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People like animals,
with rats in the halls and...
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What else are we to do if you give up?
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Give up?
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- You said it was hopeless.
- Here.
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Give up? Why, I only today saw
what has to be done to begin.
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- I want complete charge of her.
- You have that.
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No. I mean day and night.
She has to be dependent on me.
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- (Kate) For what?
- Everything.
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The food she eats,
the clothes she wears, fresh... air.
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Yes, the air she breathes.
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Whatever her body needs
is a primer to teach her out of.
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The one who lets her have it should be
her teacher, not anyone who loves her.
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- But if she runs from you to us...
- Yes. That's the point.
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I'll have to live with her somewhere else.
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For how long?
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Until she learns to listen to
and depend on me.
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- I've packed half my things.
- Miss Sullivan...
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It meets your conditions. It's the one way
I can get back in touch with Helen.
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And I can't be rude to you
if you're not around.
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What is your intention if I say no?
Pack the other half for home
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and abandon your charge to... to...
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The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum.
The state almshouse.
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Rats?
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My brother Jimmy and I used to play
with the rats because we didn't have toys.
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Maybe you'd like to know what Helen
will find not on visiting days.
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One ward was full of the old women -
crippled, blind,
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most of them dying,
but there was nowhere to move them.
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That's where they put us.
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There were younger ones - prostitutes
mostly, with TB and epileptic fits,
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and a couple of the kind who keep after
other girls, especially young ones.
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And some insane. Some just had the DT's.
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The youngest were in another ward
to have babies. They started at 13, 14.
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They'd leave,
but we played with the babies,
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though a lot had sores from diseases
you're not supposed to talk about.