:45:02
You're so afraid.
:45:06
You've even been afraid
to ask me to the graduation dance.
:45:09
Allison, I want... . Well, see,
I'm just not asking anybody.
:45:14
- I'll be there, but I can't ask you.
- Why not?
:45:18
Well, my mother.
:45:21
Your mother.
:45:24
Well, she wouldn't actually forbid it.
:45:27
It's just that she gets jealous
of anybody at all...
:45:30
...that I spend my time with.
:45:33
You don't know her.
:45:35
You don't have to live with her.
:45:39
But she's my mother.
:45:41
There's nothing I can do about that.
:45:44
You don't have to tell me
any more, Norman.
:45:46
Please, Allison,
I've gotta tell somebody.
:45:49
She won't let me have friends.
:45:52
She... .
:45:56
She makes me tell her 10 times a day
how much I love her.
:45:59
She's afraid she'll die alone
in a poorhouse.
:46:03
And marriage... .
:46:07
Marriage, she says, is misery.
And a woman can only cause me trouble.
:46:11
Oh, Norman, I can't believe it.
:46:15
Nobody would.
:46:17
Now maybe you know why I hate
to go home...
:46:20
...and why I live in the library...
:46:23
...and why I can't dance, or kiss girls,
or look anybody in the eye.
:46:29
You see, I'm a sissy and a coward.
:46:32
No, you're not, Norman.
:46:34
No one around town stopped to think
and give you a chance.
:46:39
You shouldn't be afraid of girls.
:46:42
I know, but I am, and I don't know
what I can do about it.
:46:45
- I know what you can do.
- What?
:46:48
You can start with me.
:46:50
I'll prove everything your mother
ever said was wrong.
:46:55
Would you kiss me, Norman?
:46:58
- I don't think I can.
- Yes, you could.