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[BOYS SPEAKING QUIETLY]
Don't look at her. Just pretend we're talking...

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Here she comes!

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[BOY BANGS SIDE OF CAR WITH HAND]

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BOYS: Miss! Stop the car. 
Miss! Stop the car Miss.

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- Fuckin' Jonah, Miss.
- Miss, look what you've done. Look!

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Miss, you killed him.
MISS: Are you alright?

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- Miss, call an ambulance.
[ALL SHOUTING]

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Jonah, get up!

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Ah, Miss, you got punk'd! We punk'd you.
[CHEERING, CLAPPING]

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Sucked in, Miss.

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You boys will all be
seeing Miss Murray today.

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And this is not funny. 
Now get out of the way.

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It was a joke, Miss. Can't you take a joke?

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You got your period or what, Miss?

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MISS: Out of the way!

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JONAH: It was one of our best ever, boys!

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[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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JONAH: Watch out.

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In addition to the other ones.

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Oh look, it's the Islander boys, late
again. Why is it always you lot?

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My leg hurts, Miss. It took me ages to get here.

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Oh Jonah, it was the other leg yesterday.

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Could you make up your mind please?
JONAH: Bullshit!

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JONAH: It wasn't. Ask him if you don't
believe me. I hurt it kicking the wall.

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JONAH (interview): People always say I'm disruptive...

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- Miss, I don't want to sit next to Troy. He's a homo.
MISS: Sit next to Troy!

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JONAH (interview): ...but they don't even
know that I'm just trying to make things

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more fun and more interactive.

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[LOUD TAPPING SOUND]

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JONAH (interview): Kids in the class don't
even care because they're doing their work

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and they're concentrating and it's
boring and all of a sudden they get a joke

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and they just get a little break
from their work and they get to laugh.

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So if that's being disruptive then 'fuck you'.

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That's not disruptive, that's entertainment.

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JONAH: I'm just getting the worksheet Miss.
Let me do some work for once.

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MISS: Do it quietly thank you.

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JONAH: I'm doing it quietly.

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There you go, Homo.

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MISS: Don't use... Jonah, do not 
use that word in this class thank you.

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Why not? It's an English word. 
This is an English class isn't it?

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DOUG (welfare teacher):
Jonah now has a contract.

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I got Jonah to come up with a list of promises

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that he thought he could fulfil

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in areas where he felt that he could
make an improvement in himself.

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So we've got behavioural promises 
and academic objectives

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and it works remarakably well.
MISS: No no no no. Sit down!

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I just want to sit next to
Leon. I'll learn more.

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MISS: Sit over there, now!

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Puck you, Miss.

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Beg your pardon!?

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I said 'puck you', with a 'p'.

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Don't you even know how to spell, Miss?
MISS: I know what you meant.

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JONAH (interview): I have to do all the work 
required in class and respect all teachers.

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JONAH: I like what you're wearing, Miss.

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Looks nice on you.
Is that from Sussan's?

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Jonah, what does your contract
say about talking in class?

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DOUG: It gives him a boundary.

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See, he knows when he stepped outside of 
the rules because he made the rules.

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MISS: Jonah, cap off,
balls on the ground now!

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Okay Miss.

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MISS: What are you doing?

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You said put my balls on the ground...
MISS: Get up off the ground. Get up.


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But my balls are on the ground Miss, look.
[LAUGHTER]


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Get up off the ground.
JONAH: Stop molesting my arm.

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I am not...

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It's his own authority
that he created, you know.

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He's not letting anybody
else down except himself.

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Excuse me class, I'm looking for two strong boys
for 10 minutes to help me move some stuff.

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Sir, sir, pick me. Pick me sir,
please. Please, Please.

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DOUG: Troy and Cameron.

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JONAH: Puck you, Sir.

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Excuse me Jonah?

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I said 'puck you' Sir.

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Well Jonah, you're going to have to go
and sit outside Miss Murray's office.

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Why, Sir?

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And you've broken your contract. Well done.

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DOUG: I organise various programs. 
This one is directed towards our Islander kids

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and I've called it Polynesian Pathways.

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Okay, hurry in, everybody get a seat.

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DOUG (interview): We're offering alternate
pathways in life for the Islander kids

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to help steer them away from the
deadly spiral of unemployment,

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crime and drug abuse.

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JONAH: You got a girl one.
Joseph got a girl one.

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DOUG: Jonah's responding,
you know, very well.

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He's sort of relishing the opportunity
of displaying his traditional culture.

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JONAH: I'm not wearin this
shit in front of anyone, Sir.

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I fuckin' hate Polynesian Pathways.

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It's fucked up. They make you dance like a homo.

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And we have to do this performance in assembly.

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LUKE: You two stop pissing around.

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I'm not pissing. He keeps trying....

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JONAH: I fuckin' hate it.

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DOUG: We've got a special
guest speaker today.

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Now, Luke is Samoan and
he has been in gaol.


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LUKE: If you fuck up in school you're 
gonna fuck up in life. That's fucked.

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JONAH: Were there girls in your gaol?
[LAUGHTER]

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You're going to end up 
being my girl in a minute.

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[TRADITIONAL MUSIC]

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DOUG: There's career options,
anger issues, development stuff....

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DOUG: Man boobs.

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What are they? Where do they come from?

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DOUG: ...and a strand on 
modern music and hip hop.

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JONAH SINGING HIP HOP STYLE: 
We are Tongan. Come from the islands.

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Respect your culture ... mother fucker.

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DOUG: This is a chance for them
to celebrate their culture

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and also to show them that
we celebrate their culture.

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So when is this shit over?

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JOSEPH: Gumnut Cottage.

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It's a little place where you go
to learn how to read and crap.

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For remedial reading.

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THOMAS: People who have
no nuts usually go there.

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JOSEPH: Call it gumnut no nuts because
if you go there it means you've got no nuts.

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Jonah and Leon go there.

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JONAH: He goes there. Leon
goes there. I don't go there.

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LEON: I don't go there.
JOSEPH: Yous both go there.

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JONAH: Bullshit! I don't fuckin' go
there. Your mum goes there.

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Shut up.

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LEON: I saw you last time there.

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I don't fuckin' go to Gumnut Cottage.

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JAN (teacher): Jonah attends Gumnut Cottage
5 periods a week for remedial reading.

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Jared felt what with Jane?

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Oh, Miss Miss Miss Miss Miss.

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Okay, Jonah.

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Pissed off?

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No.

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JAN (interview): One of the goals
that Jonah has written into his

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Polynesian Pathways contract

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is that he wants to be able to learn to read

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by the end of the year...

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JAN: How many?
- 2.5 Miss



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JAN: And at the moment he is
reading at about an 8 year old level,

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which, that's not unusual,
particularly for boys.

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JAN: Sound it out.
JONAH: C...

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JAN: S...Cir...
JONAH: Surfing.

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JAN: No, cir...cus.
JONAH: It starts with a fuckin' C.

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JAN: Yeah, 's'.

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JONAH: Reading is the main thing
I want to do in my contract

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because if I could learn to read then
I could read books all day. I could just...

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I could read like, Harry Potter in a day.

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JAN: What might you find at a circus? 
The eleph.... Yeah, come on.

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JONAH: Clowns!
JAN: What's that word?

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I dunno.

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JAN: Okay, so sound it out.
JONAH: I don't wanna sound it out.

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JAN: I want you to sound it out.
JONAH: Maybe I don't want to.

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Well that's what we're doing 
at the moment, we're reading.

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JONAH: Too slow. You're too slow.

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JAN (interview): Jonah's 
quite erratic in his approach.

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He's all enthusiasm and all
guns blazing one minute,

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and then the next minute he can snap 
and I'm the worst person in the world

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and it's "fuck this" and "fuck that".

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JONAH: It's bullshit children's book!
I don't feel like I want to read it anyway.

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JAN (interview): That's the intriquing
thing about Jonah and you know,

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it's the thing that I love about Jonah too; 
you never know what you're going to get.

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JONAH: Why don't you fuckin'
kill yourself you bitch!

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JONAH (interview): Miss Palmer's alright.

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She's one of the maddest
teachers in the whole school.

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She's better than any other teacher here.

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JAN: Jared was ....
JONAH: Wanking.

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JAN: Pardon?
JONAH: Wanking?

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JONAH (interview): Sometimes
I give her electric shocks.

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Like you do the old feet on 
the ground like this, like that,

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and then when Miss goes 
past I go, "Miss" and touch her

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and it gives her an electric shock 
and she just laughs at me.

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JAN: Silently means quietly.

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- Silently means stop talking, Miss
- Exactly.

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JONAH (interview): She's got a good
sense of humour but she appreciates me.

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JAN (interview): I think Jonah really 
really does want to learn

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and ah, he really wants to
be able to learn to read.

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JONAH: Miss! Miss! Look at this. Look.

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It's better on the mat, Miss. 
I'll show you at lunch.

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- Okay.
- See ya, Miss.

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- See ya.
- Come find me at the amphitheatre.

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JAN: How do you spell amphitheatre?

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I'm out of the room Miss, I'm 
not spelling. Sucked into you.

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See ya, Miss.