Inventing the Abbotts
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1:09:01
There's no end of Abbotts
in this world, if that's what you need.

1:09:04
He just needs that somehow.
1:09:11
Actually, I know how.
1:09:13
What do you mean?
How do you know?

1:09:18
I was just a wreck when Charlie died.
1:09:22
Jacey was almost 2 and
I was eight months pregnant with you.

1:09:27
And, well...
1:09:32
Some mornings I'd be crying
before I even woke up.

1:09:38
Then you were born.
1:09:43
And Jacey just got lost in there.
1:09:48
I didn't have anything for him.
1:09:53
I should've taken us away from here...
1:09:57
...gone somewhere else.
- Why?

1:10:03
After Charlie died...
1:10:05
...Lloyd Abbott started dropping by
on his way home from work.

1:10:11
He felt so bad about that bet that
Charlie had made with him at the lake.

1:10:17
That foolish...
1:10:20
...idiotic bet.
1:10:22
Poor Lloyd. I felt sorry for him.
1:10:29
But he started dropping by so often
that people began to talk.

1:10:37
One day, I was in Woolworth's.
I was having lunch at the counter.

1:10:41
Suddenly, there was Joan Abbott...
1:10:44
...screaming at me to stop sleeping
with her husband, with Lloyd.

1:10:49
I was speechless.
1:10:53
She was gone
before I could find my tongue.

1:10:55
Christ...
1:10:57
I went to see Joan. I wanted to put
her mind at rest. I wanted to tell her...


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