1. I was born 1911, Chickasaw County,
Piedmont Plantation.
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2. And did you know, as a girl growing up,
that one day you'd be a maid?
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3. Yes, ma'am, I did.
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4. And you knew that because...
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5. My mama was a maid.
My grand mama was a house slave.
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6. House... slave.
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7. Do you ever dream
of being something else?
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8. What does it feel like
to raise a white child
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9. when your own child's at home being
looked after by somebody else?
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10. It feel...
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11. I done raised 17 kids in my life.
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12. Looking after white babies,
that's what I do.
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13. Aibee, Aibee.
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14. - Hi!
- Aibee!
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15. I know how to get them babies to sleep,
stop crying and go in the toilet bowl
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16. before their mamas even
get out of bed in the morning.
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17. Babies like fat.
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18. They like big fat legs, too.
That I know.
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19. You is kind, you is smart...
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20. you is important.
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21. - You is smart...
- Smart...
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22. - ... you is kind...
- ... you is kind...
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23. - ... you is important.
- ... you is important.
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24. That's so good.
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25. That's so good.
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26. I work for the Leefolts
from eight to four, six days a week.
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27. I make 95 cent an hour.
That comes to $182 every month.
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28. I do all the cooking, cleaning, washing,
ironing and grocery shopping.
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29. But mostly, I take care of Baby Girl.
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30. And, Lord, I worry
she gonna be fat.
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31. Mae Mobley.
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32. Ain't going to be
no beauty queen either.
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33. Aibileen, bridge club is in an hour.
Did you finish the chicken salad?
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34. - Yes.
- And Hilly's devil led eggs. No paprika.
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35. Does this dress look homemade?
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36. I reckon when you finish it won't.
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37. Well, thank you.
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38. Miss Leefolt still don't
pick Baby Girl up but once a day.
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39. The birthing blues got hold
of Miss Leefolt pretty hard.
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40. I done seen it happen plenty of times,
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41. once babies start having
their own babies.
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42. And the young white ladies of Jackson...
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43. oh Lord, was they having babies.
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44. But not Miss Skeeter.
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45. No man and no babies.
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46. - Morning.
- Hi.
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47. - My name is Eugenia Phelan, and...
- Come on.
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48. Eugenia Phelan, Mr Blackly.
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49. Shut the damn door.
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50. I guarantee you, one day they're going
to figure out cigarettes will kill you.
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51. OK, Miss Phelan,
let's see what you got.
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52. Murrah High: editor.
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53. Ole Miss Rebel Rouser editor.
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54. Double major.
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55. Junior League: editor.
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56. - Damn, girl, don't you have fun?
- Is that important?
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57. - Do you have any references?
- Yes.
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58. Right here.
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59. This...
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60. This is a rejection letter.
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61. Not exactly. See, Miss Stein thought...
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62. Stein?
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63. Elaine Stein, from Harper and Row
Publishing in New York.
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64. Oh, Lord.
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65. I'm gonna be a serious writer,
Mr Blackly.
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66. I applied for a job,
but Mrs Stein thought...
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67. She said no.
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68. Well, until I gain some experience.
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69. See? Says right there.
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70. "Great potential. Gain some experience
and please apply again."
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71. Oh, Christ. I guess you'll do.
Do you clean?
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72. - I'm sorry. Clean?
- Clean.
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73. Grab that basket.
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74. Miss Myrna has gone
shit-house crazy on us.
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75. She drunk hair spray or something.
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76. I want you to read her past columns.
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77. Then read these letters and you
answer them just like she would.
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78. Nobody is gonna know
the damn difference.
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79. You know who Miss Myrna is?
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80. I read her articles all the time.
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81. Articles? Miss Phelan,
it's a cleaning advice column.
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82. Eight bucks a week.
Copy is due on Thursday.
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83. Hello?
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84. Lou Ann, honey, I can't talk right now.
I'm at work.
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85. What? Shut that goddamn door.
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86. Mama, we're late for bridge!
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87. Miss Hilly was the first of the babies
to have a baby.
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88. three...
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89. And it must have come out of her like
the 11th Commandment,
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90. 'cause once Miss Hilly had a baby,
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91. every girl at the bridge table
had to have one, too.
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92. Minny, go get Mama!
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93. Missus Walters,
you need help coming down?
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94. I'm down.
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95. - I been down.
- Give me a heart attack.
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96. Missus Walters.
Here, let me help you.
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97. Take that off.
It's 98 degrees out there.
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98. - Is it?
- Yes, ma'am.
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99. Well, let's put my coat on then.
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100. - Come on, Minny.
- All right.
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101. - Here's your pocketbook.
- Thank you.
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102. OK, let me get the pie.
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103. Hold on, Missus Walters. Hold on.
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104. Once Missus Walters' arteries went hard,
Miss Hilly moved her into her house
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105. and fired the maid she had
to make room for Minny, too.
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106. See, Minny about the best cook
in Mississippi,
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107. and Miss Hilly wanted her.
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108. I lost my own boy, Treelore,
four years ago.
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109. After that, I just didn't want
to live no more.
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110. It took God and Minny
to get me through it.
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111. Minny my best friend.
Old lady like me lucky to have her.
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112. After my boy died, a bitter seed
was planted inside of me.
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113. And I just didn't feel
so accepting anymore.
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114. No.
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115. You drunk up two glasses of grape juice.
I know you got to tee-tee.
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116. No.
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117. I'll give you two cookies if you go.
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118. Mae Mobley, you're going!
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119. Aibileen, the girls are pulling up,
and the table isn't set.
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120. Mae Mobley go, Mama.
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121. Get in your room right now.
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122. Set out the dessert forks. Please.
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123. Put Mama in a chair
before she breaks a hip.
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124. I'm not deaf yet, Hilly.
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125. Hey, girls.
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126. Minny. Will you see if Aibileen
has some of that ambrosia?
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127. Hold on. Those are Miss Hilly's.
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128. She looks like the winning horse
at the Kentucky Derby.
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129. All flowers and bows.
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130. Got to have paprika on them.
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131. Forgive me, Lord, but I'm gonna have
to kill that woman, Aibileen.
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132. Now she gone to putting pencil marks
on my toilet paper.
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133. Did she?
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134. But I carry paper in from my own
damn house. That fool don't know.
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135. Miss Leefolt got so much hairspray
on her head
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136. she gonna blow us all up
if she light a cigarette.
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137. And you know she will!
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138. - You got some ambrosia?
- You know I do.
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139. All right, I'll be back.
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140. Minny, cord, girl.
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141. Shut up.
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142. The Guiding Light.
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143. Hi, Missus Walters.
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144. I'm watching my story.
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145. OK.
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146. Isn't it gorgeous?
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147. Sorry I'm late.
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148. You're home!
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149. I missed you all, too.
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150. Well, if it isn't "Long Haul" Skeeter.
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151. We didn't ever think
you'd leave Ole Miss.
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152. Well, it does take four years, Jolene.
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153. I've got a great summer planned for you.
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154. Great.
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155. I went ahead and I picked up my black
dress from the cleaners this morning.
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156. What?
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157. - About supper club tonight.
- What?
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158. Honey, Stuart had to cancel.
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159. Again?
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160. He got held up on the oil rig, Skeeter.
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161. It's offshore.
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162. I'm starting to think this Stuart
is a figment of your imagination,
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163. so just forget it.
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164. I'm just gonna go get a plate.
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165. Sorry!
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166. I got a job today.
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167. At The Jackson Journal.
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168. They'd be a fool not to hire you.
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169. To Skeeter and her job.
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170. Last stop till marriage.
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171. It's for the Miss Myrna column.
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172. Elizabeth, can I talk to Aibileen?
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173. Just to help me with some of the letters
till I get a knack for it.
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174. My Aibileen?
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175. Why can't you just
get Constantine to help?
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176. Constantine quit us.
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177. Oh, my gosh. Skeeter, I'm so sorry.
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178. Anyway, I just... I don't really know
how to answer these letters.
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179. Well, I mean, as long as it doesn't
interfere with her work.
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180. I don't see why not.
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181. Leefolt residence.
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182. Hello. Is Elizabeth in?
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183. She having bridge club right now.
May I take a message?
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184. Yes, please tell her Celia Foote
called again.
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185. I'll call back tomorrow.
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186. Yes, ma'am.
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187. Miss?
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188. I'm looking for some help at my house.
Do you know any maids looking?
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189. No, ma'am.
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190. OK. It's Celia Foote.
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191. Emerson-684. Bye now.
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192. You scared the daylights out of me!
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193. It is lunchtime,
and I am suddenly hungry.
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194. Honestly!
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195. I'm still working on it, Aibileen.
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196. Who was that on the phone?
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197. Miss Celia Foote called again.
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198. I've never called her back, Hilly.
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199. She can't take a hint, can she?
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200. Who's Celia Foote?
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201. That tacky girl Johnny married.
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202. From Sugar Ditch.
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203. It could have been you, Hilly.
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204. And live 30 minutes outside of town?
No, thank you.
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205. Anyway, I ran into her at the beauty
parlour, and she had the nerve to ask
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206. if she could help with
the Children's Benefit Ball.
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207. Aren't we taking non-members?
The benefit has gotten so big.
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208. Yes, but we're not telling her.
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209. Thank you, Aibileen.
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210. Hilly, I wish you'd just
go use the bathroom.
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211. I'm fine.
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212. Oh, she's just upset
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213. because the nigra uses the guest bath
and so do we.
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214. Aibileen, go check on Mae Mobley.
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215. Yes, ma'am.
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216. Just go use mine and Raleigh's.
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217. If Aibileen uses the guest bath,
I'm sure she uses yours, too.
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218. She does not.
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219. Wouldn't you rather them
take their business outside?
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220. Have you all seen the cover
of Life this week?
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221. Jackie's never looked more regal.
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222. Tell Raleigh every penny he spends
on a colour's bathroom
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223. he'll get back in spades
when y'all sell.
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224. It's just plain dangerous. They carry
different diseases than we do.
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225. Pass.
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226. That's why I've drafted
the Home Health Sanitation Initiative.
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227. The what?
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228. A disease-preventative bill
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229. that requires every white home to have a
separate bathroom for the coloured help.
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230. It's been endorsed
by the White Citizens' Council.
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231. Maybe we should just build you
a bathroom outside, Hilly.
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232. You ought not to joke
about the coloured situation.
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233. I'll do whatever it takes
to protect our children.
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234. Your lead, Elizabeth.
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235. - Aibileen?
- Yes, ma'am.
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236. Do you think you'd be willing to help me
with those Miss Myrna letters?
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237. Miss Myrna get it wrong a lot of times.
Be good to get it right.
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238. Thank you, Aibileen.
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239. All that talk in there today...
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240. Hilly's talk?
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241. I'm sorry you had to hear that.
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242. Is that Preacher Green's sermon?
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243. Yes, ma'am, it is.
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244. That reminds me so much of my maid,
Constantine.
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245. I know Constantine.
We're in church circle together.
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246. Have you seen her lately?
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247. No, ma'am.
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248. Did you know that she had quit us?
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249. Quit?
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250. I got home from school a week ago,
and my mama told me she had quit.
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251. Back in March, she went to live with
her daughter, Rachel. In Chicago.
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252. Did you hear that?
Do you have her phone number?
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253. There you are, Skeeter.
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254. Hilly wants you to put her initiative
in the League newsletter.
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255. OK.
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256. I'll be back tomorrow, Aibileen,
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257. to get started on those
Miss Myrna letters.
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258. Y'all make it quick.
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259. Tomorrow is silver-polishing day. OK?
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260. Hi, Jameso.
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261. How you, Miss Eugenia?
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262. Mama?
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263. Mama.
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264. Mama?
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265. Back here, honey!
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266. Is this a little too young?
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267. That's a little too everything.
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268. Oh, hell. You're right.
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269. OK.
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270. Much better.
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271. Your daddy bought me this dress in '58.
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272. Mama, I want to ask you
about Constantine.
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273. Right after Ole Miss won the Sugar Bowl.
Come on. You try it on.
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274. What really happened?
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275. Skeeter, your mother is sick.
She wants to see you in this dress.
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276. Unzip me.
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277. Come on.
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278. Did I tell you Fanny Peatrow
got engaged?
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279. After she got that teller job,
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280. her mother said she was swimming
in proposals.
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281. Good for fair Fanny Peatrow.
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282. Eugenia, your eggs are dying.
Would it kill you to go on a date?
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283. Just show a little gumption.
Careful now, careful.
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284. Oh, now look at this.
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285. This dress is just precious on you.
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286. Just take it in a little here.
Little there.
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287. - Get your hair fixed.
- I got a job today.
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288. Where?
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289. Writing for The Jackson Journal.
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290. Great.
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291. You can write my obituary!
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292. "Charlotte Phelan, dead!
Her daughter, still single."
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293. Mother, would it really be so bad
if I never met a husband?
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294. Skeeter! Skeeter!
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295. Skeeter!
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296. I need to ask you something.
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297. I read the other day about how
some girls get unbalanced.
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298. They start thinking these...
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299. unnatural thoughts.
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300. Are you...
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301. Do you... find men attractive?
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302. Are you having unnatural thoughts
about girls or women?
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303. Oh, my God.
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304. Because this article says there's
a cure. A special root tea!
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305. Mother, I want to be with girls as much
as you want to be with Jameso.
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306. - Eugenia!
- Unless, of course, you do!
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307. Carlton's bringing Rebecca to dinner.
Try to look presentable!
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308. What the hell you know
about cleaning a house, Skeeter?
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309. It's a start, Carlton.
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310. If you say so.
I thought you wanted to write books.
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311. Now, y'all leave Sister alone.
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312. - I'm proud of you, sweetheart.
- The irony of it all.
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313. Giving advice on how to keep up a home
when she doesn't even...
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314. No, Pascagoula. You couldn't have known
this, but I'm allergic to almonds.
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315. Sorry, Miss Eugenia,
I'll get you another one.
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316. You know, last time I had an almond,
I stopped liking men.
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317. Oh, my Lord.
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318. Oh, no, Rebecca, it's fine. There's
a special root tea for that now.
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319. You have pushed it, young lady.
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320. Daddy. What happened to Constantine?
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321. Well...
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322. Constantine went to live in Chicago
with her family.
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323. People move on, Skeeter.
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324. But I do wish that she'd
stayed down here with us.
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325. I don't believe you.
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326. She would've written and told me.
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327. Did you fire her?
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328. We were just a job to her, honey.
With them, it's all about money.
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329. You'll understand that once you've
hired help of your own.
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330. - She raised me.
- She did not!
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331. She worked here for 29 years!
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332. It was a coloured thing
and I put it behind me!
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333. Excuse me a moment, Rebecca. My daughter
has upset my cancerous ulcers.
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334. What you doing hiding out here, girl?
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335. I couldn't tell Mama I didn't
get asked to the dance.
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336. It's all right.
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337. Some things we just got to
keep to ourselves, right?
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338. All the boys say I'm ugly.
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339. Mama was third runner-up in
the Miss South Carolina pageant.
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340. I wish you'd quit
feeling sorry for yourself.
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341. Now, that's ugly.
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342. Ugly is something that
goes up inside you.
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343. It's mean and hurtful, like them boys.
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344. Now you're not one of them, is you?
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345. I didn't think so, honey.
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346. Every day...
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347. Every day you're not
dead in the ground,
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348. when you wake up in the morning, you're
gonna have to make some decisions.
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349. Got to ask yourself this question:
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350. "Am I gonna believe
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351. all them bad things them fools
say about me today?"
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352. You hear me?
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353. "Am I gonna believe all them bad things
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354. them fools say about me today?"
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355. All right?
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356. As for your mama,
she didn't pick her life.
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357. It picked her.
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358. But you...
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359. you're gonna do
something big with yours.
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360. You wait and see.
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361. Come on, go home with me
till the dance over. Come on.
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362. Miss Stein, you said in your letter
to write about what disturbs me,
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363. particularly if it bothers no one else.
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364. Come on.
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365. And I understand that now.
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366. Continue.
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367. I'd like to write something
from the point of view of the help.
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368. These coloured women
raise white children,
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369. and in 20 years,
those children become the boss.
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370. We love them and they love us,
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371. but they can't even use the toilets
in our houses.
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372. Don't you find that ironic, Miss Stein?
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373. I'm listening.
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374. Margaret Mitchell glorified
the mammy figure,
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375. who dedicates her whole life
to a white family.
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376. But nobody ever asked Mammy
how she felt about it.
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377. So, a side to this never before heard?
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378. Yes.
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379. 'Cause nobody ever really
talks about it down here.
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380. Skeeter, who are you
talking to in there?
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381. Go away!
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382. - Who was that?
- My mother.
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383. Look.
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384. No maid in her right mind is ever gonna
tell you the truth.
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385. That's a hell of a risk to take in
a place like Jackson, Mississippi.
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386. I already have a maid.
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387. Really? A Negro maid has already agreed
to speak with you?
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388. Yes, ma'am.
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389. I guess I can read
what you come up with.
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390. The book biz could use
a little rattling.
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391. Thank you, Miss Stein.
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392. Hey, hey, hey, all I'm saying
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393. is that I'll let you know
if it's even worth pursuing.
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394. And for God's sake, you're
a 23-year-old educated woman.
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395. Go get yourself an apartment.
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396. "Dear Miss Myrna:
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397. When I'm chopping onions, how do I
keep tears out of my eyes?"
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398. Shoot, that's easy. You tell her
hold a matchstick between her teeth.
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399. Is it lit?
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400. No, ma'am.
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401. Miss Leefolt said you could start
right away.
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402. Build it just like the bathroom
at my house. Let's see.
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403. - Right there. That will be nice.
- Yes, ma'am.
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404. My goodness, we got to run back
to the car. Come on.
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405. Bye, Skeeter!
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406. Aibileen.
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407. There's something else I want to
write about. I would need your help.
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408. I want to interview you about
what it's like to work as a maid.
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409. I'd like to do a book of interviews
about working for white families.
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410. And we could show what it's like
to work for, say, Elizabeth?
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411. You know what Miss Leefolt do to me if
she knew I was telling stories on her?
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412. I was thinking that we wouldn't
have to tell her.
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413. The other maids would have
to keep it a secret, too.
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414. Other maids?
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415. I was hoping to get four or five.
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416. To show what it's really like
in Jackson.
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417. Show what y'all get paid,
and the babies and the bathrooms.
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418. The good and the bad.
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419. I bought you this damn house.
I put up with your new clothes
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420. and trips to New Orleans,
but this takes the goddamn cake.
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421. Hilly spoke to the surgeon general,
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422. and she also said it'll add value
to our home.
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423. I guess Mae Mobley can go to college
in that damn bathroom!
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424. Hilly's covering the cost and said
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425. you could just do William's taxes
to pay her back.
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426. We don't take orders
from the Holbrooks.
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427. Skeeter, how you doing?
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428. Fine.
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429. Fix me a sandwich, Aibileen.
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430. Aibileen, Mae Mobley's
crying her eyes out.
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431. Skeeter.
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432. I'm sorry, but I think it's best
if you leave now.
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433. Oh, sure, sure.
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434. And this Miss Myrna thing isn't going
to work out with Aibileen.
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435. I'm sorry.
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436. You're making it hotter,
flapping your arms like that, Minny.
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437. Look how big the waves are, Minny.
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438. Let's go to the beach.
Run, get Mr Walters!
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439. He loves riding these waves!
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440. You know we went to Biloxi
on our honeymoon?
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441. Yes, ma'am.
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442. Are we in Biloxi, Minny?
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443. No, ma'am. We ain't.
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444. Why don't you sit down here for a spell.
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445. And then me and you will go on down
to the beach in a little while.
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446. How about that?
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447. Miss Hilly?
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448. Never mind.
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449. You go on ahead and use
the inside bath, Minny, it's all right.
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450. Oh, for crying out loud,
it's just a little rain.
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451. She can go on up and get an umbrella
from William's study.
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452. I believe she was working for me
before you dragged us both here.
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453. Daddy ruined you.
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454. I'm just gonna get your tea.
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455. Minny?
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456. Minny, are you in there?
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457. Yes, ma'am.
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458. And just what are you doing?
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459. Get off my toilet!
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460. You are fired, Minny Jackson!
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461. Go on!
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462. Eighteen people died in Jackson
that day.
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463. Ten white and eight black.
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464. God don't pay no mind to colour once
He decides to set a tornado loose.
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465. Aibee's here, honey.
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466. Aibee's here.
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467. Hurry, Aibileen! Mae Mobley is up,
and I'm off to the doctor!
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468. That's Aibee's bathroom, Mama.
Hey, Aibee!
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469. No, no, no, honey.
Promise me you won't go in there, OK?
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470. Yes, ma'am.
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471. I'm right here, Baby Girl.
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472. Isn't it so nice
to have your own, Aibileen?
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473. Yes, ma'am.
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474. You're my real mama, Aibee.
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475. - Is that Minny?
- Minny.
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476. Hey, Aibileen!
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477. Hey, Minny!
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478. Where you headed?
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479. I got some business to tend to,
so y'all just mind your own.
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480. All right, then. Well, bye!
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481. Bye!
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482. Now is she mad at me 'cause I got
that job at Miss Hilly's?
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483. Don't worry about her.
She always mad about something.
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484. Aibileen.
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485. Yes, ma'am. Everything OK?
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486. Yeah, I just wanted to talk to you.
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487. You got some more
Miss Myrna questions for me?
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488. Oh, no, I just wanted to talk about...
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489. We never finished our conversation
at Elizabeth's.
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490. About that book I want to write?
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491. I'd really like
to interview you, Aibileen.
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492. I know it's scary.
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493. They set my cousin
Shinelle's car on fire,
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494. just 'cause she went down
to the voting station.
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495. A book like this has never
been written before.
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496. 'Cause there's a reason.
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497. I do this with you, I might as well
burn my own house down.
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498. I promise we'll be careful.
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499. This already ain't careful,
Miss Skeeter!
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500. You not knowing that is what's
scaring me the most.
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501. Scare me more than Jim Crow.
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502. All right.
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503. Here's my phone number.
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504. - My car's here. I could take you home.
- No, ma'am.
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505. "No person shall require
any white female
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506. to nurse in wards or rooms
in which Negro men are placed.
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507. Books shall not be interchangeable
between the white and coloured schools,
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508. but shall continue to be used
by the race first using them.
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509. No coloured barber shall serve as
a barber to white women or girls.
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510. Any person printing, publishing
or circulating written matter
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511. urging for public acceptance or social
equality between whites and Negroes
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512. is subject to imprisonment."
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513. Hello?
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514. Aibileen, I done went and did it now.
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515. I went to Miss Hilly's house
this afternoon.
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516. Why, Minny?
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517. She done told every white woman
in town I'm a thief.
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518. Said I stole a candelabra.
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519. But I got her back.
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520. What you did?
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521. I can't tell you.
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522. I ain't telling nobody.
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523. I done something terrible awful
to that woman,
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524. and now she know what I done.
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525. Sorry.
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526. Minny.
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527. She got what she deserved, Aibileen.
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528. But now I ain't gonna never get
no job again.
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529. Oh, Lord, Leroy gonna kill me.
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530. Leroy?
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531. What you done did now, Minny?
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532. - Get off that phone, woman!
- Leroy, please!
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533. Minny? Minny!
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534. Please! Please!
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535. Come here!
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536. Please open your Bibles to Exodus.
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537. Chapter four, verse ten.
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538. God, having asked Moses
to free the Israelites...
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539. Moses answered:
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540. "Oh, my Lord. I am not eloquent.
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541. I am slow of speech and slow of tongue."
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542. See, courage isn't just
about being brave.
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543. Amen!
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544. Courage is daring to do what is right
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545. in spite of the weakness of our flesh.
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546. And God tells us,
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547. commands us, compels us,
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548. - to love. Amen?
- Amen.
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549. See, love,
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550. as exemplified
by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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551. is to be prepared to put yourself
in harm's way for your fellow man.
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552. And by your fellow man,
I mean your brother,
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553. your sister, your neighbour,
your friend and your enemy.
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554. If you can love your enemy,
you already have the victory.
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555. Let's stand. All right.
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556. Quick. Come quick.
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557. I parked way up on State Street and
caught a cab here, like you asked.
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558. Got dropped two streets over?
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559. I know now that it's against the law,
what we're doing.
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560. I've never seen you
out of uniform before.
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561. You look really nice.
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562. Thank you.
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563. I ain't never had no white person
in my house before.
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564. Miss Skeeter...
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565. what if you don't like what I
got to say... about white people?
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566. This isn't about me.
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567. It doesn't matter how I feel.
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568. You gonna have to change my name.
Mine, Miss Leefolt's. Everybody.
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569. Do you have other maids
that are interested?
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570. That gonna be hard.
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571. What about Minny?
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572. Minny got her some stories,
sure enough,
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573. but she ain't real keen on talking
to white peoples right now.
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574. What does it feel like
to raise a white child
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575. when your own child's at home being
looked after by somebody else?
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576. It feel...
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577. Is that your son?
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578. Yes, ma'am.
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579. Can we move on to the next question?
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580. You don't have to call me ma'am.
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581. Not here.
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582. Do you want to talk about the bathroom?
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583. Or anything about Miss Leefolt?
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584. How she pays you, or has she ever
yelled at you in front of Mae Mobley?
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585. I thought I might write my stories down
and read them to you.
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586. Ain't no different than writing down
my prayers.
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587. OK.
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588. Sure.
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589. I don't say my prayers out loud.
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590. I can get my point across
a lot better writing them down.
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591. I write an hour,
sometimes two, every night.
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592. And after my prayers last night,
I got some stories down, too.
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593. Go ahead.
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594. "My first white baby to ever look after
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595. was named Alton Carrington Speers.
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596. It was 1925, and I had just turned 14.
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597. I dropped out of school
to help Mama with the bills.
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598. Alton's mama died of lung disease."
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599. I loved that baby. And he loved me.
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600. That's when I learned I could make
children feel proud of they self.
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601. Alton used to always be asking me
how come I was black.
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602. Just ate him up.
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603. And one time, I told him it was because
I drank too much coffee.
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604. You should have seen his face.
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605. This was just so great.
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606. I can't tell you how much I appreciate
your doing this with me.
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607. What changed your mind?
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608. God.
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609. And Miss Hilly Holbrook.
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610. Miss Hilly, I would like to ask you
and Mr William something.
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611. My twin boys graduated from high school,
both on the honour roll.
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612. Me and my husband, we been saving
for years to send them to Tougaloo.
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613. We're short about $75
on one of the tuitions.
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614. I am late. I gotta get going.
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615. See you tonight, honey.
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616. OK.
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617. Go on.
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618. Well, now we're...
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619. faced with having to choose
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620. which son can go if we don't
come up with the money.
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621. Would you consider giving us a loan?
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622. I'd work every day for free
till it was paid off.
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623. That's not working for free.
That's paying off a debt.
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624. Yes, ma'am.
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625. As a Christian, I'm doing you a favour.
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626. See, God don't give charity to those
who are well and able.
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627. You need to come up with this money
on your own. OK?
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628. Yes, ma'am.
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629. You'll thank me one day.
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630. You cooking white food,
you taste it with a different spoon.
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631. If they see you put the tasting spoon
back in the pot,
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632. might as well throw it all out.
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633. Spoon, too.
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634. And you use the same cup, same fork,
same plate every day.
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635. And you put it up in the cabinet.
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636. You tell that white woman that's where
you're gonna keep it from now on out.
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637. Don't do it and see what happens.
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638. Morning, ladies.
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639. When you're serving white folks coffee,
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640. set it down in front of them.
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641. Don't hand it to them,
'cause your hands can't touch.
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642. And don't hit on they children.
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643. White folks like to do
they own spanking.
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644. And last thing. Come here.
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645. Look at me.
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646. No sass-mouthing.
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647. No sass-mouthing.
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648. I mean it.
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649. Give your mama a kiss.
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650. Leroy had made Sugar quit school
to help him with the bills.
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651. And every day Minny
went without a job,
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652. might have been a day Leroy
took her from our world.
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653. Good morning, everybody.
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654. But I knew.
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655. I knew the only white lady Miss Hilly
hadn't gotten to with her lies.
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656. Come on!
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657. No sass-mouthing, Minny Jackson.
No sass-mouthing.
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658. Aibileen said you'd be on time.
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659. I'm Celia Rae Foote.
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660. I'm Minny Jackson.
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661. You... cooking something?
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662. One of those upside-down cakes
from a magazine.
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663. It ain't working out too good.
Come on, let's get you a cold Coca-Cola.
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664. Come on.
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665. This here is the kitchen.
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666. What in the hell?
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667. I guess I got some learning to do.
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668. You sure do.
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669. Johnny's grand mama left him this house
when she died.
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670. And then Johnny's mama
wouldn't let me change a thing.
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671. But if I had it my way,
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672. this place would be wall-to-wall
white carpet with gold trim.
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673. None of this old stuff.
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674. The main house has
five beds and baths,
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675. and then the pool house has
two more beds and baths.
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676. When y'all gonna start
having some children,
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677. filling up all these empty beds?
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678. I'm pregnant now.
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679. Gonna be eating for two.
That's double the cooking.
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680. I know. It's an awful lot to do.
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681. Five other maids have
already turned me down.
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682. Let me at least get you some bus money.
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683. Now... when did you hear me say
I don't want to clean this house?
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684. Wait. So you'll do it?
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685. No hugging. No hugging.
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686. I'm sorry. This is the first time
I've hired a maid.
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687. Come on.
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688. - You hungry?
- No, ma'am. Hold on a minute.
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689. We gots to talk about
some things first.
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690. I work Sunday through Friday.
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691. No, you can't work at all
on the weekends.
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692. OK. What time you want me here?
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693. After 9.00, and you gotta leave
before 4.00.
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694. OK.
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695. Now...
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696. What your husband say you can pay?
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697. Johnny doesn't know
I'm bringing in help.
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698. And what Mr Johnny gonna do
when he come home
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699. and find a coloured woman in his house?
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700. It's not like I'd be fibbing.
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701. I just want him to think I can do this
on my own.
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702. I really need a maid.
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703. I'll be here tomorrow morning
about 9.15.
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704. Great.
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705. Miss Celia?
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706. I think you done burned up your cake.
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707. Doggone it!
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708. OK, let's see.
What's first up on the agenda?
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709. We are running behind on our coat drive.
Hurry up and clean out those closets.
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710. But our Christmas benefit, however,
is right on schedule. Mary Beth?
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711. Well, thanks to y'all, I can announce
that we already filled
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712. every raffle slot for baked goods!
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713. Think we can put a dent in African
children's hunger this year?
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714. A big dent!
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715. Now...
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716. I just found out
the surgeon general
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717. has reviewed the Home Health
Sanitation Initiative that I drafted,
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718. and he passed it along
to Governor Barnett!
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719. Skeeter, when can we expect to see
the initiative in the newsletter?
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720. I gave it to you a month ago.
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721. I gave that to you myself.
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722. Would you please stand, Skeeter?
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723. I'll have it in there real soon.
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724. Great.
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725. Sorry I'm late.
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726. Thanks.
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727. Hilly, I really am sorry
about the newsletter.
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728. It's just with Mama being sick and all.
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729. Oh, it's fine.
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730. I made you the egg and olive on rye,
Miss Skeeter.
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731. Thank you, Henry.
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732. You remembered.
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733. You're welcome.
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734. Oh, Hilly, tell her.
I can hardly stand it.
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735. He's coming.
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736. Skeeter, Stuart's definitely
coming this time. Next Saturday week.
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737. Well, he's cancelled twice before.
Don't you think maybe that's a sign?
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738. Don't you dare say that.
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739. You know I'm not gonna be his type.
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740. Damn it, Skeeter, I'm not gonna
let you miss out on this
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741. because your mother convinced you you're
not good enough for somebody like him.
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742. Saturday night.
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743. Good morning.
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744. Good morning, Baby Girl.
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745. Good morning.
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746. I reckon I'm ready to talk about
Miss Leefolt now.
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747. Baby Girl still gotta wear a diaper
when she sleep at night.
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748. And it don't get changed till
I get there in the morning.
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749. That about ten hours
she gotta sleep in her mess.
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750. Now Miss Leefolt pregnant
with her second baby.
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751. Lord... I pray this child
turn out good.
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752. It's a lonely road if a mama
don't think their child is pretty.
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753. That's very true.
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754. Miss Leefolt should not
be having babies.
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755. Write that down.
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756. Treelore would like me doing this.
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757. He always said we were gonna have
a writer in the family one day.
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758. I always thought it was gonna be him.
Maybe it's gonna be me.
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759. Aibileen, Aibileen.
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760. They done set a bomb off
in Medgar Evers' carport.
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761. Yule Mae told me what y'all was up to.
I didn't want to believe it.
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762. And just what makes you think
coloured people need your help?
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763. - Why do you care?
- Minny.
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764. Maybe you just want
to get Aibileen in trouble.
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765. No.
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766. I want to show her perspective.
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767. So people might understand
what it's like from your side.
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768. Well, it's a real Fourth of July picnic.
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769. It's what we dream of doing
all weekend long.
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770. Get back into they house,
polish the silver.
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771. And we just love not making minimum wage
or getting Social Security.
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772. And how we love they children
when they little.
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773. And then they turn out
just like they mamas.
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774. I know.
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775. Maybe things can change.
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776. What law's gonna say you
gotta be nice to your maid?
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777. You don't have to do this now, Minny.
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778. You damn right I don't!
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779. You two give me the heart palpitations.
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780. And that's a good mood.
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781. All right. I'm gonna do it.
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782. But I need to make sure she understands
this ain't no game we playing here.
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783. Slide your chair out from under
that table. Face me.
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784. I need to see you square on
at all times.
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785. I gotta come up with
your questions, too?
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786. Let's begin with where you were born.
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787. Belzoni, Mississippi,
on my great-auntie's sofa.
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788. Next.
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789. I put the green beans in first.
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790. Then I get on the pork chops so I can
get started on that cornbread.
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791. Once Minny got to talking about food,
she liked to never stop.
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792. And when she got to talking about
the white ladies, it took all night.
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793. Then she say, "Oh, Minny, I'm gonna
give you a paid vacation."
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794. I ain't never had no paid vacation
in my life.
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795. A week later I come back,
and they done moved to Mobile.
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796. Miss Lazy Fingers scared I'd find
a new job before she moved.
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797. Ain't that right, Aibileen?
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798. We gots to get some more maids.
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799. It hard. You go try and see.
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800. OK, I will.
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801. We gone and done it now.
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802. Skeeter! Get down here! Something just
arrived from New York for you.
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803. What is that?
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804. The Shinalator.
All the way from New York City.
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805. I'm a good mother.
Come on. Sit down.
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806. The whole system cost 11 dollars.
Even smells expensive.
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807. You're gonna look beautiful
on your date tonight.
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808. I can feel the hope in your fingers.
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809. Holy shit.
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810. - You shrunk five inches.
- Oh, my God.
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811. You'll be able to wear heels tonight.
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812. You're not leaving the house in those
awful Mexican man shoes.
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813. Can I take the Cadillac?
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814. We promised the Cadillac
to Carlton and Rebecca tonight,
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815. so William's cousin will just
have to come pick you up himself.
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816. - I'll take the truck.
- It's hooked up to the motor grader.
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817. I'll drive slow.
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818. Skeeter! Skeeter!
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819. Now remember, no gentleman wants
to spend the evening with a sourpuss.
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820. Don't mope! Smile!
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821. And for heaven's sakes, don't sit like
some squaw Indian! Cross your ankles!
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822. I love you!
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823. Stuart, she'll be here any minute.
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824. Hey.
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825. Skeeter.
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826. Boys, we'll be right back. Y'all talk
about quarterbacks or something.
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827. Yule Mae, get Miss Skeeter a Coca-Cola.
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828. Yes, ma'am.
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829. Want a drink?
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830. Just water, please.
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831. Double Old Kentucky, straight with
a water back. Make that two backs.
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832. You sure you don't want to just make it
the whole bottle and a straw?
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833. Honey, there's the lieutenant governor.
Let's go say hi.
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834. Good to see you, sir.
You remember my wife?
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835. Hi, how are you? Good to see you.
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836. So, what do you do with your time?
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837. You work?
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838. I write.
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839. But right now I'm working on
a domestic maintenance column
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840. for The Jackson Journal.
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841. You mean housekeeping.
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842. Jesus, I can't think of anything worse
than reading a cleaning column,
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843. except for maybe writing one.
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844. Well, I can.
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845. Working with a bunch of greasy,
stinky men in the middle of the ocean.
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846. It sounds like a ploy to find a husband,
becoming an expert in keeping house.
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847. Well, aren't you a genius?
You figured out my whole scheme.
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848. Isn't that what all you girls
from Ole Miss major in...
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849. professional husband hunting?
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850. Who is hungry?
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851. I'm sorry, but were you dropped
on your head as an infant?
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852. Or were you just born stupid?
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853. So, what can you cook?
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854. I can cook cornpone.
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855. Boil potatoes.
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856. I can do grits.
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857. Well...
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858. I reckon if there's anything you
ought to know about cooking, it's this.
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859. The most important invention since
they put mayonnaise in a jar.
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860. You got gum in your hair,
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861. you got a squeaky door hinge...
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862. Crisco.
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863. How pretty.
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864. Looks like frosting.
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865. You got bags under your eyes.
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866. Want to soften your husband's
scaly feet.
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867. Crisco.
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868. But it's best for frying chicken.
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869. Frying chicken just...
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870. tend to make you
feel better about life.
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871. At least me, anyway.
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872. I love me some fried chicken.
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873. Now...
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874. shake that.
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875. This is so much fun!
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876. All right, all right.
The chicken already dead, Miss Celia.
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877. Yep. He dead.
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878. There you are.
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879. I'm starved. Looks so good.
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880. We done been over this, Miss Celia.
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881. You supposed to eat in the dining room.
That's how it works.
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882. Let me take your plate back.
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883. I'm fine right here, Minny.
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884. What?
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885. I just want you to know
I'm real grateful you're here.
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886. You gots plenty more
to be grateful for than me.
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887. And look, now I ain't
messing around no more.
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888. Now Mr Johnny gonna catch me here,
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889. and shoot me dead right here
on this no-wax floor.
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890. You gots to tell him.
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891. Ain't he wondering how
the cooking's so good?
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892. You're right.
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893. Maybe we ought to
burn the chicken a little.
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894. Minny don't burn chicken.
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895. I like this Sarah Ross. She testifies
without complaining too much.
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896. And that Bertha,
she's got chutzpah, I'll give her that.
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897. So you liked it?
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898. Eugenia, Martin Luther King
just invited
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899. the entire country to march with him
in D.C. in August.
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900. This many Negroes and whites
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901. have not worked together since
Gone with the Wind.
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902. How many stories have you
recorded thus far?
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903. The ones you've read.
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904. Two domestics, that's all?
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905. I'm real close to
getting more interviews.
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906. Don't send me anything else
until you do have more maids.
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907. Yes, ma'am. How... how many more?
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908. I don't know. At least a dozen.
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909. My advice to you is to write it
and write it fast
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910. before this whole civil rights thing
blows over.
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911. Now good night to you, Miss Phelan.
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912. We need a dozen more.
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913. Me and Aibileen done asked everybody
we know. Thirty-one maids.
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914. They all too scared. Think we crazy.
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915. If we don't get more,
we're not getting published.
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916. I gots plenty stories, Miss Skeeter.
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917. Just write them down
and invent the maid that said it.
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918. You're already making up names.
Just make up the maids, too.
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919. We're not gonna do that.
That would be wrong.
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920. Don't give up on this, Miss Skeeter.
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921. It wouldn't be real.
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922. They killed my son.
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923. He fell carrying two-by-fours
at the mill.
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924. Truck run over him, crushed his lung.
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925. That white foreman threw his body
on back of a truck.
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926. Drove to the coloured hospital...
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927. dumped him there and honked the horn.
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928. There was nothing they could do,
so I brought my baby home.
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929. Laid him down on that sofa right there.
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930. He died right in front of me.
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931. He was just 24 years old, Miss Skeeter.
Best part of a person's life.
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932. Anniversary of his death comes...
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933. every year, and I can't breathe.
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934. But to y'all, it's just
another day of bridge.
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935. You stop this...
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936. everything I wrote, he wrote,
everything he was is gonna die with him.
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937. I am just honoured to be hosting
Elizabeth's shower.
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938. Doesn't she look glowing, everybody?
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939. Yes, she does!
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940. Honey, you hold on to it,
to the bitter end.
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941. - I'll try.
- Well, congratulations.
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942. I'm hungry, Mommy.
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943. She's always hungry.
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944. You know she can hear you, Elizabeth.
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945. I'll cut you a piece of cake, baby.
Go on, now.
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946. Aibileen, are you enjoying your new
bathroom over at Elizabeth's?
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947. Nice to have your own.
Isn't it, Aibileen?
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948. Yes, ma'am. And I thank you.
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949. Separate, but equal.
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950. That's what Ross Barnett says,
and you can't argue with the governor.
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951. Well, certainly not in Mississippi,
the birthplace of modern-day government.
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952. Hey, Miss Skeeter.
Can I get you something?
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953. No, thanks.
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954. Yule Mae, I wanted to talk to you
about something.
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955. I already know what you're gonna ask,
Miss Skeeter.
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956. Minny and Aibileen already did.
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957. I'm trying to get my boys
off to college.
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958. It's worthwhile what
y'all are doing, but...
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959. but my boys are worth more.
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960. I understand.
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961. What do you understand, Skeeter?
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962. Yule Mae was just saying how excited she
is that her boys are going to college.
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963. Did you also ask Miss Skeeter
if you could borrow money?
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964. Of course not.
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965. I'm gonna put Billy down for his nap.
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966. Excuse me.
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967. Come on, baby.
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968. Skeeter, are you intentionally not
putting my initiative in the newsletter?
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969. No, not at all. I just have been
really busy with Mama.
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970. I know.
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971. I know, you must be so worried
about your mother, but...
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972. I'm worried about you.
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973. Reading this stuff?
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974. Believe it or not, there are real
racists in this town.
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975. If the wrong person caught you
with anything like that,
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976. you'd be in serious trouble.
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977. I'll be on the lookout.
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978. Put my initiative in the newsletter.
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979. OK?
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980. Skeeter, get up!
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981. - No! What?
- We've got to get dressed.
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982. What's wrong?
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983. Don't panic. Don't panic.
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984. There's a particularly tall and very
handsome man named Stuart here for you.
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985. Oh, God.
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986. Oh, mother.
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987. You would not like him. Trust me.
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988. He's a drunken asshole.
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989. Love and hate are two horns on the same
goat, Eugenia, and you need a goat.
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990. Put that on. Hurry!
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991. Look, I know it was a few weeks back,
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992. but I came to say I'm sorry
for the way I acted.
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993. Who sent you, William or Hilly?
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994. Neither.
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995. Hilly. But I wanted to come, OK.
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996. I was rude, and I've been
thinking about it a lot.
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997. - Well, I haven't. So you can just go.
- Goddamn it!
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998. I told Hilly I wasn't ready to go out on
any date. Wasn't even close to ready.
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999. I was engaged last year. She ended it.
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1000. I'm sure she did.
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1001. It's not like that.
I'm not always a jerk.
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1002. We had been dating since we were 15,
and you know how it is.
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1003. Actually, I don't. I've never really
dated anyone before.
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1004. Ever?
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1005. Ever.
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1006. All right, I...
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1007. Well, that must be it, then.
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1008. - What?
- You, Skeeter.
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1009. I've never met a woman that says
exactly what she's thinking.
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1010. - Well, I got plenty to say.
- Yeah, I'll bet you do.
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1011. You make me laugh, smile.
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1012. Would you like to come
have dinner with me?
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1013. We could talk. I could actually
listen to you this time.
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1014. I can't think of anything worse.
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1015. I understand, and I'm sorry. That's what
I came here to say, and I said it.
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1016. Just give me a minute.
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1017. Let me get my sweater.
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1018. Not a big fan of oysters?
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1019. Oysters are a vehicle
for crackers and ketchup.
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1020. Well, here's to new beginnings.
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1021. You're disgusting.
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1022. You've already made that pretty clear.
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1023. And just so you know,
the boys caught me reading
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1024. your Miss Myrna column
on the rig the other day.
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1025. Really? You read them?
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1026. All of them.
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1027. Very informative, too.
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1028. I had no idea that ground egg shells
got grease out of clothes.
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1029. Well, I do my homework.
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1030. You're a good writer, Skeeter.
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1031. Thank you.
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1032. I want to be a journalist.
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1033. Or maybe a novelist. Or maybe both.
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1034. I like that.
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1035. You're really smart. And pretty.
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1036. Skeeter.
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1037. I hope you get to write something
really good.
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1038. Something you believe in.
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1039. Hello?
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1040. What? I'm coming!
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1041. Aibileen! Come on. We have to go
help Hilly. Right now!
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1042. You're trespassing!
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1043. It's Skeeter!
She put it in the newsletter.
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1044. Oh, my God.
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1045. I specifically said,
"Drop old coats at my house."
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1046. Not commodes!
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1047. Why would she do this to me?
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1048. I don't know. I don't know, Hilly.
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1049. It's so embarrassing.
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1050. Oh, Lord.
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1051. I go potty, Mommy.
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1052. No! Mae Mobley!
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1053. You get off of that toilet!
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1054. You will catch diseases, do you hear me?
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1055. You will catch diseases
on those toilets.
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1056. You is kind, you is smart,
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1057. you is important.
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1058. Don't shop for anything
on Capitol Street.
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1059. Let's let the merchants down on Capitol
Street feel the economic pinch.
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1060. Let me say this to you.
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1061. I had one merchant to call me,
and he said,
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1062. "I want you to know that I've
talked to my national office today,
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1063. and they want me to tell you that we
don't need nigger business."
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1064. These are stores that help to support
the White Citizens' Council,
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1065. the council that is dedicated to keeping
you and I second-class citizens.
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1066. Mama!
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1067. Don't encourage them like that.
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1068. - That is national news.
- I won't have it!
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1069. You understand?
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1070. How you doing, Miss Clark?
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1071. All right, Henry.
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1072. Thank you. How you doing?
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1073. If God is willing, Miss Clark.
If God is willing.
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1074. That's good.
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1075. - Yeah.
- That's good.
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1076. What's going on out there, mister?
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1077. Coloured people off.
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1078. The rest of you,
let me know where you're going.
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1079. I'll get you close as I can.
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1080. What happened?
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1081. I don't know. Some nigger got shot.
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1082. - Where you headed?
- Woodrow Wilson.
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1083. Woodrow Wilson. All right.
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1084. - You gonna be all right, Miss Clark?
- I'll be all right. You go on now.
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1085. - You want me to walk you?
- No, thank you. I'll be all right.
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1086. You have a good night.
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1087. Which way you going?
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1088. We view this as a cold,
brutal, deliberate...
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1089. killing in a savage,
uncivilised state.
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1090. There is no state with a record that
approaches that of Mississippi
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1091. in inhumanity, murder, brutality
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1092. and racial hatred.
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1093. It is absolutely at the bottom
of the list.
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1094. Fifteen minutes past midnight,
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1095. Evers got out of his car beside his home
in a Negro residential area.
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1096. In a vacant lot about 40 yards away,
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1097. a sniper fired a single shot from a
high-powered rifle at Evers' silhouette.
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1098. I'm all right. Sit down. You all right?
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1099. - I'm OK.
- The bullet hit him in the back,
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1100. crashed through his body,
through a window, into the house.
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1101. He died within an hour
at a Jackson hospital.
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1102. City detectives believe the fatal shot
was fired from...
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1103. KKK shot him. An hour ago.
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1104. Right in front of his children,
Aibileen.
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1105. We're gonna pray for the Evers.
We're gonna pray for Myrlie.
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1106. We living in hell. Trapped.
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1107. Our kids, trapped.
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1108. Sugar, take your brothers and sisters
and y'all go on to bed.
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1109. Good night.
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1110. Good night. Good night.
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1111. Good night, baby.
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1112. What they gonna do if they catch us
with Miss Skeeter?
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1113. We're gonna be careful.
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1114. Hitch us to a pickup? Drag us behind?
Shoot me in front of my children?
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1115. We ain't doing civil rights.
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1116. We're just telling stories
like they really happened.
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1117. You're a fool, old woman.
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1118. A fool.
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1119. Miss Phelan, the presses are heating up.
We needed Miss Myrna 30 minutes ago.
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1120. Yes, sir.
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1121. Chop-chop.
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1122. Good Lord.
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1123. Miss Celia?
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1124. - Miss Celia?
- Go home. I'll see you tomorrow.
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1125. You mess up your hair colouring again?
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1126. I helped you fix it last time.
We got it back to butter batch.
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1127. Was real pretty, remember?
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1128. Miss Celia.
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1129. I told you, go home!
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1130. I said get out!
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1131. Why is there so much blood?
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1132. Next one's gonna catch, Miss Celia.
You just wait and see.
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1133. We got married 'cause I was pregnant.
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1134. Then I lost it a month later.
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1135. Johnny wants kids now.
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1136. What's he gonna do with me?
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1137. Well...
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1138. Mr Johnny just gonna have
to get over it.
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1139. He doesn't know about the baby.
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1140. Or the two before.
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1141. Yule Mae Davis?
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1142. - What do you want me to do?
- You're under arrest.
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1143. Just call my husband.
Just call my husband.
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1144. - Wait a minute. I want my purse.
- No, you're under arrest.
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1145. I want to get my purse.
I want to get my purse! Aibee!
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1146. Don't fight, Yule Mae!
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1147. I want my purse! I want my purse!
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1148. Just let me go!
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1149. Yule Mae, don't fight.
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1150. I knew she was a thief
the day she started.
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1151. A nigra walks into a pawn shop
with a ring of such size and colour.
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1152. It took them all of ten minutes
to find out where she worked.
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1153. I am desperate for a grilled cheese
sandwich. Are you? Are you?
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1154. - Do you want a grilled cheese sandwich?
- Oh, yes.
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1155. Just go sit down over there.
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1156. Miss Skeeter, you best head on over
to Miss Aibileen's house.
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1157. Now.
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1158. I'm gonna help with your stories.
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1159. I'm gonna help, too.
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1160. We all are.
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1161. - That's right.
- I'll help you.
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1162. I used to take a shortcut every day when
I went to work at Dr Dixon's house.
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1163. Cut through that farmer's lower 40
to get there.
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1164. One day this farmer
was waiting for me with a gun.
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1165. Said he'd shoot me dead
if I walked on his land again.
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1166. Dr Dixon went and paid that farmer
double for two of those acres.
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1167. Told him he was gonna
start farming, too.
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1168. But he bought that just for me,
so I could get to work easy.
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1169. He did.
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1170. I worked for Miss Jolene's mother
till the day she died.
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1171. Then her daughter, Miss Nancy,
asked me to come and work for her.
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1172. Miss Nancy is a real sweet lady.
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1173. But Miss Jolene's ma done put it in her
will I got to work for Miss Jolene.
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1174. Miss Jolene's a mean woman.
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1175. Mean for sport.
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1176. Lord, I tried to find another job.
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1177. But in everybody's mind
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1178. the French family
and Miss Jolene owned me.
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1179. Owned me.
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1180. I leave early this week
for Thanksgiving.
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1181. Our last editors' meeting
is December 17th,
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1182. so if you want a prayer
of this getting read,
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1183. - I'd better have it by then.
- That's in three weeks, Miss Stein.
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1184. Well, otherwise it goes in the pile.
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1185. You do not want it in the pile.
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1186. Yes, ma'am.
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1187. And put something personal in there.
Write about the maid who raised you.
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1188. I understand.
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1189. Well, we have a lot of work to do
before the benefit, don't we?
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1190. I know, but I think we're on track.
We're doing quite well.
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1191. It's so good.
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1192. - Who's there?
- I don't know.
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1193. Aibileen?
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1194. Hey, Elizabeth! It's me, Celia Foote.
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1195. I was in the neighbourhood.
Thought I'd drop by.
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1196. Everybody hide.
Everybody get down, get down.
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1197. Get down! Get down! Get down!
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1198. - Turn off the music.
- Who are we hiding from?
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1199. Hey!
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1200. I brought a chocolate pie!
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1201. My maid, Minny, made it.
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1202. She's in the bushes.
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1203. Don't be taking those women
any more pies, you understand?
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1204. They made me stand there like I was
the vacuum salesman.
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1205. Why, Minny?
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1206. Because they know about you getting
knocked up by Mr Johnny.
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1207. Mad you married one of their mens.
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1208. And especially since Miss Hilly and
Mr Johnny had just broke up, too.
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1209. Hilly probably thinks that I was
fooling around with Johnny
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1210. when they were still going steady.
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1211. And Missus Walters always said Miss
Hilly still sweet on Mr Johnny, too.
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1212. No wonder!
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1213. They don't hate me.
They hate what they think I did.
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1214. They hate you 'cause they think
you white trash.
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1215. I'm just going to have to tell Hilly
I ain't no boyfriend stealer.
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1216. In fact, I'll tell her Friday night
at the benefit.
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1217. You don't need to be going
to that benefit, Miss Celia.
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1218. Did you hear me? You just stay home.
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1219. That looks bad.
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1220. Let me take a look.
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1221. I got to get these peas on.
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1222. I know you didn't fall
in no tub, Minny.
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1223. You know what I'd do if I were you?
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1224. I'd give it right back to him.
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1225. I'd hit him over the head
with a skillet,
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1226. and I'd tell him, "Go straight to hell."
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1227. From here, the members of the family...
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1228. visitors from foreign countries
and others
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1229. will walk to St. Matthew's Cathedral.
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1230. Senator Edward Kennedy
getting out of the car.
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1231. Mrs Kennedy.
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1232. Robert Kennedy, Attorney General.
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1233. Sweetheart, I gotta
get down to the coast.
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1234. I'll be back in time for the benefit.
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1235. The world done gone crazy,
Miss Skeeter, and I'm scared.
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1236. What if people find out what we writing,
figure out Niceville really Jackson,
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1237. figure out who who?
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1238. Maybe we need us some insurance.
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1239. I told God I'd never speak of it again.
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1240. But we ain't got no choice.
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1241. Sorry.
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1242. I need to tell y'all about the terrible
awful I done to Miss Hilly.
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1243. It might be the only thing
that keep us safe.
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1244. So...
Copy !req
1245. Nobody wanted to hire a sass-mouthing,
thieving nigra.
Copy !req
1246. Did they?
Copy !req
1247. Pie's as good as always, Minny.
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1248. I'm glad you like it.
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1249. If I take you back, I'll have to cut
your pay five dollars a week.
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1250. Take me back?
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1251. What do you put in here
that makes it taste so good?
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1252. That good vanilla from Mexico...
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1253. and something else real special.
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1254. No, no, no, Missus Walters.
That's Miss Hilly's special pie.
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1255. Mama can have a piece.
Copy !req
1256. Cut her one.
Copy !req
1257. Go get a plate.
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1258. Eat my shit.
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1259. What'd you say?
Copy !req
1260. I said, "Eat... my... shit."
Copy !req
1261. Have you lost your mind?
Copy !req
1262. No, ma'am, but you about to,
'cause you just did.
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1263. Did what?
Copy !req
1264. And you didn't eat just one.
You had two slices!
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1265. Run, Minny, run!
Copy !req
1266. You trying to get yourself killed?
Copy !req
1267. No! I wasn't planning on telling.
Copy !req
1268. I just wanted to see her take a bite.
Copy !req
1269. Then I was gonna leave.
Be done with her forever.
Copy !req
1270. Before I knew it, I had done
told that woman what was in that pie!
Copy !req
1271. I done ask God to forgive me.
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1272. But more for what happened
to poor Miss Walters.
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1273. Miss Hilly threw her in that nursing
home... just for laughing.
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1274. We can't put that story in the book.
Copy !req
1275. We ain't got no choice.
Copy !req
1276. Hilly Holbrook can't let nobody know
that pie story about her.
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1277. Exactly. If people find out
the terrible awful
Copy !req
1278. was you and Miss Hilly
we in trouble there ain't words for.
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1279. Right! But don't you see?
Copy !req
1280. She gonna go to her grave convincing
folks this book ain't about Jackson.
Copy !req
1281. Now, that keeps us safe. Insured.
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1282. No.
Copy !req
1283. No, that's too dangerous.
Copy !req
1284. Y'all two brought me into this,
but I'm gonna finish it.
Copy !req
1285. Either put it in, or pull my parts out
altogether. Y'all pick!
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1286. Thank you, Tommy. I should be out
by 10.00. See you then.
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1287. This is Jolene French, reporting from
the African Children's Benefit Ball,
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1288. and I'm here with League President,
Miss Hilly Holbrook.
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1289. Thanks, Jolene. And I'm just so excited
for the auction tonight, aren't you?
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1290. I'm absolutely thrilled.
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1291. Scandalous!
Copy !req
1292. Thank you.
Copy !req
1293. Hi!
Copy !req
1294. Did you see what Miss Celia got on?
Copy !req
1295. Lord, have mercy. Women better hold onto
their husbands tonight.
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1296. Miss Leefolt been working on that dress
for four weeks
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1297. and that's what she came up with?
Copy !req
1298. Here.
Copy !req
1299. Kiss me.
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1300. Everybody enjoying the evening?
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1301. Let's give a nice round of applause
for the help.
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1302. For all the men and women who have
helped make tonight possible.
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1303. A cause I'm sure is dear
to their hearts as well.
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1304. - Your cocktail.
- Thank you.
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1305. Honey, don't you think you've
had enough to drink?
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1306. I wish you'd try and eat something.
Copy !req
1307. I'm not having my stomach poke out.
Copy !req
1308. OK, OK, everybody, quiet down.
I got the list of the winners!
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1309. OK.
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1310. The winner of the beautiful
mink car coat is...
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1311. Charlotte Phelan!
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1312. Congrats, Miss Phelan. Ladies, I hope
your husbands take note of that.
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1313. Now it's time for the baked goods.
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1314. Yummy, yummy!
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1315. The highest bid
in baked goods goes to
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1316. Minny Jackson's chocolate pie.
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1317. Congratulations...
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1318. Hilly Holbrook!
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1319. - Hilly.
- That's funny.
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1320. I didn't bid on anything.
Copy !req
1321. All right. And now it's time
for Danica's strawberry jam.
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1322. Congratulations, Hilly!
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1323. I didn't know you were a fan
of Minny's pies.
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1324. I've been wanting to talk to you
all night.
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1325. Minny said why you won't be my friend.
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1326. It's 'cause you think me and Johnny
went behind your back.
Copy !req
1327. Wait. I want to talk...
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1328. Oh, no.
Copy !req
1329. I'm so sorry.
Copy !req
1330. Come here, sweetheart.
Copy !req
1331. Let me bring you back to your table.
Copy !req
1332. - I'm really sorry.
- It's all right. Don't worry about it.
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1333. What are you trying to do to me?
What are you and that nigra up to?
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1334. I don't know what you're talking about.
Copy !req
1335. You liar! Who did you tell?
Copy !req
1336. Hilly, I got pregnant
after you and Johnny broke up!
Copy !req
1337. - Oh, shit!
- Shut up, Mother!
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1338. Johnny never cheated on you.
Copy !req
1339. At least not with me.
Copy !req
1340. Johnny would never cheat on me.
Copy !req
1341. I'm so sorry! I thought you'd be tickled
you won that pie!
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1342. You tell that nigra, if she tells
anybody, I will make her suffer!
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1343. Hey, that is enough.
Copy !req
1344. Celia.
Copy !req
1345. Hey, baby, what's the matter?
Copy !req
1346. Oh, shit. What a mess. Napkins.
Copy !req
1347. Why don't we get back to the auction?
Copy !req
1348. Next up, Debby's peppermint bark.
Copy !req
1349. It goes great with hot cocoa.
Copy !req
1350. Just come on home with us
tonight, Mother.
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1351. No, thanks. I've got a pie to eat.
Copy !req
1352. You throw that pie away right now.
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1353. I spent good money on this pie.
Copy !req
1354. I won it just for you.
Copy !req
1355. You signed me up?
Copy !req
1356. I may have trouble remembering my own
name, or what country I live in,
Copy !req
1357. but there are two things
I can't seem to forget:
Copy !req
1358. that my own daughter
threw me into a nursing home,
Copy !req
1359. and that she ate Minny's shit.
Copy !req
1360. Good night.
Copy !req
1361. - Hey, how about a nightcap?
- Let's go.
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1362. I'm not right for this
kind of life, Minny.
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1363. I don't need a dining room table
for 12 people.
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1364. I couldn't get two people
over here if I begged.
Copy !req
1365. I can't do this to Johnny anymore.
Copy !req
1366. That's why I've gotta go back
to Sugar Ditch.
Copy !req
1367. You can't move back to Sugar Ditch.
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1368. Lord.
Copy !req
1369. I reckon it's time you knew.
Copy !req
1370. Sit down.
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1371. So Miss Hilly thought you knew about
the terrible awful.
Copy !req
1372. That you was making fun of her.
Copy !req
1373. It's my fault she pounced on you.
Copy !req
1374. If you leave Mr Johnny...
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1375. then Miss Hilly done won
the whole ball game.
Copy !req
1376. Then she done beaten me...
Copy !req
1377. and she done beat you.
Copy !req
1378. Thank you for telling me that.
Copy !req
1379. Lord, look at all these pages. 266.
Copy !req
1380. So we just send it off?
Just wait and see?
Copy !req
1381. Hope Miss Stein gonna publish it?
Copy !req
1382. Well, I have one more story to type
before I put it in the mail,
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1383. but other than that, we're done.
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1384. Which one you got left?
Copy !req
1385. Mine.
Copy !req
1386. I need to talk to you about Constantine.
Copy !req
1387. Oh, Eugenia, that was so long ago.
Copy !req
1388. What happened?
Copy !req
1389. What happened?
Copy !req
1390. She didn't give me a choice.
Copy !req
1391. The Daughters of America had just
appointed me state regent.
Copy !req
1392. Grace Higginbotham, our esteemed
president, came all the way down
Copy !req
1393. from Washington, D.C.,
to our house for the ceremony.
Copy !req
1394. That's just beautiful. Look at that.
Copy !req
1395. She'd gotten so old and slow, Skeeter.
Copy !req
1396. Yes, ma'am.
Copy !req
1397. It's such an honour
that you came all this way.
Copy !req
1398. That's all right.
Copy !req
1399. - Hello, Miss Charlotte.
- Rachel.
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1400. We were expecting you next week.
Copy !req
1401. I decided to come early
and surprise Mama.
Copy !req
1402. I'm entertaining.
Copy !req
1403. Why don't you go around back.
Wait in the kitchen.
Copy !req
1404. Go on now.
Copy !req
1405. I am sorry.
Copy !req
1406. Rachel, what are you doing?
Copy !req
1407. I'm just doing as I was told,
Miss Charlotte.
Copy !req
1408. Going to the kitchen.
Copy !req
1409. But I'm going to see my mama first.
Copy !req
1410. Hello, Mama.
Copy !req
1411. Go on to the kitchen, baby.
I'll be there directly.
Copy !req
1412. You may put up with this kind
of nonsense, but I do not.
Copy !req
1413. Get out of this house, Rachel.
Copy !req
1414. You heard her. Go on, girl.
Copy !req
1415. Miss Charlotte, let me take her to
the kitchen. Come on, baby. Let's go.
Copy !req
1416. Charlotte.
Copy !req
1417. Both of you.
Copy !req
1418. Leave. Now.
Copy !req
1419. Come on, Mama.
Copy !req
1420. Come on now.
Copy !req
1421. Constantine didn't do anything wrong.
Copy !req
1422. And you love Rachel. I know you do.
Copy !req
1423. She was our president.
What was I supposed to do?
Copy !req
1424. She did you the biggest favour of your
life. She taught me everything.
Copy !req
1425. Well, you idolised her too much.
You always have.
Copy !req
1426. I needed someone to look up to.
Copy !req
1427. I went to her house the next day,
but she had already gone.
Copy !req
1428. How could you not tell me all this?
Copy !req
1429. Because I didn't want to upset you
during your final exams.
Copy !req
1430. I knew you'd blame me,
and it wasn't my fault!
Copy !req
1431. I have to go find her. She needs me.
Copy !req
1432. - Eugenia.
- What?
Copy !req
1433. We sent your brother up to Chicago
to bring Constantine home.
Copy !req
1434. When he got there...
Copy !req
1435. she had died.
Copy !req
1436. You broke her heart.
Copy !req
1437. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!
Copy !req
1438. I'm sorry.
Copy !req
1439. They printed a few thousand copies
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1440. with the worst advance Miss Stein
had ever seen.
Copy !req
1441. Baby, what you doing with Alicia book?
You can't read.
Copy !req
1442. They sent Miss Skeeter $600. She broke
that money up and gave it to each of us.
Copy !req
1443. Divided 13 ways,
that came to about $46 each.
Copy !req
1444. Y'all finish your homework.
Copy !req
1445. Aibileen. Aibileen!
Copy !req
1446. We just got this from Miss Skeeter.
Look at it.
Copy !req
1447. Look at it. Look at it!
Copy !req
1448. Minny, we're rich!
Copy !req
1449. "She fired me for using her
inside toilet.
Copy !req
1450. Put me out in a storm and told me never
to come back. But I did come back.
Copy !req
1451. I came back with a pie I had baked
to say I'm sorry.
Copy !req
1452. I watched her eat..."
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1453. Well, it's a wonderful book, Hilly.
Copy !req
1454. Filled with gripping testimonials
from Mississippi's housekeepers.
Copy !req
1455. OK, Mama. I need to run.
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1456. Well. You should read the book, Hilly.
It's quite scandalous.
Copy !req
1457. Sounds like... Jackson, if you ask me.
Copy !req
1458. Quite scandalous.
Copy !req
1459. What book?
Copy !req
1460. What's it called again?
Copy !req
1461. The Help. H-E-L-P.
Copy !req
1462. There it is.
Copy !req
1463. You told me to write something good.
Something I believed in.
Copy !req
1464. It's not what I believe in.
Copy !req
1465. That joke you pulled with Hilly
with the toilets, that's funny.
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1466. Why would you do this to us?
Copy !req
1467. I don't even know why you care.
Copy !req
1468. - What?
- Things are fine around here.
Copy !req
1469. Why go stir up trouble?
Copy !req
1470. Trouble's already here, Stuart.
Copy !req
1471. I had to tell you this.
You needed to know.
Copy !req
1472. Goddamn right I needed to know. You
should have told me this from the start.
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1473. You're a selfish woman, Skeeter.
Copy !req
1474. Stuart.
Copy !req
1475. I think you're better off being alone.
Copy !req
1476. Did you get to that part yet
that I was telling you about?
Copy !req
1477. Don't read ahead, whatever you do.
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1478. "What you done put up in this?"
Copy !req
1479. "She said, 'My shit."'
Copy !req
1480. What's the matter, Hilly?
Copy !req
1481. Get off of me! Get off!
Copy !req
1482. Stop hitting me!
Copy !req
1483. I heard that Betty character
might be Mary Elizabeth.
Copy !req
1484. It's not Jackson.
Copy !req
1485. And that book is garbage. I bet the
whole thing is made up by some nigra.
Copy !req
1486. And Jolene, didn't your mama
Copy !req
1487. leave Cora to you in her will?
Copy !req
1488. Yes, but that's not odd, is it?
Happens all the time, right?
Copy !req
1489. The book is not about Jackson.
Copy !req
1490. What the hell?
Copy !req
1491. What are you doing here?
Copy !req
1492. I've contacted my lawyer.
Hibbie Goodman?
Copy !req
1493. He's the best libel attorney
in the state.
Copy !req
1494. Oh, Missy, you're going to jail.
Copy !req
1495. You can't prove anything.
Copy !req
1496. I 100 percent know you wrote it.
Nobody else in town is as tacky as you.
Copy !req
1497. You don't know anything, Hilly.
Copy !req
1498. I don't, do I?
Copy !req
1499. You tell Aibileen the next time
she wants to write
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1500. about my dear friend Elizabeth...
Copy !req
1501. Remember her? Had you in her wedding.
Copy !req
1502. Let's just say Aibileen ought to have
been a little bit smarter
Copy !req
1503. before putting in about that
L-shaped scratch
Copy !req
1504. in poor Elizabeth's dining table.
Copy !req
1505. And that nigger Minny,
do I have plans for her.
Copy !req
1506. Careful, Hilly. That's chapter 12.
Copy !req
1507. Don't give yourself away now.
Copy !req
1508. That was not me!
Copy !req
1509. I've come to tell your mother
what a hippie you've become.
Copy !req
1510. She's going to be disgusted by you.
Copy !req
1511. Why, Hilly. Is everything OK, you two?
Copy !req
1512. Mrs Phelan.
Copy !req
1513. Hilly, you're a sweaty mess.
Are you ill?
Copy !req
1514. No, ma'am.
Copy !req
1515. Darling, no husband wants to come home
and see that.
Copy !req
1516. I didn't have time to get fixed up.
Copy !req
1517. You know, Hilly, if I didn't
know any better,
Copy !req
1518. I'd say you've been eating too much pie.
Copy !req
1519. Mrs Phelan, I came here...
Copy !req
1520. In fact, I'm sure of it.
Copy !req
1521. Now you get your raggedy ass
off my porch.
Copy !req
1522. Go on.
Copy !req
1523. Get off my property. Now!
Copy !req
1524. Before we all get one of those
disgusting things on our lips!
Copy !req
1525. Eugenia. Take me inside, please.
Copy !req
1526. Yes, ma'am.
Copy !req
1527. Skeeter, do you have plans tomorrow?
Copy !req
1528. - No, ma'am.
- Good.
Copy !req
1529. Because we are going shopping.
Copy !req
1530. No single daughter of mine is
going to New York City
Copy !req
1531. representing the great state
of Mississippi
Copy !req
1532. without a proper cosmopolitan wardrobe.
Copy !req
1533. How do you know about New York?
Copy !req
1534. Oh, well, Miss Stein called last night.
Copy !req
1535. Courage sometimes skips a generation.
Copy !req
1536. Thank you for bringing it back
to our family.
Copy !req
1537. I can't leave you like this.
Copy !req
1538. Eugenia, I have made a decision.
Copy !req
1539. My health's been on the uptick
these last few weeks,
Copy !req
1540. and I know the doctor says it's
some kind of last strength nonsense,
Copy !req
1541. but I have decided not to die.
Copy !req
1542. Oh, Mama.
Copy !req
1543. It's too late.
I tried calling Fanny Mae's
Copy !req
1544. to make all your hair appointments
for the next 20 years,
Copy !req
1545. but they wouldn't allow it.
Copy !req
1546. I have never been more proud of you.
Copy !req
1547. Thank you.
Copy !req
1548. Mama.
Copy !req
1549. Need some help with those?
Copy !req
1550. Minny.
Copy !req
1551. - Miss Celia!
- Minny, hey, stop! Minny!
Copy !req
1552. - Miss Celia!
- Minny!
Copy !req
1553. - Stay back!
- I'm not here to hurt you! Girl...
Copy !req
1554. You gonna put the stick down?
Copy !req
1555. Listen, Celia finally told me
about the babies.
Copy !req
1556. All of them.
Copy !req
1557. But I also know, the minute
you started working here,
Copy !req
1558. she started getting better.
Copy !req
1559. So, you saved her life.
Copy !req
1560. You knew I was here the whole time?
Copy !req
1561. Fried chicken and okra
on the first night?
Copy !req
1562. Y'all could have at least put
some cornpone on the table.
Copy !req
1563. No.
Copy !req
1564. I couldn't let you eat no more cornpone,
Mr Johnny.
Copy !req
1565. Thanks to you, now I've had to let out
every pair of pants I own.
Copy !req
1566. You just leave that.
Copy !req
1567. Here you go.
Copy !req
1568. Let's head on up the house.
Copy !req
1569. What's this?
Copy !req
1570. I cooked it all by myself.
Copy !req
1571. Yes, she did. She was up all night.
Copy !req
1572. I wanted to do something special.
Copy !req
1573. I wanted to say thank you.
Copy !req
1574. So...
Copy !req
1575. I ain't losing my job?
Copy !req
1576. No, you got a job here
for the rest of your life.
Copy !req
1577. If you want it.
Copy !req
1578. That's a mile-high meringue, Miss Celia.
Copy !req
1579. - Please.
- Thank you.
Copy !req
1580. You remember to check the thighs?
Copy !req
1581. - Cooked clean through.
- Ain't pink in the middle?
Copy !req
1582. Just the way you taught me.
Copy !req
1583. Looky here.
Copy !req
1584. That table of food gave Minny
the strength she needed.
Copy !req
1585. She took her babies out from under Leroy
and never went back.
Copy !req
1586. What are all these cars doing out here?
Are we late?
Copy !req
1587. No, we ain't late.
Copy !req
1588. Why ain't you singing?
Copy !req
1589. We got to worry about getting
in there and getting our seats.
Copy !req
1590. Come on now, we late!
Copy !req
1591. - Who we clapping for?
- Honey, we clapping for you!
Copy !req
1592. Come on down, Sister Clark!
Copy !req
1593. Come on.
Copy !req
1594. Come on.
Copy !req
1595. All right, all right.
Copy !req
1596. Now... this is an important time
in our community.
Copy !req
1597. And we have to thank you
for what you have done.
Copy !req
1598. Now...
Copy !req
1599. We know you couldn't put
your name in here,
Copy !req
1600. so we all signed our own.
Copy !req
1601. Thank you.
Copy !req
1602. Come on, now. Come on.
Copy !req
1603. Churches over two counties signed
our books. All for you and me.
Copy !req
1604. It's beautiful.
Copy !req
1605. What's wrong?
Copy !req
1606. I got a job offer from Harper and Row
in New York.
Copy !req
1607. Congratulations!
Copy !req
1608. - I'm not taking it.
- What you mean you're not taking it?
Copy !req
1609. I can't just leave you two here
Copy !req
1610. when things are getting bad
from the mess that I created.
Copy !req
1611. If bad things happen,
ain't nothing you can do about it.
Copy !req
1612. And now it's for a reason
we can be proud of.
Copy !req
1613. I don't mean to rub salt in your wound,
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1614. but you ain't got a good life here
in Jackson.
Copy !req
1615. Plus, your mama's getting better.
Copy !req
1616. You ain't got nothing left here but
enemies in the Junior League.
Copy !req
1617. You done burned every bridge there is.
Copy !req
1618. And you ain't never gonna get another
man in this town. Everybody know that.
Copy !req
1619. So don't walk your white butt
to New York, run it!
Copy !req
1620. Looky here, Miss Skeeter.
I'm gonna take care of Aibileen.
Copy !req
1621. And she's gonna take care of me.
Copy !req
1622. Go find your life, Miss Skeeter.
Copy !req
1623. Aibileen, can you come in here, please?
Copy !req
1624. Good morning.
Copy !req
1625. Aibileen, the silver
I lent Elizabeth last week.
Copy !req
1626. It not polished good?
Copy !req
1627. Humidity been fighting me
on polishing day.
Copy !req
1628. When you returned it, three pieces
were missing from the felt wrapper.
Copy !req
1629. A fork and two spoons.
Copy !req
1630. Let me go check in the kitchen.
Maybe I left some behind.
Copy !req
1631. You know as well as I do that silver's
not in the kitchen.
Copy !req
1632. You check in Mae Mobley's bed?
Copy !req
1633. Since the Lil Man was born,
she been putting things...
Copy !req
1634. Do you hear her, Elizabeth?
Copy !req
1635. She's trying to blame it on a toddler.
Copy !req
1636. I ain't got no silver.
Copy !req
1637. She says she doesn't have them.
Copy !req
1638. Then it behooves me to inform you
that you are fired, Aibileen.
Copy !req
1639. And I'll be calling the police.
Copy !req
1640. Aibee, my throat hurts.
Copy !req
1641. I'll go get some syrup, Miss Leefolt.
Copy !req
1642. Elizabeth can take care
of her own children.
Copy !req
1643. - I'll go get the cough syrup.
- Come here, Lil Man.
Copy !req
1644. I'm OK.
Copy !req
1645. I didn't steal no silver.
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1646. Maybe I can't send you to jail
for what you wrote,
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1647. but I can send you for being a thief.
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1648. I know something about you.
Don't you forget that.
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1649. From what Yule Mae says, there's a lot
of time to write letters in jail.
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1650. Plenty of time to write the truth about
you. And the paper is free.
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1651. - Nobody will believe what you wrote!
- I don't know!
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1652. I been told I'm a pretty good writer.
Already sold a lot of books.
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1653. Call the police, Elizabeth.
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1654. All you do is scare and lie
to try to get what you want.
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1655. Aibileen, stop!
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1656. You a godless woman.
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1657. Ain't you tired, Miss Hilly?
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1658. Ain't you tired?
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1659. Aibileen, you have to go now.
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1660. Don't go, Aibee.
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1661. Baby, you need to get back to bed.
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1662. - Please don't leave.
- I gots to, baby. I am so sorry.
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1663. Are you going to take care
of another little girl?
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1664. No, that's not the reason.
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1665. I don't want to leave you,
but it's time for me to retire.
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1666. - You're my last little girl.
- No!
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1667. Baby. Baby.
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1668. I need you to remember everything
I told you, OK?
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1669. - OK.
- You remember what I told you?
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1670. You is kind. You is smart.
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1671. You is important.
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1672. That's right, Baby Girl.
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1673. Don't go, Aibee.
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1674. I gots to, baby.
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1675. You give my sweet girl a chance.
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1676. Mae Mobley was my last baby.
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1677. In just ten minutes,
the only life I knew was done.
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1678. Aibee!
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1679. God says we need to love our enemies.
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1680. No!
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1681. It hard to do.
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1682. But it can start by telling the truth.
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1683. No one had ever asked me
what it felt like to be me.
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1684. Once I told the truth about that...
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1685. I felt free.
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1686. And I got to thinking
about all the people I know.
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1687. And the things I seen and done.
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1688. My boy, Treelore, always said we going
to have a writer in the family one day.
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1689. I guess it's gonna be me.
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