Barbara Weston
It's so surreal. Thank God we can't tell the future, we'd never get out of bed.
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Ivy Weston
Is your mouth burnin'?
Violet Weston
Like a son-of-a-bitch. My tongue is on fire.
Ivy Weston
Are you supposed to be smoking?
Violet Weston
Is anybody *supposed* to smoke?
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Violet Weston
I'm not hungry!
Barbara Weston
Eat the fish, bitch!
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Charlie Aiken
Mattie Fae, we're gonna get in the car and go home. And if you say one more mean thing to that boy I'm gonna kick your fat Irish ass into the highway.
Mattie Fae Aiken
What the hell did you just say to me?
Charlie Aiken
Kids, go outside, would you please? I don't understand this meanness. I look at you and your sister and the way you talk to people and I don't understand it. I can't understand why folks can't be respectful to one another. I don't think there's any excuse for it. My family didn't treat each other that way.
Mattie Fae Aiken
Oh, maybe cause your family didn't have...
Charlie Aiken
You better not say anything about my family right now, I mean it! We just buried a man I loved very much. And whatever faults he may have had, he was a good, kind, decent man. And to hear you tearing your own son not even a day later dishonors Beverly's memory. We've been married 38 years and I wouldn't trade it for anything. But if you can't find a generous place in your heart for your own son, we're not gonna make it to 39!
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Barbara Weston
Marriage is hard.
Karen Weston
That's one thing about mom and dad. You gotta tip your hat to anybody who can stay married that long.
Ivy Weston
Karen, he killed himself.
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Ivy Weston
Mom, Charles and I...
Barbara Weston
Little Charles.
Ivy Weston
Barbara.
Barbara Weston
You got to say Little Charles or she's not gonna know who you're talking about.
Ivy Weston
Little Charles and I... Little Charles and I...
Violet Weston
Little Charles and you are brother and sister. I know that.
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Violet Weston
Why don't you wear makeup?
Ivy Weston
Do I need makeup?
Violet Weston
Every women needs makeup! Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman - pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a *ton*. Your shoulders are all slumped and your hair's all straight and you don't wear make-up. You look like a lesbian.
Ivy Weston
Mom.
Violet Weston
You could get a decent man if you would just spruce up bit. That's all I'm sayin'.
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Beverly Weston
"Life is very long." T.S. Elliot. Not the first person to say it, certainly not the first person to think it, but he's given credit for it because he bothered to write it down.
[chuckles]
Beverly Weston
Now if you say it, you have to say his name after it. "Life is very long." T.S. Elliot. Absolutely goddamn right.
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Violet Weston
You can't do this! This is my house! This is my house!
Barbara Weston
You don't get it, do you? You don't get it! I AM running things now!
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Violet Weston
I thought we were having a funeral dinner not a cockfight.
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Violet Weston
Karen! Shame on you! Don't you know you're not supposed to say "Cowboys and Indians"? You played "Cowboys and Native Americans". Right, Barb?
Barbara Weston
What are you taking? What pills?
Violet Weston
Oh, leave me alone.
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Charlie Aiken
Oh... oh... I got a big bite of fear! And it never tasted so good!
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Bill Fordham
You're thoughtful, Barbara, but you're not open. You're passionate, but you're hard. You're a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you, but - YOU'RE A PAIN IN THE ASS!
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Little Charles Aiken
I missed his funeral!
Little Charles Aiken
It's a ceremony. It's ceremonial. It doesn't mean anything compared to what you have in your heart.
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Barbara Weston
Are we breaking shit now, huh? I can break shit! Hey! See, everybody can break some shit!
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Barbara Weston
Listen to me! Die after me, alright. I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just
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Barbara Weston
survive.
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Barbara Weston
Please!
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Violet Weston
Truth is you just can't compete with a younger woman. It's just one of those unfair things in life. Is there a younger woman involved?
Barbara Weston
Isn't enough on this topic?
Bill Fordham
Yes, there is a younger woman.
Violet Weston
Well, see? Odds are against you there, babe.
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Violet Weston
You know if I ever call my mom a liar she would knock my goddamn head off my shoulders.
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Beverly Weston
My wife takes pills, and I drink. That's the little deal we've struck - a little paragraph in our marriage contract.
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Violet Weston
I told you nobody slips anything by me.
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Barbara Weston
Eat your fish.
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Little Charles Aiken
[singing to Ivy]
Well, I've never been a man of many words / And there's nothing I could say that you haven't heard / But I'll sing you love songs 'till the day I die / The way I'm feeling / I can't keep it inside // I'll sing a sweet serenade whenever you're feeling sad / And a lullaby each night before you go to bed / I'll sing to you for the rest of your life / The way I'm feeling / I can't keep it inside
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Barbara Weston
What were these people thinking, the jokers who settled this place? Who was the asshole that looked at all that flat, hot nothing, and then planted his flag? I mean, we fucked the Indians for this?
Bill Fordham
Well, genocide always seems like such a good idea at the time.
Barbara Weston
Right. Just need a little hindsight.
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Violet Weston
[to Barbara, holding the pills]
You see these babies? These are my best fuckin' friends and they never let me down. You try to take them away from me, I'll eat ya alive!
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Barbara Weston
It's not my fault. Mom told you, not me.
Ivy Weston
There's no difference.
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Barbara Weston
I want you to know you're not alone, if you need any help.
Violet Weston
No... I dont need help...
Barbara Weston
I-I wanna help...
Violet Weston
I dont need your help.
Barbara Weston
Mom...
Violet Weston
I dont need your help. I have got myself... I know how this goes. Once all the talking is threw, people just go back to their own nonsenses. I know that so, dont worry about me. I will manage.
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Violet Weston
I ever tell you the story of Raymond Qualls? Not much story to it. Boy I had a crush on when I was thirteen or so. Rough-looking boy, beat-up Levis, messy hair. Terrible underbite. But he had these beautiful cowboy boots, shiny chocolate leather. He was so proud of those boots, you could tell, way he'd strut around, all arms and elbows, puffed up and cocksure. I decided I needed to get a girly pair of those same boots and I convinced myself he'd ask me to go steady. He'd see me in those boots and say "Now there's the gal for me." Found the boots in a window downtown and just went crazy: praying for those boots, rehearsing the conversation I'd have with Raymond when he saw me in my boots. Must've asked my momma a hundred times if I could get those boots. "What do you want for Christmas, Vi?" "Momma, I'll give all of it up just for those boots." Bargaining, you know? She started dropping hints about a package under the tree she had wrapped up, about the size of a boot box, nice wrapping paper. "Now, Vi, don't you cheat and look in there before Christmas morning." Little smile on her face. Christmas morning, I was up like a shot, boy, under the tree, tearing open that box. There was a pair of boots, all right... men's work boots, holes in the toes, chewed up laces, caked in mud and dog shit. Lord, my momma laughed for days.
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Violet Weston
That man! What I first fell in love with was his mystery. I thought it was sexy as hell! You knew he was the smartest one in the room, then he'd just say something and knock you out. He'd just stand there with a little smile on his face and not say a word. Sexy!
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Beverly Weston
Why don't you go back to bed, sweetheart?
Violet Weston
Why don't you go fuck a fuckin' sow's ass?
Beverly Weston
Alright.
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Violet Weston
It speaks!
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Karen Weston
It's not cut and dried, it lives where everything lives: somewhere in the middle.
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Johnna Monevata
What kind of cancer?
Beverly Weston
Oh my God, I nearly neglected the punch line. Mouth cancer.
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Mattie Fae Aiken
You come here and give your Aunt Mattie Fae some sugar! Look at you. You're so big. Look at your boobs. Last time I saw you, you looked like a little boy.
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Bill Fordham
I have not forsook my responsibilities!
Barbara Weston
It's "forsaken," big shot.
Bill Fordham
No, actually, "forsook" is also an acceptable usage.
Barbara Weston
Oh, "forsook" you and the horse you rode in on.
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Violet Weston
I'm a drug addict. I love drug.
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Barbara Weston
Holy shit that's Karen! You remember your Aunt Karen?
Jean Fordham
Kind of.
Barbara Weston
And that must be this year's man!
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Ivy Weston
I can't perpetuate these myths of family or sisterhood anymore. We're just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells.
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Bill Fordham
You're so goddam self-righteous, you know that?
Barbara Weston
Surely you must have realized when you started porking Pippi Longstocking that you were due for some self-righteousness, just a smudge of indignation on my part!
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Bill Fordham
So, it's tough to... Just because you and I are struggling with this Gordian knot, it doesn't mean
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Violet Weston
I'm so glad one of my girls stayed close to home. In my day, family stuck together.
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Violet Weston
Isn't there the TV commercial where the lady says: "Where is the meat?"
Mattie Fae Aiken
Where is the meat?
Karen Weston
Where is the beef?
Violet Weston
[annoyed]
Where's the meat? Where's the meat? Where's the meat? Meat, meat, where is the meat?
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Ivy Weston
Little Charles and I...
Violet Weston
Little Charles and you are brother and sister. I know that.
Violet Weston
I've always known that. I told you, no one slips anything by me.
Ivy Weston
Mom!
Barbara Weston
Don't listen.
Violet Weston
I knew the whole time Bev and Mattie Fae were carrying on. Charlie should've known too, if he hadn't been smoking all that grass.
Barbara Weston
It's the pills talking.
Violet Weston
Pills can't talk! Your father tore himself up about it thirty-some-odd years. But Beverly wouldn't be Beverly if he hadn't had something to brood about!
Ivy Weston
Mom, what are you talking about?
Violet Weston
Better you girls know now. Now, you're older, you never know when somebody might need a kidney.
Ivy Weston
Why in God's name did you tell me this?
Violet Weston
Hey, why do you care?
Violet Weston
Oh, come on, now.
Ivy Weston
Monsters!
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Violet Weston
Every woman needs makeup. Don't let anyone tell you any different.
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Mattie Fae Aiken
[Little Charles is playing a song to Ivy in the living room; the TV is on... Mattie Fae suddenly enters]
Liberace! Better get yourself together. We have to get home and take care of those damn dogs... they've probably eaten the drapes by now.
[to Ivy as Little Charles starts stammering]
Mattie Fae Aiken
This one watches so much television it's rotted his brain.
Ivy Weston
I'm sure that's not true.
Charlie Aiken
Mattie Fae...
Mattie Fae Aiken
You do so remember! Some dumb talk show about people swapping wives.
Little Charles Aiken
I don't remember.
Mattie Fae Aiken
You don't remember. Too bad there's not a job where they pay you to sit around watching TV.
Charlie Aiken
Come on, Mattie Fae.
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Violet Weston
I have an Indian in my house!
Bill Fordham
You have a problem with Indians, Violet?
Violet Weston
I don't know what to say to an Indian.
Barbara Weston
They're called Native Americans, Mom.
Violet Weston
Who makes that decision?
Barbara Weston
It's what they like to be called.
Violet Weston
They aren't any more native than me.
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Violet Weston
And then you're gone.
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Barbara Weston
But her fourteen-year-old self might view it differently.
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Barbara Weston
And you really haven't been much of a parent lately.
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Bill Fordham
Our burden as parents. - I got that part.
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Barbara Weston
Why can't you call people what they wanna be called?
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Ivy Weston
Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age.
Karen Weston
Oh, I disagree, I...
Violet Weston
I didn't say they don't grow more attractive. I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.
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Violet Weston
You're very pretty.
Johnna Monevata
Thank you.
Violet Weston
Are you an Injun?
Johnna Monevata
Yes, ma'am.
Violet Weston
What kind?
Johnna Monevata
Cheyenne.
Violet Weston
Do you think I'm pretty?
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Johnna Monevata
What pills does she take?
Beverly Weston
Oh, valium. Vicodin. Darvon, Darvocet. Percodan, Percocet. Xanax, for fun. OxyContin in a pinch. And of course Diluadid. I can't forget Diluadid.
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Beverly Weston
Ah, here. Here. TS Eliot. Read it or not. It's not a job requirement, it's for your own enjoyment. "Here we go, round the prickly pear, Prickly pear, prickly pear, Here we go round the prickly pear..."
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Jean Fordham
Mom? Mom? You didn't hear the phone?
Barbara Weston
If it's your father, tell him to fuck off.
Jean Fordham
It's Aunt Ivy - from Oklahoma.
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Beverly Weston
My last refuge, my books. Simple pleasures. Like finding - wild onions by the side of a road or requited love.
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Violet Weston
You are a comfort, sweetheart. Thank God one of my girls stayed close to home. In my day, family's stayed together.
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Mattie Fae Aiken
You have to be smart to be complicated.
Charlie Aiken
Are you sayin' our boy ain't smart?
Mattie Fae Aiken
Yes, that's what I'm sayin'.
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Mattie Fae Aiken
I don't think I've ever seen you read a book in my life.
Charlie Aiken
That bother you?
Mattie Fae Aiken
What's the last book you read?
Charlie Aiken
Beverly was a teacher; teachers read books. I'm in the upholstery business.
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Bill Fordham
If you want me to explain the creepy character of the Midwest...
Barbara Weston
Please, the Midwest? This is the Plains: a state of mind. A spiritual affliction, like the Blues.
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Mattie Fae Aiken
Oh, I'm sweatin'. Why is is to dark in here? Are you sweatin'?
Charlie Aiken
Hell, yes, I'm sweatin'! And it's ninety degrees in here.
Mattie Fae Aiken
Whoa! Feel my back.
Charlie Aiken
I don't want to feel your back
Mattie Fae Aiken
Sweat is just drippin' down my back.
Charlie Aiken
I believe you.
Mattie Fae Aiken
Feel it.
Charlie Aiken
No!
Mattie Fae Aiken
Come on, put your hand here...
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Mattie Fae Aiken
I told Vi, "Take all those goddamn books he's so fond of and make a big pile in the front yard and have yourself a bonfire."
Charlie Aiken
Well, you don't burn a man's books.
Mattie Fae Aiken
You do, if the situation calls for it.
Charlie Aiken
The man's books didn't do anything.
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Karen Weston
I'm no angel myself. I've done some things I'm not proud of. Things you'll *never* know about. And I may even have to do some things I'm not proud of again. Cause, life just puts you in a corner that way.
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Karen Weston
Things don't work out like you planned. Then, that pillow was a better husband than any real man I'd ever met. And you punish yourself, tell yourself it's your fault you can't find a good one. I don't know how well you remember Andrew. Do you remember Andrew?
Barbara Weston
No, I remember.
Karen Weston
Well, I loved him so intensely, so the things he did wrong were just opportunities for me to make things right. When he would cheat on me or call me a cunt, I'd say, "No, love is forever - and this is just an opportunity to make an adjustment in the way you view the world." And thank God, I just looked in the mirror and said, "Moron," and walked out. But, one day, I finally, I said, "It's me, it's just me. I don't need anything else, I can live my life with myself."
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Barbara Weston
Good old unfathomable Dad.
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Barbara Weston
Daddy never said anything like that to you. What a load of absolute horseshit.
Violet Weston
Horseshit? Horseshit? Oh, horseshit! Let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill.
Bill Fordham
Horseshit.
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Mattie Fae Aiken
I don't believe you. Watchin' a ball game, drinkin' beers. Do you have any sense of what's goin' on around you?
Charlie Aiken
Am I supposed to sit here like a statue? I mean, you're drinkin' whiskey.
Mattie Fae Aiken
I'm having a cocktail.
Charlie Aiken
You're drinkin' - straight whiskey.
Mattie Fae Aiken
Just - have a little class.
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Karen Weston
You can't plan the future. You just can't. Cause as soon as you do, something happens, some terrible thing happens.
Barbara Weston
Like your father drowning himself.
Karen Weston
That's exactly what I mean. You take it as it comes, here and now!
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Violet Weston
Women are beautiful - when they're young and not after. A man can still preserve their sex appeal into old age. And not those men you see with shorts and those little purses around their waists. But, some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old - and fat and wrinkly.
Mattie Fae Aiken
I beg your pardon? I'm still - very sexy, thank you very much.
Violet Weston
Yeah, you are about as sexy as a wet cardboard box, Mattie Fae. You and me, both.
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Steve Huberbrecht
Show 'em to me. I won't look.
Jean Fordham
If you're not going to look, then there's no point in me showing them to you.
Steve Huberbrecht
Okay, okay, I'll look.
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Barbara Weston
You were both fucked up. You were fucked up. You are fucked up.
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Jean Fordham
How old are you, about, seventeen?
Steve Huberbrecht
Fourteen.
Steve Huberbrecht
Fourteen, right. Fourteen. Know what I was doing when I was fourteen? Cattle processing. Do you know what that is?
Jean Fordham
It doesn't sound good.
Steve Huberbrecht
Slaughterhouse sanitation.
Jean Fordham
That's disgusting.
Steve Huberbrecht
I wouldn't recommend it.
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Violet Weston
Women aren't sexy when they're old. I can live with that. Can you live with that?
Mattie Fae Aiken
What about Sophia Loren? What about Lena Horne? She stayed sexy till she was eighty.
Violet Weston
The world is round. Get over it!
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Barbara Weston
Wait. Let me make sure I've got this: when you threw a fit about going to the store with your dad - hey, look at me - and you were so distraught over the start time of your Grandpa's funeral. Was this your concern? Huh? Gettin' back here in time to watch Phantom of the Fucking Opera?
Jean Fordham
I guess.
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Barbara Weston
She smuggled Darvocet into the psych ward - in her vagina. That's the Greatest Generation for you. She's givin' us this speech while she's - clenching a bottle of pills in her cooch.
Karen Weston
I never heard this story.
Ivy Weston
Did you just say "cooch"?
Barbara Weston
The phrase "Mom's pussy" seems gauche.
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Violet Weston
This is the crux of the biscuit: we lived too hard and then rose too high.
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Charlie Aiken
I just don't understand why you're so adversarial.
Violet Weston
I'm just truth-tellin'. Some people get antagonized by the truth.
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Dr. Burke
Beverly's gone.
Barbara Weston
Right. Well, not so much "gone" as "dead." But I see your point.
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Charlie Aiken
Everyone here loves you, dear.
Violet Weston
Oh, you think you can shame me, Charlie? Blow it out your ass!
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Barbara Weston
Howdy, Mom.
Violet Weston
What's howdy about it?
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Steve Huberbrecht
I'm white and over thirty. I don't get in trouble.
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Barbara Weston
This is not my fault. I didn't tell you, Mom told you! It wasn't me, it was Mom!
Ivy Weston
There's no difference.
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Barbara Weston
What word should I use to describe our mother's vagina?
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[Dr. Burke is explaining what triggered Violet's behavior at dinner] The chemotherapy and the radiation, coupled with the overuse of pain medications.
Barbara Weston
Right.
Dr. Burke
Without the benefit of more thorough testing, an MRI or CT scan, I believe your mother is suffering from mild cognitive impairment.
Barbara Weston
Mild cognitive impairment?
Dr. Burke
Brain damage. It may be time to consider placing her in a long-term care facility. I know I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I knew she was receiving that level of supervision.
Barbara Weston
And uh, where would you have us put her? A psychiatric hospital?
Dr. Burke
Well, Beverly's gone.
Barbara Weston
Right. Well, not so much 'gone' as 'dead', but I see your point.
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Violet Weston
We couldn't have let Ivy run off with Little Charles... wouldn't be right.
[Barbara gives her a hard look]
Violet Weston
She'll be back! She's a sweet girl, that Ivy. I love her to death. She isn't strong... not like you. Or me
[laughs]
Barbara Weston
You knew about Daddy and Mattie Fae.
Violet Weston
Oh sure. Sure. But I never told him I knew. Your father knew, he knew that I knew. We never talked about it. I... I chose the higher ground. But if I had a chance, there at the end, I would have, I would have told him. I hope this isn't about Little Charles, 'cause you know that I know all about that. If I'd have reached him over at the motel, I would have said 'you'd be better off if you'd quit sulkin' about this ancient history',
Barbara Weston
What motel?
Violet Weston
I called over there on Monday, after I got into the safety deposit box, but it was too late! He... checked out.
Barbara Weston
How'd you know where he was?
Violet Weston
A note. He said I could call him over to the Country Squire Motel.
Barbara Weston
He left a note.
Violet Weston
And I did call over there, on Monday.
Barbara Weston
After you got your money out of your safety deposit box.
Violet Weston
We had... an arrangement. You have to understand... for people like your father and me, who never had any money, ever, as kids. People from our generation... that money is important!
Barbara Weston
If you could have stopped Daddy from killin' himself, you wouldn't have needed to get into your safety deposit box.
Violet Weston
Well, hindsight's always 20/20, isn't it?
Barbara Weston
Did the note say he was going to kill himself?
[Violet is silent]
Barbara Weston
Mom?
Violet Weston
If I had my... wits about me, maybe... I might have done it different. But, I was... your father and I both... we were.
Barbara Weston
You were both fucked up. You were fucked up. You ARE fucked up!
Violet Weston
You better understand this, you smug little ingrate. There's at least one reason why Beverly killed himself, and that is YOU. You think there's any way in hell that he would have done what he did if you were still here? No! Just him and me! In this house! Alone! In the dark! Abandoned! Wasted lifetimes dedicated to your care and comfort! Oh yes, you stick that knife of judgement in me, go ahead. But make no mistake... his blood is on your hands as it is on mine. He did this, though. This is HIS doing, not ours! Jesus, can you imagine anything more cruel? To make ME responsible... why? Just to weaken me and make me prove my character, so no... I waited. I waited to get into that safety deposit box... I would have waited anyway. You want to show who's stronger, Bev? Nobody's stronger than me. Goddammit, when nothin' is left, when everything's gone, disappeared, I'll be here.
[looking skyward]
Violet Weston
Who's stronger now, you son of a bitch!
Barbara Weston
You're right, Mom.
[hugs her]
Barbara Weston
You're the strong one.
Violet Weston
[pulls away] Yeah.
[Barbara heads out the door, Violet turns around after hearing the door close]
Violet Weston
Barbara?
[alarmed, getting up]
Violet Weston
Oh... Barb? Barbara?
[Barbara starts the truck and backs out, Violet is frantically waving from the porch]
Violet Weston
Oh, Barb! Barbara, please!
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Violet Weston
You girls know there is a will.
Barbara Weston
Mom.
Violet Weston
We took care of that some time back.
Barbara Weston
We don't want to talk about it.
Violet Weston
Well, I want to talk about it! What about what I want to talk about? Does that count for anything? Bev made some good investments, believe it or not, and we had some money for your girls in his will. But uh, we talked it over, after some time passed, and decided to change things, leaving everything to me. We didn't get around to, you know, to taking care of it legally, but you should know he meant to leave the money to me.
[beat]
Violet Weston
OK?
Barbara Weston
OK.
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Jean Fordham
When you eat meat, you ingest an animal's fear.
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Violet Weston
I never told them I knew. But your father knew. He knew I knew.
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Ivy Weston
Aunt Mattie Fae's here.
Violet Weston
She means to come in here and tell me what's what.
Ivy Weston
I don't know how Uncle Charlie puts up with it.
Violet Weston
He smokes a lot of grass.
Ivy Weston
He does?
Violet Weston
He smokes *a lot* of grass.
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Violet Weston
You tell me she's a woman. Wo-man. Wo-man. Whoa! Man.
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Violet Weston
I'm sorry. I'll be - sickly sweet. Sickly. I'm soooooooo sweet. In-el-abrially sweet.
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Beverly Weston
I know how to launder my dirty undies. Done it all my life, but I'm finding that it's getting in the way of my drinking.
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Violet Weston
Barbara please...!
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