:17:24
Carol?
:17:29
I'm trying to keep my composure.
:17:32
And like everything I do,
I think I'm messing this up.
:17:36
I despise these message things.
I'm just such a coward.
:17:42
I couldn 't look at your face and say
what I'm about to say. I just couldn 't.
:17:47
If you were in front of me,
I'd change my mind.
:17:52
And I don 't want to change my mind.
:17:55
I love you.
Please know that.
:17:59
I hadn 't planned this.
:18:01
I really hadn 't.
:18:06
I just can 't take it anymore.
That's what it amounts to.
:18:10
I know we've been over this
so many times before.
:18:13
The same crying from me,
and the same assurances from you.
:18:18
That the next place will be different.
But it never is. It can 't be.
:18:23
So yesterday,
something snapped in me.
:18:27
I just couldn 't bear to see Paulie...
:18:30
...clatter around yet another
bleak place. I just couldn 't.
:18:34
He's a child.
He's never set foot on Earth.
:18:39
Never!
:18:42
He looks at pictures
and reads books of Earth...
:18:45
...all day long. And he hides them
from you so your feelings won 't be hurt.
:18:50
Don 't you see he deserves a childhood?
:18:53
He deserves a chance
to breathe air, real outside air...
:18:58
... where you don 't broil or explode.