1:21:02
Don't joke, Papa. l'm serious.
1:21:05
All right, l baby.
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All l meant was, maybe is better
not to get your heart set...
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on just one thing, in case
something happens.
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She said, Miss McDonald, l mean, she
said maybe l could be.
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She said l have imagination.
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Do you think l have, Papa?
1:21:28
Oh, sure you have, baby.
1:21:30
Those compositions of yours are sure
fine, but...
1:21:32
She said l'd have to work hard.
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She said imagination
wasn't any good if
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you were just a pipe
dreamer about it.
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You didn't help anybody that way.
Not even yourself, she said.
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Yeah, l see. A pipe dreamer.
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l'm not putting it good like she did.
l wish you could have heard her.
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She was wonderful.
1:21:58
For ever and ever l'll be glad you
helped me go to that school, Papa.
1:22:01
You kind of like that school, don't
you, baby?
1:22:04
Yes, oh yes. And she said lots more.
l've been trying to remember.
1:22:13
She said, even if you have
imagination;
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is better to write about
the things you know about
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so they'll be true, and...
and the way things are only.
1:22:24
Only what, baby?
1:22:27
Papa, the people in the hall when we
brought up the tree,
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the look on their faces
all friendly and nice.
1:22:33
Why can't people be like that all
the time? Not just on Christmas?
1:22:38
Well, l guess is because...
Well, l don't know.
1:22:47
Maybe is because Christmas is like
people really
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are and the other part ain't true.
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And with that imagination of yours,
if you think about it hard enough,
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you know, like it ought to be.
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But when you get to thinking.
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Papa, the people in stories, they
don't just live happily ever after,