ÿþ<SAMI> <HEAD> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- P { margin-left:8pt; margin-right:8pt; margin-bottom:2pt; margin-top:2pt; text-align:center; font-size:20pt; font-family:arial, sans-serif; font-weight:normal; color:white; } .ENCC { Name:English; lang:en-US; SAMIType:CC;} #STDPrn { Name:Standard Print;} #LargePrn { Name:Large Print; font-size:25pt;} #SmallPrn { Name:Small Print; font-size:15pt;} --> </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <SYNC Start=88492><P Class=ENCC> My name is Claireece "Precious" Jones. <SYNC Start=90744><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=93247><P Class=ENCC> I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend<br>with real nice hair. <SYNC Start=97417><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=97501><P Class=ENCC> And I wanna be on the cover of a magazine. <SYNC Start=100044><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=100129><P Class=ENCC> But first, I wanna be<br>in one of them BET videos. <SYNC Start=103506><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=103591><P Class=ENCC> Momma said I can't dance. <SYNC Start=105925><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=106010><P Class=ENCC> Plus, she said, who wants<br>to see my big ass dancing, anyhow? <SYNC Start=109512><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=109597><P Class=ENCC> Well, if there's no volunteers,<br>then I'm going to have to call people. <SYNC Start=113266><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=113350><P Class=ENCC> Okay, Leticia, you got number one. Leticia! <SYNC Start=117187><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=117271><P Class=ENCC> Jess Wesley, number two. <SYNC Start=118646><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=118731><P Class=ENCC> I like math. I don't say nothing. <SYNC Start=121858><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=122693><P Class=ENCC> I don't open my book, even. I just sit there. <SYNC Start=126112><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=126197><P Class=ENCC> - You down?<br>- Number six. <SYNC Start=127739><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=127823><P Class=ENCC> Every day I tell myself<br>something's gonna happen. <SYNC Start=131785><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=131869><P Class=ENCC> I'm... I'm dead serious. <SYNC Start=132994><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=133078><P Class=ENCC> Like, I'm gonna break through. <SYNC Start=135413><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=135956><P Class=ENCC> Or somebody's gonna break through to me. <SYNC Start=138708><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=139126><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna be normal <SYNC Start=141419><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=141504><P Class=ENCC> and pay attention,<br>and sit in the front of the class. <SYNC Start=144422><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=144507><P Class=ENCC> Distributive principles... <SYNC Start=146716><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=146801><P Class=ENCC> Someday. <SYNC Start=147884><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=147968><P Class=ENCC> ...are principles that<br>you can do in your head. <SYNC Start=150220><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=150304><P Class=ENCC> I like Mr. Wicher. <SYNC Start=152388><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=153349><P Class=ENCC> I pretend he my husband<br>and we live some place like Westchester. <SYNC Start=157727><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=158813><P Class=ENCC> Look at him. He like me, too, I know it. <SYNC Start=162440><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=163234><P Class=ENCC> I can tell by his eyes.<br>He always looking at me and smiling at me. <SYNC Start=167987><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=168072><P Class=ENCC> Boys! Boys! Boys! <SYNC Start=170156><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=170241><P Class=ENCC> I'm not your fucking boy! <SYNC Start=171449><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=171534><P Class=ENCC> You're disrupting the class. <SYNC Start=172659><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=172743><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, well, I'm talking now,<br>so you listen. <SYNC Start=175161><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=176080><P Class=ENCC> Shut the fuck up! I'm trying to listen! <SYNC Start=178832><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=182086><P Class=ENCC> Mr. Wicher know I got his back. <SYNC Start=184420><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=184839><P Class=ENCC> One twenty-two. <SYNC Start=186381><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=188008><P Class=ENCC> Why are we barking, Jess? <SYNC Start=190051><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=190594><P Class=ENCC> Monday's assignment.<br>I'm assuming everybody did it. <SYNC Start=195014><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=195432><P Class=ENCC> - No.<br>- No. <SYNC Start=197433><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=200771><P Class=ENCC> Please... Quiet. Precious, get your things. <SYNC Start=205483><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=205568><P Class=ENCC> I have... Come here for a second. <SYNC Start=207652><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=207736><P Class=ENCC> Now this shit. <SYNC Start=208862><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=208946><P Class=ENCC> Is there anybody<br>who didn't do their homework? <SYNC Start=211948><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=214451><P Class=ENCC> Why? These aren't requests.<br>These are requirements. Okay? <SYNC Start=219247><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=222918><P Class=ENCC> You have to go to the principal's office. <SYNC Start=225837><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=236640><P Class=ENCC> Go to the principal's office! <SYNC Start=237849><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=237933><P Class=ENCC> All right, that's enough. That's enough. <SYNC Start=240852><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=241228><P Class=ENCC> No, he's not allowed on campus.<br>Where was he seen? <SYNC Start=244314><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=244440><P Class=ENCC> Could you get Mr. Tork from Room 25, <SYNC Start=246316><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=246400><P Class=ENCC> tell him to go to Room 16 right away?<br>Thank you. <SYNC Start=248818><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=248903><P Class=ENCC> No. He was seen on the second floor. <SYNC Start=251654><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=252948><P Class=ENCC> Yes. Thank you. <SYNC Start=254490><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=254658><P Class=ENCC> Send Claireece in here! <SYNC Start=256743><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=259997><P Class=ENCC> She's ready for you now. <SYNC Start=261998><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=265669><P Class=ENCC> Mr. Taylor? Ms. Lichenstein. <SYNC Start=267962><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=268464><P Class=ENCC> Come in. <SYNC Start=269756><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=270174><P Class=ENCC> Matthew Williams, second floor. <SYNC Start=272508><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=273344><P Class=ENCC> In front of his locker.<br>Yes. Suspended last week. <SYNC Start=276638><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=279391><P Class=ENCC> Yeah. <SYNC Start=280558><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=281185><P Class=ENCC> Yes, absolutely. Thank you. <SYNC Start=283311><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=284521><P Class=ENCC> Hello, Claireece. <SYNC Start=286272><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=291362><P Class=ENCC> Are you pregnant? <SYNC Start=293071><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=300371><P Class=ENCC> You're 16. You're still in junior high school, <SYNC Start=304415><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=306210><P Class=ENCC> and you're pregnant with your second child. <SYNC Start=309128><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=309213><P Class=ENCC> Is that correct, Claireece? <SYNC Start=311381><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=314134><P Class=ENCC> Are you pregnant again? <SYNC Start=316094><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=323435><P Class=ENCC> What happened, Claireece? <SYNC Start=325770><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=325854><P Class=ENCC> I had sex, Ms. Lichenstein. <SYNC Start=328564><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=333988><P Class=ENCC> Do you have any other thoughts<br>about your situation, Claireece? <SYNC Start=338032><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=343247><P Class=ENCC> Claireece? <SYNC Start=344622><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=344999><P Class=ENCC> Am I in trouble? <SYNC Start=346749><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=348585><P Class=ENCC> Thank you. I gotta get back to math. <SYNC Start=351337><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=351422><P Class=ENCC> Sit down, Claireece. Sit down right now. <SYNC Start=354507><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=356719><P Class=ENCC> We should have a parent-teacher's<br>conference with you, me and your mother. <SYNC Start=360513><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=360597><P Class=ENCC> My mother's busy. <SYNC Start=362682><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=362766><P Class=ENCC> All right. Well then,<br>how about if I come to your house? <SYNC Start=365101><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=365185><P Class=ENCC> If I were you, I wouldn't. <SYNC Start=367145><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=367229><P Class=ENCC> l... I'm going to have to suspend you. <SYNC Start=369939><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=371108><P Class=ENCC> That ain't fair! I didn't do nothing!<br>I do my work! <SYNC Start=374110><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=374194><P Class=ENCC> My grades is good! <SYNC Start=375278><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=375362><P Class=ENCC> Is something going on at home? <SYNC Start=377280><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=377364><P Class=ENCC> If something's going on at home,<br>I want you to tell me right now. <SYNC Start=381492><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=393297><P Class=ENCC> You get my cigarettes? <SYNC Start=395298><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=395716><P Class=ENCC> No, they didn't have it. <SYNC Start=397550><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=397634><P Class=ENCC> I played the number, though.<br>I couldn't box it. <SYNC Start=400887><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=428415><P Class=ENCC> Yes. Yeah. <SYNC Start=430374><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=432252><P Class=ENCC> Right there. Yeah. Daddy loves you. <SYNC Start=435046><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=444181><P Class=ENCC> Precious, what did you think of the film? <SYNC Start=446099><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=446183><P Class=ENCC> I thought it was fabulous. <SYNC Start=447350><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=447434><P Class=ENCC> - What's next for you?<br>- What? <SYNC Start=449936><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=450020><P Class=ENCC> - How are you feeling?<br>- I feel great! <SYNC Start=452605><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=454566><P Class=ENCC> Just one more, just one more, quick! <SYNC Start=456109><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=456193><P Class=ENCC> I love you, too! <SYNC Start=457819><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=460197><P Class=ENCC> You know I love you! <SYNC Start=461405><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=461490><P Class=ENCC> Hey, boo! <SYNC Start=463074><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=471375><P Class=ENCC> I ain't gonna say it no more. <SYNC Start=473584><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=478799><P Class=ENCC> The door was open, so I let myself in. <SYNC Start=480925><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=481009><P Class=ENCC> Well, there goes my chance<br>to tell you I'm not home. <SYNC Start=484387><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=484930><P Class=ENCC> Now, Mary, this is important. <SYNC Start=486681><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=491645><P Class=ENCC> Now, come on, Mary,<br>she'll have a great time. <SYNC Start=493229><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=493313><P Class=ENCC> I'd enroll myself, but I became ineligible<br>for teen pageants a few days ago. <SYNC Start=496732><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=497734><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, I see your acne's cleared up. <SYNC Start=500611><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=501572><P Class=ENCC> You know, this pageant can do Brenda<br>a world of good, Mary. <SYNC Start=503865><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=503949><P Class=ENCC> And the man in charge, he's tops<br>in his field. A brilliant promoter. <SYNC Start=507618><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=507911><P Class=ENCC> How long have you two been dating? <SYNC Start=509787><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=511248><P Class=ENCC> A dance teacher. <SYNC Start=513332><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=515252><P Class=ENCC> Tell them assholes to stop ringing my bell. <SYNC Start=518212><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=518922><P Class=ENCC> I hate crackheads. <SYNC Start=520965><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=521758><P Class=ENCC> No one ever ring this bell<br>except for crackheads. <SYNC Start=524552><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=524636><P Class=ENCC> Why they fucking with us? <SYNC Start=526762><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=531268><P Class=ENCC> Stop ringing the goddamn buzzers,<br>motherfuckers! <SYNC Start=534645><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=534730><P Class=ENCC> Give the ghetto a bad name. <SYNC Start=536898><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=542738><P Class=ENCC> Stop ringing the goddamn buzzer! <SYNC Start=545114><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=554708><P Class=ENCC> Stop it! <SYNC Start=557835><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=558295><P Class=ENCC> Press "listen," stupid. <SYNC Start=560296><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=565636><P Class=ENCC> It's Sandra Lichenstein<br>for Claireece and Ms. Mary Johnston. <SYNC Start=569472><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=572559><P Class=ENCC> Who is that, Precious? <SYNC Start=574477><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=575062><P Class=ENCC> White bitch from school. <SYNC Start=577063><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=584446><P Class=ENCC> What do you want? <SYNC Start=586155><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=586657><P Class=ENCC> Claireece, I want to talk to you<br>about your education. <SYNC Start=590159><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=593997><P Class=ENCC> Eighty-six that bitch. <SYNC Start=595915><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=596750><P Class=ENCC> My mother don't wanna get cut off welfare. <SYNC Start=598751><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=598835><P Class=ENCC> And that's just what this visit<br>gonna result in. <SYNC Start=601379><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=604258><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Lichenstein, get out of here<br>before I kick your ass. <SYNC Start=607426><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=607511><P Class=ENCC> All right, Claireece, I spoke to Mr. Wicher, <SYNC Start=609762><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=609846><P Class=ENCC> and he told me<br>that you're one of his best math students. <SYNC Start=612682><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=612766><P Class=ENCC> If your fat ass don't get<br>that bitch away from here... <SYNC Start=615726><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=615811><P Class=ENCC> ...like a, like a potential for math. <SYNC Start=618437><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=618522><P Class=ENCC> So I called Mrs. McKnight <SYNC Start=620064><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=620148><P Class=ENCC> from Higher Education Alternative<br>Each One Teach One. <SYNC Start=624277><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=625112><P Class=ENCC> It's an alternative school. <SYNC Start=627280><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=628031><P Class=ENCC> Claireece, are you listening to me? <SYNC Start=630366><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=631034><P Class=ENCC> Yeah. <SYNC Start=631993><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=632077><P Class=ENCC> Okay. Mrs. McKnight. Each One Teach One. <SYNC Start=635955><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=636164><P Class=ENCC> It's located at the 11th floor,<br>Hotel Theresa, 125th Street. <SYNC Start=642044><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=642587><P Class=ENCC> - Get rid of that bitch.<br>- The semester started a few days ago, <SYNC Start=645006><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=645090><P Class=ENCC> so you're not too late. <SYNC Start=646132><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=646216><P Class=ENCC> Eleventh floor. <SYNC Start=647758><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=648176><P Class=ENCC> I heard you the first time. <SYNC Start=649844><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=650721><P Class=ENCC> Okay. <SYNC Start=651971><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=653390><P Class=ENCC> I don't know what an alternative school is,<br>but I feel I wanna know. <SYNC Start=657727><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=659688><P Class=ENCC> My heart is all warm inside. <SYNC Start=661939><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=662858><P Class=ENCC> Mr. Wicher think I'm a good student. <SYNC Start=665443><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=666987><P Class=ENCC> I knew that he liked me. <SYNC Start=668946><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=689051><P Class=ENCC> School ain't gonna help none! <SYNC Start=691469><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=691553><P Class=ENCC> Take your ass down to the welfare. <SYNC Start=694096><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=694181><P Class=ENCC> Who the fuck she think she is? <SYNC Start=696432><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=697351><P Class=ENCC> So I guess you think you cute now, right?<br>Uppity bitch. <SYNC Start=702188><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=702272><P Class=ENCC> You should have kept<br>your fucking mouth shut. <SYNC Start=705274><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=707152><P Class=ENCC> Just 'cause he gonna give you<br>more children than he give me, <SYNC Start=709153><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=709237><P Class=ENCC> you think you something fucking special? <SYNC Start=711489><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=711573><P Class=ENCC> Fuck you and fuck him! <SYNC Start=713574><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=718038><P Class=ENCC> Precious! <SYNC Start=719330><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=721458><P Class=ENCC> Precious! Precious! <SYNC Start=723751><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=724795><P Class=ENCC> Get down here, bitch! <SYNC Start=726379><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=726463><P Class=ENCC> You brought that white bitch up<br>in my house! <SYNC Start=728839><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=729758><P Class=ENCC> You...<br>Why would you bring that bitch up in here? <SYNC Start=731675><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=731760><P Class=ENCC> I didn't bring her here. <SYNC Start=732802><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=732886><P Class=ENCC> Well, why the fuck did she ring my buzzer? <SYNC Start=735763><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=737349><P Class=ENCC> I can't hear you, Precious. <SYNC Start=738599><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=738683><P Class=ENCC> Since you got<br>so much motherfucking mouth, <SYNC Start=740726><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=740811><P Class=ENCC> and you gonna bring a bitch up<br>in my house, <SYNC Start=742478><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=742562><P Class=ENCC> why would that bitch ring<br>my goddamn buzzer? <SYNC Start=744605><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=744689><P Class=ENCC> I didn't tell her to come here. <SYNC Start=746399><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=746483><P Class=ENCC> See, I think right now, you feeling<br>like you're becoming a grown woman. <SYNC Start=750194><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=750278><P Class=ENCC> 'Cause of that shit you pulled<br>in the kitchen. <SYNC Start=752113><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=752197><P Class=ENCC> I should've fucked you up,<br>but I let you walk away, <SYNC Start=755574><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=755659><P Class=ENCC> and I let you come get yourself together. <SYNC Start=757576><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=757661><P Class=ENCC> But, bitch, I'm gonna let you know<br>if you ever pull that shit on me again, <SYNC Start=760704><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=760789><P Class=ENCC> that will be your last<br>motherfucking day standing, <SYNC Start=763332><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=763417><P Class=ENCC> I promise you that. <SYNC Start=764417><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=764501><P Class=ENCC> You gonna send a white bitch<br>to my motherfucking buzzer? <SYNC Start=767044><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=767129><P Class=ENCC> Talking about some higher education? <SYNC Start=768754><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=768839><P Class=ENCC> You're a dummy, bitch,<br>you will never know shit. <SYNC Start=772091><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=772175><P Class=ENCC> Don't nobody want you.<br>Don't nobody need you. <SYNC Start=774468><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=774553><P Class=ENCC> You done fucked around<br>and fucked my motherfucking man <SYNC Start=777179><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=777264><P Class=ENCC> and had two motherfucking children, <SYNC Start=779181><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=779266><P Class=ENCC> and one of them is a goddamn animal, <SYNC Start=780933><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=781017><P Class=ENCC> running around,<br>looking crazy as a motherfucker. <SYNC Start=784103><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=784187><P Class=ENCC> Bitch, you know what?<br>See, I think you... I think you're trying me. <SYNC Start=788190><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=788859><P Class=ENCC> I think you're really trying to fuck with me.<br>You're fucking with my money. <SYNC Start=792778><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=792863><P Class=ENCC> And you're gonna stand up there<br>and look down at me <SYNC Start=794947><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=795031><P Class=ENCC> like you're a motherfucking woman. <SYNC Start=796615><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=796700><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna show you<br>what real women do, bitch. <SYNC Start=798659><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=798743><P Class=ENCC> See, you don't know<br>what real motherfucking women do. <SYNC Start=801203><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=801288><P Class=ENCC> Real motherfucking women sacrifice. <SYNC Start=803247><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=803331><P Class=ENCC> I should've aborted your motherfucking ass.<br>'Cause you ain't shit. <SYNC Start=806709><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=806793><P Class=ENCC> I knew it the day the doctors put you<br>in my goddamn hand <SYNC Start=809378><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=809463><P Class=ENCC> you wasn't a goddamn thing, <SYNC Start=810963><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=811047><P Class=ENCC> and you have that smirk<br>on your face, bitch? <SYNC Start=813340><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=813425><P Class=ENCC> Get it off your fucking face! <SYNC Start=815134><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=815218><P Class=ENCC> Now smile about that!<br>Smile about that, you fat bitch. <SYNC Start=818804><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=822392><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna kill you, bitch! <SYNC Start=824518><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=834404><P Class=ENCC> Get off me, bitch! <SYNC Start=836155><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=838408><P Class=ENCC> And "blank" and eggs? <SYNC Start=839825><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=839910><P Class=ENCC> - Bacon?<br>- Right. <SYNC Start=841243><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=841328><P Class=ENCC> - And "What's up, Doc?" He eats these.<br>- Carrots. <SYNC Start=843871><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=843955><P Class=ENCC> - Right. And ice, it comes in a tray.<br>- Ice cubes. <SYNC Start=847333><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=847417><P Class=ENCC> Right. And the best part of the steak. The... <SYNC Start=850336><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=850420><P Class=ENCC> - The T-bone. The...<br>- No. <SYNC Start=851879><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=851963><P Class=ENCC> - Filet mignon.<br>- Right! <SYNC Start=853297><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=853381><P Class=ENCC> - And an English... Thomas' English...<br>- Muffin! <SYNC Start=856842><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=856927><P Class=ENCC> - Right.<br>- That's it! <SYNC Start=858719><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=867354><P Class=ENCC> You really need to get some rest. <SYNC Start=869813><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=869898><P Class=ENCC> You have such a big day<br>ahead of you tomorrow. <SYNC Start=872691><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=872776><P Class=ENCC> And remember, Mommy loves you. <SYNC Start=875945><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=879282><P Class=ENCC> Describe these things that are planned.<br>Things that are planned. Ready? Go! <SYNC Start=884620><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=887791><P Class=ENCC> Precious, you know I love you. <SYNC Start=890918><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=891002><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna kick that white lady<br>out of my house, <SYNC Start=894004><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=894089><P Class=ENCC> move you in with me. <SYNC Start=895923><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=896007><P Class=ENCC> Wanna live in Westchester? <SYNC Start=898133><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=899970><P Class=ENCC> - Commit a...<br>- Crime. <SYNC Start=901303><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=901388><P Class=ENCC> And this is you get back together again. <SYNC Start=903347><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=903431><P Class=ENCC> - A class...<br>- Reunion. <SYNC Start=904473><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=904558><P Class=ENCC> And this is when you're like this, <SYNC Start=906058><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=906142><P Class=ENCC> - you're expecting...<br>- Pregnant. <SYNC Start=907393><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=907477><P Class=ENCC> - Yeah. And this is you make a fast...<br>- Escape. <SYNC Start=909937><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=910021><P Class=ENCC> - Right.<br>- That's it! <SYNC Start=911772><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=944306><P Class=ENCC> Where you going? <SYNC Start=948267><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=948518><P Class=ENCC> Make sure you play my 852<br>and tell them to box it. <SYNC Start=952521><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=956067><P Class=ENCC> And get some kitty litter. <SYNC Start=958193><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=962574><P Class=ENCC> Ethel, where you at? <SYNC Start=964450><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=968413><P Class=ENCC> Precious, what are we gonna play? <SYNC Start=969622><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=969706><P Class=ENCC> Girl, get the fuck out of here. <SYNC Start=970706><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=970790><P Class=ENCC> Ain't you supposed to be<br>at school or something? <SYNC Start=972249><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=972334><P Class=ENCC> You said we was gonna play. <SYNC Start=973959><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=974044><P Class=ENCC> That's exactly why<br>we ain't gonna be playing. <SYNC Start=976170><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=976254><P Class=ENCC> I never said nothing like that. <SYNC Start=977838><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1039984><P Class=ENCC> You would say some shit like that to me,<br>and you don't even mean it? <SYNC Start=1043696><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1043780><P Class=ENCC> No, I'm not playing with you.<br>No, and she call... Hold on. <SYNC Start=1047950><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1048952><P Class=ENCC> Each One Teach One, hold, please. <SYNC Start=1051412><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1051955><P Class=ENCC> Yes. She called my house.<br>I know it wasn't your sister, Trey. <SYNC Start=1055416><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1056084><P Class=ENCC> Because it wasn't her. <SYNC Start=1058043><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1061756><P Class=ENCC> What this is here? <SYNC Start=1063507><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1064134><P Class=ENCC> Each One Teach One. <SYNC Start=1065467><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1066344><P Class=ENCC> I'm looking for an alternative school. <SYNC Start=1068387><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1068471><P Class=ENCC> This is an alternative. <SYNC Start=1070264><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1070348><P Class=ENCC> What alternative is? <SYNC Start=1072474><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1072559><P Class=ENCC> What exactly are you asking me? <SYNC Start=1075018><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1075103><P Class=ENCC> Lady at my other school<br>told me to come here. <SYNC Start=1077146><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1077230><P Class=ENCC> Hotel Theresa.<br>Said it's an alternative school. <SYNC Start=1080566><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1080650><P Class=ENCC> An alternative school, it's like a choice.<br>It's a different way of doing things. <SYNC Start=1086697><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1086781><P Class=ENCC> So, I need your discharge papers<br>saying that they discharged you. <SYNC Start=1090451><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1090535><P Class=ENCC> I got kicked out of school<br>'cause I was pregnant. <SYNC Start=1093454><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1093538><P Class=ENCC> Well, I still need your discharge papers,<br>otherwise we can't let you in. <SYNC Start=1096415><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1096499><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Lichenstein didn't say all that. <SYNC Start=1098542><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1098626><P Class=ENCC> You the one she called about. <SYNC Start=1100961><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1102756><P Class=ENCC> Claireece P. Jones? <SYNC Start=1104506><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1105008><P Class=ENCC> They already sent over<br>your discharge papers and stuff. <SYNC Start=1108343><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1108428><P Class=ENCC> I could start today? <SYNC Start=1110053><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1110138><P Class=ENCC> Yeah. Are you currently receiving AFDC? <SYNC Start=1113474><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1113558><P Class=ENCC> My mother get AFDC<br>for me and my daughter. <SYNC Start=1116602><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1116686><P Class=ENCC> So your mother has custody of you and<br>your daughter, and you're on her budget? <SYNC Start=1119897><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1119981><P Class=ENCC> Okay, well, I'm gonna need a copy<br>of your mother's budget, <SYNC Start=1122941><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1123026><P Class=ENCC> and a copy of your phone bill<br>and your utility bill. <SYNC Start=1126028><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1126112><P Class=ENCC> We gotta give you a few tests,<br>test your reading and your math level, <SYNC Start=1129406><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1129491><P Class=ENCC> see where to place you. <SYNC Start=1131158><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1131785><P Class=ENCC> Hold on, baby. Each One Teach One, hold. <SYNC Start=1134661><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1135580><P Class=ENCC> To enter into the GED classes,<br>you gotta get an 8.0 or better on the TABE. <SYNC Start=1140125><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1171574><P Class=ENCC> There's always something wrong<br>with these tests. <SYNC Start=1174743><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1176830><P Class=ENCC> These tests paint a picture of me<br>with no brain. <SYNC Start=1178956><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1180250><P Class=ENCC> These tests paint a picture<br>of me and my mother, <SYNC Start=1182334><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1182418><P Class=ENCC> my whole family, as less than dumb. <SYNC Start=1184878><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1184963><P Class=ENCC> Just ugly, black grease to be wiped away,<br>find another job for. <SYNC Start=1189049><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1190802><P Class=ENCC> Sometimes I wish I was dead. <SYNC Start=1193053><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1194722><P Class=ENCC> I'll be okay, I guess, 'cause I'm looking up. <SYNC Start=1198433><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1200645><P Class=ENCC> I'm looking up for a piano to fall. <SYNC Start=1203188><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1203273><P Class=ENCC> Or a desk, couch, TV... Momma, maybe. <SYNC Start=1207234><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1208236><P Class=ENCC> Always something in my way. <SYNC Start=1210445><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1211781><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, man. <SYNC Start=1212781><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1212866><P Class=ENCC> Yo, make sure you get that<br>for me, too, man. <SYNC Start=1215117><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1215201><P Class=ENCC> Alternative. <SYNC Start=1216702><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1216786><P Class=ENCC> Man, you gotta stop smoking<br>them shits, man. <SYNC Start=1218787><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1218872><P Class=ENCC> That ain't the only thing<br>that's gonna fucking kill you. <SYNC Start=1221164><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1221249><P Class=ENCC> Hustling in these streets gonna kill you. <SYNC Start=1223125><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1223918><P Class=ENCC> It is what it is. <SYNC Start=1225168><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1225253><P Class=ENCC> Then my mind come back down to Earth. <SYNC Start=1227337><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1228172><P Class=ENCC> Let me get some of that sweet ass, orca! <SYNC Start=1230966><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1231467><P Class=ENCC> What up, mama? <SYNC Start=1232467><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1232552><P Class=ENCC> Why boys always grabbing on themselves? <SYNC Start=1234595><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1234679><P Class=ENCC> You heard what the fuck I said?<br>I said give me some fucking ass. <SYNC Start=1238515><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1238600><P Class=ENCC> I'm serious!<br>When you gonna let me hit that? <SYNC Start=1241393><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1241477><P Class=ENCC> That bitch is laughing... <SYNC Start=1242519><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1242604><P Class=ENCC> I wish they'd leave me alone. <SYNC Start=1243979><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1244063><P Class=ENCC> - She's stupid.<br>- Yeah. <SYNC Start=1246064><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1248735><P Class=ENCC> Yo, that's not even funny. <SYNC Start=1250611><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1251154><P Class=ENCC> That's what she'd get anyway, no. <SYNC Start=1253488><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1256200><P Class=ENCC> Precious! <SYNC Start=1257492><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1377280><P Class=ENCC> Ma, I need some money! <SYNC Start=1380240><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1384537><P Class=ENCC> Ma, I'm hungry! <SYNC Start=1386163><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1388249><P Class=ENCC> Come take care of Mommy, Precious. <SYNC Start=1390792><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1395840><P Class=ENCC> I wish she'd stop this shit. <SYNC Start=1398091><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1405099><P Class=ENCC> The other day I cried. <SYNC Start=1407100><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1408144><P Class=ENCC> I felt stupid. But you know what? <SYNC Start=1411855><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1412398><P Class=ENCC> Fuck that day. <SYNC Start=1414066><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1415359><P Class=ENCC> That's why God, or whoever,<br>makes new days. <SYNC Start=1419196><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1419947><P Class=ENCC> Still hungry, though. <SYNC Start=1421656><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1427455><P Class=ENCC> Nigger wants me to leave my kids. <SYNC Start=1429831><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1431042><P Class=ENCC> They're my kids. <SYNC Start=1432542><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1435755><P Class=ENCC> - What d'you want, baby?<br>- Give me a basket, please. <SYNC Start=1438590><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1438674><P Class=ENCC> - Sides?<br>- I don't know yet. <SYNC Start=1440509><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1440593><P Class=ENCC> Still thinking about it.<br>Trying to watch my figure. <SYNC Start=1444221><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1448059><P Class=ENCC> Butchie, you got a 10-piece ready? <SYNC Start=1451061><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1472834><P Class=ENCC> Potato salad. <SYNC Start=1474376><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1474877><P Class=ENCC> Thank you. <SYNC Start=1476044><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1482051><P Class=ENCC> Hell, no, she didn't! <SYNC Start=1483885><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1484470><P Class=ENCC> Get her ass! Get that big bitch! <SYNC Start=1486930><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1520423><P Class=ENCC> No, I am not the one. <SYNC Start=1523049><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1589867><P Class=ENCC> You in ABE? <SYNC Start=1591326><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1593371><P Class=ENCC> Yeah. <SYNC Start=1594496><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1596165><P Class=ENCC> Time's a-wasting. <SYNC Start=1597874><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1621190><P Class=ENCC> What's your name? <SYNC Start=1622899><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1623734><P Class=ENCC> Claireece. <SYNC Start=1625193><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1626404><P Class=ENCC> Are you coming in? <SYNC Start=1628154><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1634578><P Class=ENCC> That door closes in 20 seconds. <SYNC Start=1637038><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1642420><P Class=ENCC> How are you guys doing today? <SYNC Start=1644713><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1646215><P Class=ENCC> Would you like to join us, Consuelo? <SYNC Start=1648800><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1649927><P Class=ENCC> Consuelo, class is beginning. <SYNC Start=1652470><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1655599><P Class=ENCC> You guys know<br>that you are in the ABE class. <SYNC Start=1658768><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1659270><P Class=ENCC> This is not GED.<br>This is to get you ready for your GED. <SYNC Start=1662772><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1683919><P Class=ENCC> These journals are very important<br>to this class, so do not forget them. <SYNC Start=1687380><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1687465><P Class=ENCC> You will need to use them every day<br>that you are here. <SYNC Start=1689841><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1689925><P Class=ENCC> They are the key to this class. <SYNC Start=1691384><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1691469><P Class=ENCC> It's 9:07, Joann. You're late. <SYNC Start=1692802><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1692887><P Class=ENCC> You're the one who said breakfast is<br>the most important meal of the day. <SYNC Start=1695513><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1695598><P Class=ENCC> Tomorrow, that door will be locked at 9:00. <SYNC Start=1698558><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1701729><P Class=ENCC> I want you to state your name,<br>where you were born, <SYNC Start=1705523><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1705608><P Class=ENCC> your favorite color, something you do well<br>and why you're here. <SYNC Start=1710278><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1711489><P Class=ENCC> I'll go first. <SYNC Start=1713156><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1713240><P Class=ENCC> When you due? <SYNC Start=1714783><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1715659><P Class=ENCC> - My name...<br>- What you mean, you don't know? <SYNC Start=1717827><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1717912><P Class=ENCC> ...is Blu Rain. <SYNC Start=1719579><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1719663><P Class=ENCC> - That's your real name?<br>- Yes, it is. <SYNC Start=1721915><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1721999><P Class=ENCC> Your first name's Blu? <SYNC Start=1724459><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1727671><P Class=ENCC> My favorite color is purple. I sing well. <SYNC Start=1731966><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1733219><P Class=ENCC> And I'm here <SYNC Start=1734886><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1737723><P Class=ENCC> because I love to teach. <SYNC Start=1739808><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1739892><P Class=ENCC> She like to sing. <SYNC Start=1741351><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1741435><P Class=ENCC> Rhonda? <SYNC Start=1742894><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1742978><P Class=ENCC> I wish I could sing.<br>Go to church and sing in the choir. <SYNC Start=1746981><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1747858><P Class=ENCC> Show them how it's done. <SYNC Start=1749234><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1749318><P Class=ENCC> All right.<br>My name is Rhonda Patrice Johnson. <SYNC Start=1754030><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1755908><P Class=ENCC> Problem? <SYNC Start=1757242><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1758619><P Class=ENCC> - I should smack her.<br>- What? <SYNC Start=1760537><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1760621><P Class=ENCC> I was born in Kingston, Jamaica,<br>and my favorite color is blue. <SYNC Start=1766167><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1766669><P Class=ENCC> And I cook good. <SYNC Start=1768253><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1768337><P Class=ENCC> My mother, she used to have a restaurant<br>over on 7th Avenue. <SYNC Start=1770964><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1771048><P Class=ENCC> Before she get sick,<br>she teach me everything. <SYNC Start=1773633><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1773717><P Class=ENCC> So I'm here to get my reading up,<br>so I can get my GED. <SYNC Start=1777554><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1782768><P Class=ENCC> My name is Rita Romero.<br>I was born here in Harlem. <SYNC Start=1786354><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1787773><P Class=ENCC> I'm here 'cause I was an addict<br>and I dropped out of school. <SYNC Start=1791693><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1792528><P Class=ENCC> So I never got<br>my reading and writing together. <SYNC Start=1795655><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1796198><P Class=ENCC> My favorite color's black. <SYNC Start=1797991><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1798075><P Class=ENCC> What do you do good? <SYNC Start=1799451><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1799535><P Class=ENCC> "Well," Joann. "What do you do well?" <SYNC Start=1802287><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1802371><P Class=ENCC> - What do I do well?<br>- No. Rita? <SYNC Start=1805290><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1805916><P Class=ENCC> I'm a good mother. Very good mother. <SYNC Start=1808626><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1812047><P Class=ENCC> My name's Jermaine.<br>My favorite color is red. <SYNC Start=1815091><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1815176><P Class=ENCC> Tell us where you were born first. <SYNC Start=1817302><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1817386><P Class=ENCC> I was born in the Bronx. Still live there. <SYNC Start=1820555><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1820639><P Class=ENCC> My favorite color is red. Used to be blue. <SYNC Start=1824559><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1825936><P Class=ENCC> I can dance real good. <SYNC Start=1828146><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1828230><P Class=ENCC> Homie of mine told me<br>about Each One Teach One, <SYNC Start=1830440><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1830524><P Class=ENCC> so I came here to stay out of trouble. <SYNC Start=1833276><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1833360><P Class=ENCC> So you came here to Harlem<br>to stay out of trouble? Is that right? <SYNC Start=1836154><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1836238><P Class=ENCC> Yeah. <SYNC Start=1837614><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1837698><P Class=ENCC> - Consuelo?<br>- This is bullshit. <SYNC Start=1840366><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1840451><P Class=ENCC> You think so? <SYNC Start=1841993><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1846749><P Class=ENCC> Claireece? <SYNC Start=1848124><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1850753><P Class=ENCC> Can I skip, too? <SYNC Start=1852420><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1854423><P Class=ENCC> Joann? <SYNC Start=1855882><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1855966><P Class=ENCC> Okay. I'm Joann. Hey. <SYNC Start=1859427><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1862056><P Class=ENCC> My favorite color is fluorescent beige <SYNC Start=1864265><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1864350><P Class=ENCC> and my ambition is to have<br>my own record layer. <SYNC Start=1867227><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1867311><P Class=ENCC> What's a record layer? <SYNC Start=1868353><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1868437><P Class=ENCC> Tell us where you come from<br>and why you come to this school. <SYNC Start=1871356><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1871440><P Class=ENCC> I was born in Kings County Hospital, <SYNC Start=1873399><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1873484><P Class=ENCC> but my mother moved us to Harlem<br>when I was nine. <SYNC Start=1875902><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1875986><P Class=ENCC> I'm here to get my GED, and then...<br>Well, I'm already into the music industry. <SYNC Start=1881032><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1881116><P Class=ENCC> I'm just trying to take care of<br>this little education thing so I can move up. <SYNC Start=1884702><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1884787><P Class=ENCC> Let's begin. This is ABE. <SYNC Start=1889832><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1889917><P Class=ENCC> Can I go? <SYNC Start=1891251><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1896840><P Class=ENCC> I wish I could sit<br>in the back of the class again. <SYNC Start=1900134><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1908644><P Class=ENCC> My name Claireece "Precious" Jones. <SYNC Start=1912689><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1913816><P Class=ENCC> I go by Precious. <SYNC Start=1915567><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1917319><P Class=ENCC> I live in Harlem. I like yellow. <SYNC Start=1920697><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1921782><P Class=ENCC> And I had problems at my other school,<br>so I come here. <SYNC Start=1927829><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1930165><P Class=ENCC> Something you do well? <SYNC Start=1932083><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1934587><P Class=ENCC> Nothing. <SYNC Start=1935962><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1936672><P Class=ENCC> Everybody's good at something. <SYNC Start=1939007><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1942052><P Class=ENCC> Come on. <SYNC Start=1943469><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1947057><P Class=ENCC> Well, I can cook. And... <SYNC Start=1950810><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1953272><P Class=ENCC> I never really talked in class before. <SYNC Start=1956065><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1959945><P Class=ENCC> How does that make you feel? <SYNC Start=1962196><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1969580><P Class=ENCC> Here. <SYNC Start=1970747><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1974543><P Class=ENCC> It makes me feel here. <SYNC Start=1976544><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1978964><P Class=ENCC> Everybody open their journal. <SYNC Start=1981007><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1981091><P Class=ENCC> Write the date at the top of the page,<br>and write. <SYNC Start=1985136><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1986680><P Class=ENCC> I don't care if you spell everything wrong. <SYNC Start=1988931><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1989016><P Class=ENCC> I don't care if it's grammatically incorrect.<br>But just write. <SYNC Start=1991142><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1991226><P Class=ENCC> Write anything that you're feeling. <SYNC Start=1992935><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1993020><P Class=ENCC> This class will be a revolving door. <SYNC Start=1995355><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=1995439><P Class=ENCC> Some of you will make it<br>and some of you won't. <SYNC Start=1998608><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2000319><P Class=ENCC> Fifteen minutes. Go. <SYNC Start=2002070><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2004865><P Class=ENCC> Before, I got a A-minus at English,<br>and I didn't have to say nothing. <SYNC Start=2010078><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2011372><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain said we gonna read<br>and write in our notebooks every day. <SYNC Start=2015500><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2015584><P Class=ENCC> How we supposed to do that? <SYNC Start=2017752><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2020422><P Class=ENCC> But then she see the worry on my face<br>and she say, <SYNC Start=2023341><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2023425><P Class=ENCC> "The longest journey<br>begin with a single step." <SYNC Start=2026594><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2028972><P Class=ENCC> Whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. <SYNC Start=2031891><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2033018><P Class=ENCC> Come on, come on, do the work. <SYNC Start=2034519><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2034603><P Class=ENCC> You love it, love it, learn it. <SYNC Start=2038022><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2039066><P Class=ENCC> Consuelo? <SYNC Start=2040483><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2041193><P Class=ENCC> "C" for Consuelo. <SYNC Start=2043111><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2043570><P Class=ENCC> "C" for kick your ass. <SYNC Start=2045321><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2045406><P Class=ENCC> It's "K" for kick your ass, stupid. <SYNC Start=2047740><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2047825><P Class=ENCC> I got the "D," Ms. Rain. <SYNC Start=2049826><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2054164><P Class=ENCC> "D" for dick. <SYNC Start=2055665><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2056500><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain, tell this little-ass bitch<br>that she don't know me. <SYNC Start=2058626><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2058711><P Class=ENCC> Which you wish you had. <SYNC Start=2060670><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2068762><P Class=ENCC> - Help her.<br>- "E." <SYNC Start=2070096><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2070180><P Class=ENCC> "E." <SYNC Start=2074809><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2101336><P Class=ENCC> "F" for fat. <SYNC Start=2102879><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2104339><P Class=ENCC> What? <SYNC Start=2105548><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2106008><P Class=ENCC> Good. <SYNC Start=2107175><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2110763><P Class=ENCC> Hey! Hey! Hey! Quit it! Hey! <SYNC Start=2113848><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2114975><P Class=ENCC> - What?<br>- Hey, you stop it right now! <SYNC Start=2116851><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2116935><P Class=ENCC> - You fucking...<br>- Quit it! <SYNC Start=2118478><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2118562><P Class=ENCC> - She just hit me!<br>- Drop it! <SYNC Start=2119687><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2119772><P Class=ENCC> Shut the fuck up! <SYNC Start=2120897><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2122149><P Class=ENCC> She just slapped me! <SYNC Start=2123232><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2123317><P Class=ENCC> Get out. <SYNC Start=2124650><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2125360><P Class=ENCC> We don't fight in my class. Sit down. <SYNC Start=2127987><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2132868><P Class=ENCC> "C" for cold. <SYNC Start=2134702><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2144254><P Class=ENCC> Do you live with anybody? <SYNC Start=2146255><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2147591><P Class=ENCC> My mother. <SYNC Start=2149008><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2149718><P Class=ENCC> What does she do? <SYNC Start=2151385><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2153555><P Class=ENCC> She don't do nothing. <SYNC Start=2155431><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2159019><P Class=ENCC> I want you to read a page from this book. <SYNC Start=2161896><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2170155><P Class=ENCC> Try. <SYNC Start=2171322><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2173075><P Class=ENCC> All I need you to do is sound out<br>these words for me. <SYNC Start=2176911><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2176995><P Class=ENCC> You don't have to know every word. <SYNC Start=2178538><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2178622><P Class=ENCC> You just have to... It doesn't matter<br>if you stumble or... Try for me... <SYNC Start=2182333><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2182417><P Class=ENCC> ...or trip up on it.<br>You just need to say what you know. <SYNC Start=2186546><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2186630><P Class=ENCC> Come on. You can do this.<br>Try. Take it word by word. <SYNC Start=2190258><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2191301><P Class=ENCC> - Are you listening to me?<br>- Precious! <SYNC Start=2192927><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2193011><P Class=ENCC> I just wanna know where you are<br>in your reading skills. <SYNC Start=2196013><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2196098><P Class=ENCC> 'Cause I'm looking at your test scores... <SYNC Start=2197390><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2197474><P Class=ENCC> Some higher fucking learning.<br>You're a dumb bitch! <SYNC Start=2199976><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2200060><P Class=ENCC> Try to read, okay? <SYNC Start=2201686><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2201770><P Class=ENCC> Just help me and then I can help you. <SYNC Start=2204105><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2204690><P Class=ENCC> We'll start from scratch. Word for word. <SYNC Start=2206607><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2206692><P Class=ENCC> I want you better than your mother. <SYNC Start=2209235><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2210279><P Class=ENCC> - I'm gonna call the nurse.<br>- No. <SYNC Start=2212697><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2217744><P Class=ENCC> It all look the same to me. <SYNC Start=2220121><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2223792><P Class=ENCC> What's this? <SYNC Start=2225376><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2227754><P Class=ENCC> I can't do that, Ms. Rain. <SYNC Start=2230131><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2231174><P Class=ENCC> Push yourself. <SYNC Start=2232842><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2235429><P Class=ENCC> A. <SYNC Start=2236637><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2238473><P Class=ENCC> What's this word? <SYNC Start=2239891><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2245105><P Class=ENCC> Do you know the letters? Come on. <SYNC Start=2247940><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2249526><P Class=ENCC> "D." <SYNC Start=2250651><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2253906><P Class=ENCC> "A." <SYNC Start=2255281><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2256867><P Class=ENCC> "Y." <SYNC Start=2258242><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2258994><P Class=ENCC> Do you know that word? <SYNC Start=2260995><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2263498><P Class=ENCC> "Day." <SYNC Start=2264707><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2266835><P Class=ENCC> What word is that? <SYNC Start=2268628><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2270672><P Class=ENCC> Ate. Ate. <SYNC Start=2272506><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2272591><P Class=ENCC> Good. Almost. The word is "At." <SYNC Start=2275009><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2276845><P Class=ENCC> "At." <SYNC Start=2278054><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2280682><P Class=ENCC> "The." <SYNC Start=2281933><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2284645><P Class=ENCC> Sound it out. <SYNC Start=2285728><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2285812><P Class=ENCC> "Beach." <SYNC Start=2287313><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2287397><P Class=ENCC> The word is "Shore."<br>It's almost like "Beach." <SYNC Start=2290524><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2291234><P Class=ENCC> Very good. <SYNC Start=2292693><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2293320><P Class=ENCC> Now, read the whole thing for me. <SYNC Start=2295863><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2297866><P Class=ENCC> "A <SYNC Start=2299033><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2300577><P Class=ENCC> "Day <SYNC Start=2301994><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2304581><P Class=ENCC> "At The <SYNC Start=2306749><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2307793><P Class=ENCC> "Shore." <SYNC Start=2309210><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2316969><P Class=ENCC> Get your big ass in here. <SYNC Start=2319053><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2331733><P Class=ENCC> Where was you at this morning? <SYNC Start=2334026><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2340701><P Class=ENCC> You hear me talking to you?<br>Where was you at this morning? <SYNC Start=2343202><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2343286><P Class=ENCC> School. I was at school. <SYNC Start=2345663><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2345747><P Class=ENCC> You a lying whore. <SYNC Start=2347164><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2347249><P Class=ENCC> - I'm not lying.<br>- You is. <SYNC Start=2349250><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2349835><P Class=ENCC> The welfare done called here saying<br>they gonna remove you from my budget <SYNC Start=2352336><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2352421><P Class=ENCC> 'cause you ain't been<br>attending school regularly. <SYNC Start=2354296><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2354381><P Class=ENCC> I told you I got kicked out. <SYNC Start=2356090><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2356174><P Class=ENCC> I been home nearly every day<br>for two weeks now. <SYNC Start=2358217><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2358301><P Class=ENCC> You ain't told me nothing<br>about no damn school today. <SYNC Start=2361679><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2361763><P Class=ENCC> I told you I was going<br>to school this morning. <SYNC Start=2364765><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2366435><P Class=ENCC> You plan on putting some food<br>in that frying pan? <SYNC Start=2369645><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2375152><P Class=ENCC> Precious, you got something<br>you wanna say? <SYNC Start=2377486><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2377571><P Class=ENCC> - No.<br>- Then don't be slamming shit down in here. <SYNC Start=2379697><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2379781><P Class=ENCC> You understand? <SYNC Start=2381365><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2382284><P Class=ENCC> Yes, ma'am. <SYNC Start=2383743><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2385454><P Class=ENCC> You need to forget about that school shit<br>and take your ass down to the welfare. <SYNC Start=2388873><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2388957><P Class=ENCC> I'm getting a stipend from school. <SYNC Start=2390791><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2390876><P Class=ENCC> Fool, what the fuck is a stipend?<br>What is that? <SYNC Start=2393085><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2393170><P Class=ENCC> Fuck a stipend.<br>I said take your ass down to the welfare. <SYNC Start=2396756><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2396840><P Class=ENCC> Right now? <SYNC Start=2397965><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2398050><P Class=ENCC> Why in the fuck would you go right now?<br>It's at night time. Shit is closed. <SYNC Start=2401719><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2401803><P Class=ENCC> You gotta be there by 7:00 a.m. <SYNC Start=2403054><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2403138><P Class=ENCC> in the morning<br>if you wanna talk to somebody. <SYNC Start=2405723><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2405807><P Class=ENCC> Fucking stupid. <SYNC Start=2407433><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2411104><P Class=ENCC> You think you're too good now?<br>Is that what it is? <SYNC Start=2414774><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2415567><P Class=ENCC> You think you is too good for the welfare? <SYNC Start=2418486><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2421740><P Class=ENCC> There's more white folk getting assistance<br>than it is niggers, Ms. Onassis. <SYNC Start=2426118><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2427954><P Class=ENCC> I think I said therapy... <SYNC Start=2429538><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2429623><P Class=ENCC> Hurry your ass up.<br>I am in here fucking starving. <SYNC Start=2433375><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2434127><P Class=ENCC> Now what you gonna do<br>if I die of starvation? <SYNC Start=2435753><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2435837><P Class=ENCC> Where you gonna go after that? <SYNC Start=2438005><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2439174><P Class=ENCC> I forgot. School. <SYNC Start=2441133><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2442594><P Class=ENCC> Each... What that bitch say?<br>Each one do what? <SYNC Start=2445429><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2445514><P Class=ENCC> Each one teach one? <SYNC Start=2447598><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2447682><P Class=ENCC> Well, they don't know<br>who the fuck they teaching, <SYNC Start=2449141><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2449226><P Class=ENCC> 'cause you can't learn shit. <SYNC Start=2451393><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2451937><P Class=ENCC> Keep on listening to them white people. <SYNC Start=2454814><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2454898><P Class=ENCC> That's what's gonna get you fucked up. <SYNC Start=2457566><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2460112><P Class=ENCC> Precious, I'm hungry. <SYNC Start=2462404><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2488390><P Class=ENCC> You ain't cooked no collard greens<br>with the fucking pigs' feet? <SYNC Start=2492226><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2492727><P Class=ENCC> Like, how am I supposed to eat pigs' feet<br>with no collard greens? <SYNC Start=2495729><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2495814><P Class=ENCC> And why in the fuck does that pigs' feet<br>have so much hair in it? <SYNC Start=2499650><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2499734><P Class=ENCC> You eat it. You come eat this shit. <SYNC Start=2503028><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2503113><P Class=ENCC> - I'm not hungry, though.<br>- Yes, you is. <SYNC Start=2505406><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2505490><P Class=ENCC> Precious, if you don't get<br>this goddamn plate... <SYNC Start=2508659><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2514082><P Class=ENCC> You just fix mine when you get done.<br>Since you fucked it up, you gonna eat it up. <SYNC Start=2518586><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2519087><P Class=ENCC> Hurry up and eat, Precious.<br>I'm fucking hungry, too. <SYNC Start=2522006><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2524092><P Class=ENCC> And don't let it get cold,<br>'cause cold-ass pigs' feet is nasty as shit. <SYNC Start=2528470><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2657142><P Class=ENCC> So, tell me about...<br>Tell me about your home life. <SYNC Start=2660352><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2663398><P Class=ENCC> Ain't nothing to really talk about. <SYNC Start=2665899><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2666401><P Class=ENCC> You're in a safe place. Just talk. <SYNC Start=2668902><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2669237><P Class=ENCC> What's going on? <SYNC Start=2670237><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2670322><P Class=ENCC> What's the first thing<br>that comes to your mind <SYNC Start=2671655><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2671740><P Class=ENCC> when you think about home? <SYNC Start=2673866><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2673950><P Class=ENCC> I just wish I had my own TV,<br>so I could watch it in my room. <SYNC Start=2677661><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2678413><P Class=ENCC> If I had my own TV,<br>I wouldn't have to watch it with my mother. <SYNC Start=2681957><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2682042><P Class=ENCC> And what's it like,<br>watching TV with your mother? <SYNC Start=2684835><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2684919><P Class=ENCC> You enjoy watching TV with your mother? <SYNC Start=2687671><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2687756><P Class=ENCC> I need to know about your home life.<br>I need to know what it's like where you live. <SYNC Start=2692760><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2693762><P Class=ENCC> My mother's like a whale on the couch. <SYNC Start=2695888><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2695972><P Class=ENCC> She say I eat all the time,<br>but she always making me eat. <SYNC Start=2699975><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2700060><P Class=ENCC> Then she call me a fat mess. <SYNC Start=2702269><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2702354><P Class=ENCC> She say the apartment<br>is little 'cause of me. <SYNC Start=2705481><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2705565><P Class=ENCC> Only time she ever leaves<br>is to play her numbers. <SYNC Start=2708359><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2708443><P Class=ENCC> I feel like I could just sit in the house<br>with her every day, <SYNC Start=2711362><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2711446><P Class=ENCC> the shades drawn, <SYNC Start=2712863><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2712947><P Class=ENCC> watch TV, eat, watch TV, eat again. <SYNC Start=2717159><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2718036><P Class=ENCC> Can you help out with that? <SYNC Start=2720287><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2721498><P Class=ENCC> Can we talk about something else now? <SYNC Start=2724166><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2730465><P Class=ENCC> How about your firstborn? <SYNC Start=2732383><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2732467><P Class=ENCC> Mongo? <SYNC Start=2733801><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2735637><P Class=ENCC> Mongo is her... Is that... <SYNC Start=2737721><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2738390><P Class=ENCC> Mongo. That's short for "mongoloid." <SYNC Start=2741058><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2741935><P Class=ENCC> Is that what you call her? Or that's...<br>What is that? A nickname? <SYNC Start=2746271><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2746981><P Class=ENCC> She got Down's syndrome. <SYNC Start=2748899><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2757117><P Class=ENCC> How you doing, Precious? <SYNC Start=2758075><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2758159><P Class=ENCC> My grandmother Toosie<br>bring little Mongo over to our house <SYNC Start=2760744><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2760829><P Class=ENCC> on days when the social worker come,<br>so it look like she live with us. <SYNC Start=2765165><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2766668><P Class=ENCC> Answer the fucking door. <SYNC Start=2768710><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2770380><P Class=ENCC> Do you see what you did? God damn it. <SYNC Start=2772631><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2772715><P Class=ENCC> Then my mother gets money<br>and the food stamps for me and Mongo. <SYNC Start=2776009><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2776094><P Class=ENCC> Who is it? <SYNC Start=2777511><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2778096><P Class=ENCC> It's Ms. Turner. <SYNC Start=2779721><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2780765><P Class=ENCC> Social worker's here. <SYNC Start=2781807><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2781891><P Class=ENCC> Why didn't you tell me that bitch<br>was coming so fucking early? <SYNC Start=2785602><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2785687><P Class=ENCC> My fucking wig. Come get my wig! <SYNC Start=2788355><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2788440><P Class=ENCC> Come up! <SYNC Start=2789773><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2794529><P Class=ENCC> Where's my lipstick? <SYNC Start=2796363><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2800118><P Class=ENCC> Thank you, thank you. <SYNC Start=2802744><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2812672><P Class=ENCC> - Get off of me.<br>- Leave that child alone, please. <SYNC Start=2815924><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2816009><P Class=ENCC> Mind your goddamn business. <SYNC Start=2818218><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2820096><P Class=ENCC> - Hi, Precious.<br>- Hey. <SYNC Start=2822097><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2822515><P Class=ENCC> - Hello, Ms. Turner. How you doing?<br>- Hi, Mary. How are you? <SYNC Start=2825309><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2825393><P Class=ENCC> Please excuse that.<br>My sweet grandbaby just knocked it over. <SYNC Start=2828645><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2828730><P Class=ENCC> Please, have a seat. Excuse the mess. <SYNC Start=2831023><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2831107><P Class=ENCC> - Thank you.<br>- Thanks. <SYNC Start=2832649><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2832734><P Class=ENCC> How are you, Mary? <SYNC Start=2833984><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2834068><P Class=ENCC> I'm doing really good, Ms. Turner.<br>Thank you. <SYNC Start=2837070><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2837906><P Class=ENCC> When was the last time<br>you've taken her to the doctor? <SYNC Start=2840449><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2841576><P Class=ENCC> Precious, when...<br>When did we take her? The baby? <SYNC Start=2843911><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2843995><P Class=ENCC> Last month. <SYNC Start=2845037><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2845121><P Class=ENCC> Yeah... On the 1 6th.<br>On the 1 6th. Yes, yes, ma'am. <SYNC Start=2848540><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2849125><P Class=ENCC> Okay, and what did the doctor say? <SYNC Start=2851710><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2854297><P Class=ENCC> They said<br>that she's progressing really good. <SYNC Start=2857257><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2857342><P Class=ENCC> She's doing really good. <SYNC Start=2859134><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2859219><P Class=ENCC> - That's good.<br>- Yes, ma'am. <SYNC Start=2861386><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2861471><P Class=ENCC> And have you been looking for a job? <SYNC Start=2863222><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2863306><P Class=ENCC> I have, Ms. Turner. I am.<br>But they've all been saying the same thing. <SYNC Start=2867601><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2867685><P Class=ENCC> You know, they'll call me back.<br>They'll get back to me. <SYNC Start=2871188><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2873566><P Class=ENCC> When did you go looking for the job? <SYNC Start=2875692><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2875777><P Class=ENCC> I went last week<br>and I filled out several applications. <SYNC Start=2879947><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2880031><P Class=ENCC> And they all said the same thing,<br>that they would call me. <SYNC Start=2883742><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2885828><P Class=ENCC> Mommy! <SYNC Start=2887120><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2887497><P Class=ENCC> No! No! <SYNC Start=2889998><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2891292><P Class=ENCC> Is that a new microwave oven? <SYNC Start=2893544><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2893962><P Class=ENCC> A... A microwave? <SYNC Start=2895921><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2896965><P Class=ENCC> No, ma'am.<br>We warm our things up in the oven. <SYNC Start=2900634><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2901970><P Class=ENCC> - I see. It's a toaster oven.<br>- Yes. Yes, ma'am. <SYNC Start=2904429><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2904514><P Class=ENCC> Okay.<br>I will be seeing and speaking with you <SYNC Start=2908809><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2910103><P Class=ENCC> in a week or so. <SYNC Start=2911103><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2911187><P Class=ENCC> - In a week or so?<br>- Yes. <SYNC Start=2912229><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2912313><P Class=ENCC> Okay, do you know what time you'll be...<br>You'll be coming? <SYNC Start=2915816><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2915900><P Class=ENCC> - I'll let you know.<br>- Okay. <SYNC Start=2917150><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2917235><P Class=ENCC> - I'll let you know.<br>- Thank you so much. <SYNC Start=2918610><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2918695><P Class=ENCC> Precious, any questions for me? <SYNC Start=2921488><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2923866><P Class=ENCC> How are you, Precious? <SYNC Start=2925659><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2925743><P Class=ENCC> I'm doing good. How you doing? <SYNC Start=2928829><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2929581><P Class=ENCC> I'm good, thank you. <SYNC Start=2931582><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2932709><P Class=ENCC> Ladies, thank you for your time. <SYNC Start=2934751><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2934836><P Class=ENCC> Thank you so much, Ms. Turner.<br>Have a great day. <SYNC Start=2936753><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2936838><P Class=ENCC> - And you. Bye, Sheila.<br>- Bye. <SYNC Start=2939006><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2944095><P Class=ENCC> Come get this motherfucking... Get her. <SYNC Start=2946555><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2946639><P Class=ENCC> Moving all around and shit<br>while I'm trying to talk to this bitch. <SYNC Start=2949516><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2949601><P Class=ENCC> Makes me fucking itch. <SYNC Start=2951518><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2952770><P Class=ENCC> She done threw her fucking candy<br>on the floor. <SYNC Start=2955564><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2955648><P Class=ENCC> Goddamn animal. <SYNC Start=2957190><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2958818><P Class=ENCC> And now you gonna give it to her?<br>Put the fucking candy back on the floor! <SYNC Start=2961945><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2962030><P Class=ENCC> Then you go and pick it up<br>and let her have it. <SYNC Start=2963572><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2963656><P Class=ENCC> You're so fucking stupid.<br>Just like her dumb ass. <SYNC Start=2966867><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2966951><P Class=ENCC> That bitch gonna come up in here<br>and I gotta fucking make pretend? <SYNC Start=2970662><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2970747><P Class=ENCC> I'm so sick of it. <SYNC Start=2972080><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2972165><P Class=ENCC> I don't know what the fuck<br>you shaking your head for. <SYNC Start=2974625><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2974709><P Class=ENCC> You didn't do no goddamn better. <SYNC Start=2976168><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2976252><P Class=ENCC> You know what?<br>Let's talk about your father. <SYNC Start=2978337><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2978421><P Class=ENCC> Tell me about your relationship with him. <SYNC Start=2980881><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2980965><P Class=ENCC> I don't know much more<br>than you do, Ms. White. <SYNC Start=2983425><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2983509><P Class=ENCC> It's Ms. Weiss. <SYNC Start=2985177><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2985261><P Class=ENCC> Talk to me about<br>the little you do know about your father, <SYNC Start=2987929><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2988014><P Class=ENCC> 'cause it is important,<br>whether you know it or not. <SYNC Start=2991266><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2992060><P Class=ENCC> He give me this baby<br>and my one before it, but l... <SYNC Start=2994645><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2994729><P Class=ENCC> What did you say he gave you? <SYNC Start=2997314><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2997398><P Class=ENCC> - Nothing.<br>- No, Claireece, you just said <SYNC Start=2998815><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=2998900><P Class=ENCC> your father gave you something. <SYNC Start=3000067><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3000151><P Class=ENCC> - I heard you just say...<br>- You didn't hear shit. <SYNC Start=3002152><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3002236><P Class=ENCC> - I heard you say your father...<br>- I ain't say nothing. I ain't say shit like it. <SYNC Start=3005030><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3005114><P Class=ENCC> - I don't care, honey.<br>- I didn't say nothing like that. <SYNC Start=3006948><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3007033><P Class=ENCC> - I need to know this.<br>- Let's move on. <SYNC Start=3008617><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3008701><P Class=ENCC> I need to know this to help you. <SYNC Start=3010077><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3010161><P Class=ENCC> - Bitch, can we change the subject?<br>- Okay. <SYNC Start=3013163><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3013247><P Class=ENCC> Well, I'll see you next time, then.<br>Or maybe you'll see someone else. <SYNC Start=3016416><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3016501><P Class=ENCC> But you're gonna have to talk to somebody<br>if you want your check, sweetie. <SYNC Start=3021088><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3031307><P Class=ENCC> I see vampires, too. <SYNC Start=3033350><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3036187><P Class=ENCC> They come at night.<br>They tell me I'm one of them. <SYNC Start=3039523><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3040900><P Class=ENCC> They say, "Precious, you belong with us." <SYNC Start=3044027><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3046447><P Class=ENCC> And then they go downstairs<br>through the floor. <SYNC Start=3048949><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3049033><P Class=ENCC> The people that live under us,<br>they is vampires, <SYNC Start=3051868><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3051953><P Class=ENCC> so that's where they should go. <SYNC Start=3054287><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3054831><P Class=ENCC> They be so nasty, though, <SYNC Start=3056998><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3057083><P Class=ENCC> leaving their dirty tampons and shit<br>in the garbage. <SYNC Start=3059459><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3059544><P Class=ENCC> Don't even offer to take it out. <SYNC Start=3061962><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3062046><P Class=ENCC> They got no fucking home training. <SYNC Start=3064589><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3067635><P Class=ENCC> I been going to the doctor, too. It's nice. <SYNC Start=3071388><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3072807><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain fall out when she found out<br>I ain't never been to no doctor before. <SYNC Start=3077144><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3080314><P Class=ENCC> Don't know how I had my first baby<br>on the kitchen floor <SYNC Start=3082691><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3082775><P Class=ENCC> with my momma kicking me<br>upside my head. <SYNC Start=3085694><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3088364><P Class=ENCC> Them the kind of things<br>you're talking about <SYNC Start=3089740><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3089824><P Class=ENCC> when you say,<br>say whatever come to my mind? <SYNC Start=3092659><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3097206><P Class=ENCC> That's the end of them welfare checks. <SYNC Start=3099958><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3100042><P Class=ENCC> I just couldn't lie no more.<br>I shouldn't have said none of that. <SYNC Start=3104087><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3107633><P Class=ENCC> Momma gonna kill me. <SYNC Start=3109426><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3118269><P Class=ENCC> Motherfuckers! <SYNC Start=3119853><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3123483><P Class=ENCC> Are we done? <SYNC Start=3125108><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3125193><P Class=ENCC> I'm not doing this with you today. <SYNC Start=3126943><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3127028><P Class=ENCC> At night, we went out on a field trip. <SYNC Start=3129696><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3134869><P Class=ENCC> These girls is crazy. <SYNC Start=3136787><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3137205><P Class=ENCC> Ain't nobody ever grabbed my hand<br>like that before. <SYNC Start=3140540><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3157266><P Class=ENCC> ...as a candidate<br>for the Democratic nomination <SYNC Start=3159726><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3159811><P Class=ENCC> for the presidency<br>of the United States of America. <SYNC Start=3162813><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3163481><P Class=ENCC> ...and by having destroyed it,<br>now we don't know... <SYNC Start=3167234><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3169612><P Class=ENCC> ...and the testimony you're about to give<br>will be the truth, the whole truth... <SYNC Start=3174574><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3174659><P Class=ENCC> I still have a dream. <SYNC Start=3176535><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3178371><P Class=ENCC> It is a dream deeply rooted<br>in the American dream. <SYNC Start=3181998><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3183251><P Class=ENCC> I have a dream that one day <SYNC Start=3187003><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3188506><P Class=ENCC> this nation will rise up<br>and live out the true meaning of... <SYNC Start=3193677><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3193761><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna teach my baby all of this. <SYNC Start=3195887><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3195972><P Class=ENCC> "We hold these truths to be self-evident, <SYNC Start=3199015><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3199100><P Class=ENCC> "that all men are created equal." <SYNC Start=3201184><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3201269><P Class=ENCC> No fear. That's bullshit. That's bullshit. <SYNC Start=3203520><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3203604><P Class=ENCC> You mean, write a whole new one? <SYNC Start=3204688><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3204772><P Class=ENCC> No, girl, if I need to explain myself to you... <SYNC Start=3207649><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3207733><P Class=ENCC> - You'll figure it out.<br>- You think that I'm stupid? <SYNC Start=3209484><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3209569><P Class=ENCC> Oh, my God. That I believe in you? <SYNC Start=3212612><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3214615><P Class=ENCC> That I think you're incredible? <SYNC Start=3216157><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3216242><P Class=ENCC> Yes, but I don't know what to do. <SYNC Start=3217951><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3218035><P Class=ENCC> All right, pull it together. Okay.<br>Who's next? <SYNC Start=3221079><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3222039><P Class=ENCC> I'm happy to be writing. <SYNC Start=3223373><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3223457><P Class=ENCC> - Go ahead, Rhonda.<br>- I'm happy to be in school, too. <SYNC Start=3226459><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3226544><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain say we gonna write<br>every day in our notebook. <SYNC Start=3229880><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3229964><P Class=ENCC> She gonna write back to us every day, too. <SYNC Start=3231923><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3232008><P Class=ENCC> "Yesterday I went to church for<br>the first time since I come to this country. <SYNC Start=3235802><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3235887><P Class=ENCC> "l got all the way to Brooklyn. <SYNC Start=3237178><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3237263><P Class=ENCC> "The church was up the block and around<br>the corner upon the 3 train. <SYNC Start=3240056><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3240141><P Class=ENCC> "The preacher preached<br>two and a half hours <SYNC Start=3241808><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3241893><P Class=ENCC> - "about Jehovah.<br>- Rhonda! Rhonda! <SYNC Start=3244394><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3244478><P Class=ENCC> "And how Lord Jesus, Son of God, Messiah,<br>Jehovah delivers." <SYNC Start=3247898><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3247982><P Class=ENCC> Is that a fairytale? <SYNC Start=3249983><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3251527><P Class=ENCC> Sit down. <SYNC Start=3252861><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3252945><P Class=ENCC> Did anybody do this assignment? <SYNC Start=3254237><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3254322><P Class=ENCC> Momma say this school ain't shit. <SYNC Start=3256823><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3256908><P Class=ENCC> She say you can't learn nothing<br>writing in no book. <SYNC Start=3259367><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3259452><P Class=ENCC> - This is a fairytale called "Enchanted."<br>- She wrong about that. I is learning. <SYNC Start=3264664><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3267418><P Class=ENCC> "Once upon a time, in a faraway land, <SYNC Start=3270879><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3271297><P Class=ENCC> "there lived a beautiful princess<br>named Joann-a. <SYNC Start=3275425><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3276010><P Class=ENCC> "She was very, very fly and extra, extra tall, <SYNC Start=3280305><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3280890><P Class=ENCC> "and every single boy loved her,<br>big and small. <SYNC Start=3284392><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3285186><P Class=ENCC> "Except for one idiot boy<br>who was so stupid and dumb. <SYNC Start=3289272><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3289357><P Class=ENCC> "And out of all the cute boys who loved her,<br>he was the cutest one." <SYNC Start=3293568><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3294695><P Class=ENCC> - That's all I got so far.<br>- That's a good beginning. <SYNC Start=3297989><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3298074><P Class=ENCC> Thinking about little Mongo, too. I miss her. <SYNC Start=3301618><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3301994><P Class=ENCC> That's how you start a fairytale. <SYNC Start=3303453><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3303537><P Class=ENCC> I'm happy my baby coming up. <SYNC Start=3305830><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3306958><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna read to this baby, too,<br>and hang colors on its wall. <SYNC Start=3310794><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3311712><P Class=ENCC> Listen, baby. Mother not dumb. <SYNC Start=3314631><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3314715><P Class=ENCC> Mother love you. Listen. <SYNC Start=3317008><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3317510><P Class=ENCC> "Once upon a time,<br>there was a magical princess <SYNC Start=3321179><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3321263><P Class=ENCC> "who lived in a magical bubble<br>under the sea. <SYNC Start=3324432><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3324976><P Class=ENCC> "And she was from land." <SYNC Start=3327060><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3342284><P Class=ENCC> Stop screaming. <SYNC Start=3343952><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3364932><P Class=ENCC> His name's Abdul Jamal Lewis Jones. <SYNC Start=3368768><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3369770><P Class=ENCC> He healthy. His mother love him. <SYNC Start=3372605><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3388748><P Class=ENCC> The food in this hospital's nasty. <SYNC Start=3390957><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3391625><P Class=ENCC> It's not from here. <SYNC Start=3392751><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3392835><P Class=ENCC> Where it from? <SYNC Start=3394419><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3394503><P Class=ENCC> A little shop by my house where <SYNC Start=3397047><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3397131><P Class=ENCC> I get my organic food,<br>so I don't have to eat that <SYNC Start=3399549><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3399633><P Class=ENCC> nasty mystery-meat stuff<br>they got downstairs. <SYNC Start=3402218><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3402303><P Class=ENCC> Can you bring me something?<br>I don't like fruit. I like McDonald's. <SYNC Start=3405305><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3405389><P Class=ENCC> First of all, I don't eat McDonald's. <SYNC Start=3407599><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3407683><P Class=ENCC> Second of all, you don't need<br>to be eating McDonald's, either. <SYNC Start=3410351><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3410436><P Class=ENCC> It's not healthy. <SYNC Start=3411478><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3411562><P Class=ENCC> But I like McDonald's.<br>We all like McDonald's, right? <SYNC Start=3413772><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3413856><P Class=ENCC> We like McDonald's, too, over here. <SYNC Start=3416483><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3416567><P Class=ENCC> I don't like no damn McDonald's. <SYNC Start=3418068><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3418152><P Class=ENCC> I want some of that organic shit<br>like you got. <SYNC Start=3421237><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3421655><P Class=ENCC> Well, I tell you what, <SYNC Start=3423114><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3423199><P Class=ENCC> when you get up out of here,<br>you go with all your little friends, <SYNC Start=3425742><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3425826><P Class=ENCC> and you go to McDonald's, <SYNC Start=3426785><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3426869><P Class=ENCC> and you get as much<br>McDonald's as you want. <SYNC Start=3428745><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3428829><P Class=ENCC> But right now,<br>you're gonna take care of your health. <SYNC Start=3431289><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3431373><P Class=ENCC> Are you a doctor? <SYNC Start=3433083><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3434168><P Class=ENCC> - Are you her doctor?<br>- Am I a doctor? <SYNC Start=3436127><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3436212><P Class=ENCC> - Yeah.<br>- I am a nurse's aide. <SYNC Start=3438880><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3438964><P Class=ENCC> Nurse John-John. <SYNC Start=3440757><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3440841><P Class=ENCC> Oh, that's funny? <SYNC Start=3442509><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3443010><P Class=ENCC> Well, you're a man. <SYNC Start=3444761><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3445513><P Class=ENCC> - You've never seen a male nurse?<br>- No. <SYNC Start=3448181><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3448349><P Class=ENCC> Not looking like you do. <SYNC Start=3450433><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3451227><P Class=ENCC> I am a male nurse.<br>I am Nurse John McFadden. <SYNC Start=3455355><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3455439><P Class=ENCC> So was you up in the room<br>when she popped the baby out? <SYNC Start=3458024><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3458109><P Class=ENCC> You was like, all up in between her... <SYNC Start=3459150><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3459235><P Class=ENCC> Joann, don't be nasty! <SYNC Start=3461277><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3461362><P Class=ENCC> How was it? Was he screaming? <SYNC Start=3462946><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3463030><P Class=ENCC> It hurt. <SYNC Start=3464114><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3464198><P Class=ENCC> Tough gal like you had to scream? <SYNC Start=3465782><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3465866><P Class=ENCC> Not so tough with a baby coming out of me.<br>It hurt. And it burned. <SYNC Start=3470120><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3470204><P Class=ENCC> - Are you married?<br>- Shut up! <SYNC Start=3471454><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3471539><P Class=ENCC> You got a girlfriend? <SYNC Start=3473206><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3473290><P Class=ENCC> - Why you asking? He don't want you.<br>- How would you know? <SYNC Start=3475708><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3475793><P Class=ENCC> Why don't you stop being a ho<br>for 10 minutes? <SYNC Start=3477460><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3477545><P Class=ENCC> What's wrong with these people? <SYNC Start=3478711><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3478796><P Class=ENCC> You don't want her, right? <SYNC Start=3480171><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3480256><P Class=ENCC> I wish I was a cantaloupe in that cup. <SYNC Start=3483049><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3483134><P Class=ENCC> So he could eat you? <SYNC Start=3484634><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3484718><P Class=ENCC> Okay, no. I gotta go. I gotta go. <SYNC Start=3488346><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3488764><P Class=ENCC> No, that's all right. That's all right. <SYNC Start=3491558><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3494812><P Class=ENCC> Can I get a kiss, too, Nurse John? <SYNC Start=3496771><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3496856><P Class=ENCC> - Good afternoon, ladies.<br>- Bye, Nurse John. <SYNC Start=3499607><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3499692><P Class=ENCC> - Bye!<br>- Good night, Nurse John-John! <SYNC Start=3502569><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3503988><P Class=ENCC> Precious and John-John <SYNC Start=3506281><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3506365><P Class=ENCC> Sitting in a tree <SYNC Start=3508324><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3508409><P Class=ENCC> - F-U-C-K-l-N-G<br>- Shut up! Y'all are nasty. <SYNC Start=3512203><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3515916><P Class=ENCC> You think he's spending the night<br>up in here? <SYNC Start=3518585><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3520754><P Class=ENCC> Now she gonna write<br>about Nurse John in her book! <SYNC Start=3523965><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3525259><P Class=ENCC> "Dear Ms. Rain, <SYNC Start=3526926><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3527428><P Class=ENCC> "All the years I sit in class, I never learned. <SYNC Start=3530597><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3530890><P Class=ENCC> "Now I got a baby again by my father. <SYNC Start=3533766><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3534518><P Class=ENCC> "I wish I had a boyfriend like other girls. <SYNC Start=3537145><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3537229><P Class=ENCC> "Then I'll feel right<br>that I have to quit school. <SYNC Start=3540398><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3540482><P Class=ENCC> "I love my baby, but I want school, too. <SYNC Start=3543985><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3544069><P Class=ENCC> "Social worker ask me<br>if I wanna give little Mongo <SYNC Start=3546446><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3546530><P Class=ENCC> "and Abdul up for adoption.<br>I could kill her. <SYNC Start=3550074><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3550492><P Class=ENCC> "She never helped before.<br>Now she wanna take my kids away? <SYNC Start=3554245><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3554955><P Class=ENCC> "If she takes Abdul,<br>I won't have nothing no more." <SYNC Start=3558208><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3558292><P Class=ENCC> "Dear Precious, <SYNC Start=3560251><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3560336><P Class=ENCC> "I think your first responsibility<br>has to be to yourself. <SYNC Start=3563630><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3563839><P Class=ENCC> "If you keep Abdul, you might have nothing. <SYNC Start=3566382><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3566467><P Class=ENCC> "You're learning to read and write.<br>That's everything. <SYNC Start=3568927><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3569011><P Class=ENCC> "You come back to school<br>when you get out of the hospital. <SYNC Start=3571679><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3571764><P Class=ENCC> "You're only 17." <SYNC Start=3572889><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3572973><P Class=ENCC> This looks like a big-ass condom. <SYNC Start=3575391><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3577269><P Class=ENCC> Use that for Nurse John. <SYNC Start=3579354><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3579855><P Class=ENCC> Not looking like that.<br>Your hair looks a mess. <SYNC Start=3582023><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3582107><P Class=ENCC> - I'm giving you banjee.<br>- Shut up! <SYNC Start=3584817><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3584902><P Class=ENCC> I got your journal. <SYNC Start=3586402><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3586487><P Class=ENCC> Thank you. <SYNC Start=3587987><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3593244><P Class=ENCC> What's wrong? <SYNC Start=3594786><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3594870><P Class=ENCC> Nothing. <SYNC Start=3596204><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3596288><P Class=ENCC> Are you sure? <SYNC Start=3597872><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3597957><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, I'm sure. <SYNC Start=3598998><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3599083><P Class=ENCC> All right. I'm bored. I'm about to leave. Bye. <SYNC Start=3603503><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3605172><P Class=ENCC> Bye, Ms. Toosie. <SYNC Start=3606839><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3607341><P Class=ENCC> You got a nasty-ass mouth. <SYNC Start=3608925><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3609009><P Class=ENCC> You got a nasty-ass hat. <SYNC Start=3611094><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3613514><P Class=ENCC> That's what's wrong,<br>you hanging out with bitches like that. <SYNC Start=3616307><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3616392><P Class=ENCC> Here's your baby. <SYNC Start=3617976><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3618060><P Class=ENCC> It's probably the last time<br>you're gonna ever see him. <SYNC Start=3620436><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3620521><P Class=ENCC> Grandmother come and visit and say, <SYNC Start=3621938><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3622022><P Class=ENCC> "Only a dog would drop a baby<br>and walk off." <SYNC Start=3624607><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3624692><P Class=ENCC> Not even a dog. <SYNC Start=3625984><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3626277><P Class=ENCC> Say later, "Not even a dog." <SYNC Start=3628695><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3628779><P Class=ENCC> I'm proud of you.<br>Ain't nothing like your mother. <SYNC Start=3631864><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3631949><P Class=ENCC> "Where was your grandmother<br>when your father was abusing you? <SYNC Start=3635285><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3635369><P Class=ENCC> "Where is little Mongo now? <SYNC Start=3637453><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3638205><P Class=ENCC> "What is going to be the best thing for you<br>in this situation?" <SYNC Start=3640957><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3641041><P Class=ENCC> "Ms. Rain, you ask too many questions. <SYNC Start=3643334><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3643419><P Class=ENCC> "Sometimes I wish I could stop breathing. <SYNC Start=3645962><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3646046><P Class=ENCC> "I just wanna be a good mother." <SYNC Start=3648423><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3649466><P Class=ENCC> "Being a good mother might mean<br>letting Abdul be raised <SYNC Start=3651634><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3651719><P Class=ENCC> "by someone who's better able than you<br>to meet his needs." <SYNC Start=3655388><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3656098><P Class=ENCC> "Ms. Rain, I is the best<br>to meet my child's needs." <SYNC Start=3659600><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3668986><P Class=ENCC> "Who's gonna help you? <SYNC Start=3670820><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3671363><P Class=ENCC> "How will you support yourself? <SYNC Start=3673656><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3674867><P Class=ENCC> "How will you keep learning<br>to read and write?" <SYNC Start=3677910><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3678954><P Class=ENCC> "The welfare helped Momma." <SYNC Start=3681039><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3681832><P Class=ENCC> "You look and see<br>how much welfare has helped your mom. <SYNC Start=3685418><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3687713><P Class=ENCC> "You could get your GED, <SYNC Start=3689339><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3689423><P Class=ENCC> "and go to college.<br>You can do anything, Precious." <SYNC Start=3692091><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3774216><P Class=ENCC> You back? <SYNC Start=3775633><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3776218><P Class=ENCC> What's his name? <SYNC Start=3777593><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3778095><P Class=ENCC> Can I hold it? <SYNC Start=3779679><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3843494><P Class=ENCC> Hey, Precious. <SYNC Start=3845077><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3848832><P Class=ENCC> Hey. <SYNC Start=3850082><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3853545><P Class=ENCC> You had the baby? <SYNC Start=3855254><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3855839><P Class=ENCC> A boy. <SYNC Start=3857131><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3858383><P Class=ENCC> Where you been all this time? <SYNC Start=3860635><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3867267><P Class=ENCC> Let me see him. <SYNC Start=3868935><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3876151><P Class=ENCC> Can I hold him? <SYNC Start=3877902><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3897422><P Class=ENCC> He look like his daddy. <SYNC Start=3899423><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3904972><P Class=ENCC> He named Abdul. <SYNC Start=3906472><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3907766><P Class=ENCC> Put all this shit down<br>and go get me something to drink. <SYNC Start=3911352><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3929830><P Class=ENCC> You bitch! <SYNC Start=3931289><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3931873><P Class=ENCC> - You fucking bitch!<br>- You crazy, Momma? <SYNC Start=3934083><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3934167><P Class=ENCC> Am I crazy? Bitch, if I was to... <SYNC Start=3936669><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3937671><P Class=ENCC> You ruined my fucking life! <SYNC Start=3939380><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3939464><P Class=ENCC> You done took my man,<br>you had those fucking babies, <SYNC Start=3942133><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3942217><P Class=ENCC> and you got me put off the welfare <SYNC Start=3943467><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3943552><P Class=ENCC> for running your goddamned<br>stupid-ass mouth! <SYNC Start=3945845><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3945971><P Class=ENCC> I ain't stupid and I didn't take your man.<br>Your husband raped me! <SYNC Start=3949807><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3949891><P Class=ENCC> Didn't no-fucking-body rape you! <SYNC Start=3951392><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3951476><P Class=ENCC> Bitch, don't you put<br>your fucking hands on me! <SYNC Start=3953811><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=3974416><P Class=ENCC> Mary, leave that girl alone! <SYNC Start=3976709><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4015290><P Class=ENCC> Can I see the baby now? <SYNC Start=4017249><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4148840><P Class=ENCC> B... C... D... <SYNC Start=4151967><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4152886><P Class=ENCC> E... F... G... H... <SYNC Start=4157306><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4157974><P Class=ENCC> l... J... K... <SYNC Start=4160684><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4167734><P Class=ENCC> I'm tired of shopping. <SYNC Start=4169318><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4169402><P Class=ENCC> Yes, because they all trying<br>to take your money. <SYNC Start=4171362><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4171446><P Class=ENCC> They don't... <SYNC Start=4173322><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4183959><P Class=ENCC> I'm calling the cops. <SYNC Start=4185876><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4191091><P Class=ENCC> Tell me what you see back there. <SYNC Start=4193592><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4205981><P Class=ENCC> I could tell by Ms. Rain's face<br>I ain't gonna be homeless no more. <SYNC Start=4210484><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4210569><P Class=ENCC> I just don't know<br>where I'm gonna end up, though. <SYNC Start=4212611><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4212696><P Class=ENCC> I'll hold. <SYNC Start=4214280><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4216199><P Class=ENCC> I feel bad for her. <SYNC Start=4217950><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4218034><P Class=ENCC> She just an ABC teacher.<br>She ain't no social worker. <SYNC Start=4221787><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4223415><P Class=ENCC> What's going on? <SYNC Start=4224665><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4224749><P Class=ENCC> But she all I could think of. <SYNC Start=4225916><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4226001><P Class=ENCC> Look, when the others get here,<br>tell them to start writing. <SYNC Start=4228460><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4228545><P Class=ENCC> And whichever one of you is older<br>is in charge, okay? <SYNC Start=4230713><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4230797><P Class=ENCC> Consuelo, I know that's not you.<br>Come here. <SYNC Start=4232464><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4232549><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain, I can't stay. I'm serious.<br>I've tried to talk... <SYNC Start=4234675><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4234759><P Class=ENCC> Consuelo, you're not leaving class<br>and I'm not dealing with this right now. <SYNC Start=4237344><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4237429><P Class=ENCC> Take this money.<br>Go get something for Precious to wear. <SYNC Start=4239763><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4239848><P Class=ENCC> Quick. And bring back my change. <SYNC Start=4242308><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4242392><P Class=ENCC> Sixteen years old. A three-day-old infant. <SYNC Start=4246103><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4246730><P Class=ENCC> The baby not bleeding.<br>I think this is Precious' blood. <SYNC Start=4248856><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4248940><P Class=ENCC> Well, why didn't you tell me that before? <SYNC Start=4251817><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4253153><P Class=ENCC> We'll find you a place to live. <SYNC Start=4255613><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4258825><P Class=ENCC> Joann, you're late. <SYNC Start=4260534><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4260619><P Class=ENCC> Rhonda, you ain't the teacher. <SYNC Start=4262828><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4262954><P Class=ENCC> Joann, Ms. Rain is busy<br>with Precious today, <SYNC Start=4265289><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4265373><P Class=ENCC> so I am the teacher today. <SYNC Start=4267499><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4267584><P Class=ENCC> Okay. Why? <SYNC Start=4269460><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4269920><P Class=ENCC> - Where's Precious?<br>- Just sit. Pull out your notebook. <SYNC Start=4271670><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4271755><P Class=ENCC> Joann, you wanna say one of your raps<br>to the baby? <SYNC Start=4274173><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4274257><P Class=ENCC> What's the baby doing here? <SYNC Start=4275674><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4275759><P Class=ENCC> - Joann's gonna rap for you.<br>- Let me see. <SYNC Start=4277468><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4277677><P Class=ENCC> She all right. She's doing good. <SYNC Start=4279970><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4280680><P Class=ENCC> Why is the baby wrapped up<br>in a blood-covered blanket? <SYNC Start=4283641><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4283725><P Class=ENCC> - Joann, what's so funny?<br>- For real. What happened? <SYNC Start=4286477><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4286561><P Class=ENCC> You don't wanna know is<br>how it got on the blanket. <SYNC Start=4287978><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4288063><P Class=ENCC> You know what your problem is, Joann? <SYNC Start=4289146><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4289230><P Class=ENCC> That you can't take anything<br>serious enough. <SYNC Start=4291023><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4291107><P Class=ENCC> - Jermaine, me expect better from you.<br>- Okay, Rhonda. <SYNC Start=4293525><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4293610><P Class=ENCC> Joann, stop laughing at this baby. <SYNC Start=4296153><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4297822><P Class=ENCC> Queens. <SYNC Start=4299114><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4301451><P Class=ENCC> Let me call you back. <SYNC Start=4303202><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4303286><P Class=ENCC> Just tell me what happened! <SYNC Start=4304578><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4304663><P Class=ENCC> No, it's not funny. <SYNC Start=4305996><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4306081><P Class=ENCC> But Joann, there's nothing funny<br>about a baby with blood on it. <SYNC Start=4308916><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4309000><P Class=ENCC> I got a West Indian friend<br>who's a Council member. <SYNC Start=4310793><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4310877><P Class=ENCC> Let me see what she can do.<br>Hold on a second. <SYNC Start=4313003><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4313088><P Class=ENCC> I found a lesson plan in our notebooks.<br>We're gonna... <SYNC Start=4316382><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4317926><P Class=ENCC> Claireece Jones. <SYNC Start=4319635><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4319719><P Class=ENCC> Hey, Ms. Lisa. How you been? <SYNC Start=4322012><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4322847><P Class=ENCC> I don't know. <SYNC Start=4324056><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4324140><P Class=ENCC> I went to see that movie, Barfly, last night.<br>Piece of shit. <SYNC Start=4328060><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4329062><P Class=ENCC> - I'm sorry.<br>- It's on my desk. Can you hold? <SYNC Start=4332189><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4332273><P Class=ENCC> Something's wrong with you, Precious. <SYNC Start=4334566><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4334651><P Class=ENCC> This baby stink. <SYNC Start=4336193><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4336277><P Class=ENCC> Well, we don't have a Pamper,<br>so have a seat with the baby. <SYNC Start=4338570><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4338655><P Class=ENCC> - I am sitting.<br>- In your seat, please. <SYNC Start=4341323><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4341408><P Class=ENCC> The first thing <SYNC Start=4343492><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4343576><P Class=ENCC> is shut the bumba-ros-clot... <SYNC Start=4349248><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4350125><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain, why did you let Rhonda<br>teach the class? <SYNC Start=4352626><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4352711><P Class=ENCC> She don't even know how to speak English. <SYNC Start=4354336><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4354421><P Class=ENCC> Let Rhonda take over. <SYNC Start=4355462><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4355547><P Class=ENCC> - Shut the bumba-ros-clot up.<br>- What the fuck is a "ros clot"? <SYNC Start=4359174><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4359259><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, Brenda, you there? <SYNC Start=4361176><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4361261><P Class=ENCC> The last four of the Social are... <SYNC Start=4363846><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4363930><P Class=ENCC> 2-4-2-1. <SYNC Start=4366515><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4366599><P Class=ENCC> - Rita?<br>- I just wanna know how to spell "Aquarius." <SYNC Start=4368726><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4368810><P Class=ENCC> - Anybody know how to spell "Aquarius"?<br>- It's A-Q-U-A-R-l-U-S. <SYNC Start=4371687><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4371771><P Class=ENCC> Can you spell "boy" then? <SYNC Start=4372980><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4373064><P Class=ENCC> Can you spell "slut" then? <SYNC Start=4374314><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4374399><P Class=ENCC> Let's explore that. <SYNC Start=4376025><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4376109><P Class=ENCC> You wanna spell "slut," Consuelo,<br>I'll give you the first letter. <SYNC Start=4379445><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4379529><P Class=ENCC> Can you spell "illegal immigrant," then? <SYNC Start=4381655><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4381740><P Class=ENCC> Great, thank you. <SYNC Start=4383782><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4385368><P Class=ENCC> Can you please use "slut" in a sentence? <SYNC Start=4387870><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4387954><P Class=ENCC> Consuelo is a slut... <SYNC Start=4389329><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4389414><P Class=ENCC> - You the one who's the ho up in here...<br>- Joann is not a slut. <SYNC Start=4392207><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4392292><P Class=ENCC> Perfect. You get a gold star. <SYNC Start=4394668><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4396504><P Class=ENCC> But you know she likes that. <SYNC Start=4398213><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4398298><P Class=ENCC> Well, she's just insecure. <SYNC Start=4400591><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4400675><P Class=ENCC> - You think?<br>- Yeah. <SYNC Start=4402301><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4402802><P Class=ENCC> - That chicken was good.<br>- Really good. Did you have enough? <SYNC Start=4406388><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4406473><P Class=ENCC> There ain't more, is there? <SYNC Start=4408390><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4408475><P Class=ENCC> - Is there more?<br>- Yeah. <SYNC Start=4410142><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4410477><P Class=ENCC> Maybe later. Not now. <SYNC Start=4412770><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4412854><P Class=ENCC> I don't want you to think I'm greedy. <SYNC Start=4414813><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4414898><P Class=ENCC> You're not greedy.<br>If you're hungry, let's get you some more. <SYNC Start=4417232><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4417317><P Class=ENCC> I guess I kind of eat<br>too much sometimes, though. <SYNC Start=4420486><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4420570><P Class=ENCC> No, you don't. <SYNC Start=4421820><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4421905><P Class=ENCC> - Blu, is that you?<br>- Not always. <SYNC Start=4423781><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4423865><P Class=ENCC> What are you doing here? <SYNC Start=4425949><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4426409><P Class=ENCC> I live here. Why didn't you tell me? <SYNC Start=4429078><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4429162><P Class=ENCC> - Hey, sweetie.<br>- Is this... Is this... <SYNC Start=4431955><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4433541><P Class=ENCC> This is Katherine, Precious. <SYNC Start=4435751><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4435835><P Class=ENCC> - Are you okay?<br>- It's so nice to meet you, finally. <SYNC Start=4437878><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4437962><P Class=ENCC> Oh, my God. These straight-up lesbians. <SYNC Start=4441381><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4441466><P Class=ENCC> - This is Abdul.<br>- He's gorgeous. He looks just like you. <SYNC Start=4445052><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4446096><P Class=ENCC> Precious, can I hold him? <SYNC Start=4447429><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4447514><P Class=ENCC> You know how to? <SYNC Start=4449264><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4449349><P Class=ENCC> They still nice enough<br>to let us stay in their home <SYNC Start=4451350><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4451434><P Class=ENCC> until I get situated, though. <SYNC Start=4453769><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4453853><P Class=ENCC> - He's heavy. Oh, my God!<br>- You wanna hold him? <SYNC Start=4457940><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4458024><P Class=ENCC> I guess this is how the peoples<br>on TV feel at Christmastime. <SYNC Start=4460526><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4460610><P Class=ENCC> - Don't drop him.<br>- Come on. I only work with children. <SYNC Start=4463195><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4463279><P Class=ENCC> You know how you are. I saw you... <SYNC Start=4464321><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4464405><P Class=ENCC> When we were putting up the tree,<br>you dropped half the top of it. <SYNC Start=4466448><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4466533><P Class=ENCC> They're so nice to me and Abdul. <SYNC Start=4468117><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4468201><P Class=ENCC> - Be careful. Hold him with both hands.<br>- Please. <SYNC Start=4470285><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4470370><P Class=ENCC> Oh, Abdul. <SYNC Start=4472079><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4474040><P Class=ENCC> Merry Christmas, Precious. <SYNC Start=4476208><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4477043><P Class=ENCC> Thank you. <SYNC Start=4478168><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4478253><P Class=ENCC> Why peoples that barely know me <SYNC Start=4479586><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4479671><P Class=ENCC> should be nicer to me<br>than my mother and my father? <SYNC Start=4483006><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4483633><P Class=ENCC> I felt warm. <SYNC Start=4485050><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4485385><P Class=ENCC> - What?<br>- I'm just... <SYNC Start=4486593><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4486678><P Class=ENCC> I'm just concerned about the baby<br>and the cats upstairs. <SYNC Start=4489847><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4489931><P Class=ENCC> They're fine. <SYNC Start=4491098><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4491182><P Class=ENCC> Grandmother's scared of Momma. <SYNC Start=4493183><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4493268><P Class=ENCC> I know that's why<br>she ain't letting me stay with her. <SYNC Start=4495686><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4495770><P Class=ENCC> If Ronald McDonald were running things... <SYNC Start=4497688><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4497772><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain say don't be afraid of nothing. <SYNC Start=4500566><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4501234><P Class=ENCC> I bet she ain't scared of Momma. <SYNC Start=4503694><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4503778><P Class=ENCC> Wouldn't you be a little bit suspicious? <SYNC Start=4506405><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4506489><P Class=ENCC> Just write the book. <SYNC Start=4507739><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4507824><P Class=ENCC> - Well, who's gonna read it?<br>- Nobody, if you don't write it. <SYNC Start=4511076><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4511161><P Class=ENCC> You know, Precious writes every day.<br>You should try it. <SYNC Start=4514705><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4514789><P Class=ENCC> Is that right?<br>What do you write about, Precious? <SYNC Start=4518041><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4518835><P Class=ENCC> Stuff. <SYNC Start=4520085><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4521171><P Class=ENCC> My life. Abdul. <SYNC Start=4523589><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4526009><P Class=ENCC> How come y'all don't like McDonald's? <SYNC Start=4528177><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4528261><P Class=ENCC> Katherine was just drawing a comparison <SYNC Start=4530095><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4530221><P Class=ENCC> so that her point could be<br>more easily understood. <SYNC Start=4532264><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4532348><P Class=ENCC> Yes. <SYNC Start=4533348><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4533433><P Class=ENCC> They talk like TV channels I don't watch. <SYNC Start=4535934><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4536019><P Class=ENCC> My Uncle Clayton. <SYNC Start=4537394><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4537478><P Class=ENCC> I'm glad Abdul here to listen in on them,<br>though, 'cause I know they're smart. <SYNC Start=4540939><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4541024><P Class=ENCC> Before he got saved, <SYNC Start=4542441><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4542525><P Class=ENCC> he used to smoke like a chimney<br>and drink like a fish. <SYNC Start=4545194><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4545278><P Class=ENCC> I don't understand a word they're saying. <SYNC Start=4547321><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4547405><P Class=ENCC> You understand? <SYNC Start=4548989><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4552577><P Class=ENCC> Y'all be watching Oprah? <SYNC Start=4554036><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4554120><P Class=ENCC> No. I don't, actually.<br>You know what time I get home from work. <SYNC Start=4557039><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4557123><P Class=ENCC> - I watch it.<br>- Momma say homos is bad peoples. <SYNC Start=4560250><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4560960><P Class=ENCC> But Momma,<br>homos not ones who raped me. <SYNC Start=4563378><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4563463><P Class=ENCC> And what do that make you? <SYNC Start=4565756><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4565840><P Class=ENCC> Homos not ones who let me sit in class<br>all them years and never learn nothing. <SYNC Start=4569968><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4570053><P Class=ENCC> The homos not ones who sell crack<br>to peoples in Harlem. <SYNC Start=4572930><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4573014><P Class=ENCC> - ...that I have ever seen. Tell her!<br>- That doesn't work. <SYNC Start=4575015><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4575099><P Class=ENCC> I wonder what Oprah got to say about that. <SYNC Start=4577684><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4577769><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Rain is the one<br>who put the chalk in my hand, <SYNC Start=4580145><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4580230><P Class=ENCC> made me queen of the ABC's. <SYNC Start=4582689><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4585652><P Class=ENCC> After I settled at the halfway house, <SYNC Start=4587569><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4587654><P Class=ENCC> I worked my hardest<br>to memorize letter sounds, <SYNC Start=4590072><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4590156><P Class=ENCC> writing in the journal,<br>and reading smaller and fatter books. <SYNC Start=4593158><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4593284><P Class=ENCC> Then I found out the Mayor's office<br>give me a literacy award <SYNC Start=4596495><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4596579><P Class=ENCC> and a check for progress. <SYNC Start=4598330><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4600750><P Class=ENCC> One, two, three. <SYNC Start=4602501><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4602585><P Class=ENCC> The party is on. <SYNC Start=4604336><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4604629><P Class=ENCC> Go, Joann! <SYNC Start=4606004><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4609300><P Class=ENCC> Let me see what you got! <SYNC Start=4611385><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4611469><P Class=ENCC> Everybody come. Nurse John, Cornrows,<br>all the staff was out there. <SYNC Start=4616556><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4617100><P Class=ENCC> Even Ms. Katherine showed up. <SYNC Start=4619351><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4619686><P Class=ENCC> Precious. <SYNC Start=4620978><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4624190><P Class=ENCC> What's up? <SYNC Start=4625607><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4626109><P Class=ENCC> What's that? <SYNC Start=4627609><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4628194><P Class=ENCC> What does it look like? <SYNC Start=4629861><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4629946><P Class=ENCC> Plastic stupid apple. <SYNC Start=4631863><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4635034><P Class=ENCC> A little something for you. <SYNC Start=4636702><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4636786><P Class=ENCC> - Is there more money in it?<br>- You're so greedy. <SYNC Start=4639496><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4639580><P Class=ENCC> Yo, who's that? <SYNC Start=4642332><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4645253><P Class=ENCC> What? <SYNC Start=4646503><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4649382><P Class=ENCC> - What?<br>- Come on. <SYNC Start=4651383><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4651884><P Class=ENCC> Precious, where are you taking me? <SYNC Start=4654344><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4655763><P Class=ENCC> What am I supposed to do, diva? Yeah?<br>Wait a minute. Hold on, girl. <SYNC Start=4659474><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4659559><P Class=ENCC> Yeah... <SYNC Start=4661101><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4665273><P Class=ENCC> My mom called last night. <SYNC Start=4667399><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4670069><P Class=ENCC> And we don't really have a relationship. <SYNC Start=4673363><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4673823><P Class=ENCC> We don't talk,<br>because she really has a problem with... <SYNC Start=4676658><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4676743><P Class=ENCC> Some folks got a light around them<br>that shine for other peoples. <SYNC Start=4680495><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4680580><P Class=ENCC> I think maybe some of them was in tunnels, <SYNC Start=4683665><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4683750><P Class=ENCC> and in that tunnel,<br>maybe the only light they had <SYNC Start=4686460><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4686544><P Class=ENCC> was inside of them. <SYNC Start=4688086><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4688171><P Class=ENCC> Then I thought about how strong<br>you've had to be. <SYNC Start=4691423><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4694010><P Class=ENCC> And then,<br>even long after they escaped that tunnel... <SYNC Start=4697763><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4699098><P Class=ENCC> - I'll help you clean up.<br>- Okay. <SYNC Start=4701933><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4702602><P Class=ENCC> ...they still be shining for everybody else. <SYNC Start=4705604><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4709817><P Class=ENCC> That's Ms. Rain to me. <SYNC Start=4711860><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4714822><P Class=ENCC> "Award for Outstanding Achievement." <SYNC Start=4716365><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4716449><P Class=ENCC> In a book I read,<br>this lady escaped to a halfway house. <SYNC Start=4720077><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4720161><P Class=ENCC> And when she was there, <SYNC Start=4721370><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4721454><P Class=ENCC> she asked the people there<br>what a halfway house was. <SYNC Start=4724373><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4724457><P Class=ENCC> They told her it was halfway between<br>her old life and where she wanna be. <SYNC Start=4728794><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4728878><P Class=ENCC> That's kind of nice. <SYNC Start=4730796><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4732465><P Class=ENCC> That also mean I can't stay here forever. <SYNC Start=4735550><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4735635><P Class=ENCC> There's still a way to go. <SYNC Start=4737803><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4738513><P Class=ENCC> It'd be something to get my own apartment. <SYNC Start=4741473><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4742308><P Class=ENCC> Abdul nine months and almost walking.<br>He's smart, too. <SYNC Start=4745811><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4746479><P Class=ENCC> I've been reading to him<br>since the day he was born. <SYNC Start=4749564><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4749649><P Class=ENCC> He's barely talking,<br>but he's already counting. <SYNC Start=4752692><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4753653><P Class=ENCC> Momma, Daddy, <SYNC Start=4755487><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4756239><P Class=ENCC> IS 111, 444 Lenox all seem<br>like some old, bad dream. <SYNC Start=4760659><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4762829><P Class=ENCC> I wish I could've just started out here,<br>but still with Abdul. <SYNC Start=4766832><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4768251><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna get Mongo, too.<br>I gotta get Mongo back. <SYNC Start=4772421><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4774507><P Class=ENCC> Hey, Miss Cassidy. <SYNC Start=4775590><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4775675><P Class=ENCC> Hey, Precious,<br>somebody downstairs for you. <SYNC Start=4777884><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4777969><P Class=ENCC> - Who is it?<br>- I didn't ask who it was. <SYNC Start=4779719><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4779804><P Class=ENCC> You want me to watch the baby? <SYNC Start=4781012><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4781097><P Class=ENCC> No, I gotta go down and get him anyway. <SYNC Start=4783974><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4818384><P Class=ENCC> Your daddy dead. <SYNC Start=4820051><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4821971><P Class=ENCC> That's all? <SYNC Start=4823430><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4828519><P Class=ENCC> He had that AIDS virus. <SYNC Start=4830395><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4845912><P Class=ENCC> There you go, dreaming again! <SYNC Start=4847162><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4847246><P Class=ENCC> Precious, do you hear me talking to you? <SYNC Start=4849915><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4851334><P Class=ENCC> Did you hear what I said? <SYNC Start=4852459><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4857423><P Class=ENCC> You got it? <SYNC Start=4858840><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4860092><P Class=ENCC> Got what? <SYNC Start=4861718><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4861802><P Class=ENCC> - The AIDS virus.<br>- No. <SYNC Start=4863762><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4864764><P Class=ENCC> How do you know? <SYNC Start=4866431><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4866516><P Class=ENCC> We never did it up in the ass, so I know. <SYNC Start=4869392><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4873773><P Class=ENCC> You better get to a doctor, Mom. <SYNC Start=4876233><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4878945><P Class=ENCC> You coming home? <SYNC Start=4880654><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4897630><P Class=ENCC> Yo, Precious! <SYNC Start=4899130><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4917775><P Class=ENCC> Rita, what do I mean when I say the author <SYNC Start=4920777><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4920861><P Class=ENCC> describes her protagonist's circumstances<br>as "unrelenting"? <SYNC Start=4925532><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4926534><P Class=ENCC> I don't know. I don't know. <SYNC Start=4928868><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4931247><P Class=ENCC> It's like, say, like if Rita,<br>she tries to do something, <SYNC Start=4934833><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4934917><P Class=ENCC> and she's going and she's going,<br>and me, I try to stop her <SYNC Start=4937377><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4937461><P Class=ENCC> and she no stop, she keep on going. <SYNC Start=4940088><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4940715><P Class=ENCC> Relentless-un. <SYNC Start=4942507><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=4995227><P Class=ENCC> I'll see you tonight. Bye. <SYNC Start=4997687><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5046779><P Class=ENCC> Come with me. <SYNC Start=5048279><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5049699><P Class=ENCC> Precious? <SYNC Start=5051116><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5052952><P Class=ENCC> Excuse me? <SYNC Start=5054411><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5056330><P Class=ENCC> Nurse say I'm HIV positive. <SYNC Start=5058456><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5065089><P Class=ENCC> I ain't got nothing to write today. <SYNC Start=5067632><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5069468><P Class=ENCC> Is your baby okay? <SYNC Start=5071136><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5072179><P Class=ENCC> He all right.<br>I just got to stop breastfeeding him. <SYNC Start=5075557><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5079270><P Class=ENCC> Remember, you once told me <SYNC Start=5081438><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5081939><P Class=ENCC> you never really got to tell your story. <SYNC Start=5084816><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5086277><P Class=ENCC> - Write.<br>- Fuck you! <SYNC Start=5088319><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5088821><P Class=ENCC> You know nothing<br>of what I've been through. <SYNC Start=5091823><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5092992><P Class=ENCC> I ain't never had no boyfriend. <SYNC Start=5095326><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5097997><P Class=ENCC> My daddy said he gonna marry me. <SYNC Start=5100582><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5101250><P Class=ENCC> How he gonna do that?<br>It would fucking be illegal! <SYNC Start=5104544><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5120811><P Class=ENCC> Write. <SYNC Start=5122020><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5124148><P Class=ENCC> I'm tired, Ms. Rain. <SYNC Start=5126691><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5127568><P Class=ENCC> If not for yourself,<br>then for the people who love you. <SYNC Start=5130737><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5130821><P Class=ENCC> Nobody loves me. <SYNC Start=5132614><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5132698><P Class=ENCC> People do love you, Precious. <SYNC Start=5134949><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5135409><P Class=ENCC> Please don't lie to me, Ms. Rain. <SYNC Start=5137869><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5138704><P Class=ENCC> Love ain't done nothing for me. <SYNC Start=5141080><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5142124><P Class=ENCC> Love beat me, raped me, <SYNC Start=5145543><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5146962><P Class=ENCC> called me an animal,<br>make me feel worthless. <SYNC Start=5150965><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5151634><P Class=ENCC> Make me sick. <SYNC Start=5153218><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5155554><P Class=ENCC> That wasn't love, Precious. <SYNC Start=5157639><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5159725><P Class=ENCC> Your baby loves you. <SYNC Start=5161559><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5164855><P Class=ENCC> I love you. <SYNC Start=5166314><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5173614><P Class=ENCC> Write. <SYNC Start=5174864><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5183791><P Class=ENCC> What are you thinking? <SYNC Start=5185750><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5187920><P Class=ENCC> You never told me about<br>your relationship with your mother. <SYNC Start=5192131><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5194885><P Class=ENCC> I didn't, did l? <SYNC Start=5196553><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5197263><P Class=ENCC> Really, I'm here to help you. <SYNC Start=5199848><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5199932><P Class=ENCC> You can talk to me.<br>This is a safe environment. <SYNC Start=5203101><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5204436><P Class=ENCC> You're right. <SYNC Start=5205812><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5205896><P Class=ENCC> We could talk about your daddy instead. <SYNC Start=5208439><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5208524><P Class=ENCC> We could talk about my mother, my father, <SYNC Start=5211359><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5211443><P Class=ENCC> my aunts or my sister or my brother,<br>but none of it's gonna help you. <SYNC Start=5215822><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5216490><P Class=ENCC> You don't even like me. <SYNC Start=5217991><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5218075><P Class=ENCC> Have we not been in this room together <SYNC Start=5221119><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5221203><P Class=ENCC> for, like, a year, discussing your life? <SYNC Start=5224455><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5224540><P Class=ENCC> Does that mean we like each other,<br>because we discuss my life? <SYNC Start=5227542><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5227626><P Class=ENCC> I can't speak for you. <SYNC Start=5229085><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5229169><P Class=ENCC> I can only speak for me,<br>and I do like you. I do. <SYNC Start=5233631><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5234300><P Class=ENCC> So, are you Italian, or... <SYNC Start=5236134><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5236218><P Class=ENCC> What color are you, anyway? <SYNC Start=5237510><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5237595><P Class=ENCC> Are you some type of black or Spanish? <SYNC Start=5239679><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5239763><P Class=ENCC> What color do you think I am? <SYNC Start=5241973><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5243934><P Class=ENCC> No, I'd like to know.<br>What color do you think I am? <SYNC Start=5247270><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5248105><P Class=ENCC> My throat is dry. <SYNC Start=5249814><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5250649><P Class=ENCC> Your throat is dry? <SYNC Start=5252400><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5252818><P Class=ENCC> It's really hot in here. <SYNC Start=5254527><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5254612><P Class=ENCC> It is kind of hot in here. <SYNC Start=5256696><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5257239><P Class=ENCC> I'm gonna go get a soda.<br>What do you want? <SYNC Start=5260116><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5260492><P Class=ENCC> Soda sounds fine. <SYNC Start=5262327><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5262411><P Class=ENCC> All right. <SYNC Start=5263828><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5294360><P Class=ENCC> Thank you. <SYNC Start=5295860><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5296445><P Class=ENCC> No problem. <SYNC Start=5297904><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5301617><P Class=ENCC> So, I have to talk to you about your mother, <SYNC Start=5304827><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5305371><P Class=ENCC> and I don't know<br>how you're gonna feel about this, <SYNC Start=5307705><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5307790><P Class=ENCC> but she says she wants to see you <SYNC Start=5310541><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5310626><P Class=ENCC> and she wants to be reunited<br>with you and her grandchildren. <SYNC Start=5315254><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5315839><P Class=ENCC> She wants to come<br>and have a session here with you. <SYNC Start=5318800><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5318884><P Class=ENCC> What did you tell her? <SYNC Start=5320468><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5320552><P Class=ENCC> I said I had to speak to you about it. <SYNC Start=5323388><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5326016><P Class=ENCC> It's up to you. <SYNC Start=5327433><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5327518><P Class=ENCC> I don't know.<br>I never thought about it before. <SYNC Start=5330478><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5332022><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Weiss said in that file I got HIV. <SYNC Start=5334524><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5334608><P Class=ENCC> She said I was supposed to die from it. <SYNC Start=5337026><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5337111><P Class=ENCC> I ain't worried about dying. <SYNC Start=5339153><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5339238><P Class=ENCC> Shit, I gotta worry about<br>how I'm supposed to raise these kids. <SYNC Start=5343199><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5344201><P Class=ENCC> I was just writing, like, about... <SYNC Start=5346703><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5347413><P Class=ENCC> I wanna open up this clinic <SYNC Start=5349497><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5349581><P Class=ENCC> about, like, mothers and their children. <SYNC Start=5352792><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5353627><P Class=ENCC> You know, just,<br>if they're sick or something like that. <SYNC Start=5356671><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5356755><P Class=ENCC> I always wanted to do that,<br>give back to the community. <SYNC Start=5360425><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5360509><P Class=ENCC> Because I know my mom would be<br>proud of me if I did that, <SYNC Start=5363386><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5363470><P Class=ENCC> and my children, too. <SYNC Start=5365138><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5365222><P Class=ENCC> I want my children to be proud<br>of their mother, you know? <SYNC Start=5368933><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5370060><P Class=ENCC> - That's always what I wanted to do, so...<br>- That's good. That's really nice. <SYNC Start=5374605><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5378193><P Class=ENCC> I don't really want to read the whole thing,<br>I kind of just wanna say what it's about. <SYNC Start=5382655><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5383907><P Class=ENCC> Okay, the counsellors<br>at Advancement House, <SYNC Start=5387535><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5389371><P Class=ENCC> they were quizzing me<br>about my mother and my father, right? <SYNC Start=5391873><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5391957><P Class=ENCC> But it's not really about them. <SYNC Start=5393708><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5393792><P Class=ENCC> They're trying to get me to do workfare. <SYNC Start=5395877><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5395961><P Class=ENCC> - They want me to be a home attendant.<br>- How do you know? <SYNC Start=5398337><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5398422><P Class=ENCC> Because I stole my file and I read it. <SYNC Start=5400715><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5400799><P Class=ENCC> All they want me to do is work. <SYNC Start=5402717><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5402801><P Class=ENCC> Now, I do wanna work,<br>but not for no welfare check. <SYNC Start=5406054><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5406138><P Class=ENCC> What kind of sense that make, <SYNC Start=5407555><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5407639><P Class=ENCC> for somebody like Precious to quit school<br>before she got her GED <SYNC Start=5410558><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5410642><P Class=ENCC> and go work<br>for some old white people somewhere? <SYNC Start=5413269><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5413353><P Class=ENCC> She ain't never gonna be nothing<br>if she gets stuck in some shit like that. <SYNC Start=5416439><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5416523><P Class=ENCC> Rhonda used to home attend. <SYNC Start=5418024><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5418108><P Class=ENCC> She used to have to go all the way out<br>to Brighton Beach. <SYNC Start=5421110><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5421195><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, okay, Rhonda would be<br>working there all day and night. <SYNC Start=5424530><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5424615><P Class=ENCC> She'd be on call, right? <SYNC Start=5426657><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5427076><P Class=ENCC> She made $6.37 an hour,<br>but for only eight hours. <SYNC Start=5431287><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5431872><P Class=ENCC> That equal out to $50.96. <SYNC Start=5433998><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5435000><P Class=ENCC> But that's not a whole lot of money, <SYNC Start=5436417><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5436502><P Class=ENCC> especially 'cause,<br>for real, she there for 24 hours. <SYNC Start=5439629><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5439713><P Class=ENCC> So, $50.96 divided by 24 <SYNC Start=5444425><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5444510><P Class=ENCC> is $2.12 an hour. That's not a lot of money. <SYNC Start=5448429><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5448514><P Class=ENCC> She said that old bitch would ring a bell,<br>like, a real-life, actual bell <SYNC Start=5452892><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5452976><P Class=ENCC> when she wanted something from her<br>in the middle of the night. <SYNC Start=5454811><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5454895><P Class=ENCC> - You don't want to do that shit.<br>- Rhonda, is that true? Rhonda! <SYNC Start=5457605><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5457689><P Class=ENCC> Them home attendants be working for, like,<br>six days a week. <SYNC Start=5460733><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5460818><P Class=ENCC> I'd only see Abdul on Sunday.<br>Plus, I'd have to leave class. <SYNC Start=5464695><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5465030><P Class=ENCC> Well, that's not an option.<br>You're not leaving class. <SYNC Start=5468324><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5468408><P Class=ENCC> Plus, I'm gonna start going to<br>insect survivor meetings. <SYNC Start=5471536><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5471620><P Class=ENCC> It's "incest." <SYNC Start=5473121><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5474873><P Class=ENCC> - That ain't what I said?<br>- No, you said "insect." <SYNC Start=5478042><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5478627><P Class=ENCC> What's the difference? <SYNC Start=5479919><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5480003><P Class=ENCC> Well, one's where your family molests you, <SYNC Start=5481796><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5481880><P Class=ENCC> the other's like a roach or bugs. <SYNC Start=5484549><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5487219><P Class=ENCC> - So, you a scientist now?<br>- I'm just saying. <SYNC Start=5489846><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5489930><P Class=ENCC> No, that's cool. Thank you. Thank you. <SYNC Start=5492723><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5498897><P Class=ENCC> It was hard telling them strangers there<br>what my father did. <SYNC Start=5502483><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5502568><P Class=ENCC> Sometimes it felt good. <SYNC Start=5504569><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5509825><P Class=ENCC> Last week, Ms. Rain asked us<br>to write down what we wanna be like. <SYNC Start=5514036><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5514454><P Class=ENCC> I wrote that I be real skinny, <SYNC Start=5517999><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5518750><P Class=ENCC> with light skin and long hair. <SYNC Start=5520960><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5522421><P Class=ENCC> Loretha Holloway? <SYNC Start=5524088><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5525299><P Class=ENCC> Go on back there. <SYNC Start=5526424><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5526508><P Class=ENCC> She read it and said I'm beautiful like I am. <SYNC Start=5528342><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5528427><P Class=ENCC> But, there's no kids back there<br>for me to play with. <SYNC Start=5531929><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5534099><P Class=ENCC> Just shut up and sit there, then. <SYNC Start=5536058><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5536143><P Class=ENCC> Gonna talk to this lady<br>before my shit gets cut off. <SYNC Start=5539520><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5539605><P Class=ENCC> But somehow, <SYNC Start=5541063><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5542191><P Class=ENCC> right now... And I don't know why, but... <SYNC Start=5545443><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5547571><P Class=ENCC> I think she right. <SYNC Start=5549322><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5555704><P Class=ENCC> Here. <SYNC Start=5556787><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5565464><P Class=ENCC> Claireece Jones? <SYNC Start=5567089><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5573055><P Class=ENCC> I think she right. <SYNC Start=5575056><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5580312><P Class=ENCC> Okay, Mrs. Johnston,<br>let's talk about the abuse. <SYNC Start=5582396><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5582481><P Class=ENCC> There were no drugs in my house. <SYNC Start=5584690><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5584775><P Class=ENCC> I didn't play that.<br>There weren't no drugs in my house. <SYNC Start=5586734><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5586818><P Class=ENCC> Precious knew I would whup her ass <SYNC Start=5588486><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5588570><P Class=ENCC> if she gonna bring some drugs<br>up in my house. <SYNC Start=5590071><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5590155><P Class=ENCC> You know what I'm talking about. <SYNC Start=5592531><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5593659><P Class=ENCC> I'm referring to specific<br>sexual and physical acts <SYNC Start=5598829><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5599373><P Class=ENCC> involving Precious. <SYNC Start=5601165><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5601833><P Class=ENCC> Why you ain't say that? <SYNC Start=5603834><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5604544><P Class=ENCC> Yes, that. <SYNC Start=5606170><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5608215><P Class=ENCC> What do you wanna know? <SYNC Start=5610132><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5610217><P Class=ENCC> According to Precious' files, <SYNC Start=5612218><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5612302><P Class=ENCC> she has now had two children<br>by your boyfriend, <SYNC Start=5616347><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5616431><P Class=ENCC> the late Carl Kenwood Jones,<br>who was also her father. <SYNC Start=5620685><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5626984><P Class=ENCC> - Yeah.<br>- This is accurate? <SYNC Start=5628985><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5631405><P Class=ENCC> Yes, Ms. Weiss. <SYNC Start=5633197><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5633699><P Class=ENCC> I need to know why you're here.<br>You've been calling this office <SYNC Start=5636784><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5636868><P Class=ENCC> saying you want to be reunited<br>with Precious and your grandchild. <SYNC Start=5640788><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5640872><P Class=ENCC> Now, I really need to know<br>what's gone on in that home. <SYNC Start=5644375><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5644459><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Weiss,<br>I understand we need to discuss it, <SYNC Start=5646585><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5646670><P Class=ENCC> but I'm just telling you. <SYNC Start=5648004><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5648088><P Class=ENCC> You said I've been calling here<br>and I've been wanting to see <SYNC Start=5650840><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5650924><P Class=ENCC> Precious and my grandson. <SYNC Start=5652383><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5652467><P Class=ENCC> You're goddamn right I wanna see them.<br>Because they belong to me. Okay? <SYNC Start=5656971><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5657055><P Class=ENCC> Now, there was a time<br>Precious had everything, <SYNC Start=5660099><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5660183><P Class=ENCC> and I done told her that. <SYNC Start=5661976><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5662060><P Class=ENCC> And me and Carl, we loved Precious.<br>And you need to know that. <SYNC Start=5665688><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5665772><P Class=ENCC> We loved Precious and we had dreams. <SYNC Start=5668482><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5668567><P Class=ENCC> Precious was born around the same time<br>Ms. West's son got killed. <SYNC Start=5673279><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5674781><P Class=ENCC> The summertime.<br>She was born in the summertime. <SYNC Start=5678743><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5678827><P Class=ENCC> Remember? Remember that? <SYNC Start=5680828><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5681121><P Class=ENCC> I was born in November. <SYNC Start=5683080><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5683582><P Class=ENCC> November. <SYNC Start=5685124><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5686001><P Class=ENCC> Yeah, that's right. <SYNC Start=5688461><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5689755><P Class=ENCC> My Scorpio child. <SYNC Start=5691630><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5693800><P Class=ENCC> You know... <SYNC Start=5695259><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5695969><P Class=ENCC> Scorpios, they can be tricky. <SYNC Start=5700014><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5701224><P Class=ENCC> And, I'm not saying that they lie.<br>I'm not saying that. <SYNC Start=5705770><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5706313><P Class=ENCC> But you just gotta watch them. <SYNC Start=5708647><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5712611><P Class=ENCC> Can we talk about the actual acts <SYNC Start=5716405><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5716490><P Class=ENCC> of physical and sexual abuse <SYNC Start=5719200><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5719284><P Class=ENCC> that occurred in your household? <SYNC Start=5721744><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5722329><P Class=ENCC> When it first began, <SYNC Start=5723871><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5723955><P Class=ENCC> where it happened<br>and how did you respond? <SYNC Start=5726957><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5733340><P Class=ENCC> Precious was a little girl. <SYNC Start=5735508><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5736968><P Class=ENCC> Try and remember<br>how old you think she was. <SYNC Start=5739970><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5744267><P Class=ENCC> She was three. <SYNC Start=5745810><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5747771><P Class=ENCC> And I had been giving her the bottle <SYNC Start=5751232><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5753151><P Class=ENCC> and I was giving Carl the tittie <SYNC Start=5755611><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5755987><P Class=ENCC> because my milk hadn't dried up<br>in my breasts <SYNC Start=5760032><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5761159><P Class=ENCC> but not from her, but because Carl was... <SYNC Start=5764495><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5765664><P Class=ENCC> Because Carl was sucking on them <SYNC Start=5767581><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5767666><P Class=ENCC> and that's what kept my milk in my breasts. <SYNC Start=5771502><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5774214><P Class=ENCC> And I thought that that was for hygiene. <SYNC Start=5777007><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5777926><P Class=ENCC> I did what my mother told me <SYNC Start=5780678><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5781263><P Class=ENCC> that I was supposed to do with my child,<br>so that's what I did. <SYNC Start=5785141><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5785600><P Class=ENCC> And you're sitting up there<br>and you're trying to judge me... <SYNC Start=5788269><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5788353><P Class=ENCC> I'm not judging you,<br>but you're asking me for money <SYNC Start=5791188><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5791273><P Class=ENCC> and you're asking me<br>to be reunited with your grandson. <SYNC Start=5793691><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5793775><P Class=ENCC> But, Ms. Weiss,<br>I don't like you looking at me like that. <SYNC Start=5796193><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5796361><P Class=ENCC> You got this bitch looking at me<br>like I'm some kind of fucking monster. <SYNC Start=5799822><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5799906><P Class=ENCC> We don't talk like this in my office, okay? <SYNC Start=5801824><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5801908><P Class=ENCC> I didn't want her sucking behind him,<br>because that was nasty. <SYNC Start=5805453><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5805537><P Class=ENCC> And things that he was...<br>It was just nasty, Ms. Weiss. <SYNC Start=5809248><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5814880><P Class=ENCC> I had a man, and I have a child <SYNC Start=5818507><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5820302><P Class=ENCC> and I had to take care of both of them.<br>Okay? <SYNC Start=5824138><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5825807><P Class=ENCC> Did I want Carl to touch my baby? <SYNC Start=5830811><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5832898><P Class=ENCC> Because I would lay my baby. <SYNC Start=5835232><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5835317><P Class=ENCC> I would lay her on the side of me,<br>on this pillow <SYNC Start=5839945><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5841698><P Class=ENCC> and it was pink <SYNC Start=5843866><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5844576><P Class=ENCC> and it had this little white writing on it <SYNC Start=5847620><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5847704><P Class=ENCC> and it had her name,<br>because she was precious. <SYNC Start=5851832><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5852751><P Class=ENCC> And I would lay my baby on that pillow <SYNC Start=5855085><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5855170><P Class=ENCC> and Carl would be laying on the other side <SYNC Start=5858547><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5859966><P Class=ENCC> and then we would...<br>We would start doing it <SYNC Start=5863844><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5863929><P Class=ENCC> and he reached over <SYNC Start=5866055><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5868350><P Class=ENCC> and he touched my baby. <SYNC Start=5870351><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5870435><P Class=ENCC> And I asked him, <SYNC Start=5871977><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5872771><P Class=ENCC> I said, "Carl, what are you doing?" <SYNC Start=5875356><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5875440><P Class=ENCC> And he told me to shut... <SYNC Start=5877858><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5877943><P Class=ENCC> To shut my fat ass up,<br>and it was good for her. <SYNC Start=5880945><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5881029><P Class=ENCC> - And what did you do then?<br>- I shut my fat ass up. <SYNC Start=5884281><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5884783><P Class=ENCC> And I don't want you to sit there<br>and judge me, Ms. Weiss. <SYNC Start=5888118><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5888203><P Class=ENCC> You shut up<br>and you let him abuse your daughter? <SYNC Start=5889954><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5890038><P Class=ENCC> I did not want him to abuse my daughter. <SYNC Start=5891997><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5892123><P Class=ENCC> - I did not want him to hurt her.<br>- But you allowed him <SYNC Start=5893582><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5893667><P Class=ENCC> - to hurt her.<br>- I did not want him to do nothing to her. <SYNC Start=5895543><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5895627><P Class=ENCC> I wanted him to make love to me. <SYNC Start=5897545><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5897629><P Class=ENCC> That was my man.<br>That was my fucking man. <SYNC Start=5900631><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5900799><P Class=ENCC> That was my man<br>and he wanted my daughter. <SYNC Start=5903634><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5904928><P Class=ENCC> And that's why I hated her. <SYNC Start=5907221><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5907305><P Class=ENCC> Because my man,<br>who was supposed to be loving me, <SYNC Start=5910307><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5910392><P Class=ENCC> who was supposed<br>to be making love to me, <SYNC Start=5913227><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5914312><P Class=ENCC> was fucking my baby. <SYNC Start=5916564><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5916648><P Class=ENCC> She made him leave.<br>She made him go away. <SYNC Start=5920276><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5920819><P Class=ENCC> So, whose fault was it, then? <SYNC Start=5921944><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5922028><P Class=ENCC> It's this bitch's fault<br>because she let my man have her <SYNC Start=5925197><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5925282><P Class=ENCC> and she didn't say nothing. <SYNC Start=5926865><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5926950><P Class=ENCC> She didn't scream. She didn't do nothing. <SYNC Start=5928951><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5929035><P Class=ENCC> So, those things she told you I did to her, <SYNC Start=5932580><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5932664><P Class=ENCC> who else was gonna love me? <SYNC Start=5935833><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5938837><P Class=ENCC> Since you got your degree<br>and you know every-fucking-thing, <SYNC Start=5942464><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5942549><P Class=ENCC> who was gonna love me,<br>who was gonna make me feel good? <SYNC Start=5946594><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5946678><P Class=ENCC> Who was gonna touch me<br>and make me feel good late at night? <SYNC Start=5950347><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5950432><P Class=ENCC> And she made him go away, so... <SYNC Start=5952975><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5953727><P Class=ENCC> When you sit there and you write<br>them fucking notes on your pad <SYNC Start=5957229><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5957314><P Class=ENCC> about who you think I am,<br>and why I did it, all of that. <SYNC Start=5961358><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5962694><P Class=ENCC> Because I didn't have nobody. <SYNC Start=5964903><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5973705><P Class=ENCC> The people from <SYNC Start=5976874><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5978501><P Class=ENCC> Each One Teach One, <SYNC Start=5980544><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5981254><P Class=ENCC> they had... They called me <SYNC Start=5984214><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5987177><P Class=ENCC> and they told me that my baby<br>was writing poems. <SYNC Start=5990262><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5990347><P Class=ENCC> In fact, you know what, I got... <SYNC Start=5991847><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=5991931><P Class=ENCC> Wait a minute. <SYNC Start=5993515><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6019501><P Class=ENCC> I'm sorry. <SYNC Start=6020959><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6021961><P Class=ENCC> I'm sorry.<br>And, Ms. Weiss, I don't want no checks. <SYNC Start=6025339><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6025423><P Class=ENCC> I don't need no more money. Please.<br>I'm so sorry. <SYNC Start=6029635><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6030553><P Class=ENCC> I took that TABE test again. <SYNC Start=6032721><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6033932><P Class=ENCC> And what happened? <SYNC Start=6035057><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6035141><P Class=ENCC> I scored a 7.8. <SYNC Start=6036809><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6038520><P Class=ENCC> Last time it was 2.8. <SYNC Start=6040437><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6042816><P Class=ENCC> According to that test, <SYNC Start=6044191><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6044275><P Class=ENCC> I'm reading at<br>a seventh- and eighth-grade level. <SYNC Start=6046985><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6048279><P Class=ENCC> Next year, high school. After that, college. <SYNC Start=6051448><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6057997><P Class=ENCC> Well, I like you, too. <SYNC Start=6059790><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6062127><P Class=ENCC> But you can't handle me. <SYNC Start=6064169><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6065964><P Class=ENCC> You can't handle none of this. <SYNC Start=6068298><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6076224><P Class=ENCC> You know, I never knew what you was<br>until this day. <SYNC Start=6079643><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6079728><P Class=ENCC> Not even after all them things you did. <SYNC Start=6082479><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6083982><P Class=ENCC> Maybe I was too stupid, or<br>maybe I just didn't want to. <SYNC Start=6087484><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6089946><P Class=ENCC> You ain't gonna see me no more. <SYNC Start=6092281><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6095869><P Class=ENCC> Bye! <SYNC Start=6097161><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6100874><P Class=ENCC> I didn't want him to hurt my baby. <SYNC Start=6102750><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6102834><P Class=ENCC> Please, God,<br>I didn't want him to hurt my baby. <SYNC Start=6105252><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6105336><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Weiss,<br>I didn't want him to hurt my baby. <SYNC Start=6108213><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6108298><P Class=ENCC> I would say to him, I would say... <SYNC Start=6110090><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6110175><P Class=ENCC> "Carl, what are you doing?<br>What are you doing? What are you doing?" <SYNC Start=6113427><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6122520><P Class=ENCC> Can you go get her back? <SYNC Start=6124104><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6124189><P Class=ENCC> You can do that,<br>because that's what you do. <SYNC Start=6126774><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6126858><P Class=ENCC> That's what you do. <SYNC Start=6128692><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6129110><P Class=ENCC> I need you to go<br>and I need you to get my baby back. <SYNC Start=6132821><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6132906><P Class=ENCC> You told me that I could come in here<br>and you could get... <SYNC Start=6136533><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6136993><P Class=ENCC> You could get Precious to say... <SYNC Start=6138452><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp <SYNC Start=6138536><P Class=ENCC> Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss?<br>Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss? Ms. Weiss? <SYNC Start=6142000><P Class=ENCC>&nbsp </BODY> </SAMI>