:51:00
No.
:51:02
Honey,
if you can't tell me,
:51:03
you can't tell anyone,
you know that.
:51:05
Mom, why is it that every time
:51:07
I try and separate from you,
:51:08
which is a totally normal
adolescent impulse,
:51:10
and in fact, crucial
to my adult development,
:51:12
you come back
with that weird thing
:51:14
about me telling you what
I can't tell the rest of the world?
:51:16
Okay, okay, fine.
Forget it.
:51:18
Forget it.
Absolutely fine.
:51:26
Thank you.
:51:28
You know, if you want
to shut me out
:51:30
during our final
weeks together
:51:32
before you go off to college,
:51:34
then you go right ahead.
:51:36
Mom, I'm not leaving
for, like, four months.
:51:38
You're going to your father's
for the whole summer, Evie.
:51:41
Mom, you're experiencing
empty-nest syndrome
:51:43
before I'm even gone.
:51:45
I'm an adult now.
:51:46
Oh, really?
:51:48
And I have to traverse
my own landscape.
:51:52
Call me old fashioned, but I thought that
was the sort of situation
:51:55
where a person goes
home to their ma,
:51:56
not their ex-lover
from seven years ago.
:51:59
You are old fashioned.
:52:00
And where else is she going to go?
We are her family.
:52:04
This is our house.
:52:05
We have a teenager to raise
and it's small enough as it is.
:52:09
And we're poor.
Just add to it all.
:52:11
Look, I made a vow that my house
would always be open to people I love.
:52:15
You and I both took that vow
when we moved in together.
:52:18
I needed it when I was young.
:52:21
Randy needed it
when she moved in with us.
:52:23
Even you needed that once.
:52:25
No, I didn't.
:52:27
No, I guess you didn't.
:52:29
Look, you can either take
this summer school course
:52:32
or you can go for the GED.
:52:34
Either way, you won't be wearing
a cap and gown this June.
:52:38
There has to be some way
I can graduate in June.
:52:40
There's gotta be a way.
:52:42
I told you
at the beginning of the year
:52:44
that you had
to pass math. That's the way.
:52:46
I mean, I think I've
done a lot to help you,
:52:48
and you've refused
to help yourself.
:52:50
Take this letter to your aunt,
:52:52
and have her sign it
and bring it back to me.
:52:57
You haven't
helped me at all!