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¢ÝAmazing grace¢Ý

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Once upon a time, our country was founded upon...

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Faith.

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Faith in all its forms.

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But during the late nineteen-sixties, people...

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Began looking heavenward...
For new answers to old questions.

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And we have lift off of Apollo thirteen.

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The bravest among us...
Journeyed into the unknown.

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While the rest of us stood by with our support.

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Our goodwill. And of course...

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Damn!

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Our taxes.

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Already?

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For my father, April was the cruelest month...

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I bust my hump all year for this?

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It wasn't that Dad didn't have faith in Uncle Sam.

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He belive the taxes

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Here ya are, honey.

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It was just the part about paying them he resented.

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So, from the moment the ol' ten-forty's arrived in the mail, life around the Arnold house...

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Shifted into kind of a state of emergency.

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Here, Daddy.
Have a seat.

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We all knew the drill.

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And each of us...Had an assignment.

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Apollo thirteen astronauts report smooth sailing on day one of their mission to the moon.

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Kevin, turn down the damn TV!

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My assignment was to turn down the damn TV.

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Wayne's assignment was to be...

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Well...

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Invisible.

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After that, it was all kind of up to Mom.

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I'll put these in the file with the other forms.

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See, even though Dad filled out the forms and...Signed the checks...

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It was Mom who kept the receipts, organized the paperwork...

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Stockpiled the bi-carb...

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And generally...

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Anyone for dinner?

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Kept Dad from eating us alive.

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I bust my hump all year for this?

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Still, for all his grumbling, on some level...

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Dad knew taxes were inevitable.

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Death.

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I think you'll find this very interesting.

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Miss Stebbins was teaching us creative writing.

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And we were learning that creative writing wasn't a book report...

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Or "how I spent my summer vacation".

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Creating writing was...

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The end of your life.

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What will they say about you in the newspaper?

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Yes. Harold.

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Which newspaper?

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Any newspaper you like.

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What did you do?

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What did you accomplish?

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What's the point of this?

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Good question, Kevin!

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We became engaged in Captain Ahab's obsessive quest...

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We cried when Jane...
And Rochester finally got married...

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Why?

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Yes, Harold?

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Cuz they were dead?

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Because...you cared about the characters.

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Now, how do we write a character?

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We start...

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With the one we got to know about first.

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Ourselves. Who are you..who were you...and where are you headed?

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Faced with such profound...
And disturbing questions...

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One thought sprang immediately to our minds.

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Yes, Susan.

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How long does it have to be?

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Oh...About a page.

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One page?

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One...page?!

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Paul - it's not that bad.

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How do you cram a full and productive lifetime into one page?

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Kevin, don't you realize how deep this is?

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Paul...aren't you taking this a little too seriously?

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Heck - this wasn't brain surgery.
We were just writing our obituaries, here.

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So many decisions to make, here!

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Fr'instance...do I go into business with my dad, or marry Marsha Brady?

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Or both!

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Kev?

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I don't want to die.

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My best friend had...What you might call...a malleable mind.

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Me? I wasn't worried.

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What was the big deal?

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It was just a page - one lousy...little...page.

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Thirty three lines.

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Two hundred and ninety words.

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If ya wrote big.

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What's that?

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Oh! Nothing.

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Which was true.

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I'd been staring at that page for an hour-and-a-half without coming up with a single word.

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Some kind of writer's block, I guess.

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An obituary? Oh, lemme see...maybe I can help.

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Wayne...

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Let's see...

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"Kevin Arnold."

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"Born a butthead."

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"Lived a butthead's life."

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"Died..."

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"A butthead!" Did ya get any of that down?

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Wayne! Stop teasing Kevin.

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Your father's trying to watch the news.

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Mom was serious. Every year...

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The night before he paid his taxes, my father had a ritual...Of watching the news.

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We figured it made him feel better...
To know that others were suffering.

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And he listen have keep has mind off.

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Astronaut John Swigert today joked he'd forgotten to file his Federal income tax returns.

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Manned-spacecraft Center officials assured him...he'd get an extension.

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Oh, abandon couch.

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Bi-carb, Jack?

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Too late - the beast was stirring.

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Did you get those receipts together yet, Norma?

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Don't worry honey.
Everything...is under control.

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That was Mom.
Always the picture of calm.

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Saturday we'll fill out the forms - get it over with.

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Norma?

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Right.

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I'll get your bi-carb.

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What's wrong with her?

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Hard to tell. I guess Mom had problems of her own.

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Meanwhile, I had a deadline.

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And I do mean "deadline".

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Dad...

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Have you ever thought about your life?

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Huh?

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Uh, well...it's for school.

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I mean, if you had to write about it, what would you say?

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OK. Time for a meaningful father-son exchange here.

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A thoughtful summing up.

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I get up at five in the morning. I fight traffic.

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I bust my hump all day...I fight traffic again.

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Then I come home.

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Then I pay my taxes.

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The End.

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In a way, it kinda made ya feel ya knew the guy.

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My only consolation was I was pretty sure no one else was gonna do this assignment, either.

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The world mourns the loss of a great poet, Susan Kelley,

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whose work made her lots and lots of money.

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The minute he got out of high school,

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he joined the service, to fight...for his country!

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After he won the Grand Prix...there was series of empty relationships.

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When he spoke...

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People listened!

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She brutally murdered her little sister and was cleared of all charges.

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Chapter seven, age thirty-six.

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"The Harvest Ripens".

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Poised on the very cusp of young adulthood...

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I venture forth from the secure hallways of academia...

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And into the cut-throat world of opthamology.

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Before the age of forty, I invent the strapless sport spectacle.

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Ah...thank you very much, Paul.

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But we have to have time for everyone.

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Now! Who's next?

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Kevin?

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How about you?

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He was born of humble parentage, and grew up living a simple life.

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He served several years in the Virginia legislature...

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Then went on to become...President of the United States.

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There! Short-and-sweet.

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Honest.

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To the point.

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That was very nice, Kevin...

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That was also George Washington's life.

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Rats!

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Now, I suggest...you get a life of your own, and write about it.

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It didn't seem fair.

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When you're thirteen years old...
The last thing you want to have to worry about...

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Is your life.

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That's what you have parents for.

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Sure...

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Let her worry.

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Only let's not overdo it, here.

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Mom?

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Is everything alright?

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I'm sorry, Kevin. What were you saying?

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Something was wrong.

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Mom could usually talk on the phone...

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Cook dinner, yell at Wayne and help you with your homework...

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All without missing a beat.

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Mom?

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How could I be so stupid?

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The whole point of taking them to make copies was so we wouldn't...Lose the receipts.

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You lost the tax receipts?

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They're just...

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Gone.

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This was unbelievable! My mother?

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The most organized woman in the world?

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Oh, don't worry, honey!

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They're bound to turn up...

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You really think so?

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I wanted to believe her. I did.

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Something about the way she was staring at that TV.

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Gave me the distinct impression that...well...to put it mildly...

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We interrupt this broadcast for a CBS News special report.

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Uh, Houston, this is Apollo thirteen...we've had a problem here...

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OK, Houston, we've had a problem, here. 

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This is a CBS News Special Report.

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Trouble has developed aboard Apollo 13.

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Trouble serious enough, to jeopardize the continuation of the mission.

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So much for emergencies in space.

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It was just a grocery bag full of receipts.

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We had a few of our own right here at home.

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No?

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....Oh, dear...

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Well, thank you, anyway.

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Tax day at ground zero. Situation...Grim.

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Mom had tuned the house upside down looking for those tax receipts.

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With no luck.

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Norma?

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Time to get started...

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Gee, what was he gonna do - hack those W-2's to death?

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Thought I'd sharpen these clippers out in the garage.

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Oh...That's a good idea.

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Sure, good idea.
Distract him with tools.

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Then after dinner...we'll go to work on those taxes.

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- Honey? 
- Hmmm?

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I was just thinking...why waste a perfectly good Saturday night on paperwork?

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Why don't we...go out to a movie?

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It's been ages since we all went out together.

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Come on, Dad - I think it'll be fun.

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Maybe tomorrow.

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We're doin' taxes tonight.

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It made ya wonder.

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Do moms...Ever actually sweat?

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Are you OK, Mom?

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Oh...

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I think I'll take a shower.

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Well - that answered that.

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Those poor astronauts.

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Their families must be worried sick.

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Well, somebody's family, anyway.

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Still, maybe I was blowin' this all out of proportion.

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I mean, what's the worst that could happen?

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He's gonna kill her.

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Dad?

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I was just wondering...

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What happens if you don't pay your taxes?

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What are ya talkin' about?

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Well, say you...Forgot.

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Or, you couldn't, for some reason. 
What would happen then?

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There. A reasonable question.

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You go to jail.

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And a reasonable answer.

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Oh...

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Unless, of course, you have a legitimate excuse.

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OK - that might apply here.

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What if...say, uh...like...you...

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Lose...your, your receipts...And stuff?

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What?

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Through, uh, somehow by a...freak accident.

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Oh, my gosh.

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He knew.

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Now I get it.

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You know what, Kev?
You worry too much.

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I do?

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Your mom would never lose those receipts.

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She guards them with her life.

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Uh-huh. That's exactly what I was afraid of.

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It was becoming pretty clear...
Mine wasn't the only obituary that needed writing.

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Norma?

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Time to get to work.
Put it off long enough.

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What, honey?

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You got all the forms together?

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You got the state...and federal...my W-2's...the receipts?

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Of course.

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I'll get cleaned up, and we'll start.

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Uh, Jack?

273
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Well, the moment of truth had come.

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Mom was gonna have to come clean.

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She was gonna have to...

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I have an...errand to run in town.

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I'll be back in a bit.

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Run for her life.

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It was kinda like watching Custer turn tail at Little Big Horn.

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I-I gotta go.

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Can I have a ride?

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And I alone...Was left to tell the tale.

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Well...Maybe I'll get started without her.

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Well, that was that.

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In a matter of hours, my family was going to explode.

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And there was nothing I could do about it.

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Except, of course...

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Head for the hills, myself.

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I wasn't sure whre I was going.

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All I knew was - I couldn't go home.

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I guess Mom was feeling that way, too.

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It was strange.
I'd never seen her in church before.

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Except for weddings...

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And funerals.

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But there she was.

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Lighting a candle for those stupid tax receipts.

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I wanted to help her.

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To make everything right.
But I knew I couldn't.

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All I could do was hope that, somehow, she'd find an answer here.

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Mom?

301
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Mom?

302
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Yes, honey?

303
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Do you think your prayers will be answered?

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One way or another.

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We drove for quite a while.

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I guess neither of us were in a hurry to get home.

307
00:17:07,658 --> 00:17:10,089
The emergency rules out any chance of a lunar landing...

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Faced with the inevitable...
Mom seemed so calm. And brave.

309
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Norma?!

310
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Norma? Where the hell are those receipts?

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Mission control has given no official word on what will be done, but has declared...

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The second rocket engine will be used in aborting the mission, and getting the astronauts safely back to earth.

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And now, the world holds its breath as the brave astronauts of...,

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Apollo 13 prepare to swing around the dark side of...

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The Moon, in their disabled spacecraft.

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I stood in the yard for a long time.

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Looking at moon and thinking.
About Mom and Dad, and the receipts...

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About those astronauts.

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00:17:51,981 --> 00:17:54,556
About how things in a life can get lost...

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without any certainty of ever finding them again.

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I said a little prayer for all of us.

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I was prepared for the worst.

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Tears. Rage. A family in shambles.

324
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Or...

325
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That's when we went to Omaha.
You remember the plane fare?

326
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A hundred and fifty bucks.

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I couldn't believe it. I'd never seen them quite so close.

328
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Like they didn't have a care in the world.

329
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But watching them, together...

330
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Loving each other...recreating the past year from memory, I felt...a bond.

331
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A promise that things would work out.

332
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So where'd ya go today?

333
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First I went by the post office to see if anyone had turned in the receipts...

334
00:18:55,966 --> 00:18:57,380
Ah...

335
00:18:57,380 --> 00:19:00,247
And then I stopped by a church.

336
00:19:00,890 --> 00:19:03,635
Said a prayer for the astronauts.

337
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Unh...

338
00:19:10,742 --> 00:19:13,596
And suddenly, a lot of things made sense.

339
00:19:13,596 --> 00:19:15,720
So how many days were you in that hotel in Omaha?

340
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Three days...

341
00:19:16,747 --> 00:19:18,674
Three days. What, at about...?

342
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Thirty bucks a day...

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As I looked at that blank page, I knew that whatever I wrote would be a lie

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or at best, a wild guess.
It didn't matter.

345
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Whatever life lay ahead of me -

346
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a life of hope, of possibility, of uncertainty -

347
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I felt sure I knew what it would take to survive.

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I guess what I'm saying is...for the first time,

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I understood that some things are bigger than death and taxes.

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Like family.

351
00:19:51,748 --> 00:19:53,982
Like faith.

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I could only hope Miss Stebbins would understand, too.

353
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Mom?

354
00:20:10,053 --> 00:20:11,999
Hmmm?

355
00:20:11,999 --> 00:20:15,421
Do you think the astronauts will get home?

356
00:20:15,421 --> 00:20:18,373
I don't know, Kevin.

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