Sunshine State Page #5

-But I only stayed for a day.

-That's a good while ago, your father.

Kind of slow for you down here.

Look, I....

-I kind of wanted to apologize.

-For what?

For Carter.

That's another lifetime

you're talking about. 25 years.

We were friends.

I shouldn't have gone after him.

But you did.

-You always did what you wanted to.

-I didn't do it to hurt you.

-Ancient history.

-So Carter still in town?

He inside sleeping.

Works nights at the box factory.

-You got married?

-After a while, yeah.

-When you left town--

-When I was sent away.

Everybody thought it was Carter

got you pregnant.

It wasn't.

That's what he's saying nowadays.

I guess I wasn't too worried

about the rumours.

-Made your exit and didn't look back.

-Some drama, huh?

Girl, we ate that sh*t up.

I had to listen to everybody

run you down...

...being the tragic ex-girlfriend and all.

-Like that was gonna make me feel better.

-And Carter?

-Carter ran around acting the daddy.

-Really?

Better you knock your girl up than to

have people think somebody else did it.

But it all turned out fine, didn't it?

I suppose I could've done worse.

So you're the one who finally

snagged Desiree Stokes?

I'm the one.

-That girl drew men like flies.

-I can imagine.

-Elton Lloyd.

-Reginald Perry.

We're staying at her mother's

for a few days.

A wonderful woman, Eunice.

A true Christian.

Now her nephew, is it?

Her nephew's son.

Young Terrell.

I blame it on the drugs.

It's a pestilence.

Something happened with his...?

-Eunice didn't tell you?

-She and Desiree haven't been....

-If you ask, you don't deserve to know.

-Seems to be the attitude.

Terrell's father was going

through a rough stretch.

He had separated from his wife.

He came over one day

high on who knows what.

They had a screaming argument,

he had a weapon.

He shot that woman dead,

then turned the gun on himself.

Horrible thing to witness.

-Terrell must have been 6, maybe 7.

-He saw it?

He sat with the bodies for two days

before somebody came over and found him.

It's a pestilence.

Afternoon, gentlemen.

Y'all know where Buster's Place is?

Buster's Place is long gone, brother.

Nothing there now.

You sure?

I know you.

-I don't think so.

-Sure, I do.

You used to be the Florida Flash.

In my day, life was simpler.

You knew where you stood.

A man was left to make his own way

in the world.

You didn't have none of these

pressure groups, advocate groups...

...special-interest groups

handicapping the race.

It went to the smartest,

the strongest, the swiftest.

If a man could carve out

something for himself...

...he knowed he'd earned it.

No whooping crane.

Spotted owl.

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