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Because of that, one of the two of them

will always be unhappy.

Yeah, fine.

But why do we have to be unhappy?

BRYCE:
As annoying as the yard was

to my dad...

...it was nothing compared to how annoying

Juli Baker was in that tree.

JULl:

Three blocks away.

BRYCE:
Every morning

we had to listen to the sound...

...of her blow-by-blow traffic report.

JULl:

Two blocks.

WOMAN:

There you go.

Why do they call it The Three Stooges?

- I mean, there's five of them.

- What?

Well, yeah, there's Moe, Larry, Curly,

Shemp and Curly Joe.

- Yeah, but they only have three at a time.

- Yeah.

You know, I hate Curly Joe.

I mean, he shouldn't even be a Stooge.

MAN:
Listen, girl,

I'm this close to calling the police.

You are trespassing and obstructing

progress on a contracted job.

GARRETT:
What's going on?

MAN:
Either you come down...

...or we're gonna cut you down.

JULl:
You guys, come up here with me.

They won't cut it down

if we're all up here.

- Bus, bus, bus.

BRYCE:
Juli was frantic.

They wanted to cut down her tree.

I couldn't understand why

that mutant tangle of gnarly branches...

...meant so much to her.

JULl:
Bryce, please.

BRYCE:
I felt bad for her.

GARRETT:
Leave her.

BRYCE:

But I wasn't about to cut school over it.

GARRETT:

Come on, bro.

CHET:

Why isn't she your friend, Bryce?

You'd have to know Juli.

Well, I'd like to.

Why?

That girl has an iron backbone.

Why don't you invite her over sometime?

An iron backbone?

She's just stubborn...

...and she's pushy beyond belief.

Is that so?

And she's been stalking me

since the second grade.

Well, a girl like that

doesn't live next door to everyone.

Lucky them.

Read this.

Without prejudice.

BRYCE:
Like I needed to know

anything more about Juli Baker.

Juli wasn't at the bus stop

the next morning.

Or the morning after that.

She was at school,

but you'd never know it.

- Little Joe? He's got so much makeup on...

- He doesn't age.

BRYCE:

I told myself I should be glad about it.

I mean, isn't that what

I'd always wanted?

But still, I felt bad for her.

I was gonna tell her I was sorry,

but then I thought, hey, no...

...that's the last thing I needed:

Juli Baker thinking I missed her.

I see why you like to come out here.

Would you mind explaining it

to your mother?

JULl:

I loved to watch my father paint.

Or really, I loved to hear him talk

while he painted.

I learned a lot about my dad that way.

He told me all sorts of things...

...like how he got his first job delivering hay

and how he'd wished he'd finished college.

Then one day he surprised me.

What's going on with you

and, uh, Bryce Loski?

What do you mean? Nothing.

Oh, okay.

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