WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.690 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.690 --> 00:00:06.690 align:middle line:84% I'll read from Being with Children. 00:00:06.690 --> 00:00:11.700 align:middle line:84% This is in a middle of a long section Being with Children. 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:18.750 align:middle line:84% I directed children in a performance of West Side Story. 00:00:18.750 --> 00:00:23.550 align:middle line:84% And it was a very choppy procedure to get there. 00:00:23.550 --> 00:00:27.360 align:middle line:90% 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:30.350 align:middle line:84% "Meanwhile, a crazed killer was on the loose on the Upper West 00:00:30.350 --> 00:00:31.340 align:middle line:90% Side. 00:00:31.340 --> 00:00:34.550 align:middle line:84% Charlie, the popular name he had been given, 00:00:34.550 --> 00:00:38.060 align:middle line:84% had already mutilated and stabbed a few young boys 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:40.940 align:middle line:90% not far away from PS90. 00:00:40.940 --> 00:00:44.570 align:middle line:84% His face or a police compilation sketch of it 00:00:44.570 --> 00:00:46.670 align:middle line:90% was hung in every shop window. 00:00:46.670 --> 00:00:49.790 align:middle line:84% The kids in school jabbered about him constantly. 00:00:49.790 --> 00:00:52.370 align:middle line:84% The boys, especially talked of him so often 00:00:52.370 --> 00:00:55.220 align:middle line:84% that he took on the shape of a perverse folk hero, 00:00:55.220 --> 00:00:57.710 align:middle line:90% half monster, half outlaw. 00:00:57.710 --> 00:01:00.830 align:middle line:84% They ran out of the backstage bathroom, yelling, Charlie Chop 00:01:00.830 --> 00:01:01.790 align:middle line:90% Off. 00:01:01.790 --> 00:01:04.069 align:middle line:84% That damn killer had inconvenienced my life 00:01:04.069 --> 00:01:05.630 align:middle line:90% in more ways than one. 00:01:05.630 --> 00:01:07.880 align:middle line:84% Now I had to arrange for adult escorts 00:01:07.880 --> 00:01:12.030 align:middle line:84% to be provided every child in the evening performance. 00:01:12.030 --> 00:01:13.790 align:middle line:84% However, the Charlie Chop Off scare 00:01:13.790 --> 00:01:17.960 align:middle line:84% was only a mild shiver compared to the jitters of stage fright. 00:01:17.960 --> 00:01:19.790 align:middle line:84% A week before opening, the terror 00:01:19.790 --> 00:01:23.840 align:middle line:84% began to surface, short tempers, mass cold feet. 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:25.760 align:middle line:84% One fight after another broke out 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.940 align:middle line:90% like firecrackers in a line. 00:01:28.940 --> 00:01:31.010 align:middle line:84% Richard, whom I had been thinking all along 00:01:31.010 --> 00:01:34.130 align:middle line:84% was a good kid struggling along, misunderstood, 00:01:34.130 --> 00:01:36.260 align:middle line:90% the victim of bad press-- 00:01:36.260 --> 00:01:38.210 align:middle line:84% Richard finally gave us a demonstration 00:01:38.210 --> 00:01:40.010 align:middle line:90% of his famous temper. 00:01:40.010 --> 00:01:42.680 align:middle line:84% One afternoon with no provocation that I could see, 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:45.620 align:middle line:84% he began smashing auditorium chairs. 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:49.160 align:middle line:84% What stuck with me was the nihilistic swoon in his smile. 00:01:49.160 --> 00:01:50.870 align:middle line:90% No anger like the others. 00:01:50.870 --> 00:01:53.120 align:middle line:84% Nothing but the clear joy of destruction 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.970 align:middle line:90% that a tornado must feel. 00:01:55.970 --> 00:01:59.420 align:middle line:84% It took several adults to subdue him. 00:01:59.420 --> 00:02:02.420 align:middle line:84% Next, a fistfight broke out between Willie and Janice 00:02:02.420 --> 00:02:05.240 align:middle line:84% who happened to be working the videotape camera. 00:02:05.240 --> 00:02:06.920 align:middle line:84% Some remarks passed between them. 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.820 align:middle line:84% And Willie, his anger boiling over, took off after Janice. 00:02:10.820 --> 00:02:12.710 align:middle line:90% I had never seen such blows. 00:02:12.710 --> 00:02:15.470 align:middle line:84% They had to be held apart by their arms. 00:02:15.470 --> 00:02:17.000 align:middle line:84% Xiamara was the only one who could 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.440 align:middle line:90% quiet her brother, Willie. 00:02:18.440 --> 00:02:19.820 align:middle line:90% It's not worth it, Junior. 00:02:19.820 --> 00:02:22.050 align:middle line:90% You'll get into trouble. 00:02:22.050 --> 00:02:25.610 align:middle line:84% I told my associate, Karen Hubert, to take Janice away. 00:02:25.610 --> 00:02:28.670 align:middle line:84% Karen, out of inexperience, escorted her to the door 00:02:28.670 --> 00:02:31.490 align:middle line:84% and let her go up the staircase herself. 00:02:31.490 --> 00:02:33.350 align:middle line:90% That was a mistake. 00:02:33.350 --> 00:02:36.050 align:middle line:84% Willie tore out after her and everyone ran through the doors 00:02:36.050 --> 00:02:38.150 align:middle line:90% to see the fight. 00:02:38.150 --> 00:02:39.530 align:middle line:90% Let them go, I thought. 00:02:39.530 --> 00:02:42.320 align:middle line:84% I had no more stomach for rehearsing. 00:02:42.320 --> 00:02:45.028 align:middle line:90% It turned out I hated violence. 00:02:45.028 --> 00:02:46.820 align:middle line:84% I had never really known that about myself. 00:02:46.820 --> 00:02:49.700 align:middle line:84% You think there's something thrilling and Dionysian 00:02:49.700 --> 00:02:50.450 align:middle line:90% about violence. 00:02:50.450 --> 00:02:53.090 align:middle line:84% And then two people start pounding each other's flesh, 00:02:53.090 --> 00:02:56.870 align:middle line:84% and it looks so crummy and shoddy. 00:02:56.870 --> 00:02:58.850 align:middle line:84% I told the pianist, Mrs. Maguire, 00:02:58.850 --> 00:03:01.310 align:middle line:90% that rehearsal was over. 00:03:01.310 --> 00:03:03.950 align:middle line:90% Roberta was very critical of me. 00:03:03.950 --> 00:03:06.020 align:middle line:84% Damn, Phillip, you shouldn't stop rehearsing just 00:03:06.020 --> 00:03:07.063 align:middle line:90% because of that. 00:03:07.063 --> 00:03:08.480 align:middle line:84% These kids are like everyone else. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:09.920 align:middle line:90% They want to see a fight. 00:03:09.920 --> 00:03:12.838 align:middle line:84% When the fight is over they'll come back. 00:03:12.838 --> 00:03:14.130 align:middle line:90% I don't care if they come back. 00:03:14.130 --> 00:03:16.190 align:middle line:84% Rehearsal's over because I'm discouraged. 00:03:16.190 --> 00:03:17.810 align:middle line:90% I can't work. 00:03:17.810 --> 00:03:21.260 align:middle line:84% I told a few who had stayed to go back to their classes. 00:03:21.260 --> 00:03:24.590 align:middle line:84% The pianist started to pack up the score but hesitated. 00:03:24.590 --> 00:03:26.960 align:middle line:84% Roberto and his group refused to leave. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.480 align:middle line:84% Just as I did not humor their discouragement 00:03:29.480 --> 00:03:33.590 align:middle line:84% as an excuse to stop work, so they were not humoring mine. 00:03:33.590 --> 00:03:35.420 align:middle line:84% What occurred was very interesting. 00:03:35.420 --> 00:03:37.760 align:middle line:84% They started to practice "Officer Krupke." 00:03:37.760 --> 00:03:39.380 align:middle line:90% And naturally I watched. 00:03:39.380 --> 00:03:42.290 align:middle line:84% Then most of the runaways came back and we rehearsed "A Boy 00:03:42.290 --> 00:03:43.880 align:middle line:90% Like That" and "America." 00:03:43.880 --> 00:03:47.030 align:middle line:84% It turned out to be a very productive morning. 00:03:47.030 --> 00:03:49.670 align:middle line:84% Picking up the pieces was the only pedagogical method 00:03:49.670 --> 00:03:51.860 align:middle line:84% I had to go on during this last hectic week 00:03:51.860 --> 00:03:53.810 align:middle line:84% when everything fell apart and came together 00:03:53.810 --> 00:03:56.060 align:middle line:90% again at least a dozen times. 00:03:56.060 --> 00:03:57.710 align:middle line:84% Certain children made it easier for me 00:03:57.710 --> 00:04:00.830 align:middle line:84% by unobtrusively assuming responsibility. 00:04:00.830 --> 00:04:03.020 align:middle line:84% Jerome, who is nobody's teacher's pet, 00:04:03.020 --> 00:04:05.420 align:middle line:84% saw to it that the gangs lined up in a V 00:04:05.420 --> 00:04:08.780 align:middle line:84% so as not to block each other from the audience. 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:11.390 align:middle line:84% Brit led the Jets on stage with such verve 00:04:11.390 --> 00:04:13.670 align:middle line:84% that they were a little timid to go on without him. 00:04:13.670 --> 00:04:16.160 align:middle line:84% Virginia plugged up the holes in the "America" dance, 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.579 align:middle line:84% clapping her hands, stamping her feet to keep the girls moving. 00:04:19.579 --> 00:04:23.270 align:middle line:84% And Roberto, not Lewis, who was too engrossed in his solo 00:04:23.270 --> 00:04:24.290 align:middle line:90% to pay attention. 00:04:24.290 --> 00:04:28.340 align:middle line:84% Roberto held the Shark team together in "Officer Krupke." 00:04:28.340 --> 00:04:31.670 align:middle line:84% Roberto had become involved in every aspect of the production. 00:04:31.670 --> 00:04:33.590 align:middle line:84% He found an old tire for the Sharks 00:04:33.590 --> 00:04:35.870 align:middle line:84% to roll back and forth on stage to give them 00:04:35.870 --> 00:04:39.230 align:middle line:84% something to do with their hands before Krupke enters. 00:04:39.230 --> 00:04:42.890 align:middle line:84% He and Gene located an aluminum car to use as Maria's bed 00:04:42.890 --> 00:04:46.310 align:middle line:84% and as Tony's funeral bier in the last scene. 00:04:46.310 --> 00:04:47.720 align:middle line:90% He helped paint the scenery. 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:49.250 align:middle line:90% He designed costumes. 00:04:49.250 --> 00:04:52.670 align:middle line:84% He had ideas about the lightning-- about the lighting. 00:04:52.670 --> 00:04:55.190 align:middle line:90% If only he had stopped there. 00:04:55.190 --> 00:04:57.920 align:middle line:84% Roberto took to sitting on a chair facing the stage 00:04:57.920 --> 00:05:00.380 align:middle line:84% and cracking his belt for a whip. 00:05:00.380 --> 00:05:03.980 align:middle line:90% I'm the director, he snarled. 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:07.490 align:middle line:84% His excitement had a way of turning animalistic, swinging 00:05:07.490 --> 00:05:09.110 align:middle line:90% his arms to look like a gorilla. 00:05:09.110 --> 00:05:11.390 align:middle line:84% He picked up the camera tripod with a threat 00:05:11.390 --> 00:05:14.060 align:middle line:90% of bashing Karen Hubert or me. 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.850 align:middle line:84% Put that down, Karen said, with real annoyance. 00:05:16.850 --> 00:05:21.452 align:middle line:84% I don't relate to being hit over the head with a tripod. 00:05:21.452 --> 00:05:23.660 align:middle line:84% Roberto, you've got to take a more delicate approach 00:05:23.660 --> 00:05:24.860 align:middle line:90% with women, I teased him. 00:05:24.860 --> 00:05:27.300 align:middle line:90% Suppose you on a date. 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:29.010 align:middle line:84% I don't want to go out on no dates. 00:05:29.010 --> 00:05:31.020 align:middle line:84% I just want to get down with a woman. 00:05:31.020 --> 00:05:34.440 align:middle line:84% And she better do what I tell her to. 00:05:34.440 --> 00:05:36.570 align:middle line:90% That was Roberto. 00:05:36.570 --> 00:05:38.790 align:middle line:84% As valuable as he could be on the technical end, 00:05:38.790 --> 00:05:40.873 align:middle line:84% the next moment he would do something that made me 00:05:40.873 --> 00:05:42.960 align:middle line:84% wonder whether it was all worth it. 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:45.540 align:middle line:84% He'd gotten into a particularly raw nasty mood 00:05:45.540 --> 00:05:48.330 align:middle line:84% during a dress rehearsal, turning lights switches off 00:05:48.330 --> 00:05:49.800 align:middle line:84% and on, fooling with the curtains, 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:52.980 align:middle line:84% and disobeying orders ostentatiously. 00:05:52.980 --> 00:05:55.440 align:middle line:84% There was a strange situation brewing backstage 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:58.320 align:middle line:84% between him and the girls that I didn't quite understand. 00:05:58.320 --> 00:06:01.180 align:middle line:84% But from time to time I heard a girl cry out, cut it out, 00:06:01.180 --> 00:06:02.635 align:middle line:90% Roberto. 00:06:02.635 --> 00:06:04.260 align:middle line:84% I went behind the curtains and told him 00:06:04.260 --> 00:06:06.177 align:middle line:84% if he didn't stop bothering the girls he would 00:06:06.177 --> 00:06:08.250 align:middle line:90% be dismissed from rehearsal. 00:06:08.250 --> 00:06:10.770 align:middle line:84% He seemed not to like hearing this. 00:06:10.770 --> 00:06:13.560 align:middle line:84% As soon as I had gone on stage and told Maureen to begin 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:15.090 align:middle line:90% playing the music again. 00:06:15.090 --> 00:06:17.970 align:middle line:84% Roberto yelled out, Phillip is a faggot 00:06:17.970 --> 00:06:21.480 align:middle line:90% and he don't wear no underwear. 00:06:21.480 --> 00:06:24.165 align:middle line:84% For some reason this random taunt got under my skin. 00:06:24.165 --> 00:06:29.090 align:middle line:90% 00:06:29.090 --> 00:06:30.770 align:middle line:90% Like who you calling a faggot? 00:06:30.770 --> 00:06:34.760 align:middle line:84% I ripped open the curtain to see him advancing on Dolores. 00:06:34.760 --> 00:06:36.500 align:middle line:90% Get out! 00:06:36.500 --> 00:06:38.428 align:middle line:90% I ain't leaving this auditorium. 00:06:38.428 --> 00:06:39.470 align:middle line:90% You're leaving all right. 00:06:39.470 --> 00:06:41.670 align:middle line:84% Come on, you're through for today. 00:06:41.670 --> 00:06:43.503 align:middle line:90% Going to make me? 00:06:43.503 --> 00:06:44.420 align:middle line:90% I'm going to make you. 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:46.550 align:middle line:90% Get out! 00:06:46.550 --> 00:06:48.703 align:middle line:84% I'm not leaving no matter what you do to me. 00:06:48.703 --> 00:06:50.120 align:middle line:84% I'm not kidding with you, Roberto. 00:06:50.120 --> 00:06:50.960 align:middle line:90% Go! 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:53.690 align:middle line:84% I started dragging him down the stairs. 00:06:53.690 --> 00:06:55.760 align:middle line:90% Everyone was watching us now. 00:06:55.760 --> 00:06:58.220 align:middle line:84% There comes at times, I thought with a lump in my throat, 00:06:58.220 --> 00:07:00.020 align:middle line:90% when you can't back down. 00:07:00.020 --> 00:07:01.340 align:middle line:90% I pushed him. 00:07:01.340 --> 00:07:02.810 align:middle line:90% He pushed me. 00:07:02.810 --> 00:07:04.220 align:middle line:90% I pushed him. 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:05.990 align:middle line:90% He pushed me. 00:07:05.990 --> 00:07:07.790 align:middle line:90% I shoved him hard. 00:07:07.790 --> 00:07:08.960 align:middle line:90% Tears in his eyes. 00:07:08.960 --> 00:07:11.660 align:middle line:90% His hand went up to his neck. 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:13.580 align:middle line:90% You broke my locket. 00:07:13.580 --> 00:07:15.230 align:middle line:90% A sigh went through the cast. 00:07:15.230 --> 00:07:16.880 align:middle line:90% He broke it. 00:07:16.880 --> 00:07:18.560 align:middle line:90% Ooh. 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:22.010 align:middle line:84% Roberto going to tell his father. 00:07:22.010 --> 00:07:26.820 align:middle line:84% I sense that popular sympathy had turned against me. 00:07:26.820 --> 00:07:29.240 align:middle line:90% It was absurd, an accident. 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:29.930 align:middle line:90% You broke it. 00:07:29.930 --> 00:07:31.700 align:middle line:90% And you're going to pay for it. 00:07:31.700 --> 00:07:34.430 align:middle line:84% A great childish blubber broke out of him. 00:07:34.430 --> 00:07:36.710 align:middle line:84% So different from the tough guy of a moment ago. 00:07:36.710 --> 00:07:38.060 align:middle line:90% I could only be relieved. 00:07:38.060 --> 00:07:39.920 align:middle line:90% He was crying like a baby. 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:41.900 align:middle line:84% At last, he had a focus of outrage 00:07:41.900 --> 00:07:44.420 align:middle line:84% for all that frustration he had been feeling. 00:07:44.420 --> 00:07:46.700 align:middle line:90% You better fix it, he said. 00:07:46.700 --> 00:07:48.710 align:middle line:84% Suddenly it was no longer in big trouble. 00:07:48.710 --> 00:07:50.840 align:middle line:90% In fact, he had the upper hand. 00:07:50.840 --> 00:07:52.790 align:middle line:90% I'll fix it, don't worry. 00:07:52.790 --> 00:07:55.850 align:middle line:90% It's going to cost you $2. 00:07:55.850 --> 00:07:57.380 align:middle line:90% I'm not worried about the $2. 00:07:57.380 --> 00:07:58.807 align:middle line:90% I almost smiled. 00:07:58.807 --> 00:08:00.140 align:middle line:90% We'll get it fixed during lunch. 00:08:00.140 --> 00:08:02.182 align:middle line:84% Meanwhile, I want you to go out of the auditorium 00:08:02.182 --> 00:08:03.740 align:middle line:90% and go back to your class. 00:08:03.740 --> 00:08:05.810 align:middle line:84% He turned his face away to ignore me. 00:08:05.810 --> 00:08:09.230 align:middle line:84% I started scolding him by the elbow and he pulled away. 00:08:09.230 --> 00:08:11.090 align:middle line:90% Don't you shove me. 00:08:11.090 --> 00:08:11.960 align:middle line:90% I'm not shoving you. 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:15.182 align:middle line:84% Move by yourself and I won't have to touch you. 00:08:15.182 --> 00:08:16.640 align:middle line:84% At the head of the aisle I told him 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:19.310 align:middle line:84% I wanted to speak to him in private for a moment. 00:08:19.310 --> 00:08:22.428 align:middle line:90% I was working up to an apology. 00:08:22.428 --> 00:08:24.470 align:middle line:84% I don't want to talk to you, he said, and slammed 00:08:24.470 --> 00:08:26.510 align:middle line:90% the aluminum door going out. 00:08:26.510 --> 00:08:30.050 align:middle line:84% Just as well, I turned to face the cast who were all on stage 00:08:30.050 --> 00:08:32.090 align:middle line:90% waiting silently. 00:08:32.090 --> 00:08:34.700 align:middle line:84% I wondered what the pianist thought about me. 00:08:34.700 --> 00:08:37.760 align:middle line:84% I felt we had just undergone the most serious threat to the show 00:08:37.760 --> 00:08:39.169 align:middle line:90% since the beginning. 00:08:39.169 --> 00:08:41.900 align:middle line:84% By hitting him, I had committed a cardinal error. 00:08:41.900 --> 00:08:44.420 align:middle line:84% It would endanger all of us if his parents 00:08:44.420 --> 00:08:46.190 align:middle line:90% were to press charges. 00:08:46.190 --> 00:08:47.690 align:middle line:84% Looking into their faces though, I 00:08:47.690 --> 00:08:49.820 align:middle line:84% saw they attached no such importance to it. 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:53.480 align:middle line:84% They seem to regard it as the nature of school life. 00:08:53.480 --> 00:08:55.460 align:middle line:84% The pianist was a little shocked, 00:08:55.460 --> 00:08:57.620 align:middle line:84% not, it turned out, because I had pushed Roberto, 00:08:57.620 --> 00:09:01.520 align:middle line:84% but because he had dared to lay a hand on me. 00:09:01.520 --> 00:09:05.750 align:middle line:84% She had no trouble supporting my action even if I did. 00:09:05.750 --> 00:09:07.340 align:middle line:90% We continued rehearsing. 00:09:07.340 --> 00:09:09.500 align:middle line:84% Ten minutes later Roberto was back. 00:09:09.500 --> 00:09:12.200 align:middle line:84% He took a seat morosely in the first row. 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:14.180 align:middle line:84% I preferred to ignore this infraction 00:09:14.180 --> 00:09:15.770 align:middle line:90% and go on with the scene. 00:09:15.770 --> 00:09:17.510 align:middle line:84% Maybe I was doing the wrong thing again 00:09:17.510 --> 00:09:19.640 align:middle line:90% by letting him disobey me. 00:09:19.640 --> 00:09:21.650 align:middle line:84% Consistency is all very nice but how 00:09:21.650 --> 00:09:23.900 align:middle line:84% was I going to manufacture the self-righteousness 00:09:23.900 --> 00:09:27.590 align:middle line:84% to eject him again when I had expended all my anger. 00:09:27.590 --> 00:09:28.820 align:middle line:90% I did what I felt right. 00:09:28.820 --> 00:09:30.590 align:middle line:90% I let him stay. 00:09:30.590 --> 00:09:34.160 align:middle line:84% He jeered at the actors from time to time, not much. 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:36.710 align:middle line:84% At the lunch bell, I asked Roberto to stay behind alone 00:09:36.710 --> 00:09:40.010 align:middle line:84% for a moment before going off with him to the jewelers. 00:09:40.010 --> 00:09:42.380 align:middle line:84% I told them that I was sorry for breaking his locket. 00:09:42.380 --> 00:09:44.780 align:middle line:90% And sorry if I'd hurt him. 00:09:44.780 --> 00:09:46.520 align:middle line:84% But it had been absolutely necessary 00:09:46.520 --> 00:09:48.950 align:middle line:84% that he leave the auditorium when I told him to. 00:09:48.950 --> 00:09:50.450 align:middle line:84% You were really getting out of hand. 00:09:50.450 --> 00:09:52.080 align:middle line:90% I said. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.895 align:middle line:84% How did you know I was doing anything wrong, he objected. 00:09:54.895 --> 00:09:56.270 align:middle line:84% You were fooling with the lights. 00:09:56.270 --> 00:09:58.370 align:middle line:90% You were bothering the girls. 00:09:58.370 --> 00:10:01.100 align:middle line:90% But did you see me? 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:03.590 align:middle line:84% Not only did I see you, Roberto, everyone was coming to me 00:10:03.590 --> 00:10:05.700 align:middle line:84% and saying that you were bothering them. 00:10:05.700 --> 00:10:06.943 align:middle line:90% And to be honest about it. 00:10:06.943 --> 00:10:08.610 align:middle line:84% I was angry when you called me a faggot. 00:10:08.610 --> 00:10:09.985 align:middle line:84% I really don't like it, you know. 00:10:09.985 --> 00:10:10.740 align:middle line:90% I'm human. 00:10:10.740 --> 00:10:12.860 align:middle line:90% I got my feelings too. 00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:14.570 align:middle line:90% Roberto nodded. 00:10:14.570 --> 00:10:16.910 align:middle line:84% He seemed much more subdued and open to reason 00:10:16.910 --> 00:10:19.130 align:middle line:90% with no witnesses around. 00:10:19.130 --> 00:10:22.550 align:middle line:84% We went to the jewelry store to get the link sorted. 00:10:22.550 --> 00:10:25.490 align:middle line:84% Willie was excited because he knew a Dominican jeweler who 00:10:25.490 --> 00:10:26.660 align:middle line:90% would do it for less. 00:10:26.660 --> 00:10:29.330 align:middle line:84% This guy knows my family, he said. 00:10:29.330 --> 00:10:31.020 align:middle line:84% Willie did all the talking in Spanish. 00:10:31.020 --> 00:10:33.860 align:middle line:90% And we were charged to me $1.50. 00:10:33.860 --> 00:10:35.532 align:middle line:84% Roberto looked considerably relieved 00:10:35.532 --> 00:10:37.490 align:middle line:84% that he would not have to explain to his father 00:10:37.490 --> 00:10:39.620 align:middle line:90% how the locket got busted. 00:10:39.620 --> 00:10:43.220 align:middle line:84% In no time he was confiding in me his plans for the weekend. 00:10:43.220 --> 00:10:45.650 align:middle line:84% We went into McDonald's and ordered some Big Macs, 00:10:45.650 --> 00:10:47.990 align:middle line:90% sat back, and had an easy lunch. 00:10:47.990 --> 00:10:50.360 align:middle line:84% Who would have guessed that an hour after the incident 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:53.180 align:middle line:90% we would be on such good terms? 00:10:53.180 --> 00:10:55.460 align:middle line:84% Perhaps with a kid like Roberto, drawing the line 00:10:55.460 --> 00:10:57.380 align:middle line:90% is a sign that you care for him. 00:10:57.380 --> 00:11:00.110 align:middle line:84% Dolores told me later that Roberto had been coming out 00:11:00.110 --> 00:11:03.230 align:middle line:84% of the dressing room in the morning with his zipper open 00:11:03.230 --> 00:11:06.620 align:middle line:90% and his private parts showing. 00:11:06.620 --> 00:11:08.900 align:middle line:90% That was going pretty far. 00:11:08.900 --> 00:11:11.270 align:middle line:84% I began to understand why he kept asking, 00:11:11.270 --> 00:11:14.780 align:middle line:90% but did you see me?" 00:11:14.780 --> 00:11:15.860 align:middle line:90% I'll stop here. 00:11:15.860 --> 00:11:20.710 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] [APPLAUSE] 00:11:20.710 --> 00:11:27.000 align:middle line:90%