"Stop."
"Not my voice.
It's not in my voice.
Stop.
I always like to have a little quiet time
after the lunch dishes are--
And yesterday when we came in here after we ate we didn't--
We both of us wish you could visit more often,
but we understand how you--
I see in the mirror that I don't look very presentable,
it's hard at my age to--
Let me brush my hair for just a minute, I'll do it while--
Sit there by the window, just push that embroidery--
No, to the other side.
Let me do it, I don't--
I sometimes wonder why do I have this mirror in here, I hate--
Sometimes it feels like there was someone
else who lived my life, and I--
I had to quit my business school nights those years ago, when--
In those days, I could copy a new dress in the store window
as soon--
It's as though it all happened to someone else and I
myself haven't gotten--
I can remember a job interview, it was at the Old City building
so many years ago, there were five--
I worked for Mr. Collins till you were born, then he--
Well, that's the way it was in those days, it wasn't like--
But you don't know how strong a mother's love--
It puts roots into your own flesh, and you can never--
Remember the time you hid under my bed, and you said--
when Gloria and you were only babies,
you know, you came six years after Billy, he--
Of course, it would have been easier
if things had turned out different for your father
because with three of you to--
He was a popular man in those days,
could have gone into the upstairs office.
I'm not saying everything was--
Oh, that was before any of you were born, I don't want--
But you've come so far, it's wonderful to have--
Although I can never stop wondering what Billy--
Who knows, you can't think about--
Late at night sometimes after your father's asleep, I still--
We got a letter from a Colonel somebody, but I--
You know I don't like to talk about the--
I can't help remembering the going away party for him
when little Gloria gave him those--
but please let's not--
stop.
Wouldn't you like to go out see some of your old friends,
are you--
I have to tell you, I never liked that boy because he--
No, don't talk about that, I asked you before when--
I want you to tell me what's happened
to your old friends, Rod and Morris and Phil
and that other boy who--
No, not Billy's friends.
Your father won't even go visit his grave, but I--
Remember when we used to take you
with us to that little roadside zoo way
out in Draco County when you were all--
And that family roadhouse near--
Shuffleboard, we used to play on those long, narrow strips
of cement with--
I'd drink a beer in those days, but your father--
Of course, he and I never danced.
And when I thought of my mother saving so hard for my lessons
that she--
Madam Isabel, everyone called her, but I--
It used to be a nice part of town
before you know everything got so--
Why don't you go find your father
and tell him to pick some tomatoes for--
I used to be a great one for gardening, but he--
You can't understand, where is Billy--
I know I should believe, but if he's just 19 forever, then--
Where's Gloria for that matter and--
Just drifting for the longest time, and she wouldn't--
We were afraid she wasn't--
Most of the time you're not even--
You will?
Will you promise me you'll--
I need to take a nap.
When I think about some things, it makes me--
He's probably sitting on the back porch
by himself waiting for you.
He never-- no, I--
no, I told you I--
I've told you, I don't think it helps any to say--
Well, I'm a little better than your father at least.
Look at him the way he--
I got over that.
I heard from her again last month, she's--
He hasn't talked to her, he won't since--
Why did there have to be--
I can't even count all the--
I'm all right, I--
would put that embroidery back where--
I'm all right.
If I could just--"
Wow.
Take us out, man.
Oh.