American Pastrol Page #3

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But she can't stop.

I think merry's stuttering

is a strategy.

A strategy for what?

For avoiding competition

with the beautiful mother,

the beautiful

miss New Jersey mother

for winning the handsome father.

This is about our looks?

- Doctor...

- "Sheila."

Sheila, stuttering isn't

something that merry chooses.

It makes her suffer.

Maybe the benefits

outweigh the suffering.

But it's killing us to see her.

It's killing merry's mother.

Maybe that's one

of the benefits.

Have you thought about how

difficult it must be for merry

growing up the daughter of someone

who's had so much attention

for something as

trivial as beauty?

Maybe the reason merry stutters

is to stop people

from asking her

"do you want to be miss New

Jersey just like your mommy?"

But who asks her that?

Nobody asks her that.

I'm not miss New Jersey,

for god's sake.

I'm her mother.

It's just that in

a highly-pressured

perfectionist family, you...

Who says we're a

highly-perfectionist family?

We're an ordinary family.

What about the physiological

basis for her stuttering?

I read an article where...

I can give you organic theories

if that's what you want

but it's not the way I've found

I can be most effective.

Ouch. Ouch.

I told you to wear your shoes.

You didn't tell me

about how sharp

the rocks would be.

No!

Dad!

Do I look like Audrey Hepburn?

Better. You look like

Meredith Levov.

Do you

miss mother?

Sure I do.

Me, too.

She wanted to come.

She couldn't.

I know.

Lady Jane's going to have

her calf any day now.

Mom had to be there.

Yes, dad. I know.

She'll come next time.

Have you had a nice time here?

With you?

- Terrible.

Hold these for your mother.

Daddy...

Kiss me.

No,

really, really kiss me.

Kiss me the way you kiss mother.

No!

And fix your dress.

Oh, I'm sorry, cookie.

Oh, I deserve it.

It's the same at school

with my friends.

I get started with

something and I go...

too far and I get carried...

There's nothing wrong

with that little girl.

Her mind goes too fast for her tongue.

That's all.

There, I just saved you the money you

were going to give to the shrink

because that's

all there is to it.

We just want to help her, dad.

"Help"? That girl? Just give

her a little bit of time.

Let her tongue

catch up to that brain.

The rest will follow from that.

Freddy, is something up

with this machine?

Every now and then, she kicks.

No, no, no. You'll be

throwing stitches soon.

Send it down to the shop.

See my son, Vick?

He picks out the bad machine from 100.

He's got the ear.

He gets it from you, Lou.

How are you feeling, dad?

You don't have to

come in every day.

Who comes in every day?

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