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Either that or he had a seizure.

You kids came from a sideshow

or something?

- How you doing?

- Hi.

We just made a jailbreak

off that Ferris wheel over there.

- You guys been to the fortune teller?

- I'm not wasting my money on that junk.

He's afraid she's gonna tell him

something he doesn't want to hear.

- I'll pay for it.

- I'll pay. It's my own damn fortune.

Sit down, please.

Cross my palm with silver.

Oh, you want me to pay you?

- When is your birthday?

- October 22nd. I'll be sweet 16.

Give me your palm.

Your far past.

You are a fourth-generation cowboy.

Your next year. Change.

don't change.

Your future.

There are people who go, people who stay.

You, you will stay.

"Change" and "don't change"?

What do you mean?

You may think to yourself

one yes-or-no question.

- OK, yeah.

- I am sorry.

The answer is no.

Good night, then, Tex. Go to bed, man.

Tex, where in the heck you been?

Just went down to this party.

Friend of Bob's.

Only stayed for a few minutes.

- I think I'm sick.

- I think you're drunk.

Good night.

Remember that last fight

Mom and Pop had? Before she died?

She ended up walking out there

in the snow.

I could hear 'em shouting at each other.

You couldn't remember that.

You weren't even three years old.

I remember it anyway,

or I sort of remember.

Everybody was so tall.

I wanted to go out there and stop it,

but I couldn't reach up to the door knob.

And after that, I don't remember it all.

There's not much to remember.

She stayed out there a couple of hours

and came back in.

A few days later, the doctor said she had

pneumonia and put her in the hospital.

A few more days and that was it.

I'm gonna get some sleep.

- Can you get undressed by yourself?

- Yeah, I'm fine.

Oh, my head!

Hi, Cole.

Mace, Bob and Johnny

both came home drunk last night.

Oh, no.

I'd like to know why.

Well, they were drinking, I imagine.

I know Bob, and I'm not sending him

to college to be an idiot.

Now, we've got that straight.

Bob wouldn't get drunk,

and if he did, he wouldn't drive.

And he sure as hell

wouldn't let Johnny drink.

Well, except for them coming home drunk,

that sounds fine.

- Somebody got 'em drunk.

- Wasn't me.

I happen to be in training, which means

I'm in bed every night by 10 o'clock.

I wouldn't touch a beer if I was dying

of thirst. Why don't you ask Robert?

I did. He said it was his fault. Says he

took them over to some party somewhere.

Maybe he's telling the truth. He does

that sometimes. Keeps you guessing.

Now, don't you get smart with me, Mace.

I'd like to talk to Tex,

if you don't mind.

Yeah, well, I do mind.

I mind a lot, as a matter of fact.

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