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You know, my wife Aleka, bless her soul,
she used to say...
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I would end up in a ditch with a knife
in my back picking up hitchhikers.
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But every time I see
a young fellow like you...
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standing on the side of the road,
I think of my younger days.
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I appreciate it.
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Yeah. Where you headed, son?
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Central Maine General Hospital
down in Lewiston.
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-Yeah.
-My mother had a stroke.
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I'm sorry to hear that.
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-They think she'll be okay.
-Yeah.
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Stroke's what claimed my Allie,
not four years back.
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She just started babbling stuff,
not making a lick of sense.
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After a while she just sort of
petered out, you know.
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I miss her terrible.
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On long drives,
I can still see her face sometimes...
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sitting right there where you are.
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Damn!
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You know, I'd take you all the way,
but I promised my brother Ralph...
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that I'd take him
over to that nursing home in Gates.
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His wife's up there,
she's got that forgetting disease...
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what do you call it,
Anderson's or whatever it is.
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-Alzheimer's.
-Alzheimer's, yeah. That's the fellow.
:33:20
Still, I suppose I could take you all the way.
:33:23
Don't let him.
There's something wrong with him.
:33:29
You don't have to do that.
I can get a ride from Gates easy.
:33:34
Damn, damn truss!
:33:40
Damn rupture!
You know, pardon my French...
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but if you stick around
this old world long enough...
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after a while all your works
start falling apart, you know.
:33:48
It just seems like the longer you live...
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the more God wants to kick you in the ass.
:33:54
Still, it's good that you dropped everything
to go see your mom the way you're doing.
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She's a good mom.