Under The Tuscan Sun Page #14

to marry your daughter.

It's nice,

but it's out of the question.

I have come here

to ask your permission

to marry your daughter.

I will love her forever, and I

know that I will make her happy.

All young men say this.

Sometimes it's true.

Never.

Never?

What about you two?

Don't be ridiculous.

I hate him half of the time.

Placido, don't you want

Chiara to be happy in love?

Happy.

Happy is about a lot of things.

It's not just

about young passion.

This doesn't last, Chiara,

and when it's over,

what you will have left

is nothing.

He has nothing to offer you.

I have everything to offer her.

Everything.

Pawel, let's go.

Chiara!

Wait. Wait.

Won't you give your blessing?

What if this is it?

The real thing.

A love that lasts forever.

What you describe

is all in fairy tales.

No, it's not.

And how do you know?

From personal experience?

No, I looked for it,

and I didn't find it.

But that doesn't mean

it doesn't exist.

That's exactly what it means.

No one has had it.

I did!

I had a great love.

Mamma!

Your father...

a great love.

And I'll never forget it.

Mamma! Mamma!

He's a poor Polish laborer.

He is nobody.

He has no family!

That's not true.

He has me.

I'm his family.

I'm his family.

Chiara.

Pawel.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Okay, yes.

Okay.

Mamma!

What are you thinking?

What do I think?

Tell me.

I think you got your wish.

My wish?

That day we looked

for your snake

you said to me that you wanted

there to be a wedding here.

Yeah.

And you said you wanted there

to be a family here.

You're right.

I got my wish.

I got everything

that I asked for.

Mi scusi.

You are looking for the American

writer who lives here,

and you found her.

If you don't mind, I'll just...

There.

It was crawling on you.

A ladybug.

Huh.

Do I know you?

Not really.

You reviewed

one of my books once.

Did I like it?

Not very much.

- Oh, no.

- Don't worry.

It was, by far, the very best

bad review I've ever received.

You're kidding.

I'm not.

It helped me get to

my next book.

Anyway, I've been traveling

around Tuscany.

Someone said that

you lived up here.

I'm Ed.

Hi.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm Frances.

Hi.

Hi.

There's a wedding going on.

This isn't your wedding.

That would be unfortunate.

They say they built

the train tracks over the Alps

before there was a train

that could make the trip.

They built it anyway.

They knew one day

the train would come.

Any arbitrary turning

along the way,

and I would be elsewhere.

I would be different.

What are four walls, anyway?

They are what they contain.

The house protects the dreamer.

Unthinkably good things can

happen, even late in the game.

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