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Hello and welcome to Open Door Playhouse, a theater podcast that celebrates live theater on the podcast stage.
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I'm Mimi Kemet.
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At Open Door Playhouse, we strive to bring our listeners thoughtful and surprising 10-minute shorts and one-act plays that showcase insightful and new perspectives of the world we share with others.
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Open Door Playhouse is a 501c3 theater organization.
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Now playing in Theater 206, Dead Man's Hat, written by Vernon Hamilton, directed by Mimi Kemet, and starring Gary Lamb as Diggs, Ayla Rose Baruch as Carla, Danny Soleil as Louie, and Larry Toppler as Oscar.
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I can't do this no more.
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You're tired.
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Go on up.
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We'll finish cleaning up the bar.
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It's late.
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It's been late.
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It's always late.
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And I don't mean no more tonight.
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I mean no more.
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No more.
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Yeah, you look beep, baby.
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Go on up.
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And why is he still here?
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I can't do this no more, Dad.
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It's too hard.
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Can't he get a job someplace?
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Any place, any place but here.
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But he's your husband, Carla.
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Tomorrow, I swear it, tomorrow, I'm gonna go out of here with the next guy who shows any interest in me or my body.
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Carla.
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Carla, baby.
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The next guy who pinches my ass or grabs my thighs or rubs up against my tits.
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Well, I'll give him a big smile and say yes.
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Yes, that's what I'll say.
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I'll say yes.
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Yes.
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I will leave with him, and when I come back the next day or the day after that, I know you will be gone from my life.
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Then I can start fresh.
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You can't do that.
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That's crazy talk.
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How the hell could you do that, Carla?
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I can, and I will.
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Hmm.
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What's this hat doing here?
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It was good, Diggs.
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It was good from the time we was in high school.
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Then it got better and better.
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I figured that was how it was going to keep going.
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Just getting better and better.
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Life ain't like that.
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Yeah, maybe it don't have to keep getting better, but it don't need to go backwards.
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Listen, Louie, right here and have a straw.
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There used to be hundreds of people, maybe thousands, working in factories.
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Them factories ain't here no more.
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Stuff come up, shit go down.
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Plenty of times.
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I walk to that river down there, that big Hudson right down the hill, I sit there and watch it.
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I swear to God, sometimes it flows one way, then turn around and flow the other way.
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That's what life is, man.
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That's how it goes.
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You heard what she said though, Diggs.
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She couldn't really do that, could she?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, she could.
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She might.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Oh.
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I don't like the looks of this hat.
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Throw it in the garbage.
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Can't do that.
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Man puts his hat on the bar and has a few drinks, you know he's gonna forget it.
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And you know he's gonna come back for it.
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So what if he comes back?
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He probably don't even know where he left it anyway.
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Give me that.
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I bet this hat cost about a hundred dollars.
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It's old, but it's a damn good hat.
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How do I look?
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It's a dead man's hat.
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What?
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That's nuts.
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Everybody left on their own two feet.
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I don't see nobody lying on the floor.
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Yeah, uh hello?
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Yeah, we found it.
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Sure, come and get it.
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Uh we're still here.
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Huh.
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That was a guy named Ben.
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Says he's coming back for his hat.
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Who's coming?
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The dead guy?
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What's his name?
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Ben?
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Whoever he is, I guess Ben ain't all that dead.
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I wish Carl was still down here to see me with his hat on.
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Looking sharp.
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See you tomorrow.
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Night, digs.
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You didn't look you didn't you didn't turn the lock.
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It's not locked.
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Something's in the way.
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Yeah, let me give you a hand there.
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Holy shit!
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He's dead! Whoa.
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No.
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He's trying to say something.
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Huh?
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I'm not dead yet.
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Ah.
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Ben, here's your hat.
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Who the hell is Ben?
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Hugh! Damn, Diggs.
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He don't even remember his name or nothing.
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Here, buddy.
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Uh drink this.
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What happened to you, Ben?
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Stop calling me Ben.
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Can I get a refill?
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Yeah, sure thing.
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I'm Oscar.
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Oscar mitten.
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I I get off the bus.
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I I was I was just crossing the street, car out of no place, come turning and sliding.
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Slid right into me.
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I got knocked up against a door over there.
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I thought that was it for me.
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Where's the car?
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I don't know.
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I think I heard a crash.
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I don't know.
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Louie, go see what's around the turn.
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You sure you can walk, Oscar?
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Whoa.
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Haven't you had enough?
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Diggs, digs, it's horrible! There's a car off the road right by the turn on Stonecliff, all smashed up and upside down.
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The car is burning, the bushes are burning.
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It smells real bad.
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Could you see the license plate?
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Yeah, I wrote it down.
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It's B-E-N 4 E V R.
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That's been forever.
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Hope Oscar got home okay.
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How do you know that dead man stuff?
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What was your grandma like?
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What do you mean?
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She was just red girl like everybody else.
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I mean did she tell you stuff?
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Did she teach you about strange things that happened before you were born?
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No.
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She didn't teach me nothin'.
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I mean like my grandma told me about crows landing on the roof and then somebody in that house dies.
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Anything like that?
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No.
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What about ravens peckin' out the eyes of dead people?
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A lot of dead people lying in the slimy mud right at her feet.
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Anything like that?
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No.
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How'd she see something like that?
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When she was a girl, there was a big ass flood, washed away the land and drowned the people, turned the world upside down, busted cabins on top, people on the bottom, and the crows were everywhere.
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Louis, I think you should take that hat off.
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My grandma gets in my bones sometimes with that stuff.
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I keep thinking it's all mumbo jumbo, but when I feel her in my bones, shit happens just like she told me about.
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Diggs.
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Was she in your bones when Daisy died?
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I don't like to talk about that.
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But I need to talk about it.
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I'm thinking about it tonight and all the other nights.
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I had a feeling about Daisy and water and death.
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I don't know.
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Maybe I should have told you and Carla to stay away from lakes and beaches and pools and whatnot.
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But Daisy was your baby girl and you wouldn't have listened to me.
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When that happened, I stopped not believing.
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You should have told us.
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We would have been so careful.
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We would have protected her.
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Maybe.
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I don't think so.
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But maybe.
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How can you hate me, Carla?
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Why do you hate me, Carla?
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I don't hate you, Louie.
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Seem like I feel hate every time I see you.
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And I see you every day, all day.
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It's it's not you that I hate.
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It's it's this giant hole in my heart that is somehow bigger than my whole body.
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I don't know how that can be, but that's how it feels.
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I'm okay sometimes.
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Almost okay.
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But then I see your face or I hear your voice, and I am reminded of the family that we were, and the family that we are no more.
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It hurts too much, Louie.
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Please go away.
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I don't hate you.
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I love you, but please go away, Louie.
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What about me?
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You think I don't have pain?
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A hole in my heart?
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You say that I harden your pain, that I make it burn in you.
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Well, what about me?
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What if the only thing that can soften my pain is to be near you, huh?
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Louis, please.
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Listen, Carla, I always let stuff happen on me.
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Then ride it on out.
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But you like to make things happen.
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So go ahead.
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Go off with the first guy who gives you the eye or grabs your titties or whatever.
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So, what if I do?
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You know that I will then leave you and never, ever come back.
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If that's what you really want, you know how to make it happen.
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So do it or don't do it.
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I don't care.
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Except I do care.
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I love you and I want to protect you.
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But if you want to do that to me, to us, I can't stop you.
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I'm gonna leave now.
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You see this here hat?
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Your daddy said it's some kind of predictor of bad shit happening to people.
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Well, bad shit happens whether somebody's predicting it or not.
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I'm gonna wear the goddamn hat when I leave tonight.
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And I'll be wearing this hat when I come back tomorrow.
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Our darling baby is dead, Carla.
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She drowned in that pool.
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It is your fault and my fault.
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She was our baby daughter, and we didn't protect her well enough.
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So we got hurt in the worst way that we could.
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But darling, we cannot be scared to live.
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Hello and welcome to Open Door Playhouse, a theater podcast that celebrates live theater on the podcast stage.
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I'm Mimi Kemet.
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At Open Door Playhouse, we strive to bring our listeners thoughtful and surprising 10-minute shorts and one-act plays that showcase insightful and new perspectives of the world we share with others.
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Open Door Playhouse is a 501c3 theater organization.
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Support for Open Door Playhouse comes from listeners like you.
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Your tax-deductible donations help keep our plays on the podcast stage.
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Now playing in Theater 206, Dead Man's Hat, written by Vernon Hamilton, directed by Mimi Kemet, and starring Gary Lamb as Diggs, Ayla Rose Baruch as Carla, Danny Soleil as Louie, and Larry Toppler as Oscar.
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I can't do this no more.
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You're tired.
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Go on up.
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We'll finish cleaning up the bar.
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It's late.
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It's been late.
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It's always late.
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And I don't mean no more tonight.
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I mean no more.
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No more.
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Yeah, you look beep, baby.
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Go on up.
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And why is he still here?
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I can't do this no more, Dad.
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It's too hard.
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Can't he get a job someplace?
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Any place, any place but here.
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But he's your husband, Carla.
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Tomorrow, I swear it, tomorrow, I'm gonna go out of here with the next guy who shows any interest in me or my body.
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Carla.
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Carla, baby.
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The next guy who pinches my ass or grabs my thighs or rubs up against my tits.
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Well, I'll give him a big smile and say yes.
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Yes, that's what I'll say.
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I'll say yes.
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Yes.
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I will leave with him, and when I come back the next day or the day after that, I know you will be gone from my life.
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Then I can start fresh.
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You can't do that.
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That's crazy talk.
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How the hell could you do that, Carla?
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I can, and I will.
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Hmm.
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What's this hat doing here?
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It was good, Diggs.
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It was good from the time we was in high school.
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Then it got better and better.
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I figured that was how it was going to keep going.
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Just getting better and better.
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Life ain't like that.
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Yeah, maybe it don't have to keep getting better, but it don't need to go backwards.
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Listen, Louie, right here and have a straw.
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There used to be hundreds of people, maybe thousands, working in factories.
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Them factories ain't here no more.
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Stuff come up, shit go down.
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Plenty of times.
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I walk to that river down there, that big Hudson right down the hill, I sit there and watch it.
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I swear to God, sometimes it flows one way, then turn around and flow the other way.
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That's what life is, man.
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That's how it goes.
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You heard what she said though, Diggs.
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She couldn't really do that, could she?
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I don't know.
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Yeah, she could.
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She might.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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Oh.
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I don't like the looks of this hat.
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Throw it in the garbage.
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Can't do that.
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Man puts his hat on the bar and has a few drinks, you know he's gonna forget it.
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And you know he's gonna come back for it.
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So what if he comes back?
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He probably don't even know where he left it anyway.
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Give me that.
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I bet this hat cost about a hundred dollars.
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It's old, but it's a damn good hat.
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How do I look?
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It's a dead man's hat.
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What?
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That's nuts.
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Everybody left on their own two feet.
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I don't see nobody lying on the floor.
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Yeah, uh hello?
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Yeah, we found it.
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Sure, come and get it.
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Uh we're still here.
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Huh.
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That was a guy named Ben.
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Says he's coming back for his hat.
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Who's coming?
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The dead guy?
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What's his name?
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Ben?
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Whoever he is, I guess Ben ain't all that dead.
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I wish Carl was still down here to see me with his hat on.
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Looking sharp.
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See you tomorrow.
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Night, digs.
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You didn't look you didn't you didn't turn the lock.
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It's not locked.
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Something's in the way.
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Yeah, let me give you a hand there.
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Holy shit!
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He's dead! Whoa.
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No.
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He's trying to say something.
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Huh?
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I'm not dead yet.
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Ah.
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Ben, here's your hat.
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Who the hell is Ben?
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Hugh! Damn, Diggs.
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He don't even remember his name or nothing.
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Here, buddy.
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Uh drink this.
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What happened to you, Ben?
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Stop calling me Ben.
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Can I get a refill?
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Yeah, sure thing.
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I'm Oscar.
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Oscar mitten.
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I I get off the bus.
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I I was I was just crossing the street, car out of no place, come turning and sliding.
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Slid right into me.
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I got knocked up against a door over there.
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I thought that was it for me.
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Where's the car?
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I don't know.
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I think I heard a crash.
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I don't know.
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Louie, go see what's around the turn.
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You sure you can walk, Oscar?
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Whoa.
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Haven't you had enough?
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Diggs, digs, it's horrible! There's a car off the road right by the turn on Stonecliff, all smashed up and upside down.
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The car is burning, the bushes are burning.
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It smells real bad.
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Could you see the license plate?
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Yeah, I wrote it down.
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It's B-E-N 4 E V R.
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That's been forever.
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Hope Oscar got home okay.
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How do you know that dead man stuff?
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What was your grandma like?
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What do you mean?
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She was just red girl like everybody else.
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I mean did she tell you stuff?
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Did she teach you about strange things that happened before you were born?
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No.
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She didn't teach me nothin'.
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I mean like my grandma told me about crows landing on the roof and then somebody in that house dies.
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Anything like that?
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No.
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What about ravens peckin' out the eyes of dead people?
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A lot of dead people lying in the slimy mud right at her feet.
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Anything like that?
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No.
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How'd she see something like that?
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When she was a girl, there was a big ass flood, washed away the land and drowned the people, turned the world upside down, busted cabins on top, people on the bottom, and the crows were everywhere.
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Louis, I think you should take that hat off.
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My grandma gets in my bones sometimes with that stuff.
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I keep thinking it's all mumbo jumbo, but when I feel her in my bones, shit happens just like she told me about.
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Diggs.
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Was she in your bones when Daisy died?
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I don't like to talk about that.
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But I need to talk about it.
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I'm thinking about it tonight and all the other nights.
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I had a feeling about Daisy and water and death.
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I don't know.
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Maybe I should have told you and Carla to stay away from lakes and beaches and pools and whatnot.
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But Daisy was your baby girl and you wouldn't have listened to me.
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When that happened, I stopped not believing.
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You should have told us.
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We would have been so careful.
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We would have protected her.
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Maybe.
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I don't think so.
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But maybe.
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How can you hate me, Carla?
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Why do you hate me, Carla?
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I don't hate you, Louie.
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Seem like I feel hate every time I see you.
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And I see you every day, all day.
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It's it's not you that I hate.
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It's it's this giant hole in my heart that is somehow bigger than my whole body.
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I don't know how that can be, but that's how it feels.
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I'm okay sometimes.
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Almost okay.
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But then I see your face or I hear your voice, and I am reminded of the family that we were, and the family that we are no more.
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It hurts too much, Louie.
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Please go away.
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I don't hate you.
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I love you, but please go away, Louie.
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What about me?
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You think I don't have pain?
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A hole in my heart?
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You say that I harden your pain, that I make it burn in you.
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Well, what about me?
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What if the only thing that can soften my pain is to be near you, huh?
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Louis, please.
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Listen, Carla, I always let stuff happen on me.
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Then ride it on out.
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But you like to make things happen.
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So go ahead.
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Go off with the first guy who gives you the eye or grabs your titties or whatever.
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So, what if I do?
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You know that I will then leave you and never, ever come back.
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If that's what you really want, you know how to make it happen.
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So do it or don't do it.
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I don't care.
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Except I do care.
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I love you and I want to protect you.
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But if you want to do that to me, to us, I can't stop you.
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I'm gonna leave now.
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You see this here hat?
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Your daddy said it's some kind of predictor of bad shit happening to people.
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Well, bad shit happens whether somebody's predicting it or not.
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I'm gonna wear the goddamn hat when I leave tonight.
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And I'll be wearing this hat when I come back tomorrow.
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Our darling baby is dead, Carla.
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She drowned in that pool.
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It is your fault and my fault.
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She was our baby daughter, and we didn't protect her well enough.
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So we got hurt in the worst way that we could.
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But darling, we cannot be scared to live.
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