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X Minus One - "Wherever You May Be" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: William Redfield, Patsy O'Shea, and Jack Orison head the cast
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  Speaker 1: in an NBC radio production adapted by Ernest Kenoy from
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  Speaker 1: a James E. Gunn story published in Galaxy Science Fiction.
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  Speaker 1: On June 26, 1956, X-1 brought listeners Episode 57, Wherever
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  Speaker 1: You May Be. Redfield plays university researcher Matthew Wright, bound
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: for the Ozarks and a rented cabin, where he plans
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: to spend the summer preparing a thesis on the psychodynamics
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: of witchcraft. A flat tire on an Ozarks road introduces
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: him to Abby Jenkins, a local girl whose presence soon
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  Speaker 1: brings his academic subject much closer to home. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: X minus one, wherever you may be. And now, the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And now stay tuned for X-1 on NBC.
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  Speaker 3: Countdown for blastoff. X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1, fire.
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  Speaker 4: From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales
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  Speaker 4: of new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 3: These are stories of the future.
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  Speaker 4: Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be
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  Speaker 4: years on a thousand maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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  Speaker 4: in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine, presents.
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  Speaker 3: X minus 1. Tonight, Wherever You May Be, by James E.
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  Speaker 5: Gunn.
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  Speaker 3: Hey. Hey, you. Little girl. You on the fence.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, kid, come here.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm right comfortable where I am.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, listen, kid. Is there a service station on this road?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Merv Wheelock got a gas pump at the general store.
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  Speaker 3: Oh? How far is it?
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  Speaker 6: About 18 miles.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a big help. I don't know what else
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  Speaker 3: to expect in the middle of the Ozarks.
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  Speaker 6: You want me to help you, mister?
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  Speaker 3: No, just keep out of the way, kid. Ow! Well,
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  Speaker 3: there's nothing funny about that. You just gonna sit there
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  Speaker 3: and watch me sweat, kid? Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: There'll be lots more to watch.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what's so amusing about watching a
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  Speaker 3: man change a flat tire. Ow!
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  Speaker 6: You sure you don't want me to help, mister?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm perfectly capable of changing a tire by myself.
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  Speaker 6: Look out, mister. It's rolling away.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 6: Your tire. It's rolling away.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey. Come back here, you.
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  Speaker 7: This is the most sadistic tire I ever.
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  Speaker 3: Now, stay put. Why don't you go home?
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  Speaker 6: Can't.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 6: I run away.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's tough. There. Now, listen, kid. You know
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  Speaker 3: a cabin about 15 miles up the road?
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  Speaker 6: I reckon.
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  Speaker 3: You know where the turnoff is?
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  Speaker 6: There ain't no turnoff. You just drive till the road
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  Speaker 6: peters out and you take the footpath. You gonna live
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  Speaker 6: in that place?
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm. Just for the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so long, kid.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, mister. Hey, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Now what do you want?
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  Speaker 6: Well, nothing. Only you forgot your jack.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that does it. Where are you going?
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  Speaker 6: No place.
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  Speaker 3: But you said you ran away.
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  Speaker 6: I surely did.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you have any relatives?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: Friends?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 3: All right, then. Go on home. Oh, come on now.
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  Speaker 3: What are you crying for? All right, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Get in.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you a lift. Listen, look out for those notes.
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  Speaker 3: There's over a year's work in those.
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  Speaker 6: A year's work in them pieces of paper?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 7: Those are notes for the thesis I'm going to write.
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  Speaker 6: You write stories?
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  Speaker 3: No, research paper. I have to do it to get
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  Speaker 3: my degree at the university.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what's it called? I mean the story you're writing.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a... It's called The Psychodynamics of Witchcraft with
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  Speaker 3: special reference to the Salem Trials of 1692.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Witches? Yeah. All right, where do you live, kid?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I can't go home. Pod beat me again. We
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  Speaker 6: pretty nice skin me alive, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: You mean he hit you? Little kid like you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he don't use his fists. Not often. He uses
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  Speaker 6: his belt mostly. Look. Look here. On my knee. See
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  Speaker 6: that black and blue mark? And this one?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, never mind. Why does he hit you?
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  Speaker 6: He's just mean.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he must have some reason.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he wants me to catch some strong young fellow
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  Speaker 6: who'd do the work around the place. A gal don't
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  Speaker 6: bring in no money, he says. These flies not.
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  Speaker 3: A good one. You're much too young to get married.
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  Speaker 6: I'm 16.
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  Speaker 3: You don't look more than.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't know. Most girls my age got a
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  Speaker 6: couple of young ones. One, anyways. The way Pa carries on,
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  Speaker 6: you'd think I didn't want to get married. Now, it
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  Speaker 6: ain't my fault no fellow wants me.
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  Speaker 3: What seems to be the trouble?
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  Speaker 6: Mostly, I guess I'm just unlucky. One fella I went
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  Speaker 6: with pretty nearly a year. He busted his leg. Another
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  Speaker 6: nigh well drowned when he fell in the lake. Now,
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  Speaker 6: it don't seem right they should blame me, even though
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  Speaker 6: we did have word.
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  Speaker 3: Blame you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, they say it's caught in disaster instead of a gas.
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  Speaker 6: Fellas just stop coming round. You, um, you married Mr., uh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: uh... Uh, Matthew Wright. No, I'm not married.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Abigail Wright. That's right, Purdy.
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  Speaker 3: Abigail Wright?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, did I say that? Now, ain't that funny? My
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  Speaker 6: name's Jenkins.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Jenkins?
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I met your daughter on the road. I brought her back. Look, Mr. Jenkins,
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  Speaker 3: I got a pint bottle in my pocket. Care for
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  Speaker 3: a little drink?
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  Speaker 5: Terrible week.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry. I repeat, I brought your daughter back. Why? Well,
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  Speaker 3: she had no place to go.
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  Speaker 5: She ran away.
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  Speaker 3: Now look, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Jenkins, I realize that teenage daughters can be a nuisance,
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  Speaker 8: and after meeting your daughter, I can understand how you feel.
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  Speaker 3: Still and all, she is your daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Got my doubts.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Mr. Jenkins, your daughter may have given you good
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  Speaker 3: reason to lose your temper, but beating a child is
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  Speaker 3: never sound psychology. Beat her?
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  Speaker 5: You mean wallop her, wail her? Man, I never laid
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  Speaker 5: a hand to her.
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  Speaker 3: I dasn't. But she said... Come in here. Oh, now, Mr. Jenkins,
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  Speaker 3: I assure you.
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  Speaker 5: Come in the cabin. You look around this here room, mister.
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  Speaker 5: See them dishes all over the floor, those chairs all
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  Speaker 5: splintered like they was kindling, that table turned over bottom
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  Speaker 5: side topmost like a turtle on the road. You think
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  Speaker 5: I beat her?
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  Speaker 3: The place is a shambles.
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  Speaker 5: I ain't saying Abby did it. But when she gets unhappy,
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  Speaker 5: things happen. Dishes come flying through the air. Funny things
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  Speaker 5: happen around Ab. Ever since she started filling out five
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  Speaker 5: or six years ago.
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  Speaker 3: She's only 16.
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  Speaker 6: 16.
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  Speaker 3: 16.
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  Speaker 5: Don't let on I told you, but she's past 18.
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  Speaker 3: There, you see? Oh, it just fell off the shelf.
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  Speaker 5: Look, you're a city fella, passable looking. Why don't you
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  Speaker 5: take her with you?
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  Speaker 3: What? Oh, now, now, wait a minute, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Jenkins. She's right pretty when she fixes up, and she
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  Speaker 5: can cook right smart.
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  Speaker 3: Go on, take her. You must be mad. You can't
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  Speaker 3: give a girl away like that. I... If you'll excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: I think I'd better be going.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody asked you to bring her back. The gal eats
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  Speaker 5: more than I do.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, look. Here.
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  Speaker 8: Here's $ 10.
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  Speaker 3: Buy yourself a jug.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'd like to, but I can't do it.
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  Speaker 3: It ain't worth it.
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  Speaker 5: You brought her back. You can take her away.
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  Speaker 6: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Here's $ 15.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I should know better.
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  Speaker 2: All right, mister.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get her.
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  Speaker 5: If they know you so, I can tell you, mister.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Abigail. Abigail. Get out of the car. You're home.
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  Speaker 6: But, Pa.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he isn't mad at you. He's welcoming you back. Now,
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  Speaker 3: come on. Get out.
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  Speaker 6: Dirty, nasty old man. You can write a fat bottle
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  Speaker 6: he's pulling busted right over his head.
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  Speaker 3: Ow! uh goodbye abby and remind me never to see
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  Speaker 3: you again All alone, I'm so all alone, there is
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  Speaker 3: no home.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 6: Waiting for you.
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  Speaker 3: But listen, this is, this is my cabin. I rented it.
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  Speaker 6: I know. What kept you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, what are you doing here? How did you get here?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I reckon you're hungry. Look, why don't you sit down?
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  Speaker 3: Supper's about ready. Now, wait a minute. I came here
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  Speaker 3: by car. How did you get here?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I rode. Oh, it's lucky I did. This place
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  Speaker 6: needed a good sweeping.
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  Speaker 3: Is that your broom?
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  Speaker 6: I know. It was here in the cabin. Pa loaned
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  Speaker 6: me a mule. I let her go. She'll get home
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  Speaker 6: all right.
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  Speaker 3: But you can't stay here. It's impossible. What would people say?
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  Speaker 6: Well, who'd care? Pa don't.
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  Speaker 3: Please, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Wright, let me cook and clean for you. I won't
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  Speaker 6: be no trouble. Honest, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now look, Abby, you're a nice girl and I
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  Speaker 3: like you, but you'll just have to go back to
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: your father. Do you understand? All right.
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  Speaker 7: What?
• 11:23
  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 3: What was that? What happened?
• 11:24
  Speaker 6: What?
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, look at that. The car. I must have left
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  Speaker 3: the brake off.
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  Speaker 6: You reckon it's hurt bad?
• 11:32
  Speaker 3: Well, rolling down a 10-foot grade into a tree didn't
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  Speaker 3: help it any.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, I'm sorry, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Wright.
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  Speaker 3: Are you? Anyway, it looks like you'll have to stay
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  Speaker 3: here tonight then, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 6: I reckon.
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  Speaker 3: I could have sworn I put that brake on.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, you're going back first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Wright.
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  Speaker 6: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Abby, tell me something. Who wrecked your father's house?
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  Speaker 2: Libby.
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  Speaker 3: Libby, huh? Who's Libby?
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  Speaker 6: The other me. Mostly I keep her bottled up inside.
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  Speaker 6: But when I feel sad and unhappy, I just can't
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  Speaker 6: keep her in. Then she just lets loose and goes wild.
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  Speaker 3: Schizo. Abby, where did you get an idea like that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, when I was born, I had a twin sister.
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  Speaker 6: Only she died real quick. And when I was bad,
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  Speaker 6: my ma used to say Libby would never have been
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: mean or cross or naughty. So when I'd done something bad,
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: I started saying Libby'd done it. I guess after a while,
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  Speaker 6: I've begun to believe it myself.
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  Speaker 3: Um, can you control it, Abby?
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  Speaker 6: Not much. You see, when I get feeling mad and mean,
• 12:57
  Speaker 6: things just happen, that's all.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: How about a rolling tire?
• 13:02
  Speaker 6: You sure did look funny. Oh, I was just feeling
• 13:05
  Speaker 6: mean about Pa, I guess, and I took it out
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  Speaker 6: on you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe you. It's absolutely impossible. It's, it's, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's primitive.
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  Speaker 7: It's straight out of Frazier's Golden Bough. There's got to
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  Speaker 7: be some explanation.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 13:17
  Speaker 7: Illusion or hypnosis. There's got to be some physical explanation.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I don't see why. I mean, if a thing
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  Speaker 6: just happens, you don't have to explain it. It's just there,
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  Speaker 6: ain't it?
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right. Here, here. Now, uh, make that
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  Speaker 3: cup move.
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: I want to see you do it.
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  Speaker 6: But I don't want to. I never wanted to do it.
• 13:39
  Speaker 6: It just happened.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, try.
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  Speaker 6: I know, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Wright.
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  Speaker 6: Look, it never brung me nothing but misery. It's bad
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  Speaker 6: enough when you can't help it, but it's worse when
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: you do it on purpose. Nothing good will come of it.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: Come on, try.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to move that cup. Now, go ahead, Abby.
• 13:53
  Speaker 7: Just move it without touching it.
• 13:57
  Speaker 5: I can't.
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: I just can't.
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  Speaker 3: Why not? Why can't you?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know. I I guess it's because I'm happy.
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  Speaker 3: You can't move it now.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: All right. All right, then get your things. You're going
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  Speaker 3: back to your father right now.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no, I ain't going. I can't.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: Ah, listen, listen to you. You're a stupid backwoods girl. Can't.
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: What kind of a way of talking is that?
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  Speaker 8: You're going back to your father because you're an ignorant,
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  Speaker 8: dirty hillbilly.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: Abby. Abby, you did it. You did it. It came
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: right at my head.
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: Do I have to go back? Oh, no, no, no, sir,
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: not if you help me. Abby, I've got a hold
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  Speaker 7: of something here that.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: What a thesis! Um, Abby? Hmm? What's, uh, courting like
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: here in the hills?
• 15:01
  Speaker 6: Sometimes we walk and look at things together and talk
• 15:05
  Speaker 6: a little. But if the night is warm, we just
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: sit and hold hands and whatever.
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Like this?
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: Mr. Wright, do you like me a little bit? Oh,
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: not marrying like, but friendly like?
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I like you very much, Abby. Very much.
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Wright.
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: You kiss real pretty.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: Uh, Abby, what happened to your fellas? I mean, uh,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: the other boys?
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: Well, folks said I had the evil eye. I mean,
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: Hank fell off the roof and broke his leg, and Gene, well,
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: he fell in the lake and liked to drown. It
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: wasn't my fault it was after we'd had words, now,
• 15:58
  Speaker 6: was it?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Uh, no, no, no. Why, Mr.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: Wright, you're shivering. Maybe we'd better go get your jacket.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Abby, tomorrow we're going to drive to Springfield to do
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: some shopping.
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: Really, Mr.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Wright?
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: Why, I ain't never been to Springfield. Oh, ain't that wonderful?
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Wright.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Are you happy, Abby?
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's the happiest I've ever been in my life.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: I mean, eating in a fancy restaurant and even dancing
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: and all. Oh, and now us just sitting here together
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: in the moonlight. I never thought anything like this would
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: happen to me.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Andy, I'm afraid maybe you don't understand.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Well, what do you mean, Mr.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Wright?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you know that dress I bought you? That's for
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: another girl.
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: What?
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: For another girl. I'm going to marry her. She's about
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: your size, and I thought we could pick it out
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  Speaker 3: that way.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no. Oh, Mr.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Wright.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Abby, Abby, wait a minute. Where are you going? Wait,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you. No, I'm going to bed.
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, Matthew Wright, you are a no-good, miserable cad.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Do you want any more coffee?
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: You still feel bad, Abby?
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: You want me to move that cup for you today?
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: I can do it real good.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: How do you know?
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Well, I just got a feeling. Look.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: You can do it now?
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Sure, I guess. There, it's getting easier.
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: Look, Abby, I want to get some things out of
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: the car. I just happen to have them things for tests.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: There may be other powers.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't care much one way or the other, Mr.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Wright.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: If it makes you happy, it's all right with me.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: Abby? Abby, where are you? Abby, where did you go? Abby?
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: Here I am, Mr. Wright.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Abby, where were you?
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Springfield.
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  Speaker 3: But that's 50 miles.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: I just kind of wished I was there and then
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I was. I brought back a frying pan I'd mired
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: in that hardware store window. Ain't it pretty? Got a
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: real copper bottom.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Didn't you have any trouble getting out of the store
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: without anyone seeing you?
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Well, I was outside, but I could see in the
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: back room somehow, too. I knew his name was Albert,
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: and he was doing a crossword puzzle.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: How could you tell all that?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Well, I just kind of looked inside of his thinking.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Like this. Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Abby. Don't.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: I could look right inside your thinking now, Mr.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Wright. Abby, Abby, wait a minute. Abby.
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: You wouldn't. You didn't.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute, Abby. You've got to understand.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I understand.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: I understand everything you've been thinking, you devil. Well, there
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: ain't nothing too bad for anyone to do that.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Well, you've got to let me explain.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: With your kindness and your city manners, how could you
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: do it? You made me fall in love with you.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: It was just a trick. You just wanted to make
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: me unhappy, that's all. Even Paul was never that mean.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: I'd as soon marry up with a rattlesnake.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Well, Abby, what are you going to do?
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Well, I haven't made up my mind yet, but I'll
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: think of something.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I've got to think of something. some way out of it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: She's in that other room thinking what to do to me.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: I've got to think of some way.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's no use.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: As soon as I think of it, she knows. Oh,
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: I've got to keep my mind busy. Mary had a
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: little lamb. Its fleece was white as maybe if I
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: could get her father.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: If there are two outs and bases loaded, or men
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: on first and second, and a ball is hit, which
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: in the opinion of the umpire can be handled by
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: an infielder, the infield fly rule shall be invoked and
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: the batter is called out. The base runners may advance
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: at their own peril, though their peril, their peril, I.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: Got to think. No, no, I mustn't think. Oh, no,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: she's absolutely certain now she can do anything she wants to.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: I've got to act on the spur of the moment,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: keep my mind crowded with something else. Ah, it's a
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: lovely day. Breathed there a man with soul so dead.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: Twas brillig and the slithy toes did gyre and gimble
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: in the wave. Froggy went a-courting, and he did ride,
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: sword and pistol by his side, ring, tom, body, michikambo.
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: Bull fathom five, my father lies. Of his bones are
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: coral made. Seabirds hourly toll his knell. Hark, I hear them. Ding, dong, dell.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: That's pretty.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Abby.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: Where are we going?
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, Abby. What are you doing here?
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: I couldn't let you leave without me. I've got plans
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: for you Oh? Very interesting plans.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: But how could you tell I left? I was thinking
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: all sorts of other things.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm Matt, you were thinking some of the cutest little
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: rhymes Oh, but that was on top On top? Why,
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: sure Way underneath, I could hear plain what you were
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: thinking About running away in this old car Then why.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Didn't you stop me? Conk out the motor or something Oh, I.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Didn't want to. I told you I could see way
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: down underneath the top of your thinking. And you know
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: what I found there? All the time, even when you
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: were making me unhappy to test all them strange things
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: I learned how to do, way down deep, you're in
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: love with me.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I am. Surely true.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: So, we're going to get married.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Are we?
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: There isn't much you can do about it now, is there?
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: No. No, I suppose not. But, you know, it's a
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: frightening thought getting married to you, Abby. A wife who
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: can read your mind and all the rest.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, I wouldn't worry about it, darling. Why, I can
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: only do those things when I'm downright miserable. Everything will
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: be perfectly all right. Just as long as you keep
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: me happy.
• 23:24
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• 23:39
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