1:08:01
You can come and get it when class
is dismissed.
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Which is right now.
And Merry Christmas to you all.
1:08:16
That was a very fine Christmas
spirit, Frances.
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But it seems like such a tiny pie to
save so many lives.
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Oh, it won't seem small to them,
Miss McDonald.
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Even a little pie can look awful big
if you haven't had much to eat
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for days and days.
1:08:29
l'll have to tell them to eat slowly,
because they eat very fast on an
1:08:32
empty stomach they'll, they'll...
1:08:38
lt isn't true, is all a lie.
l wanted it for myself.
1:08:42
l'll stay after school, l'll do
anything, but don't send a note home.
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l'm not going to punish you child,
for being hungry
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or having an imagination.
1:08:52
You know, thas something very few
people have.
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ls very precious.
1:08:57
But it can also be dangerous unless
we learn how to use it.
1:09:01
Our everyday lives are real and true,
but all the stories in the world,
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all the music, came out of
someone's imagination.
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So, if we tell the truth, and write
the lies,
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then they aren't lies
anymore, they become stories.
1:09:18
Like some of the very nice
compositions you've written, Frances.
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Like the one about
my father taking me
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to see the cotton fields
down south?
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We didn't really go.
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l rather imagined you didn't.
1:09:29
But don't you think it would be
still better
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if you would write about the things
you really know about
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and then add to them with
your imagination.
1:09:39
Even stories shouldn't be
just, well, pipe dreams.
1:09:44
Pipe dreamers can be very lovable
people but they don't help anybody.
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But they don't help anybody. Now,
think about it a little.
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And have a Merry Christmas.
And enjoy your pie.