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Just run out of places

for you to get me fired from.

Little miss trouble.

I think you like

my kind of trouble.

You ever been to giants' spear?

No, ma'am.

Five.

I get off work at five.

Note taken.

We wanna get out.

We wanna get out.

Joey's pumpkins.

There was this horse,

and it was going blind.

It had this big field

all around him.

But it always just stayed right

close to this other horse.

Turns out the other horse

had a bell around its neck.

And the blind horse followed

this horse wherever it went.

They became almost inseparable.

Just the sound of it was enough.

So what are you

saying, that I'm...

Lost and you're gonna

show me the way?

Or am I the horse with the bell?

I'm just saying

that sometimes...

God brings people

into our lives,

and what we thought was our fate

really isn't anymore.

Whoa!

You really believe

all that hoopla?

What hoopla?

The Bible bangin' hoopla.

You know, all preachers

are perverts, Joey.

You act like the way things

are for you and the girls

is the only way that it can be.

But it's not.

You wanna

make a family

with me and my girls?

Then join the army

and get yourself some

skills and some money.

Forget it.

Sing a song.

Come on.

Sing a song.

Now I know

you don't like gospel.

Oh, I said I didn't like church.

I never said

I didn't like gospel.

Now I'm gonna keep going,

and you're gonna do your thing.

No.

I'm not singing all alone.

- Oh, you're so good.

- Oh, come on.

You are, you know that.

- One more time.

- All right.

Roy lost his job, Joey.

He gets back from

his run tonight and that's it.

Last time he was unemployed, he was

home for four and a half months.

I'm not gonna let you

blow your future,

sticking around here and

making $7.25 an hour,

sneaking around with some...

Married woman from the sticks.

Are you?

- I don't...

- Now get in there.

I don't mind

sticking around here.

I don't mind waiting for you.

Pumpkins will be done, Joey.

You're gonna make

your mama real proud

loafing around here in welfare.

Just 'cause I stay here doesn't

mean I have to end up like you.

Nice.

F***!

But I'm still gonna be

right here when you get back.

Do this for us, Joey.

Baby's room.

Looks great, kiddo.

I signed up for the army.

You did?

I haven't heard any talk

about the army for weeks.

Three years in, and I kind of

qualified to fix APCs and rhinos

and all the big stuff.

You signed up tonight?

Yeah, I signed up

tonight or this afternoon.

I have three years of service,

I wanna go to college,

and if I do, the army will help

me pay for a good chunk of it.

Well, put that roller down

and give your mom a hug, honey.

This is big news. -I've got

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