Episode 33

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“Oh struck a nerve… my full name Rose?”
“Jeffery this isn’t going to work… you are not going to smooth talk your way out of answering me.”
“Would I do that?”

“In a heartbeat… and this time, it won’t work. I’m serious… you knew how much I loved Claude. He was my world… what happened.”
*sigh* “He didn’t deserve you Rose… he couldn’t have made you happy.”
“It wasn’t for you to decide. We’re talking about my life here Jeffery… ‘my’ life… not yours… ‘mine’.”

“He left you for the ministry, Rose. His calling was more important than you or did you miss the collar?”
“He isn’t a priest… he’s a pastor… pastors can still marry…”
*laughing* “You… as a pastor’s wife? Oh that’s rich.”

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“Learn a new song, Joanna…”

“Hey… ya, I know… but… could you… just… will you listen?”

“Ka-… I…” *sigh* “Right… ya, I know… well, he said… did you ask him? … why not? … did he… what a crock! … no, not you… ya, I talked to her too…”

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“You never gave me the chance to make that choice. He loved me Jeffery… he still loves me.”
“You’ve spoke to him… hmmm… that explains the sudden interest in the past. What has he said to you?”
“Oh no… after all the crap you’ve put us through, I’m not telling you anything.”

“Oh so it’s ‘us’ now is it… hmmm, you don’t want your answers? Okay…”
“There… there’s more?”
“Did I say that?”

“Gods, you truly are your father’s son aren’t you. There is no more… he went to the ministry… he told you… why, Gods knows… and you didn’t bother to tell me… that’s it isn’t it. You’re still playing your games, you’re still trying to control me!”
“Go home to your daughter, Rose… go back to your life where you are happy.”
“That’s just it, Jeffery… I wasn’t happy. I haven’t been happy since he left me… and you took that away from me by keeping his whereabouts to yourself. I would have gone to that ministry to find him… I would have been the pastor’s wife and I would have been happy… but thanks to you and your warped sense of duty… I’m bitter and alone.”
“Daddy… Aunt Rose… dinner is ready…”

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“Then… will you give me… damn… I know you're still mad at me, Kacper… I know you are… that never bothered me… Why would it? … what time? … I'll be ready…”
“You're talking to that boy, I'm telling Mommy!”
“Crap, I gotta go… I'll be there…”

“I’m so telling Mommy. You were talking to that boy you’re not supposed talk to anymores.”
“Listen, Punk, stay out of this. He’s my best friend.”
“But Mommy said…”

“I know what Mother said, how about this… let’s just say that someone told you that you can no longer be friends with Martin?”
“But why?”
“Just because…”
“But why?”
“Just because…”
“But why?”

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