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Tenth grade, I'm 16 years old,
and for once...
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I bring home a report card,
and it's almost all A's.
:10:07
I go to my old man,
'Can I take the car out?'
:10:10
Take the guys out in the Buick,
sort of a victory drive.
:10:13
He says, 'No.'
I steal the keys, I sneak it out.
:10:17
You took the car with no permission?
Why? Why then?
:10:21
Because l--
I deserved it.
:10:24
Nothing I did was good enough for
this guy. Don't you understand that?
:10:27
We're on Columbia Parkway,
four kids.
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- We get pulled over.
- An accident?
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Pulled over.
:10:35
- What is pulled over? Police?
- Yes, police.
:10:38
Can I finish?
He called in a report of a stolen car.
:10:42
Not 'his son took the car
without permission.' Just 'stolen.'
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Central Station. The other guys' dads
bail 'em out in an hour.
:10:48
- He left me there two days.
- He left you in prison two days?
:10:51
Two days.
:10:53
Were you scared?
:10:56
Yeah, I was scared.
:11:00
Left home.
I never saw him again.
:11:02
Charlie, after a year
we've been together...
:11:04
this is the first time
I've heard this story.
:11:07
It's strange, huh?
:11:08
I mean, how can you keep all this
inside you and not say anything?
:11:12
When I was a kid and I got scared,
the Rain Man would come and sing to me.
:11:18
The rain what?
:11:20
You know, one of those
imaginary childhood friends.
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- What happened to him?
- Nothin'. I just grew up.
:11:29
Not so much.
:11:31
'And I remember, too,
the day you left home...
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so full of bitterness
and grandiose ideas.
:11:37
So full of yourself.
:11:39
And being raised without a mother,
the hardness of your heart...
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is understandable as well.
:11:44
Your refusal to even pretend
that you loved or respected me...
:11:47
all these I forgive.
:11:49
But your failure to write, to telephone,
to reenter my Life in any way...
:11:52
has left me without a son.
:11:55
I wish you all I ever wanted for you.
I wish you the best.'