1:06:02
Some of us splashed
away the summer...
1:06:06
...or swooped and stretched
with joyfulness...
1:06:09
...and emptied our childish piggy banks
of their play money.
1:06:17
Yet others of us, eager to feel adult
or out of necessity...
1:06:22
...began our work early.
1:06:24
- Put the bottle up on top.
- Here?
1:06:26
And gradually, as the happy confusion
of summer faded...
1:06:30
...one by one, we knew the Monday
morning of responsibility was at hand.
1:06:41
- Hi, Mr. Rossi.
- Hello, Allison.
1:06:47
Did you read those stories
I gave you?
1:06:50
Yes, I read them.
1:06:53
Well?
1:06:55
- When did you write them?
- All summer.
1:06:57
- Ever since graduation.
- Has anybody else seen them?
1:07:01
Only Selena.
1:07:04
She thinks I'm a genius.
1:07:06
What do you think? Are they good
enough to send to a magazine?
1:07:11
Yes, if you want to end up in prison.
1:07:14
Those stories were full of enough
libel and slander...
1:07:17
...and double-entendre to hang us all.
1:07:20
Allison, is that how Peyton Place
really looks to you?
1:07:24
They were only fiction.
I didn't use any real names.
1:07:28
You didn't have to.
I recognized everybody in town.
1:07:32
But let's get down to the important part.
You have a talent.
1:07:37
Those stories were a good start.
Now, where do you go from here?
1:07:41
That's what I hoped to find out
from you.
1:07:43
Then I suggest college.
With your talent and your ideas...
1:07:47
Thank you, but I don't want to go
to college. I never have.
1:07:51
Why not?
1:07:53
Because I don't want to study
about writing. I want to write.
1:07:57
Nobody has to tell me Shakespeare
was a wonderful writer...