Life as a House
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:55:01
Yeah? You're too fucking late.
:55:03
These gloves are for you.
:55:05
You can't make me do a thing.
:55:06
-Sit down.
-No!

:55:08
I'll call the cops--
:55:11
Get off !
:55:13
That's child abuse!
:55:15
You're in big shit now!
:55:16
People go to prison
for what you just did to me!

:55:27
My dad used to play this game.
:55:30
I never really even
understood what it was...

:55:32
until after he was gone.
:55:33
I was holding for somebody else.
It wasn't even mine.

:55:36
The game was to make me
smaller than he was--

:55:39
smaller, always smaller.
:55:41
No matter what.
:55:43
He could be almost invisible
as a human being...

:55:45
but I still had to be smaller.
:55:47
So that if I got
good grades in school...

:55:50
then I was a pussy
for not playing football.

:55:51
Or if I cut my hair for him...
:55:54
it was never short enough.
:55:55
Or if I shaved my head,
then I looked like a psycho.

:55:57
I never won the game--never.
:56:00
And if he couldn't...
:56:03
make me smaller with words...
:56:10
I'll have to pay him back.
:56:22
I won't ever hit you.
:56:23
Ever.
:56:26
I don't want you smaller.
:56:27
I want you to be happy.
You're not.

:56:30
Not here with me,
not home with your mother...

:56:32
not alone, not anywhere.
:56:34
You're what I was
most of my life, Sam.

:56:37
I see it in your eyes,
in your sleep...

:56:39
in your answer to everything.
:56:41
You're barely alive.
:56:44
I'm not even listening.
:56:46
You know the great thing,
though?

:56:48
Is that change
can be so constant...

:56:51
that you don't even
feel the difference...

:56:53
until there is one.
:56:55
It can be so slow
that you don't know...

:56:58
that your life is better
or worse till it is.


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