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to my son, okay?

So you're gonna

have to excuse me.

I've got too much on my mind

to deal with this.

Come on, Michael.

Come on.

Potential? Huh.

Girl, you got my money?

No, but I was just wondering

if you could keep her

for just a few hours

while I try and go get it?

Girl, do you think

I'm crazy?

Now you got to pay your money

like all the other mothers in here.

Okay. Thank you.

- Come on.

- Come on in here.

- You hungry?

- No, ma'am.

Yes, you are. Quit lying.

When you bring that baby,

oh, she be starving,

so I know you must be too.

Here, eat that.

I don't know what's the matter

with you young girls

having all these babies

you know you can't take care of.

Look, I don't need no lecture from you.

I know what I've done.

They're here now,

they're my responsibility.

You know what?

Lena, come on. Let's go.

Oh, sit down, girly.

I'm just talking to you.

Eat and settle down.

Eat.

- You're a good mother.

- Huh!

I've got enough bad ones running

through here to know that.

Now what is

going on with you?

I don't know.

Somehow I always managed

to make it through,

but now it's just

getting harder and harder.

It ain't somehow,

it's the Lord.

And all that means is you're getting

close to a breakthrough.

Till then you just keep praying.

I pray.

I try to pray

and I try to live right,

but where's it getting me?

Look at me.

If you had seen the look

on my babies' faces

when that man turned

my lights off...

Now you listen to me.

Don't you ever get tired

of doing the right thing,

'cause in the end,

that's what pays off.

You're the best mother

I have seen,

that's why I'm gonna

keep that baby.

Oh.

I wouldn't do that

for these other ones here.

At least they can afford

to pay you, Miss Mildred.

Huh! Honey, I don't

want to know half

of what they're doing

to get that money.

Go on now.

Take that with you.

Thank you,

just a couple of hours.

I swear.

Thank you, Miss Mildred.

All right.

Hold it. Ladies, ladies,

you can't be here.

This is a hard-hat area.

Oh. Hi, I'm looking

for Michael Rose.

- Is he here?

- Who's asking?

- Brenda.

- Well, he's busy.

Man, look here.

You'd better go find him.

I'm his baby mama,

and if I don't find him,

you are going to regret it.

- I don't see him, anyway.

- Go take care of this, all right?

Wait wait wait wait wait.

All right, all right.

I'm sorry, man.

Brenda, what are

you doing here?

I've been calling you.

You haven't returned my calls.

You know, this job

pays me $25 an hour.

I'm busy.

What do you want?

I lost my job, Michael.

- I ain't got no money.

- Michael...

I've been raising

your son by myself

and in 17 years I ain't never

asked you for nothing.

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