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some other way.

We could help

haul water, Maggie.

We could all work harder.

I mean, you just don't

leave everything

you've-you've worked for--

your home.

I mean, I don't see

how anybody could.

How can anybody

just give up?

You've never been in this kind

of trouble before, Sarah.

You don't know

how hard it is.

These are for

you, Sarah.

Thank you.

Excuse us.

I spoke

too sharply.

I'm just used

to making things right

making things work.

I know.

(laughing):

I know.

The land come

first, Sarah.

It always does.

What do you mean?

Without the land,

there is nothing.

(sighs)

That's wrong.

Maybe, but that's the way it is.

The aunts...

they write to me

all the time.

I can count on

them, you know.

Like the sun rising

and setting.

Like the tide going in,

coming out.

I'm going to dry up

like the land before...

Before?

Any news?

Some news.

Good news.

Good news?

Ha! What good news?

Your birthday soon.

Mattie wrote to remind me.

She didn't.

She did.

So, what do you want?

Silk?

Jewels?

Travel?

(laughing)

Travel?

Where would I go?

Somewhere green.

Somewhere cool.

Do you think I would leave?

Man:

Come on!

(wagon wheels turning)

Papa!

Fire!

Hold on!

Hyah!

Hyah!

(horses nickering)

Hyah!

Whoa!

Throw those rags out.

Soak them

in the cattle pond.

Quick!

Be careful!

There's a wind coming up.

Don't get too close.

(dog barking)

(coughing)

Jacob, over there!

Jacob!

(barking continues)

Jacob!

(grunting and panting)

You all right?

Yes.

I said,

"Don't get close"!

I told you

to be careful!

You can't put the

fire out by yourself.

Stop shouting at me!

(barking)

Papa, here!

It's all right.

Put the animals away.

Good boy.

That's a good boy.

We have to keep watch,

day and night from now on.

(coughing)

You're a sight.

You know?

You look beautiful.

Do you really think

I would leave?

(bird squawking)

(muted laughter)

Go ahead, try

and catch me.

(sighs)

Maybe this will be cooler.

(sighs)

Oh, I dream

of my old home sometimes...

and I dream of long,

cool mornings of sleep

without the baby waking.

(chuckling)

Night dreams or daydreams?

What's a daydream?

Well, sometimes, no

matter where you are

you think of something--

a place, maybe

or maybe it's

something you wish for

and it's so close,

you can almost touch it.

Caleb, will you please go

out to the burrows

and get us some water?

And take out the baby with you

to the girls, please?

(muted barking)

(door shuts)

What's wrong, Sarah?

(sighs dismissively)

This talk of dreams.

Oh, Sarah.

(chuckles)

Before I had my son,

I had dreams.

They were

the strongest dreams...

so real.

I could feel the soft skin

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