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to pick you up after school today?

I'll walk home with Travis.

Okay.

it up.

Keep it up, keep it up.

Keep that Tiger spirit up. l said keep it up.

This still smells the same,

like peanut butter and paste.

Can you smell it?

All right. You look perfect.

You ready?

Maybe I could go in alone.

Show them you're the

independent type, huh? Yeah?

You're gonna do great.

Mm-hm.

Go knock them dead.

Okay.

Okay.

Bye, Mama.

Hey. Come back here.

What's the matter with you?

Bye, Mom.

Bye, baby.

Mm-hm. Yes, that's correct.

"Harry gave me a turtle."

Okay. "He drunk that water fast."

Brandie?

"He drank that water fast."

Very good.

"He drank that water fast."

That's the correct answer. Very good.

Okay, Bernice.

All right, class, this is Bernice Pruitt.

Bernice comes to us from Chicago.

You take the desk next to Kristen.

That will be your seat. Kristen?

Go on, honey.

All right, class, let's open up your books

to Page 76, Chapter 3.

Pay attention, because you're gonna have

a quiz on Monday.

She's got pop-eyes.

Bernice, you just follow along

with Kristen, okay?

I didn't do anything.

Why is it always my fault?

I didn't say anything about fault.

I just asked what you did, that's all.

Nothing.

People fall in love,

they fall right back out.

It happens all the time.

You never even told me

you were having trouble with Bill.

Maybe it's because

I didn't want to hear, "l told you so."

Besides,

how could we have trouble?

Prom queen, quarterback,

pride of Smithville.

We practically left town on a float.

Well, maybe you were special.

But then again, maybe you

were just like the rest of us...

...except you were riding around on

flowers made out of toilet paper.

You just never liked Bill.

Oh, l like all of God's creatures.

I just like some of them better stuffed.

And he's one of them.

Why don't you just cut to the part where,

you know, he started fooling around?

Well, at cocktail parties, the women

that Bill worked with would never...

They'd never look at me.

Their eyes were always surveying

the room...

...looking for somebody better

to talk to.

I was the beauty queen from Smithville,

worse than ordinary, a joke.

That was it.

No, you were never a joke.

Oh, yeah, I was, Mama.

You could see it in his eyes.

You can't mistake that.

Honey, you know, crying over it

won't make it clean.

Life just goes on and

you gotta move along with it.

Yeah.

Bud.

Weiser.

How's your dinner, Kermit?

Good.

Well, we seem to be

the only ones enjoying it.

Did you ever see two such mopes?

That's a mope and that's a mope.

All right, Mama.

No, it isn't all right.

I mean, look at me.

My life has no big meaning or

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