:05:15
-My mother died four months ago.
-...$9.99.
:05:18
I realized for the first time,
they wanted me to take my mother's place.
:05:24
So I sat down on the East,
where things begin...
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with my mother's best friends.
:05:42
My mother started the Joy Luck Club,
having met all these women in church.
:05:46
Auntie An Mei...
:05:48
Auntie Lindo...
:05:51
Auntie Ying Ying.
:05:53
For 30 years,
these women feasted...
:05:56
forgot past wrongs,
laughed and played...
:05:58
lost and won
and told the best stories.
:06:03
Each week
they hoped to be lucky...
:06:05
and that hope
was their only joy.
:06:10
Their connection with each other
had more to do with hope...
:06:13
than joy or luck.
:06:19
- You win like your mother?
- Uh, I only played once...
:06:22
- with some Jewish friends in college.
- Hmph! Jewish mah-jong.
:06:26
Not the same thing.
Entirely different.
:06:30
Now, Chinese mah-jong
very tricky.
:06:33
You have to watch
what everybody throw out...
:06:37
and you keep all this
in your head.
:06:41
And if nobody play well...
:06:45
then the game is just like
Jewish mah-jong: no strategy.
:06:49
You American girls
play Chinese, Jewish.
:06:53
What's the difference?
:06:56
Oh.
:06:59
They were worried.
In me, they see their own daughters.