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That's the truth.
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Nobody knew her like I did.
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One time, we took my bicycle...
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...and we just went.
:38:11
We got on a highway and we rode,
and she was drunker than...
:38:16
And, of course, it got dark before
we got to where we were going.
:38:20
And we had to call my father up...
:38:21
...and he had to come down
in the car and pick us up.
:38:24
And we couldn't get
the bicycle in the car...
:38:27
...and my mother started laughing
and I started laughing.
:38:30
My father didn't like it much.
:38:33
And then we'd get her home...
:38:36
...and my father would put her to bed
and she'd sober up...
:38:39
...and it was over.
:38:41
And I'd just have to wait
for her to get drunk again.
:38:47
One summer...
:38:50
...my father...
:38:51
...sent me off to visit my aunt
for a couple of weeks.
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And when I got back...
:38:58
...my mother was in a hospital.
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And they wouldn't let me see her.
:39:06
I couldn't understand it.
They wouldn't let me see her.
:39:11
She died in her room.
:39:16
I must have been
about 11 or 12 at the time.
:39:22
And a nurse...
:39:24
...there, she told me my mother
wrote me a note when I was away.
:39:31
But my father took it...
:39:33
...and he wouldn't let me see it.
:39:36
I couldn't understand it.
:39:40
I remember I tried
to beat him up one time...
:39:43
...just to get him to tell me
what was in the note.
:39:46
He wouldn't tell me.
:39:51
I always wondered what it said.
:39:56
I know it was something nice.