The Joy Luck Club
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All of you!
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Huang Tai Tai
got her grandson.

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The servant girl
got her marriage.

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I got a rail ticket to Shanghai.
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So, you see, I still kept
my promise to my mother.

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But years later, things
were somewhat different...

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with my daughter
Waverly's wedding.

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- Ma, it's me.
- Oh, Waverly-a.

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- You already at the beauty parlor?
- No.

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- No?
- No, I'm-- I have a headache.

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Headache?
You have a headache?

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So you cannot keep
your promise to your mother?

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- Ma!
- No, don't come.
Why should I want you to come...

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when all you're telling me
you don't want to come?

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- Ma, that's not what I said!
- What's wrong with the way I look now?

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I just go to wedding
with old hair.

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Shit!
She always does this!

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My mom always does this.
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Whatever I say,
whatever I do...

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whatever I think...
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she always has
the perfect countermove.

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As if she had been
the chess champion.

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Even at that age,
I knew I had an amazing gift:

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this power,
this belief in myself...

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to be better than anyone else.
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If someone was bigger than me,
older than me, it didn't matter.

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And if they were mean,
I could make'em sorry.

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Checkmate.

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