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Take some advice
from a kid who knows.

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If you swipe your birth certificate
from City Hall and make a run for it,

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security guards are definitely
going to chase you.

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I had no choice.

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I was righting a whopper of a wrong
done unto me by none other than…

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my own parents.

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I just wanna be
You just wanna be

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We just wanna be

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I am gonna be who I wanna be

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My autonomy

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No, I won't cut my hair

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And I'll wear whatever

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I like it when I get to be myself

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I don't wanna be
You don't wanna be

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We don't wanna be told what to do

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To understand how I found myself
in the clutches of the law,

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it's best to start here, on a day
that's pretty sacred to a writer and spy.

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New notebook day.

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So far in my life,
I've filled a total of 12 notebooks.

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College-ruled, so you know
I'm not messing around.

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I filled the last one in record time.

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I like Mrs. Plumber.

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But if I was one of her dogs,
and had to wear an outfit like that,

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I would force her to wear one too.

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Finished.

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Are you excited to
crack that thing open, Harriet?

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Absolutely.

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I bet I'll fill this monkey up
in three months.

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No, two months. Maybe one.

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Greetings, Mr. Horatio.
How are you this fine Tuesday?

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-Take your seat, Harriet.
-Gladly.

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Ole Golly taught me
to never crack the spine of a book.

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But a notebook? It's your brain, heart
and guts on paper.

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So if you wanna make it messy,
messy it up.

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Except for one part:

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signing your name.

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The coup de grâce moment
of a new notebook.

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One goof up, and it's messed up forever.

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And this is the final journal
Harriet M. Welsch filled

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right before she wrote
the world's greatest novel.

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Wow.

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-Fascinating.
-I've read it.

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You'll see that her name is
written perfectly,

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indicating, of course,

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that she would go on to become
the world's greatest writer.

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A classmate of Harriet's,
Marion Hawthorne,

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did not fare as well.

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After failing as a writer,
she had to settle for being the president.

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Who cares if she brought world peace
and gave feelings to robots?

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Look at how she wrote her name.

51
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That's awful.

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Hey, Harriet. I've always wondered,
what's the "M" stand for?

53
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Oh, it's just an "M."
It doesn't stand for anything.

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That's a little weird.

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-You don't have a middle name?
-Nope.

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Who has a middle initial
but no middle name?

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Harriet M, "period" Welsch, that's who.

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Wait, I thought you used to write it
without a period.

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I don't think so.

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I think you did.

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You don't even remember
how to write your own name?

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It's always been "M, period."
End of sentence, end of story. Period.

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Unfortunately,
it wasn't the end of the story.

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It was just the beginning.

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"M, period."

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Just "M."

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Just "M."

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"M, period."

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How could I be a future famous writer
when I didn't even know who I really was?

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An "M, no period," or an "M, period"?

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In a startling development,
our archaeologist discovered

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that the famed writer, Harriet M. Welsch,
sometimes wrote her middle initial "M"

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and sometimes "M, period."

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What does it mean?

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Well, most likely, it means that
Harriet M. Welsch never truly existed,

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rather was a pen name kept by

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the amazing writer,
President Marion Hawthorne.

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Mom, Dad.

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Am I "Harriet M, period Welsch"
or "Harriet M, no period Welsch"?

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I need to know now!

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-Why, "M, period," of course.
-Just "M, no period."

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Honey, it's supposed to be
"M, period," because--

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Well…

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No, it's just "M." No period.

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How do you two not know?
You gave me my name!

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Well, it's complicated.

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We need to tell her, Carol.

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You see, Harriet, when I was
filling out your birth certificate…

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we didn't want to give you a middle name.

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But then we had a little glitch.

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Dang pen. Gotta get the ink going.

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I didn't think anything of it,
but apparently

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they put that little scribble
into the system as an "M." No period.

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So, I'm a scribble?

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Her middle name was really
an "M" scribble?

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It's no wonder that she never
amounted to much of anything.

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Not like the greatest writer-president
in the history of the known universe.

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Marion Angelina Hawthorne.

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In Greek, "Angelina" means
"messenger" and "angel."

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Hip-hip-hooray! Hooray!
Hip-hip-hooray! Hooray!

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Hip-hip-hooray! Hooray!

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Why didn't you try to fix it?

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By the time we figured it out,

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I guess we decided
we liked the "M," so we kept it.

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It's really not as bad as you think.

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You're right. It's worse.

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I can't be a writer with a scribble
for a middle name.

108
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Ole Golly, what's your middle name?

109
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Willa. Like Willa Cather, the writer.

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Now that is a beautiful middle name.

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The next morning,
I wasn't even mad anymore.

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Just down, really down.
Even the funnies weren't helping.

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Say, Harriet--

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Please, call me "Scribble."
I should start getting used to it.

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We're sorry, dear.
We didn't know it would make you so upset.

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And we want to make it right.

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It's a book of baby names. We thought--

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We thought you could choose
an "M" name for yourself.

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Then we'll all go right down to City Hall
to change it in your records.

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Harriet "M, period"-- because now
it stands for something-- Welsch.

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As much as I wanted to keep moping,

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the book was a tempting solution.

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But I needed to consult some
top-level experts before I made a move.

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-Harriet…
-Scribble…

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Welsch?

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Hey. This is serious.
I don't even know who I am anymore.

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Am I still a spy? Do I still like
tomato sandwiches? Hang on.

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Okay, that part of me is still good.

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Wait, I'm confused.
What's wrong with being a scribble?

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I think "Harriet Scribble Welsch"
is pretty great.

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Janie, have you ever heard of a writer
with "Scribble" for a middle name?

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Would you read a book
by Louisa "Scribble" Alcott?

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Yes, probably twice.

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My parents want me to pick
my own "M" middle name from this book.

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Should I even bother?

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You get to pick your own middle name?

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You should absolutely bother.

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All we have to do is find the "M" name
that just screams you.

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We started off with "Melanie."

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Then a "Mae."

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A "Margaux."

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A "Mordecai."

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Ha-ha!

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And saving the worst for last,
the "Merlin."

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Bee!

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Another egg cream, Darby.

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I think you've had enough for today,
young lady.

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Darby, I'm a growing girl.

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Please don't mess with
my egg cream intake, or I'll bite you!

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Okay, I'm just gonna say it.

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I still don't see what's wrong
with "Scribble."

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I've seen the future of
Harriet "M Scribble" Welsch,

153
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and it ain't pretty.

154
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There are snooty bionic robots,
and Marion's the president.

155
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I think Darby's right.
You have had too many egg creams.

156
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Thanks for trying.

157
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But maybe I'm just not cut out
to be an "M" middle name person.

158
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Yeah, what if you're really not?

159
00:10:16,534 --> 00:10:17,619
What do you mean?

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That scribble your dad made
on the birth certificate,

161
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has anyone ever really looked at it?

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How do we know it really
looks like an "M"?

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We don't. You're right.

164
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It could look like a completely
different letter. Gotta check this out.

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Friends, this is a journey to
the deepest reaches of my soul.

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I gotta go solo.

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If she doesn't want "Scribble,"
I'm taking it.

168
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I arrived at City Hall
ready for the moment of truth.

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Ready to see who I really was. Ready to--

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Stand in a line longer than
the Mississippi River.

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Rats and double rats!

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00:11:09,504 --> 00:11:13,508
This isn't funny, kid.
I don't know what my middle name is.

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That clerk looks like
a grown-up Pinky Whitehead.

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Maybe it's a future Pinky,
sent back through time to 1964

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on a daring mission to make the line go
as slowly as possible.

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A little tip.

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Next time you have a question,

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you can avoid the line
by calling that number.

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It was a number that gave me
a big idea.

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One that would require
the guts, skill and cunning

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that only a legendary spy could pull off.

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Scuse me for a moment.

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City Hall name registry. Charles speaking.

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Hello, Charles. My name is Carol Welsch,
yes, the Carol Welsch,

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and I'm stupendously busy today,
so I'm sending my wonderful daughter

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to review her birth certificate.

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Okay, ma'am, I think--

188
00:12:29,668 --> 00:12:34,673
But first, would you mind reading
her full handwritten name back to me?

189
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Sure.

190
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Oh, okay, I've got it, Mrs. Welsch.
The handwritten name is "Harriet--

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Harriet…"

192
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Yes? Yes?

193
00:12:45,517 --> 00:12:46,518
Harriet what?

194
00:12:46,601 --> 00:12:50,564
Harriet "W"? Or Harriet "R"?
A "Q" perhaps?

195
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I'm sorry,
but it's just a scribble, ma'am.

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A scribble? Are you sure?

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Yep. Like someone was trying
to get the ink started on a pen.

198
00:13:00,615 --> 00:13:04,828
And that's when I officially lost
what was left of my mind.

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00:13:04,911 --> 00:13:07,497
Ma'am? Ma'am? Are you there?

200
00:13:08,957 --> 00:13:10,083
Hello? Hey.

201
00:13:10,166 --> 00:13:13,378
Sorry, Charles. I just need to
see something real fast. Two seconds.

202
00:13:14,045 --> 00:13:18,550
The clerk was right.
It was a scribble, and nothing but.

203
00:13:20,886 --> 00:13:24,723
Little girl, it's been two seconds.
Please return the document.

204
00:13:26,016 --> 00:13:29,102
I can't do that, Charles. I'm sorry.

205
00:13:30,604 --> 00:13:32,689
Hey! Stop her. Security!

206
00:13:32,772 --> 00:13:35,025
I didn't know what my legs were doing.

207
00:13:35,108 --> 00:13:38,320
It was like my whole body went on
bad choice autopilot.

208
00:13:38,403 --> 00:13:43,283
All I knew is that I was a scribble,
and I had to destroy the evidence.

209
00:13:57,380 --> 00:13:58,840
Get back here!

210
00:14:06,014 --> 00:14:08,767
I explained everything
to the security guards,

211
00:14:08,850 --> 00:14:10,769
but they called my folks anyway.

212
00:14:12,354 --> 00:14:15,315
Nah, looks like
an "E" on its side to me. It's not an "M."

213
00:14:15,398 --> 00:14:16,691
I think it's a "two."

214
00:14:16,775 --> 00:14:19,527
We are so sorry. So sorry.

215
00:14:20,862 --> 00:14:22,322
Harriet M--

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00:14:22,405 --> 00:14:25,825
Harriet Welsch,
what in the world have you done?

217
00:14:33,333 --> 00:14:35,293
I'm sorry. I--

218
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I didn't wanna be a scribble.

219
00:14:38,630 --> 00:14:44,678
I tried to be a Meghan, and a Melanie,
and even a Merlin. What a mistake.

220
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But nothing felt right, and now
I'm not sure who I am anymore!

221
00:14:51,351 --> 00:14:55,146
I had gone from Harriet M. Welsch
to Harriet "Scribble" Welsch,

222
00:14:55,230 --> 00:14:56,731
to Harriet "Criminal" Welsch,

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00:14:56,815 --> 00:14:59,609
to Harriet "Blubbering Mess of Goo"
Welsch.

224
00:14:59,693 --> 00:15:01,236
Oh, Harriet.

225
00:15:01,319 --> 00:15:02,737
We're so sorry.

226
00:15:02,821 --> 00:15:04,739
Mr. and Mrs. Welsch?

227
00:15:05,490 --> 00:15:07,826
I got this. If I may.

228
00:15:09,369 --> 00:15:12,122
Harriet Scribble-Doodle-Chicken-Scratch
Welsch,

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if you're free,
I'd like you to come with me.

230
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Where are we going? Jail? Is it jail?

231
00:15:23,258 --> 00:15:26,219
Harriet, I'm taking you somewhere
to show you something.

232
00:15:26,303 --> 00:15:28,138
That still could be jail.

233
00:15:28,221 --> 00:15:30,557
I want you to see
that no parents are perfect,

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00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:34,644
and sometimes they can make choices
we don't always agree with.

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00:15:35,312 --> 00:15:39,107
Easy for you to say,
Catherine Willa Galliano.

236
00:15:43,653 --> 00:15:45,822
We are going to jail, aren't we?

237
00:15:45,906 --> 00:15:48,158
We will be if you keep asking me that.

238
00:15:56,249 --> 00:15:59,336
Catherine! My baby girl!

239
00:15:59,419 --> 00:16:00,420
Hello, Mother.

240
00:16:00,503 --> 00:16:02,130
Mother?

241
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Oh, I never get visitors.
Come in, come in.

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Sit, sit.

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Make yourself comfortable.

244
00:16:17,938 --> 00:16:20,148
Now eat up. Don't be shy.

245
00:16:20,232 --> 00:16:24,778
Catherine, I can't believe
I'm finally meeting Harriet.

246
00:16:24,861 --> 00:16:28,031
Little Harriet in her precious
little outfit.

247
00:16:29,157 --> 00:16:33,161
I felt like a precious
little amoeba under a microscope.

248
00:16:33,245 --> 00:16:35,455
Aren't you just precious?

249
00:16:36,331 --> 00:16:40,377
How come your cute little glasses
don't have lenses?

250
00:16:40,460 --> 00:16:42,045
These are just for spying.

251
00:16:42,128 --> 00:16:48,593
Of course they are. Adorable!
Look at those cheeks. Come on.

252
00:16:48,677 --> 00:16:50,679
Mother, please stop doting on her.

253
00:16:51,304 --> 00:16:54,724
I never get to pamper anyone
now that you don't live at home.

254
00:16:56,351 --> 00:17:00,397
Seeing Ole Golly with her mom
is like seeing a teacher outside school.

255
00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:02,566
It shakes your world like a maraca.

256
00:17:03,233 --> 00:17:07,112
Catherine, that jacket is too thin.
You could freeze to death.

257
00:17:07,195 --> 00:17:09,322
Get yourself a sweater from my room.

258
00:17:09,406 --> 00:17:12,659
Mother, it's fall in New York,
not winter in the Yukon.

259
00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:15,661
Okay.

260
00:17:20,750 --> 00:17:24,754
So, Harriet, what brings you
to Far Rockaway today?

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00:17:24,838 --> 00:17:27,173
All I know is
I'm on the wrong side of the law,

262
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and Ole Golly wanted to show me something,

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00:17:29,467 --> 00:17:31,803
but I don't know how someone
with a scribble for a middle name

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is supposed to feel better getting advice
from someone with a cool middle name

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like "Willa,"
so I don't think it's gonna work.

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00:17:37,976 --> 00:17:40,186
You okay, Mrs. Galliano?

267
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Willa? Willa?

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Catherine Galliano,
you get in here this instant!

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Yes, Mother. What?

270
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You are not still going by that ridiculous
made-up middle name, are you?

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I'm sorry. I didn't know.

272
00:17:59,247 --> 00:18:02,292
Your middle name is not Willa.
It's Myrtle.

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00:18:02,375 --> 00:18:07,172
The name of your great aunt. It is family,
and you should know better.

274
00:18:07,255 --> 00:18:10,175
Mother, we've been fighting over this
since I was a child.

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00:18:10,258 --> 00:18:13,220
I don't like "Myrtle." It doesn't suit me.

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Do you wanna see your birth certificate?
You are Cathy Myrtle Galliano.

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00:18:20,227 --> 00:18:23,605
Don't call me Myrtle.
And never call me Cathy.

278
00:18:23,688 --> 00:18:27,984
Great. Not only had
the curse of the scribble messed me up,

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00:18:28,068 --> 00:18:30,654
but it was also messing up Ole Golly
and her mom.

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00:18:30,737 --> 00:18:34,199
What couldn't that cruddy scribble
destroy?

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"Willa."
What kind of a name is that anyway?

282
00:18:37,285 --> 00:18:39,454
Well, it's better than being a Myrtle.

283
00:18:39,537 --> 00:18:43,375
I bet Myrtle didn't wanna be a Myrtle.
Who'd wanna be a Myrtle?

284
00:18:43,458 --> 00:18:49,798
Me! I, Harriet Welsch, like--
no, love the name Myrtle.

285
00:18:49,881 --> 00:18:52,592
And I hereby adopt it
as my own middle name.

286
00:18:52,676 --> 00:18:55,762
If that's okay with you, Mrs. Galliano.

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00:18:55,845 --> 00:18:59,057
Ole Golly looked at me
like I had grown a tail.

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00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:01,810
It was so convincing
that I had to check to make sure.

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00:19:02,936 --> 00:19:05,313
That would be wonderful.

290
00:19:05,397 --> 00:19:09,818
Wonderful, Harriet!
Myrtle's name will live on.

291
00:19:09,901 --> 00:19:12,529
Don't do that just for me, Harriet.

292
00:19:12,612 --> 00:19:15,532
I only answer to "Harriet Myrtle Welsch."

293
00:19:15,615 --> 00:19:18,034
Well, pardon my French, but hooray!

294
00:19:18,118 --> 00:19:21,162
-That's not Fr--
-You are now an official member

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of the Galliano family,
Harriet Myrtle Welsch.

296
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Name: Harriet Myrtle Welsch.
Cause of death: suffocation by mom hug.

297
00:19:32,007 --> 00:19:35,594
Harriet, come with me.
I have something to show you.

298
00:19:41,808 --> 00:19:45,478
This is why I tell you,
"Never crack the spine of your books."

299
00:19:45,562 --> 00:19:48,440
Books are precious, treat them with love.

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00:19:48,523 --> 00:19:50,483
These are all yours?

301
00:19:52,485 --> 00:19:54,529
This is where "Willa" came from.

302
00:19:54,613 --> 00:19:57,198
When I was a child,
I wanted to be a writer

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like the scribe of the Great Plains,
Willa Cather.

304
00:20:00,577 --> 00:20:02,495
So I changed my middle name to Willa.

305
00:20:03,580 --> 00:20:07,709
Wait, you wanted to be a writer,
Ole Golly? What happened?

306
00:20:07,792 --> 00:20:11,838
I just didn't have
the passion for it that you have.

307
00:20:11,922 --> 00:20:15,175
But I discovered that
I'm good at collecting books.

308
00:20:15,258 --> 00:20:18,720
And all these tomes are going to be
in my bookstore one day.

309
00:20:18,803 --> 00:20:20,764
And I'm going to call it, "Willa's."

310
00:20:21,556 --> 00:20:25,393
And guess whose first novel is going
to go in the window someday?

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Girls, before you go,
take some leftovers with you.

312
00:20:29,731 --> 00:20:32,400
I can't let these cannolis go to waste.

313
00:20:38,323 --> 00:20:42,285
Goodbye, my little Harriet Myrtle Welsch.

314
00:20:42,369 --> 00:20:45,580
Take care of my Catherine, all right?

315
00:20:45,664 --> 00:20:47,582
I will. Don't worry!

316
00:20:56,758 --> 00:20:58,677
You hate the name Myrtle, don't you?

317
00:20:58,760 --> 00:20:59,844
Yep.

318
00:21:00,929 --> 00:21:02,097
I knew it.

319
00:21:02,847 --> 00:21:05,392
At first, I just took it to stop you two
from fighting.

320
00:21:05,475 --> 00:21:07,936
But I've been thinking about it,
and, well,

321
00:21:08,019 --> 00:21:11,481
Myrtle is part of you, so I'm keeping it.

322
00:21:11,565 --> 00:21:15,735
So, you're going to go by
"Harriet Myrtle Welsch" from now on?

323
00:21:15,819 --> 00:21:17,904
Absolutely not. Are you kidding me?

324
00:21:17,988 --> 00:21:20,323
I'm staying Harriet "M, period" Welsch.

325
00:21:20,407 --> 00:21:24,160
But now I'll always know
what the "M" stands for. Always.

326
00:21:24,244 --> 00:21:25,954
When you become a famous writer,

327
00:21:26,037 --> 00:21:28,498
people will find out
that you're actually a Myrtle.

328
00:21:29,916 --> 00:21:32,085
I don't care.
After what I've been through,

329
00:21:32,168 --> 00:21:34,796
I kinda figured out
that good writing makes a writer,

330
00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:35,922
not a good name.

331
00:21:42,637 --> 00:21:44,723
-What's wrong?
-I was just thinking,

332
00:21:44,806 --> 00:21:47,601
if you're going to
open a bookstore someday,

333
00:21:47,684 --> 00:21:50,478
I guess you're not going
to be my nanny forever.

334
00:21:51,605 --> 00:21:54,190
Yes, Harriet. I will leave one day.

335
00:21:54,274 --> 00:21:57,611
But don't worry,
we'll always be connected.

336
00:21:57,694 --> 00:22:01,531
After all, we both share
the story of "M," don't we?

337
00:22:01,615 --> 00:22:02,741
We're family now.

338
00:22:03,408 --> 00:22:08,663
It's a good story. Also,
we left the cannolis on the train.

339
00:22:18,632 --> 00:22:21,384
So anyway,
I forgave my mom and dad.

340
00:22:21,468 --> 00:22:26,640
Like Ole Golly said, we all make mistakes,
even parents. Especially parents.

341
00:22:26,723 --> 00:22:30,560
And mistakes give you great stories.

342
00:22:33,104 --> 00:22:35,190
I started mine with a scribble…

343
00:22:37,317 --> 00:22:39,778
which turned into an "M" question mark,

344
00:22:39,861 --> 00:22:45,200
then finished off the story
with an "M" period.

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00:22:46,785 --> 00:22:49,454
I just wanna be
You just wanna be

346
00:22:49,537 --> 00:22:51,206
We just wanna be

347
00:22:52,332 --> 00:22:54,876
I don't wanna be
You don't wanna be

348
00:22:54,960 --> 00:23:00,465
We don't wanna be told what to do

349
00:23:02,634 --> 00:23:08,306
And I try my best to do good
In the neighborhood

350
00:23:08,390 --> 00:23:10,850
I smile real nice

351
00:23:10,934 --> 00:23:14,145
And I strive to tell the truth

352
00:23:14,229 --> 00:23:16,731
I just wanna be
You just wanna be

353
00:23:16,815 --> 00:23:18,650
We just wanna be

354
00:23:19,526 --> 00:23:22,279
I don't wanna be
You don't wanna be

355
00:23:22,362 --> 00:23:25,115
We don't wanna be told what to do

356
00:23:25,198 --> 00:23:27,701
I am gonna be who I wanna be

357
00:23:27,784 --> 00:23:29,703
My autonomy

358
00:23:30,412 --> 00:23:33,206
I just wanna be
You just wanna be

359
00:23:33,290 --> 00:23:35,208
We just wanna be

360
00:23:35,292 --> 00:23:38,044
No, I won't cut my hair

361
00:23:38,128 --> 00:23:40,714
And I'll wear whatever

362
00:23:40,797 --> 00:23:46,386
I like it when I get to be myself

363
00:23:46,469 --> 00:23:49,306
I don't wanna be
You don't wanna be

364
00:23:49,389 --> 00:23:54,102
We don't wanna be told what to do