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Frustrated sounds, Bob banging on window
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Bob (anxiously): I can't break it!
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Louise: This is all my fault.
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(silence)
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... well don't everybody speak at once!
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Linda (worriedly): No! Honey!
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it's not your fault ...that much.
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Louise: It IS though.
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I wanted to track down the killer
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and save the restaurant
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and prove...
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(Louise sighs)
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...prove I wasn't a baby!
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God! NOW you come on!
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Linda (short of breath): Oh, my baby.
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... I mean...sorry.
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Louise (sadly): No! Stupid Chloe Barbash was right.
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(words coming out in a rush) I am a baby.
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I was too scared to go in the hole,
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I was too scared to open the secret nipple door,
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Tina had to do it for me.
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Louise(haltingly): and I...
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wear these frickin' ears!
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(Louise exhales)
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I mean... if you're brave,
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you don't have to prove you're brave.
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You just ARE brave.
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Bob (surprised): What?
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Louise, you're... you're brave.
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You're one of the bravest people I know.
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Louise (short of breath): It's not true!
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Also (breathing heavier)
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... you don't know that many people.
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(Bob grunts)
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Louise: Ugh, I've NEVER been brave.
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Come on... the ears.
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The only reason I got these
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in the first place was because I was scared!
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Bob and Linda (overlapping): What? What do you mean?
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Louise: You know!
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You gave them to me 'cause
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I was scared about the first day of pre school.
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Bob (concerned): That's not how it happened.
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I mean, you were nervous,
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and we had this idea to make you the hat
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(Bob stammering)
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Your mother made it.
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It's sort of in honor of my mom.
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Your grandmother
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She used to wear this brightly colored winter hat.
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(Bob inhales)
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Even in warm weather.
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It was a little weird,
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(breathing heavier) but it was kinda cute
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....I guess.
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...She always said it was 'cause she
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didn't feel like doing her hair.
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I think she just liked it.
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Linda: And I had extra material
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so... uh...rabbit ears.
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But I made 'em... after your first day day of pre school
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to celebrate, 'cause you were so brave!
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Louise (shocked): Really? I was?
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Bob and Linda (overlapping) Yeah!
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Bob: Do you not remember it that way?
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Louise: No.
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Bob (proudly): Yeah you didn't need 'em.
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Linda (breathing heavily): You were plenty brave.
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With no hat at all
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We... we were so proud of you.
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You slapped a kid.
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Louise: I did?
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Linda: Yeah! Probably for a good reason...
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let's say...
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Bob: You remind me of my mom, Louise.
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And with the hat, it's kinda like you two have met.
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I keep... forgetting that you never did.
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Gene (lightheartedly): I wore that bucket
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on my head for a while.
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Any fun stories about that?
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Bob (wearily): No... I don't remember any.
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We... we were concerned.
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Louise (holding back tears): Well...
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thanks. For the hat, and stuff.
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Bob: Yup.
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Glad we could clear that up.
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Since we're dying.
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All except Bob: ugh!
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Bob (panicked): I mean...
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Since we're all hanging out. Alive!
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Under the ground!
