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The Massachusetts Law Society
is so looking forward to your speech.

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They triple confirmed with me
that you were coming.

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I'm sorry. I'm just a bit preoccupied
with family matters.

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This wouldn't have anything to do
with why none of your family was present

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at the memorial for young Stearns,
would it?

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Sadly, yes. My son is behaving abominably,

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my wife has taken to bed,
and now even Emily is upset with me.

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Emily. Well…
She's always been a bit of a handful.

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Bit of a wild child, that one.

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I suppose.

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Well, I was going to keep this part
a secret till we got to Boston.

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But you look like someone
who might welcome some good news.

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What's that?

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Edward Dickinson,

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you won't just be giving a speech
at the Law Society tonight.

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In fact, you'll be greeted

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by the leaders
of the Massachusetts Republican Party,

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who plan to offer you the nomination
for the next Lieutenant Governor.

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Lieutenant Governor?

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-It's an honor.
-Indeed it is.

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I am thrilled
to get you back into politics

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and to leave
your stuffy Whig days behind you.

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Edward, think of it.
You'll be a Republican.

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At last,
you'll be on the right side of history.

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I'm afraid I cannot accept.

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Edward, you were made for this position.

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You are a pillar of Amherst,

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which is now one of the most pro-abolition
townships in the whole state.

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And you have a measured
and traditional approach to the law.

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I may have the credentials,
but I don't have the desire.

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I need to be in Amherst with my family,
not in Boston with Republicans.

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I beg you to take a moment to consider--

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My decision is final.

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-Geez.
-Stop the carriage!

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-What is this?
-I'm letting you out.

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Here? We're halfway to Boston.

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What about the meeting at the Law Society?

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-Edward, you never cease to disappoint me.
-Oh, God.

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You are a backwards-thinking,
stuck-in-the-mud, stuffy, old Whig.

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You simply cannot accept that the life
of this country is moving on.

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So I suppose that means
it will have to move on without you.

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So, get out. Now!

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-Edward Dickinson, you are a coward.
-What?

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And a milksop.

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And a mouse!

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-How?
-Now, driver!

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Conkey.

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Yes.

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All right, I am a mouse.

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But I need to get home
to my little mouse family.

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To know the worst
leaves no dread more -

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I wonder what she wants
to talk to us about.

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I don't know, but I guess it's urgent.

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I got a box
with a piece of cake inside of it

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on top of a note card
that said, "This is urgent."

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Yeah, I got one too.

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There she is.

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Emily. You wanted to see us?

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Brother, sister.

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Yes, I summoned you.
Thank you for heeding the call.

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Why is she talking like that?

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I summoned you because we have
a matter of great urgency to discuss,

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something that concerns the three of us
and our mutual future as siblings.

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Call it a sibling summit, if you will.

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-I will.
-I have no idea what's happening.

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William Austin Dickinson,
despite your recent efforts

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to establish a distance
between yourself and this family,

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the fact remains that no such separation
has officially or legally been created.

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Therefore, the family,
effectively and forthwith, remains intact.

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-Hence, consequently, and ergo--
-Ergo?

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Ergo, you are still our brother.
And you are still our father's only son.

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What in the world?

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Emily, whatever it is you're trying
to say, can you say it in a way

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that doesn't sound like we're on trial
for some very boring crime?

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Okay. Dad asked me
to be the executor of his will,

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and it turns out he is giving
everything to Austin, including us.

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What do you mean "including us"?

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When Dad dies,
Austin becomes our guardian.

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He gets the house, all the assets and us.
We are just another piece of property.

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Well, I mean, yeah. I figured.

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When you don't have a husband
and your father dies,

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you belong to your brother.

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It is a patriarchy after all.

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Okay. Well, I am not just gonna sit here

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and let my brother
take control of my life.

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I don't want to control your life.

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I don't even want to be
a part of this family.

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Dad messed all of us up.

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And I've got my hands full
dealing with my own personal trauma.

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-Yes, about that.
-Okay.

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Austin, you have spent
the past few months, shall we say,

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drawing our attention to all the ways
in which our father has failed us.

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And I am ready to admit now
that you were right.

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About what?

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Our father has been
a tremendous disappointment.

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-Yes.
-He has behaved exactly and at all times

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in accordance with contemporary
social expectations and norms,

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which is to say, he's been a real asshole.

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Yes, well, I'm glad you can see that now.

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I can.

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You were right. I was wrong.
I should've never chosen him over you.

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Wow.

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Okay. Thank you.

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And yet, here we are.

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With you next in line
to his patrimonial throne.

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And the two of us, powerless.

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-Your subjects.
-I truly don't see you that way.

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Which is why we are having
this conversation.

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-I need you to make a promise to us.
-What promise?

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That you will not allow history
to repeat itself.

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What exactly do you mean?

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The past is the past. It's gone.

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And there is nothing we can do
to change it.

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But if we are willing to face the past,

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then maybe-- maybe there is something
we can do about the future.

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So, Austin, will you promise us

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that you will not be
the same kind of man our father was…

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that no matter
what the laws of society say,

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as long as we live together,
you will treat us with respect

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and you will give us the freedom,
all the freedom that we deserve?

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Sisters…

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you can count on me.

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All right.

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On one condition.

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What?

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Vinnie has to get rid of her cats.

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-I agree. I hate those cats.
-No!

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-Just am not a cat person.
-Yeah, me neither.

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I am not getting rid of my cats, you guys.

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Vinnie, we spend $36 a week on milk
and cream. We can't afford that.

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Question: What is your position on foxes?

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-What?
-Never mind. It's not up to you.

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We are independent women, and you
just promised to always respect that.

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We will go over the details later?
Should we shake on it?

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Okay, I want to.

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Love you, big bro.

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I love you guys.

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It's honestly weird
not to be drowning in grief for a moment.

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Making the world a better place
one Dickinson at a time.

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Okay, Mom. Up and at 'em.

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It is a brand-new day. It's beautiful.

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And it's time for you to get out of bed.

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Leave me alone.

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Nope. I am here to cheer you up
and comfort you,

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whether you like it or not.

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Please don't jostle me.

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Mom, you need to be jostled.

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You have been in bed for over a week.

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I can't just let you lie here
and die of sadness.

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Plus, the house-- the house is dusty.

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We need you back on broom duty.
You're the broom queen.

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Flattery isn't going to work.

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I'm simply too riddled with grief
to go on living.

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There's a hole in my heart
that's never going to be filled.

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Could we talk about it?

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The only person I wanna talk to
is my sister Lavinia. And she's gone.

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You know, even when people die,
their spirits can stay with us.

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I'm telling you, I saw the spirit
of Aunt Lavinia at her funeral,

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in the shape of a bird.

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Come on. That's impossible.
She hated birds.

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-She did? I never knew that.
-Nobody knew my sister as well as I did.

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Nobody loved her like I did.
I miss her so much.

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Tell me what you miss.

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Everything.

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You know what I was thinking about today?

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The way she would slip her hand into mine
whenever we were next to each other.

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She did it ever since we were children.
No thought to it.

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Just as if we were meant to be conjoined.

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Go on. What else?

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The sound of her voice,
the jokes we shared,

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the way she could make me laugh.

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We always spoke the same language.
We were cut from the same cloth.

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She was at once part of me
and the person I wanted to be.

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That's having a sister, I guess.

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Yeah. I'm glad I have one.

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You and Lavinia are so lucky to be
growing old together under the same roof.

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I wish I had that experience,

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instead of leaving home as young as I did.

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Honestly,
sometimes I'm envious of you girls.

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Mom, I didn't know you felt that way.

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Your relationship with your sister
is the most precious one.

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Be grateful for every moment you share,

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because, one day,
she won't be there anymore.

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Mom, when was the last time
you cleaned this place?

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I don't know. Feels like forever. Why?

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Because I--

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I think I just saw a mouse!

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-Mouse? There's a mouse in my bedroom?
-Yes. Yes.

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Where is it? Where did it go?

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I just saw it. It's over there.
It ran into the corner.

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How is it that Vinnie has 500 cats,
and we still get mice?

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Haven't you girls been cleaning at all?
The house must be filthy.

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I'll get a broom. I'll chase it.

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-No. I just had a thought.
-What thought?

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My sister, your Aunt Lavinia,
she hated birds…

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-Yes, you mentioned that.
-…but she loved mice.

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She used to keep them as pets.

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She'd feed them cheese and name them after
all of her favorite fairy tale characters.

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-Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White.
-Cute.

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And sometimes, she'd play pranks on me
because she knew I was afraid of mice.

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-Once, she put one in my bed.
-Okay, rude.

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Emily, don't you see?

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That mouse,
I believe it's the ghost of Aunt Lavinia.

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Oh, my God.

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Mom, I think you're right.

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I'd know the ghost of my sister anywhere.

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That mouse has her exact vibe.

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I got her.

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Aunt Vinnie, is that you?

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-Don't hurt her.
-I'm not gonna hurt her.

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Mom, Aunt Vinnie is here with us.

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She's here to listen
to whatever you need to tell her.

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Go ahead.

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Sister?

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00:11:27,020 --> 00:11:28,814
Sweet Vinnie, is that really you?

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Talk to her, Mom. Let it out.

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I'm sorry that I left home so young.

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I'm sorry that we didn't have the chance
to grow old together.

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I'm sorry that having husbands
and children kept us apart.

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Keep going.
Mom, this is helping. I can feel it.

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You were the best friend I ever had.

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And I'll miss you every day
for the rest of my life.

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And now I'll let you go.

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There she goes.

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Those were the things
I wanted to say at her funeral,

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but I didn't get the chance to.

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She's heard you say them now.

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My heart still has a hole in it.

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But now there's
a little mouse that lives in the hole.

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Mom, that is so beautiful.

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I think I might put that in a poem.

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Really? That would make me very happy.

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Right. Time to get dressed
and sweep every inch of this house.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
Mrs. Dickinson is back!

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Austin. Good. You're here.
I just brought out the tea.

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Is somebody here?

237
00:13:06,245 --> 00:13:09,581
Yes. George Gould. He came to see you.

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George. Why are using
the fancy tea service for George?

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Hey, buddy.

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I came to say goodbye.

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George.

242
00:13:20,384 --> 00:13:21,677
A uniform.

243
00:13:22,719 --> 00:13:24,555
Just picked it up from the tailor's.

244
00:13:25,305 --> 00:13:26,306
Fit's just right.

245
00:13:26,890 --> 00:13:27,850
So you're--

246
00:13:28,809 --> 00:13:30,018
So you're off to fight?

247
00:13:30,102 --> 00:13:31,645
Yes, I am.

248
00:13:31,728 --> 00:13:33,772
I got my draft card a couple days ago.

249
00:13:34,523 --> 00:13:37,067
I'm joining the Massachusetts 21st.

250
00:13:37,776 --> 00:13:39,486
That's the same regiment as Frazar.

251
00:13:39,570 --> 00:13:41,154
May he rest in peace.

252
00:13:41,822 --> 00:13:42,906
Buddy,

253
00:13:43,907 --> 00:13:45,617
I can't believe this.

254
00:13:45,701 --> 00:13:47,911
The Union need all the men they can get.

255
00:13:47,995 --> 00:13:52,332
Every man in Amherst is getting drafted.
Cards come every day.

256
00:13:52,416 --> 00:13:54,126
I'm surprised
you haven't gotten yours yet.

257
00:13:54,209 --> 00:13:57,212
Yes. Well, I'm sure mine will come soon.

258
00:13:58,172 --> 00:13:59,256
Any day now.

259
00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:03,010
George Gould, you're very brave.

260
00:14:03,093 --> 00:14:04,469
Just doing my duty.

261
00:14:06,054 --> 00:14:08,765
I've been called to fight,
and I will fight.

262
00:14:08,849 --> 00:14:10,392
Because I believe in a better country,

263
00:14:11,560 --> 00:14:12,978
same as John Brown,

264
00:14:13,896 --> 00:14:14,897
same as Frazar.

265
00:14:16,815 --> 00:14:18,317
There's something I have to tell you.

266
00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:22,154
-Both of you.
-Austin. What is it?

267
00:14:23,071 --> 00:14:28,035
I've done something that I don't think
either of you can ever forgive me for.

268
00:14:29,161 --> 00:14:30,579
What could be so bad?

269
00:14:32,831 --> 00:14:35,125
I paid someone to go to war in my place.

270
00:14:36,585 --> 00:14:40,380
My draft card came, and a few days later,

271
00:14:40,464 --> 00:14:44,510
I went off to a bar, got drunk,

272
00:14:44,593 --> 00:14:48,847
and I paid the Irish bartender
to go in my place.

273
00:14:51,308 --> 00:14:55,354
It was later that day that
we found out that Frazar had been killed.

274
00:14:56,396 --> 00:14:57,397
I just--

275
00:14:59,191 --> 00:15:00,776
I couldn't leave him.

276
00:15:00,859 --> 00:15:02,110
Leave who?

277
00:15:02,194 --> 00:15:04,655
The baby. Our son.

278
00:15:07,741 --> 00:15:09,952
I want to be a good father.

279
00:15:10,452 --> 00:15:12,371
I don't want to be
the kind of father I had.

280
00:15:12,454 --> 00:15:14,498
I don't wanna be that kind of man.

281
00:15:14,581 --> 00:15:16,124
I wanna be different.

282
00:15:16,208 --> 00:15:18,168
And I want our son to be different too.

283
00:15:19,336 --> 00:15:24,508
And if I go off and leave him
and never come back,

284
00:15:25,509 --> 00:15:26,844
how will I teach him?

285
00:15:28,053 --> 00:15:29,763
How will I make sure

286
00:15:29,847 --> 00:15:32,808
that the future of the Dickinsons
is different from the past?

287
00:15:34,643 --> 00:15:39,356
Now, there's gonna be a dead Irishman
off in a field somewhere,

288
00:15:39,439 --> 00:15:42,484
and I'll be right here.

289
00:15:43,151 --> 00:15:44,194
A traitor.

290
00:15:44,903 --> 00:15:45,946
And coward.

291
00:15:46,738 --> 00:15:47,990
Austin.

292
00:15:49,741 --> 00:15:50,868
I understand.

293
00:15:50,951 --> 00:15:53,704
You don't have to say that, George.

294
00:15:53,787 --> 00:15:55,038
But I mean it.

295
00:15:57,165 --> 00:15:58,625
You've done what you've done.

296
00:15:59,293 --> 00:16:03,172
And there's no going back on it now,
but that doesn't mean all is lost.

297
00:16:03,255 --> 00:16:05,048
You can still make up for it.

298
00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:08,677
There is work to be done
in all corners of society.

299
00:16:09,386 --> 00:16:11,972
You don't have to go to war to be a man.

300
00:16:12,639 --> 00:16:16,435
You might find ways to make
this country better by staying right here,

301
00:16:17,477 --> 00:16:18,604
at home…

302
00:16:20,063 --> 00:16:21,857
while you're looking after your family.

303
00:16:26,862 --> 00:16:28,614
We left it all on the floor.

304
00:16:28,697 --> 00:16:30,199
Yes, we did.

305
00:16:30,282 --> 00:16:32,242
Some people want it to happen.

306
00:16:32,951 --> 00:16:34,620
-Others wish it would happen.
-Yeah.

307
00:16:34,703 --> 00:16:37,122
-And some people make it happen.
-That's right!

308
00:16:37,206 --> 00:16:39,082
-We made it happen.
-Yes!

309
00:16:39,166 --> 00:16:42,753
We turned a negative situation
into a positive situation.

310
00:16:42,836 --> 00:16:44,880
-We play to win!
-Yeah!

311
00:16:44,963 --> 00:16:46,840
Greatness is an evolutionary process.

312
00:16:48,008 --> 00:16:49,551
-I believe I can fly.
-Go, Michael Jordan.

313
00:16:49,635 --> 00:16:51,845
I believe you can fly too, Michael Jordan.

314
00:16:51,929 --> 00:16:53,055
I do too.

315
00:16:53,138 --> 00:16:55,557
In fact, I just saw it happen.

316
00:16:55,641 --> 00:16:57,643
We flew over those Southern boys.

317
00:16:58,143 --> 00:17:02,356
They never even saw us coming.
They just heard the sounds of our wings.

318
00:17:02,439 --> 00:17:04,566
-Henry, that's beautiful.
-We were like birds.

319
00:17:04,650 --> 00:17:08,237
Hell yeah, man.
We moved together. We flew together.

320
00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:10,614
Battlefield Boys for life! You hear me?

321
00:17:10,696 --> 00:17:12,366
-Battlefield Boys.
-You hear me?

322
00:17:12,449 --> 00:17:14,576
-A murmuration.
-A murmur-what?

323
00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:15,827
A murmuration.

324
00:17:15,911 --> 00:17:19,665
That's what you call a flock of birds
that flies synchronistically.

325
00:17:20,290 --> 00:17:23,752
Starlings are the classic example,
but geese have been known to do it too.

326
00:17:23,836 --> 00:17:27,089
-Henry, have a drink.
-Hey! There you are!

327
00:17:27,172 --> 00:17:28,382
We ain't in class no more.

328
00:17:29,508 --> 00:17:31,385
Everybody! There you are!

329
00:17:32,010 --> 00:17:34,346
-Holy shit! That was epic.
-What the hell?

330
00:17:34,429 --> 00:17:35,973
-Look who's here.
-You all right there, Colonel?

331
00:17:36,056 --> 00:17:37,266
Yes, I'm just--

332
00:17:39,309 --> 00:17:41,353
It's been an emotional 24 hours.

333
00:17:43,814 --> 00:17:46,525
As soon as I realized what you'd done,
I feared you were all dead.

334
00:17:47,693 --> 00:17:50,070
No. We not dead. They dead.

335
00:17:52,406 --> 00:17:54,032
I'm sorry, sir,

336
00:17:54,741 --> 00:17:58,120
but in the end, we decided to go ahead
and create our own future.

337
00:17:58,203 --> 00:18:01,290
So I see. And what a victory you have won.

338
00:18:01,373 --> 00:18:03,208
It's incredible.

339
00:18:03,292 --> 00:18:05,502
Though I will say
you caused quite a stir back at the base.

340
00:18:05,586 --> 00:18:07,421
Saxton doesn't know what to do
other than yell at me.

341
00:18:07,504 --> 00:18:08,839
We never meant to cause you trouble.

342
00:18:08,922 --> 00:18:11,508
Please. You reminded me
how much I miss being a troublemaker.

343
00:18:12,467 --> 00:18:14,428
I'm a reformer, not a conformer.

344
00:18:15,429 --> 00:18:21,268
To be honest, I actually feel like--
like I lost my way a little bit,

345
00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:24,688
which is why
I'm going to be taking a sabbatical.

346
00:18:24,771 --> 00:18:25,689
A "sababa"?

347
00:18:26,398 --> 00:18:27,649
A sabbatical?

348
00:18:27,733 --> 00:18:30,861
Yes, I have much to ponder,
much to reflect on.

349
00:18:30,944 --> 00:18:34,114
And I'll be taking some time off
to do that.

350
00:18:34,198 --> 00:18:35,199
While I'm gone,

351
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:37,451
you'll be in charge.

352
00:18:37,534 --> 00:18:39,203
I've decided to make you a sergeant.

353
00:18:39,286 --> 00:18:40,329
I'm sorry.

354
00:18:40,412 --> 00:18:43,874
-Me? In charge?
-Yes, you.

355
00:18:43,957 --> 00:18:46,043
You've more than proved yourself.
Don't you think, guys?

356
00:18:46,126 --> 00:18:47,794
-Hey!
-Who could be better?

357
00:18:48,545 --> 00:18:49,630
-Yeah.
-Henry.

358
00:18:49,713 --> 00:18:53,926
Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry, Henry!

359
00:18:54,009 --> 00:18:55,427
Go ahead, Alphabet!

360
00:18:55,511 --> 00:18:57,262
-Hey!
-It's settled.

361
00:19:02,476 --> 00:19:03,769
And where will you go?

362
00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:07,689
Home, Boston town. But first, Amherst.

363
00:19:07,773 --> 00:19:08,774
Amherst?

364
00:19:08,857 --> 00:19:13,111
Yes. There's someone there
that I just have to meet.

365
00:19:13,195 --> 00:19:15,030
A poet whose words have brought me

366
00:19:15,113 --> 00:19:17,199
so much comfort and clarity
during these bitter months.

367
00:19:17,282 --> 00:19:18,283
Her name's Emily Dickinson.

368
00:19:19,993 --> 00:19:22,162
Henry, what is it?
You look like you've seen a ghost.

369
00:19:22,246 --> 00:19:23,789
I know Emily Dickinson.

370
00:19:25,249 --> 00:19:27,835
-What?
-I used to work for her family.

371
00:19:27,918 --> 00:19:30,295
Wait.
You're telling me that this whole time,

372
00:19:30,379 --> 00:19:32,631
I've been with someone
who knows this person?

373
00:19:32,714 --> 00:19:34,675
Somebody who's actually been
in her presence?

374
00:19:34,758 --> 00:19:39,096
This genius who-- who captured emotions
that I didn't even know I possessed?

375
00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:41,598
Her lines still haunt me.

376
00:19:42,224 --> 00:19:43,475
Check this out.

377
00:19:44,184 --> 00:19:46,061
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -

378
00:19:46,144 --> 00:19:47,646
In Corners - till a Day

379
00:19:48,272 --> 00:19:50,566
The Owner passed - identified -

380
00:19:50,649 --> 00:19:51,817
And carried Me away -

381
00:19:51,900 --> 00:19:54,945
-Okay. God dang.
-Some white girl wrote that?

382
00:19:55,028 --> 00:19:56,071
She spittin'.

383
00:19:56,154 --> 00:19:57,948
Henry, honestly, you have to tell me.

384
00:19:58,031 --> 00:19:59,199
What is she like?

385
00:20:00,492 --> 00:20:04,454
You know, you should really
discover that for yourself.

386
00:20:05,205 --> 00:20:07,040
-You're absolutely right.
-Yeah.

387
00:20:07,124 --> 00:20:08,792
All the more reason
for me to leave at once.

388
00:20:09,835 --> 00:20:11,128
Higginson, wait.

389
00:20:11,211 --> 00:20:12,421
Yeah?

390
00:20:12,504 --> 00:20:14,089
If you're going to Amherst,

391
00:20:15,090 --> 00:20:17,217
there's something I need you to do for me.

392
00:20:22,806 --> 00:20:24,725
Well, would you look at that?

393
00:20:27,436 --> 00:20:28,604
Beautiful.

394
00:20:28,687 --> 00:20:29,688
Wow.

395
00:20:32,566 --> 00:20:35,152
I'll tell y'all,
now that I learned how to fly…

396
00:20:35,235 --> 00:20:38,113
Yeah? Go on, tell us.

397
00:20:39,531 --> 00:20:41,033
I'll never walk again.

398
00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:06,391
Emily.

399
00:21:06,475 --> 00:21:07,976
I came to see you.

400
00:21:09,144 --> 00:21:10,145
Come in.

401
00:21:11,063 --> 00:21:12,105
You have guests.

402
00:21:12,814 --> 00:21:16,818
Austin invited some people over
to say goodbye.

403
00:21:17,486 --> 00:21:18,820
Goodbye to who?

404
00:21:20,656 --> 00:21:23,116
George. He's going to war.

405
00:21:23,825 --> 00:21:25,494
Not George too.

406
00:21:31,124 --> 00:21:33,043
Well, I wanna say bye to him then,

407
00:21:34,127 --> 00:21:36,171
but I want some time alone
with you tonight.

408
00:21:37,005 --> 00:21:38,131
All right.

409
00:21:38,215 --> 00:21:42,636
Is there something specific
that you want to talk about or…

410
00:21:42,719 --> 00:21:43,720
There is,

411
00:21:44,346 --> 00:21:45,931
but it can't be said in words.

412
00:21:46,014 --> 00:21:48,308
Emily. Emily, the guests.

413
00:21:49,726 --> 00:21:51,228
The two of us.

414
00:21:51,854 --> 00:21:53,605
Okay? Tonight.

415
00:21:59,111 --> 00:22:02,614
"Come, let's have one other gaudy night.

416
00:22:02,698 --> 00:22:04,741
Call to me, all my sad captains.

417
00:22:04,825 --> 00:22:06,410
Fill our bowls once more.

418
00:22:06,952 --> 00:22:08,579
Let's mock the midnight bell."

419
00:22:08,662 --> 00:22:10,414
That's from Shakespeare Club.

420
00:22:11,957 --> 00:22:13,917
Let's party, my platonic friend.

421
00:22:57,336 --> 00:22:59,046
Watch me.

422
00:23:47,219 --> 00:23:48,220
Helen!

423
00:23:49,096 --> 00:23:50,472
Come on in, honey.

424
00:23:51,390 --> 00:23:52,516
Dinner's hot.

425
00:24:00,399 --> 00:24:02,276
What on earth?

426
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:03,527
Betty.

427
00:24:04,194 --> 00:24:05,279
Good evening.

428
00:24:05,863 --> 00:24:07,990
Mr. Dickinson, what happened to you?

429
00:24:08,073 --> 00:24:09,908
You look like
you've been living underground.

430
00:24:09,992 --> 00:24:11,535
Well, I'm all right. I'm all right.

431
00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:15,706
I was thrown from a carriage
halfway to Boston.

432
00:24:15,789 --> 00:24:17,666
So I decided to walk home, but I'm fine.

433
00:24:17,749 --> 00:24:19,168
Your coat is in tatters.

434
00:24:19,251 --> 00:24:20,794
You must be starving.

435
00:24:20,878 --> 00:24:23,755
Would you-- Would you like a bowl of soup?

436
00:24:23,839 --> 00:24:25,591
No, no, no. You're too kind.

437
00:24:25,674 --> 00:24:27,718
It's meatball soup. Very hearty.

438
00:24:28,302 --> 00:24:29,678
Meatball soup?

439
00:24:29,761 --> 00:24:31,263
Why don't you come on in?

440
00:24:31,346 --> 00:24:33,724
There's plenty of food.
I'll mend your coat for you.

441
00:24:33,807 --> 00:24:36,226
You can't go home to Mrs. Dickinson
looking like that.

442
00:24:36,727 --> 00:24:39,104
Hi, Mama.
I was playing fairies in the woods.

443
00:24:39,646 --> 00:24:42,774
-She has quite the imagination, this one.
-That's just like my Emily.

444
00:24:42,858 --> 00:24:45,027
Mr. Dickinson's gonna come eat
some soup with us.

445
00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:47,154
-No, I--
-Now, you hush.

446
00:24:47,237 --> 00:24:49,281
I can't let a man go hungry.

447
00:24:49,364 --> 00:24:51,074
He can sit in Daddy's chair.

448
00:24:52,159 --> 00:24:53,493
She misses her father.

449
00:24:53,577 --> 00:24:55,120
Yes. Well, I'm sure he misses you.

450
00:24:56,371 --> 00:25:00,375
Being a father
is one of the greatest gifts in the world.

451
00:25:02,878 --> 00:25:04,338
So, yeah.

452
00:25:04,421 --> 00:25:07,674
I've been working
on a new performance piece about grief.

453
00:25:08,759 --> 00:25:11,637
We've all been processing so much grief,
you know?

454
00:25:12,262 --> 00:25:15,140
We've lost loved ones.
And we've lost more than that.

455
00:25:17,017 --> 00:25:18,560
We've lost an old world.

456
00:25:19,228 --> 00:25:21,063
We've lost the way things used to be.

457
00:25:22,397 --> 00:25:24,983
So, what's the new piece?

458
00:25:25,067 --> 00:25:26,318
Yeah, it sounds amazing.

459
00:25:26,401 --> 00:25:28,779
Well, it's site-specific.

460
00:25:28,862 --> 00:25:31,657
I do it in the barn with a dying sheep.

461
00:25:31,740 --> 00:25:32,950
Not Old Bessie?

462
00:25:33,033 --> 00:25:33,867
Yes.

463
00:25:34,618 --> 00:25:37,412
-No.
-I sit across from Old Bessie,

464
00:25:38,580 --> 00:25:42,084
and I stare into her eyes,
and I think about death.

465
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,421
I picture the sheep slowly dying,

466
00:25:47,381 --> 00:25:50,217
her body slowly decomposing,

467
00:25:50,926 --> 00:25:52,970
her eyeballs popping out of their sockets

468
00:25:53,053 --> 00:25:55,597
just as Joseph's eyeballs
must have popped out,

469
00:25:56,139 --> 00:25:57,391
one by one.

470
00:25:57,474 --> 00:25:59,476
Pop! Pop.

471
00:26:00,727 --> 00:26:05,315
I meditate on the basic reality
that one day we will all be dust.

472
00:26:07,442 --> 00:26:08,944
It's called Sheep No More.

473
00:26:09,653 --> 00:26:12,239
It's dedicated to the memory
of all my dead ex-boyfriends.

474
00:26:12,823 --> 00:26:14,867
Wish I was sticking around
long enough to see that.

475
00:26:16,159 --> 00:26:17,494
There is no audience.

476
00:26:17,578 --> 00:26:18,871
I do love sheep.

477
00:26:19,538 --> 00:26:22,499
These years of war have really
changed all of us, haven't they?

478
00:26:22,583 --> 00:26:26,420
Yeah. Sometimes I feel like
we've inherited a totally different world

479
00:26:26,503 --> 00:26:27,713
from the one our parents knew.

480
00:26:27,796 --> 00:26:29,173
Maybe that's a good thing.

481
00:26:29,256 --> 00:26:30,757
The world is messed up, but…

482
00:26:32,176 --> 00:26:34,928
I think we can all find ways
to make it better,

483
00:26:35,012 --> 00:26:36,597
even if just a little bit.

484
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,348
I wanna believe that, George.

485
00:26:39,016 --> 00:26:42,436
And I don't know what my way is yet,
but I'm gonna find it.

486
00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:44,688
And whenever you come back home, I--

487
00:26:44,771 --> 00:26:47,149
You'll be proud of what I've done.

488
00:26:47,232 --> 00:26:50,819
Well, then, I hope I come back.

489
00:26:52,529 --> 00:26:54,364
The way Hope builds his House

490
00:26:55,532 --> 00:26:57,367
It is not with a sill -

491
00:26:57,451 --> 00:26:59,995
Nor Rafter - has that Edifice

492
00:27:00,078 --> 00:27:01,371
But only Pinnacle -

493
00:27:02,122 --> 00:27:03,707
Look on the bright side, George.

494
00:27:03,790 --> 00:27:08,086
Now that you've enlisted,
you'll receive a free copy of Drumbeat,

495
00:27:08,170 --> 00:27:11,006
the Union Army newsletter
my husband and I publish

496
00:27:11,089 --> 00:27:13,800
with the help of Abraham Lincoln himself.

497
00:27:13,884 --> 00:27:14,885
The President.

498
00:27:14,968 --> 00:27:19,348
Here. I happen to have
a spare copy right here.

499
00:27:19,431 --> 00:27:21,892
And Emily has a poem in this one.

500
00:27:22,976 --> 00:27:24,019
A poem?

501
00:27:24,102 --> 00:27:27,189
Oops, I mean, anonymous does.

502
00:27:28,190 --> 00:27:29,525
I don't understand.

503
00:27:29,608 --> 00:27:33,529
Emily, I gave them one of your poems.

504
00:27:34,196 --> 00:27:36,448
You… did?

505
00:27:36,532 --> 00:27:39,785
I said it had to be anonymous.
I knew that you'd want it that way.

506
00:27:40,744 --> 00:27:44,289
But your work is so powerful.

507
00:27:44,373 --> 00:27:47,251
And I just felt
like the country needed it.

508
00:27:50,712 --> 00:27:52,172
Will you forgive me?

509
00:27:54,925 --> 00:27:58,720
Hey, you should read it to us.

510
00:27:59,471 --> 00:28:00,681
That would be huge.

511
00:28:00,764 --> 00:28:04,101
-Yes. A poem by Emily.
-She won't do it.

512
00:28:04,184 --> 00:28:07,145
-She never reads aloud.
-Emily, do it. Just this once.

513
00:28:07,229 --> 00:28:08,564
Would you, Em?

514
00:28:08,647 --> 00:28:10,440
It'd be the greatest goodbye gift for me,

515
00:28:11,066 --> 00:28:12,901
to have your voice in my head while I'm…

516
00:28:13,902 --> 00:28:14,903
out there.

517
00:28:18,949 --> 00:28:19,950
I'll do it.

518
00:28:21,368 --> 00:28:22,661
I'll do it for all of you.

519
00:28:26,707 --> 00:28:28,083
But mostly for Sue.

520
00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:38,010
These are the days when Birds come back -

521
00:28:41,221 --> 00:28:42,347
a very few -

522
00:28:43,390 --> 00:28:45,184
a Bird or two -

523
00:28:46,351 --> 00:28:48,020
To take a backward look.

524
00:28:51,064 --> 00:28:52,733
These are the days

525
00:28:53,358 --> 00:28:54,610
when skies resume

526
00:28:55,569 --> 00:28:57,613
The old - old sophistries of June -

527
00:28:59,448 --> 00:29:01,825
A blue and gold mistake.

528
00:29:03,368 --> 00:29:06,038
Oh fraud that cannot cheat the Bee.

529
00:29:06,121 --> 00:29:07,831
almost thy plausibility

530
00:29:07,915 --> 00:29:09,875
Induces my belief.

531
00:29:10,876 --> 00:29:13,545
Till ranks of seeds their witness bear -

532
00:29:14,505 --> 00:29:17,883
and softly thro' the altered air

533
00:29:17,966 --> 00:29:20,219
Hurries a timid leaf.

534
00:29:24,389 --> 00:29:26,517
Oh Sacrament of summer days,

535
00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,102
Oh Last Communion in the Haze - Permit

536
00:29:29,186 --> 00:29:30,812
a child to join -

537
00:29:36,944 --> 00:29:38,987
Thy sacred emblems to partake -

538
00:29:40,781 --> 00:29:42,824
Thy consecrated bread to take

539
00:29:46,078 --> 00:29:48,038
and thine immortal wine!

540
00:29:54,086 --> 00:29:56,255
Thank you for publishing my poem.

541
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,383
Thank you for writing it.

542
00:30:04,221 --> 00:30:06,056
You know, this…

543
00:30:07,724 --> 00:30:09,017
this right here…

544
00:30:11,019 --> 00:30:13,021
this is better than any poem.

545
00:30:36,211 --> 00:30:37,963
All the letters I can write

546
00:30:41,425 --> 00:30:43,468
Are not fair as this -

547
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,518
Syllables of Velvet -

548
00:30:57,441 --> 00:30:59,693
Sentences of Plush,

549
00:31:32,601 --> 00:31:35,562
depths of Ruby, undrained,

550
00:31:37,231 --> 00:31:39,816
Hid, Lip, for Thee -

551
00:31:42,069 --> 00:31:44,321
Play it were a Humming Bird -

552
00:31:46,532 --> 00:31:49,159
And just sipped - me -