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21 Cards in this Set
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All of a sudden, after all this time, you want to talk to me, huh? You ain't wanted to talk to me for months. |
Tomorrow's Friday. |
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I know what day tomorrow is. |
I want to know if you're coming home |
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I always come home, Rose. You know that |
That ain't what I mean . . . and you know it. I want to know if you're coming straight home after work. |
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I figure I'd cash my check . . . hang out at Taylors' with the boys . . . maybe play a game of checkers |
Troy, I can't live like this. I won't live like this. You livin' on borrowed time with me. It's been going on six months now you ain't been coming home |
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I be here every night. Every night of the year. That's 365 days |
I want you to come home tomorrow after work |
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Rose . . . I don't mess up my pay. You know that now. I take my pay and I give it to you. I don't have no money but what you give me back. I just want to have a little time to myself . . . a little time to enjoy life. |
What about me? When's my time to enjoy life? |
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I don't know what to tell you, Rose. I'm doing the best I can. |
You ain't been home from work but time enough to change your clothes and run out . . . and you wanna call that the best you can do? |
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I'm going over to the hospital to see Alberta. She went into the hospital this afternoon. Look like she might have the baby early. I won't be gone long |
They went over to Miss Pearl's and got Gabe today. She said you told them to go ahead and lock him up. |
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I ain't said no such thing. Whoever told you that is telling a lie. Pearl ain't doing nothing but telling a big fat lie. |
She ain't had to tell me. I read it on the papers |
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Then they screwed that up, just the way they screw up everything. I ain't worried about what they got on the paper. |
Say the government send part of his check to the hospital and the other part to you |
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I ain't got nothing to do with that if that's the way it works. I ain't made up the rules about how it work |
You did Gabe just like you did Cory. You wouldn't sign the paper for Cory . . . but you signed for Gabe. You signed that paper |
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Hell, I can't read, I don't know what they had on that paper! |
I said send him to the hospital . . . you said let him be free . . . now you done went down there and signed him to the hospital for half his money. You went back on yourself, Troy. You gonna have to answer for that |
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She done got mad cause she ain't getting Gabe's rent money |
Troy, I seen where you signed the paper. |
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You ain't seen nothing I signed. Say . . . you ain't seen nothing I signed |
Troy . . . that was the hospital. Alberta had the baby |
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What she have? What is it? |
It’s a girl. |
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I better get on down to the hospital to see her |
Troy… |
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That's only right . . . what's the matter . . . the baby's alright, ain't it? |
Alberta died having the baby |
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Died . . . you say she's dead? |
They said they done all they could |
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The baby? |
They say it's healthy. I wonder who's gonna bury her. |
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She wasn't living in the world by herself. |
I know she wasn't living in the world by herself |
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Who's gonna bury her?" Like I'm fixing to take on that task for myself. |
I am your wife. Don't push me away |
