore to give
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Let me go !
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Alright, hey hey hey!
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oh! something stinks!
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what is that?
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I was always the smelly kid in class
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Lisa stood on the bucket shower
but daddy left her doing
she had to marry a doctor she had so many expectations
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I didn't have any expectations, so therefore I guess
I stunk
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I scratched for lice,
and burn between my legs
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My teachers was always telling me not to fidge it
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but my underwear...
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I didn't know what to do about underwear
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I just worried that it fell apart
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Alright, people thank you resess is over
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My teeth ached
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I was hungry ...
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The teachers words never seem to reach me
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Words just seems .. fall on the floor
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Give me the test,Liz. there's no point of taking that
No, I'll take it.
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But you been here what? three times this month?
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I'll take it
it doesn't look that hard
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fine
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oh Liz, stay here
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you do smell, you know?
doesn't your mother tell you...
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No, no ...
it is my fault I just forget
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ok Well,when you wanna have shower tonigh
will you wash back here?
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I've been saving something for you
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Here ...
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And here, bhow did you do that?
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you've never in school
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I read a lot
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yeah, what do you read?
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The Encyclopedia
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The lady of the upstairs, Eva,
she found one in the dumpster
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the whole set, well
except from R to S
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If you've asked me between R and S I would've done it wrong
I was just lucky
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Oh Liz, you have to come to school
OK
No, I mean it, look
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it's redeculus you're way too smart not to be here
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I do not understand why toy don't come.
I will.
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How can I tell her that school make me sad?
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I had never talked to her,
I don't know how to talk to anyone.
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My house was not a place that you can come out of it
and be normal.
- you'll have to come everyday
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It's not a threat, it's promise
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and is not a threat,
is a promise.
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- Eva, look what I got,
- a 100
- thanks to your encyclopedia!
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Good, you gotta get a good marks!
you don't wanna be an idiot
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and you keep it up now, you hear me?
now your mother's back
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My mother is back?
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Well, we had nice quite couple a months,
did we?
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The only good thing about taking my mother
to the nutt house was that when she came back
she was my Mom again
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she cooked and she cleaned
shorthand for the company in a
for me, that was the good quite couple of months
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Before the drugs came back in
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Mom ..
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momy
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Lizzy
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Are you OK?
I'm okay
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pumpkin,
you look real good
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I'm Glad you're home mom!
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don't you glad you're home?
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Well, that hospital
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wasn't too bad
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it's too green
the walls and there were bars on the windows
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I'm sorry, you had to see that, you know
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and I'm glad you're home
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Look, Look I got a 100
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Ma. no ..
100 is a good good, 100 is the perfect
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didn't you ever get hundred?
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No !
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hey, I go to school
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I ran away too young.
Do not ever run away from home
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I won't
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I ... I will always be here for you
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I know, Mom
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I will always be there ... always
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I know, Mom
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I am sick ...
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I'm sick ... I'm sick, I...
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I have AIDS ...
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No. .. no ...
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No, no no ... baby, don't
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They say don't be afraid
the say I migh.. I could live forever, okay?
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but I can't live here
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- I gonna go home
- This is home
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No, home to my pops,
I will take you and Lisa
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No, no, you have to stay here
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I gotta stop the drugs,
and I can't do it when daddy around
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But you'll be alone
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Liz, Lisa is already gone over,
just packup your things and let's go
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No no, cause you said pops will beat you
you said he raped your sister
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this is the way it has to be now
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No, stay here
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I can't
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stay mom!
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Everything was falling apart
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I thought If I stayed
I could have stop it
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I thought If I stayed
everything some how could stay the same
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just open the door, it's no use
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I know you're in there
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where is your mother and sister?
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they're gone
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where's your father?
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he's gonna get some food help,
he'll be right back.
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your teacher called, you still not going to school
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you never in school
We gota do something about this
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Miss Wanda warned you, I warned you,
everyone in case workers warned you
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this is been goining on for years
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we said clean up this place
and go to school,
clean up and go to school,
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and you haven't done either one of them had you ...
Elizabeth, have you?
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No
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so, what are we gonna do?
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I do not know
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I do
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you're going into the system
I'm taking her
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No! But things are better now,
my dady buys me big potatoes everyday
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you're not paying the rent,
you're not getting her to school
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I tell him to go,
I told you to go to school
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she's got a mind of her own,
she's a feminist
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this is not a joking matter,
pack her a suitcase ...
now!
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No, no!
I'll go to school, please!
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This isn't working, we need an adult
who is responsible
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My grandfather is responsible!
My grandfather will take me!
My sister is there
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- your sister goes to school.
- I'll go to school!
I'll go to school, please!
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Not make noise
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I'll talk to him
and if he will take you
you will be out in 24 hours
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I'm sorry
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and if he won't?
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You will have time to figure out how to live life
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figure out my life ...
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do people really do that?
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If they do that , they're falling down
in a deep dark hole
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buzzed in, locked in
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it was like to visiting my mother
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Only I was in the crazy house now
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Get her!
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I didn't get out in 24 hours,
I didn't get out in 24 days,
no one wanted me.
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they just left me there
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Why don't you go to school?
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That's the big problem I got Here,
why dont you go?
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From what I can see
you have got a discipline problem
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-Liz!
-Hey pops!
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You call your mother
Jean! Come out here, she's here
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I'm late for school
but I wanted to see you first
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Thanks Lisa
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don't screw this up,
we are doing okay
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and don't expect too much, she is dying
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Lizzy!
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Mom
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oh God
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When I think of my life,
this is the time I like to think of
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when I got back and my mother's mind was clear
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there was no cocain so her
schizophrenia medicine kept on working
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and we go to the cafe,
and sit and talk
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eat hamburghers,
we were together
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even with her bad eyes
I think she could see me
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well, she can see my outline
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and for a while I had my mother again
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-even the park, yeah I remember,
we used to slide down the hill
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remeber we put down that cart board
and we pretend that we sled
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- you remember that?
- Yes
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- how about the tickle monster ?
- we screamed and laughed about that one
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Yeah, I was a good mother,
wasn't I?
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-yeah, you were fine
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Yeah
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Well, I'm really glad we are all together
you and me, and Lisa
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what if dad went off drugs too
would that be great?
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Maybe we can go back to University Avenue
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well,your dad is in a shelter for homeless
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I'm afraid he lost the apartment
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he kind of ignore the rent,
so, you know ...
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What about my stuff?
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got thrown out
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all of it?
Even my encyclopedias?
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I'm really sorry , they board up the whole place
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there was nothing we could do,
it just, crap happens
I mean ...
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Look, I gotta go around the corner and see few friends
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just for a minute okay?
You finish your burger
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and I ... I'll be right back
just be a minute
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just be a minute
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so that was that,
no going back
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I hadn't kept anything together,
I only made things worse
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If I had only go to school ...
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if I had only,
if I had only ...
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so that part of my life was over
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I guess the new part have begun
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-Elizabeth Murray
and you're her mother?
-Yes
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-Ah Look, take you to your class now
- Thanks
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A moment
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- Bye Mom
- Bye
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- are you gona get home okay?
- Yes, I'm just gonna go see my buddies you know
they'll take care of me
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- Maybe I should come with you
- No no, you gotta stay at school or they'll take you away again
go, go ...
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Bye
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-so we have nouns, verbs, adverbs and prepositions
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who's that, duke?
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Thank you
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I wasn't the smelly kid anymore,
I had learned to shower every day at the group home
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and my clothes, even if they came from the shop, all fit
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but still didn't know how to be in school
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I just don't know how to be normal
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people, can we try to settle down?,
Chris would you like to try diagram number 12?
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No
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Bobby?
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you find it a musy
Miss ... Elizabeth?
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please don't call me that
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That's your name according to these forms
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Liz or Lizzy
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Liz or Lizzy is a nickname
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aren't nicknames
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No, I'm afraid not
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Jesus, call the girl she wants to be called!
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Elizabeth is a fine name, is the name of
a queen, the Elizabethan was the age of
Shakespeare
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What's you problem with it?
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My mother calls me Elizabeth
when she's going insane ...
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Liz then
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Bobby, the sentence
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so Where do you go to school before this?
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I didn't
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how did you fall in here?
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I was in a group home
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is that freaky?
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yeah
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- but you are not a freak
- No
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it's too bad, I am
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-my Birthday is coming up
-yeah? when?
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Ah, you'll know
I'm gonna wear my dad's trunch coat
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I'm gonna come to school with nothing on,
but my trunch coat, and a pair of boots
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and I'll flash all the teachers
Happy birthday ...
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You do not believe me?
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yeah I do
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No you don't
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It's a great place,
I never had a sopha before
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My grandfather is a little crankie
we'll have to be out by 6 by the way
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Liz, where is your phone?
Make that TV game show
Lì
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Never gonna win
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know what?
shut up !! gotta call this number
before I forget it
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- Do you understand the theorem?
- come on bob! give it a wrest
the test isn't till like a week
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- Can I take that chicken in the fridge?
- Sure
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is it 6 already
it's only 4:30
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some drunk lady
oh, so disgusting
she puked on the door
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I'll go open the window
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I don't feel really good,
Liza, help me please
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what, what happen
come on
This way
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Alright, up
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I am a good mom,
I just need a hug, okay?
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Come on!
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Oh God!
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here we go,
All clean, you see
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she couldn't take living straight,
why should I expect her to take dying
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isn't dying the hardest thing anyone have ever done?
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Everyone is gone
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- except you ...
- yeah
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So where does you grandfather sleep?
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Here?
safe to his daughter?
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But I don't think like that
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Yeah, but don't know
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he Did some things to her when I was younger,
she told me that
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With her sister and not her?
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I figure he did them both ...
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so your sister is crazy too?
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Yeah, and their mother too,
that's why I didn't wanna come here
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you know, My...Mom is getting back to my dad
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I wish My mom would
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He does stuff to my sister
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You do not have a sister
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Lucky for her
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-did you tell your mother?
-Yes, I told her
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but she left him,
and cursed him
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she said she's gonna call the cops,
and now she's getting back with him
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you know, I asked her how she could do that,
and she said that she missed him
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she missed him ...
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I was 7 years whe he first stuck it in
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Chris, Chris, don't!
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move in with me
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- What, stay here?
- Yeah!
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What .. what will your grandfather say?
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He won't know
We will work it out so will never see him
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he won't get up until after this for work
he's like a robot anyway,
he's out by eight
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I'm back at 6.
Out!
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Pops! she had no place to stay!
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This not my problem
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Leave her alone!
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Your mother is dying
your peace of trash father walked out
and stuck me with all of this
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did I ask this in my old age?
tell me!
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What are you doing?
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fine, that suits me,
you'll end up trash anyway
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just like your parents
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So I left
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you wanna go get your stuff ?
or you'll leave me here alone
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do anyone of us bargain for our life
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it seems to me that we're just gonna fall into them
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and then we have to do the best we can
Let's go!!
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My mother was dying,
my father was gone
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but I had to believe that I the road
would rise up to meet me
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I was 15 years, when I wen out of door
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What is a home anyway,
a roof, bed
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A place when where you go there
they have to take you
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If so, I was 15 years
when I became homeless
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-You get some change?
-Get a job
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how are you doing tonight?
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God bless you kid
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spend some changes
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Sometimes I felt I had
neverhad a home in my life
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Bring it on
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Let's go
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what are you doing!
come back here
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At other times I knew
where ever my mother was
that's where my home was
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oh god!!
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but month by month she was fading away
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Liz ...
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yeah!
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where did you go?
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I've been staying with friends
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I miss you
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paps! he hit me and you know
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I couldn't stay here
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Alright
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Look! your sister told me that you
stopped going to school
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I'm gonna go back
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when?
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when you get better
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They tease me
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they tease me at the bar cause I shake
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I can't stop shaking
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I think it is becuase of the drinking
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you should propably stop
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Ok, ok ..
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you're gonna get better
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I love you, mom
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mom
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I love you
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get over there
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sorry!
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- Look out!!
- Stop
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hey guys, wait up
I'll catch you later I'm just gonna ...
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Bye
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mom
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We took up a collection
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she isn't coming here anymore
becuase she always think you're laughing at
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she's dead honey
she died yesterday morning
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Sometimes I feel that there is
a skin on the world
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and those of us who were born under it
can see through it
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we just can't get through it
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My mother was being buried in section 51,
the charity plot
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My mother was in there,
strangers had put her in there
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was she naked, was she frightent
no, she was gone
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-come on, let's go
-No, wait a minute
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there should be a service,
there should be a priest,
what supposed to happen?
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When you go, we're gonna bury it,
that's all
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it's a she
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it is my mother
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- There is no priest?
- Not in these cases, you did know that?
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she is dead,
put her in the ground
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Priest or no priest, taht didn't matter,
she was gone, she was already rutting
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sorry
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as I suppose to believe she had found
a turnal Peace
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you Coming with us?
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will you just go?
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Hey, wait
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Ok ..
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let us get out of here, okay?
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Liz, you know ... I just .. I can't
I can't do this anymore.
you know.. so, I'm going
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Where?
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group home
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A crazy house
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You know Liz, it's this, this ???
this is crazy
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you should Come with me
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yeah, so see you around
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People died,
things decayed
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everything that seems so solid
is meaningless
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all that we left
is the gestures we make
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gestures in air,
that's what we remember
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I remember riding with my mother
through the leaves
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the year ending put her arms around me,
when I was little,
and she was well
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that was long ago,
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maybe it only happened once
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maybe she betrayed me a thousand times
it didn't matter
Math will always be as a subject
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we remember what we choose
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get out of there!
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Where you gonna put the stone?
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there's no stones here ,
there's no room
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In a week
there would be no trace over
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but what did it matter,
this wasn't the real world,
and we really live in each others hearts
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She lived in my heart,
but I live nowhere,
I was all alone in the world
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You are 16 years old with an 8th grade education
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and when you are down the world spiral
that will end in the worst place
than you ever dreamed
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you've burned every bridge,
you're ran out of every welcome
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an everyone who has ever believe in you
you have let down
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Eva?
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I don't want to be an idiot,
I want to go to school
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- Yes
- Hi, I am ELisabeth Murray,
I have an appointment
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at 9:30,
it's 10:30
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-I'm Sorry, the subway got stucked
-I'm sorry too ,but it's really late
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The school started 3 weeks ago
we are just about full
kids get on time here honey
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I read the brochure intensive
Student participation for the Development
of injust community calendar
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I just need one chance
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You can wait and talk to David,
but he got this meeting right after
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I knew at that moment I had to make a choice
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I could submit to everything that was happening
and live a life of execuses
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or I could push myself,
I can push myself
and make my life good
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- We'll get to you back on Friday.
- Ok, thank you
it's a pleasure guys
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- Elizabeth
- Liz
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Liz I am sorry, we are making
our last decision and I'm already late
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can I just talk to you for a minute ? 30 seconds?
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well, there's the application,
and the whole big eassy question
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I've already done the eassy
I really want this
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I haven't had a lot of gown ups that
proved to be trust worthy
or in it for the long run .. so...
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Maybe I don't know how to talk to you
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My parents both use drugs, alot of them,
I won't go near them, but ...
I guess I've kind of lived that life style
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I'm embareced now, not how late back I've been
I mean...
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I've really never been in school
except for the 8th grade, but...
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but your grades are very good
to enter school
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I used to show up last week
and take the test,
and that's how I got promoted
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I'm smart, I know I can succeed,
I just need a chance
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I need the chance
I need the chance to climb out of the place
I've born in, I mean...
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Everyone I know they just, angry, tired
they are trying to survive
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But I know that there is a world out there that's ..
better!! that's...
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better developed and...
I wanna live in it
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Why now?
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My mother died of AIDS, she died couple of months ago
and ...
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it was a real ...
slap in the face
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I guess I always thought that
she was gonna get better
and take care of me ..
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it's prety stupid, huh?
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She never took care of me,
I took care of her ..
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she was my baby
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but now she's gone ..
so ..
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now it's time to take care of yourslef
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can you get here on time Liz ??
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I'll sleep here, If I have to
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Ok, you're in
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But you told the others
you won't know before friday
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-you're in
- David
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Thank you!
You just changed my life!
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that's word's man?
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just take the file and start the paper work,
got your transcripts ? it's just the easy stuff
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address, phone number
we have to have a meeting
with your parents or you guardian,
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get that in, and you are good to go
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Dad
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hey, Lizzy!
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I need your help, please ..
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such a Production ... such a production
why don't you just stay in Bronx
Then you can go to Kennedy
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I don't know how to go to a normal school
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Why, this is not a normal school?
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- Well, it is public, but it is like private
- yeah
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Dad, Dad!
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I think I can do this
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yeah?, that's good
I don't think I can
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hey, you can, you can
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well just say you're a long time truck driver
that's why they will never see you
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you're living with your girl friend now or also
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Already, a truck driver who travels,
and then I have a companion buckle
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will you give me a girlfriend?
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- Eva
- Eva !! that's not good
Eva is old enough to be my mother
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Dad! I just
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I just need an address, you know?
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A phone number they can call
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Please, please,
they can't know I'm homeless
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they'll call the city
and I will be locked again
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- Ok ..
- Yeah ?
- Ok
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Mr Murray
I am Peter, Peter Fidelty,
I never actually married Liza's mother
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Sit down, please
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I am grateful you take my daughter in this
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This is a very nice place
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well, we're still new, we have big ambitions
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yea, so as Lizzy I guess,
she's a feminist
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I knew you excpected that already
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her mother was actually beautiful,
like a movie star but..
aher mother was also kind of feminist
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or something like that
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Anyway I thought when I met her
she was just, you know ... spirited
bu actually she was completly insane
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- We just need you to sign right here.
- yeah.
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and give us contact information
address and phone number
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Yes, 3458 University Avenue
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- There are a number of apartment?
- Yep, 2b
3b, 3b! yea! That's right
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That's right we moved upstairs
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phone number?
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718 5 85 57 67
555 55 67
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Excuse me, are somewhat out of phase
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so that's it ?
wI got staff I got to do
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yea, that's it
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Thanks for coming
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Can I start now?
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It's *** to have someone actually
want to come to school, yea
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I'll walk him out
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Alright
oh, they give you token here?
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No, I got a job
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yea, I remember when you're a kid
you used to bag groceries down in Foren Road
put food in the fridge
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- How old are you?
- 8
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- I am not a people person, you understand that
- Yes
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I'm just not a people person Liz
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I got nothing to do with you,
you know it's not personal
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- But you came today though ...
- yep!
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I love you dad !
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oh don't do that,
don't love me,
it is a waste of energy
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You know, when I was litle
you were the most interesting thing in my world
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everyone was just talking about
drugs or sex or...
just trying to survive the day
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but you always had ideas
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it's becuase of you I know
there's another way of being
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- yeah
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are you okay?
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yea yea, I'm fine
they take care of your dad fine in the shelter
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Actually I'm gonna get my own apartment
I would like to do that,
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you can come stay with me
visit me anytime
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your own apartment...
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Yes,they like to do that,
they keep the people like me out of the shelters
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you know,like the patients,
you know, people with AIDS
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Hey Listen, alot of changes than jean
I got all this medicens now,
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and I'm clean, So I'm gonna live forever
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Ok, I'll be fine,
I'm gonna live forever
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stay in school,
I blew this,
but you can do this
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Golf Tonkin
Remember the Maine
anybody? Franco-Prussian War?
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You did you get Bismark?
you didn't get Bismark
I didn't get Bismark either
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I thought this Bismark was kinda role
so is this Bismark a kizar ?
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stop talking about food,
you're making me hungry
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Dave are we gonna have book next year?
cause I keep losing this things
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hmm.. textbooks
Why don't we use textbooks?
anyone?
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Too heavy !!
Bzzt! they are, but no cigar!!
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it's too expensive,
the school is so poor
Bzzzt! I'm keeping my cigar today
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You, new girl
Her name is Liz!
chesus dave she's been here for a week, try to Remember
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Liz,
sue me ...
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Here, Textbook,
text ...
book ...
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Up, open it,
what do you see?
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Words
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What kind of words?
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the words of the author
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No, no,
it is important
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and what do we have here?
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alot of other people's words
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and I want you to have them?
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because one point of view
gives you a one Dimentional-world
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Cigars!! , Cigars!!
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Bismarck, Marx, the guy who sold me
the buble gums Cigars
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why on earth we could find ourselves
To his story ... history
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but isn't that the deal dave?
I mean, is there an official history
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New girl,
tell him what history is
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History is all of us
all our stories count
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that's it, grap your papers
I will be in the lounch
if you want to talk about it
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hey Liz, this is yours
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- hey, new girl
- you let me in and you don't remember my name
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- oh, I remember your name,
- I just like to gang up on your side
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You are pretty smart
hah, so as you
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you gave me an A minus
Yes, sounds a very good paper
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How do I make an A
Liz, an A minus is an excellent mark
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This is your first working school in ..what .. forever?
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If my words count
I want them to be right
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Okay
well ...
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Oh!
What are you still doing here?
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- Algebra
- yea Well, it's after 11, I locking up
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how many classes are you taking?
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Um, the regular five,
then the saturday programming,
the night school French
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and the after school sciences
10 ...
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Now you see why I need the before school math
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It's alot
I'm 17,
I do not want to be 21 before I finish high school
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So you're trying to do what
4 years of high school in 3?
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2
you need before math school too
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Yeah, you're gonna kill yourself!
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No. ..
I'm gonna live
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I had a down, the B train
took 70 minutes to do that entire run
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I've been back 4 times
and I would be at school just a little early
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Then David would let me in
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For the first time my life
had some order I can count on
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Chris?
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What are you doing here?
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- hanging out
- what about the home
- I got hookie
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- so how come you didn't look for me?
- I did
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I have been looking for a long time
just that ... you haven't been in any other places
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I'm here now
and I'm going to a new school,
you'd like it
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Hey ...
hey, come on
it will be great, we are together
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Last one out, first one in
No, that describes you david
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how did you get so dedicated
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Well, I'm such a privilage jurk,
I wanted to give something back
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and this is ...?
My friend Chris,
my best friend
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- Hi Chris
- Hey
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I want her to come here too
it's not a party, you know .. it's a tough place
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well, she's good for you,
she's good enogh for me, come on in
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so, what you were putting on the bored?
oh we decided to send our top 10 students
on schoolarship to Boston
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Cool!
you ever been?
I've never been out of New York
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we went to Queens once
Well, you're going
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-come on, Noway I'm in the top 10 students
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well, you're not one of the top, you're the top
you're not among the best,
you're the best ...
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You got the best grades in this whole place Liz
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- yea, so what .. going to Boston?
- All expenses paid
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- how long?
- 5 days
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- you okay, Liz?
- Yes
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I've just was always been trash, you know..
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You are not trash
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This is to get you thinking about college
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- what's college like
- it's all crap, shut up!
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You can come too
Can't she?
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sure, if she does the work
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come on chris
dream a little,
what do you wanna be when you grow up?
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boy,
I was grown since I was 7
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- Chris ...
- I mean after high school, it's okay
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No, it's not okay
I'll be a garbage man, I'll be a prostitute
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who cares what the hell I'm gonna be?
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Welcome to Harvard guys
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So, does it looks like you though it would?
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Better, definitely better
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Liz, they're just people
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Not people like me
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Why not people like me?
What made them so different?
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becuase of the way they were born?
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I was working as hard as I could so
so I didn't end up as food stamps
or hustling
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What if .. what if I worked even more?
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I was so close to this skin
that I can touch it
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It would be a reach,
it's not impossible
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- dona, there any other scholarships?
- yea,it's quite a few
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Write 1500 words about the importance
of the free market in the free world
and win $ 500
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yea, I would need only 70 of those, every year
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Ah, there was something brand new
from the newyork time,
maybe I didn't put them in yet
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- $ 12,000
every year for 4 years!
- What do you have to do?
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Attach a brief eassy describing
what you believe to be the most
significant academic achievement
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and how you have overcome any challenges
tor obstacles
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can I have copy of this?
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I want to stand beside the people
in the sidewalk not be so far
beneath them
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I wanna go to Harvard,
and become very developed
read all the bets books
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Then I find myself thinking:
if I just go crazy?
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even lose every *** of my potential
to do that
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I have to do it,
I have no choice
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- Am I late?
- No, I'm early
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- I made you some coffee
one sweet ***, right?
- Right!
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Thank you
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Can I have a stamp for this?
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that's the New York Times schoolarship!
you haven't mailed it yet?
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- When is the dead line?
- Tomorrow
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I gave you that 4 months ago, Liz!
What were you waiting for?
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for today,
for me to turn 18
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it's your birthday?
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Happy birthday!
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but I don't think that an age required
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No, Thank you
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but now I can tell the truth,
that I was a homeless
and no one could come and take me away
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Lisa
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Liz!
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Yes
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What are you doing here?
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I have this interview
I am a finalist for a big
New York times scholarship
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But, I don't have anything to wear
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you want my cloth?
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Well, nothing fancy
it's just .. something I can put over this
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Thank you
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Mom sold my coat once
I couldn't go to school
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I remember
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I cried,
I love going to school so much
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you never went to school
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how did they gave you the scholarship?
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because I'm homeless
and I'm doing really well in school now
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You are not a homeless, Liz,
you could stay here
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No I couldn't,
you know that ...
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Grandpap hates you !!
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I'm going blind
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like Mom
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I'm scared
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Liz!
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Liz, they kicked me out of the group home
with all my stuff
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They can't kick you out
you are not 18 years
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then group with me in Brooklin,
I don't wan to go to Brooklin!
You have to help me!
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I have an interview
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- No! Liz!
- I have to!
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- You can not leave
- I have to
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Chris!
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just let me go through this one thing,
and then you can go back and go to school with me
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I don't want to go to school!
I don't belong there,
and either do you
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Yes, I do
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you think they like people like us into harvard
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The world moves,
you just a spec.,
it can all happen without you
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situations are not conducive
to what you want for yourself
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someone else's needs
someone else's plat
is going to be stronger than yours is
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I think people just get frustrated
with how harsh life can be
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So they spend their time
** on that frustrations
and calling it anger
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keeping their eyes shut
from the wholes situation
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to all the little tiny things
that have come together to make it
what it is?
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because I was turn so inward
by my Mom and Dad, I got a chance to see how
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all the litle tiny things
come together to make the final product
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so, I was never ** to wonder
why this or why that
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I knew why
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not that I was happy about it,
in fact I was really sad about it most of the time
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but I was very accepting
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I was very accepting
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I just always knew that I needed to get out
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Is there anything else you would like to tell us?
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I loved my mother,
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so much .. I mean
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She was a drug addict,
was an alcholic
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she was legally blind
she was schizophrenic
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But ..
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I never forget
that .. she did love me
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even if she did,
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All the time,
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All the time,
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All the time ...
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I hope you all know
how much I really need this
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how I can't go to college or anything without it
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she earned a 95 average and finished
at the top of her class of 150
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she did alot completly 4 years high school
in 2
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she did it while homeless
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her mother is dead
her father is a drug addict and living in shelters
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and anyway I can describe
this can't do justice to her accomplishments
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So, I'll just introduce to you
our sixths New York time schoolarship winner
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Liz Murray
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everything is changed,
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my life will never be the same
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and I don't know what else to say except for thank you
thank you very much
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Liz!
Liz, how did you do this?
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How could I not do it ..
my parents showed me
what the alternative was
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Didn't you even feel sorry for yourself
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Sorry?
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Sleeping in the subway,
eating out of dumpsters
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that had always been my life
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I really .. I feel that I get lucky
because any sensive security
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awas pulled out from under
so I was forced to look forward
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I had to ,
there was no going back
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And I reached the point
I just thought: Alrigth,
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I'm gonna work as hard as I possibly can
and see what happens
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And .. now I'm going to college
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and the New York Times
is going to pay
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So you were lucky ... but
is there anything you change
if you were able?
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Yes
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I'd give it back
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All of it
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If I could have my family back
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I got into harvard,
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I got a job at the New York Times,
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I got an apartment
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I don't have to carry my whole life with me any more
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I don't have to carry my whole life with me
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but I do ...
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Every one I have known,
Everything I have done
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pieces chip off,
I forget the little things
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I had still hard to carry
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alone
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so that's why I told you so,
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That's why I've told you my story
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Now I can lay that burden down,
put it dressed AND...
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and I can go on
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Hi, Mom
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Liz's father suffering from AIDS
and lives in his apartment
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Chris has a steady job and remained good friends with liz
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Liz pays the rent of her apartment
with the money she earned from making confrences
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Liz has left Harvard in the spring of 2003.
she continued her studies at college.
She is convinced that her path will come by itself.
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