Riding the Bullet
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:33:15
I'm heading on down to Bowdoinham.
:33:19
He trying to catch something?
:33:22
You know, my wife Aleka, bless her soul,
she used to say...

:33:25
I would end up in a ditch with a knife
in my back picking up hitchhikers.

:33:30
But every time I see
a young fellow like you...

:33:32
standing on the side of the road,
I think of my younger days.

:33:35
I appreciate it.
:33:37
Yeah. Where you headed, son?
:33:40
Central Maine General Hospital
down in Lewiston.

:33:43
-Yeah.
-My mother had a stroke.

:33:47
I'm sorry to hear that.
:33:50
-They think she'll be okay.
-Yeah.

:33:54
Stroke's what claimed my Allie,
not four years back.

:33:58
She just started babbling stuff,
not making a lick of sense.

:34:01
After a while she just sort of
petered out, you know.

:34:05
I miss her terrible.
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On long drives,
I can still see her face sometimes...

:34:14
sitting right there where you are.
:34:23
Damn!
:34:26
You know, I'd take you all the way,
but I promised my brother Ralph...

:34:31
that I'd take him
over to that nursing home in Gates.

:34:34
His wife's up there,
she's got that forgetting disease...

:34:37
what do you call it,
Anderson's or whatever it is.

:34:40
-Alzheimer's.
-Alzheimer's, yeah. That's the fellow.

:34:45
Still, I suppose I could take you all the way.
:34:49
Don't let him.
There's something wrong with him.

:34:55
You don't have to do that.
I can get a ride from Gates easy.


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