In Their Own Words: The Tuskegee Airmen Page #3

working on it.

I'm just trying to be honest with you.

I'm just telling you

the reality of the situation.

Have patience.

You know, I wouldn't have brought you in

here if I really didn't believe in you.

You're gonna be fine.

So we have two weeks in September.

We're planning a trip.

We think we're gonna charter...

What? We're gonna charter a boat.

We're going to Turks,

but we're gonna get a boat.

Like a 50-footer.

Nothing crazy.

Great, but it's the first

two weeks of September.

It's the beginning...

Get a sub.

You don't wanna miss this.

- This is gonna be truly great.

- It's gonna be amazing.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

You pull out fish,

right out of the ocean,

they cook them up. It's incredible.

Snorkeling, diving.

Totally different on a boat.

"He couldn't stop

thinking about that story.

Where did it come from?

Who had written it?

In those words,

he had been confronted by everything

he had ever aspired to be,

and the reality

of what he would never become."

Buddy, what's going on with you, man?

- You're 100 miles away.

- We want you to go.

Why don't you shut up?

Rory!

What the hell?

Don't. Just don't.

Really, I can't right now.

What is the matter with you?

I don't...

How the f*** do you end up here?

Rory.

I look at my life, I look at

your life, I look at his life,

I look at my father's,

I look at everybody's,

I don't have a clue how anybody

winds up where they do.

I don't know.

You don't have to know.

I don't know!

It's okay! You don't have to know.

There's so much time, Rory.

I'm talking about my f***ing life here!

What about your life?

It's not right!

Nothing's right!

Rory, how is that supposed

to make me feel?

How is that supposed to make me feel?

I'm not who I thought I was, okay?

I'm not.

And I'm terrified that I never will be.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

"He didn't know why he was doing it.

He just wanted to feel the words

pass through his fingers,

through his mind.

He retyped every word

as it was written on those pages.

He didn't change a period, a comma,

or even correct the spelling mistakes.

He needed to know what it felt like

to touch it,

if only for a moment."

Rory, can you come here?

What's up?

Hey. You all right?

What's wrong, babe?

Hey.

Just kiss me.

Hey, what is it?

Oh, my God.

What?

What?

Are you pregnant?

No, no, no.

I want you to listen to me.

I was working

on the computer today, and...

And I swear to you I've never

gone through your things before,

but your book was on the screen

and I started reading one sentence,

Oh, no, no, no.

Then I read the second,

and I couldn't put it down.

Listen to me. You are everything

you've always wanted to be.

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