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I mean, she was such a sweetheart.
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I had such great respect for her...
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for what she did in that movie.
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Here's a 24-year-old young actress,
playing at the end of the movie...
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so believably that older Leslie Benedict.
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She was wonderful.
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I knew Elizabeth when we were children...
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but I hadn't seen her in,
well, I hadn't seen her for three babies...
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and I think she had two sons
at the time maybe.
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One thing that brought us right away
close together were our children.
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Because we were both concerned,
as parents, of leaving our kids at home.
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So that was an immediate sharing
of thoughts and feeling together...
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togetherness as two mommies
who were working parents...
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who had their kids at home.
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Then we both discovered
we loved flowers.
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I am a flower freak!
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We were on the train, we were
peeping out the windows and she said:
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"Is that yucca out there?"
And I said, "I think it is! "
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Both of us were wild about yucca.
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Mr. Stevens came over and said,
"What's all the giggling about, girls?"
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I said,
"We just spotted some yucca growing.
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"And we can't see it. It's so far away.
But it's just wonderful! "
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He said, "You want some yucca?"
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I said, "How would that be possible?"
He said, "I think we can work it out."
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He went out, some cord was pulled,
and the whole train stopped.
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And I have wonderful home movies.
I'm so thrilled to have them...
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with Elizabeth, who looks so beautiful,
holding the yucca up.
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So many things happened that were fun,
and all happy memories.
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It was the very beginning of the film...
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and the night before,
Elizabeth, very nicely, had asked...
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my then future wife and I to come over...