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NARRATOR: <i>Previously on</i>
Boy Meets World.

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Something bad happened,
didn't it?

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Yeah, it did.

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Then tell me.
I can't, okay?

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You just gotta
talk to Topanga.

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My family and I

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are moving.

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To a different house on
the same block you live
on now?

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We're leaving Philadelphia.

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So you're saying
that she can't move

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if we're really supposed
to be together, can she?

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Not if
 TV is the true
mirror of our lives.

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Now, the doctor on .ER,
she really left.

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<i>ER's</i> real.

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Cory, will you just give me
a hug and a kiss and say
goodbye to me?

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No.

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(IN BRITISH ACCENT)
Now, now, don't be
such a rushy boy.

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A rushy boy?

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Since Rosie and I
came to America,

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we really haven't been on
very many dates, you know.

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Isn't that so, Rosie?

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Yes, and I suppose as such,

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Becky and I have a little
catching up to do.

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Oh, you're wicked.
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(BOTH GIGGLING)

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Did you hear that, Cor?

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(MIMICS BRITISH ACCENT)
They have a little
catching up to do.

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Well, I suppose anyone
can sit on a couch,

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but you were clever enough
to choose the cozy chair.

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Hmm?

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Clever indeed.

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Are you just as clever?

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Hello, Topanga, hi!
How are you?

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I miss you.
I miss you so much.

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I didn't hear
the phone ring.

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Did you hear the
phone ring, Becky?

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No, I didn't hear
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No, not at all.

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Well, you miss me, too?

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Yes, I think about you
every day.

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You hung up the phone
on Topanga!

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I hung up on nobody, Cor.

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The phone has to ring
for somebody to be on it.

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Not when you're in love.

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Or nuts!

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You're killing me, man.

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I haven't done anything.

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That is exactly
what the problem is.

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You have a beautiful girl
from another country

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who doesn't understand
our language,

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 and you haven't done
a thing!

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Well, the night is young.

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Oh, you're wicked!

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Cory.

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Listen, Shawn.
I am getting to
know Rosie, okay?

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Maybe I just move
a little slower than you.

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Well, move
a little faster.

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They're only here
on a six month visa.

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See? I told you
about that one.

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Mmm-hmm.
You were right.

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I'm just worried
about Topang...

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Please, for one night,
I beg of you,

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there is no Topang.
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If you care
about me at all,

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and even if you don't
care about me but could
someday care about me,

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then go.

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Okay, okay.

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(SHAWN CLEARS THROAT)

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SHAWN: Now,
if memory serves,

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the point I was
trying to make was...

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Well, I guess
we should kiss now.

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I suppose we could.
We don't have to.

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We can.

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Do I make you sad?

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No, no. I think
you're very delightful.

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 And I think you speak
English quite well.

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Thank you.

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It's just that I've been

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going out with this girl
for, like, 16 years.

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Kill you!

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(WHISPERING)
A girl named Topanga.
Come here.

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You see, we first met when
we were eight-months-old
in a sandbox.

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She was your first
girlfriend, then?

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I'm pretty sure.

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And, you know, I always
thought we were meant
to be together

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for the rest
of our lives,

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but two weeks ago,
she moved to Pittsburgh,

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 and I never got a chance
to say goodbye

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and that I love her.

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And, you know,
what if I never get
a chance to tell her?

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Will she know?

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That is the most beautiful
and heartfelt thing I have
ever heard.

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Thank you.

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Would you mind very much
if I cried my eyes out
just right now?

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Would it be okay
if I cried with you?

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That would
be wonderful.
Thank you.

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(BOTH CRYING)

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Well, he seems
to be quite the
rushy boy, too.

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Yeah, well, I taught him
everything he knows.
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Cory, dinner.

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Come on.

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Good boy. Good boy.
Get you out of the rain.

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Is it raining?

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Hey, Mommy, Daddy,
I found this wounded
puppy outside.

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Can we keep him?
Can we?

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Cory, I know this is
tough on you, son,

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but you can't go on
avoiding life.

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You know something, Cor?
He's absolutely right.

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I had the same problem
when I broke up with
Francesca.

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There was a lot of pain,
there was a lot of heartache,

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but eventually
time stepped in
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and I got over my
devastating loss.

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Who's Francesca?

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(WHISPERING)
There is no Francesca.
I'm just trying to help.

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Nobody wants that.

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Okay.

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Listen, Cor,
I was thinking.

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Why don't we just
drive down to Pittsburgh
this weekend, huh?

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I need to see
some suppliers,

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and you can
spend some time
with Topanga.

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I don't think that's
the best idea, Alan.

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Mom, you know what?

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I know how you feel, okay?

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You've made it
real clear how you feel.

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(EXCLAIMS)
My feelings are for you.

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I don't want you
to be in pain.

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No. You just don't
want me and Topanga
to be together.

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I don't want you
to be sick over Topanga.

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Cor, she isn't
here anymore.

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And to tell you the truth,
I think this presents you
with a good opportunity

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to get to know
other girls.

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Mom, I don't want to
know other girls, okay?

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See, I don't think
that's healthy.

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Topanga and I would've
been together for
the rest of our lives.

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You both have to get
to know other people

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to make
a choice like that.

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I had relationships
with four other men
before I met your father.

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Ma!

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I know three.

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Well, you know what, Mom,
I'm sure you'll be
real happy to know that

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I'm not going to go
to Pittsburgh, okay?

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Why not?
You and Topanga
have a fight?

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No. No fight.
I just realized
that I'm the one

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making all the phone calls.
I'm the one writing
all the letters,

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but I will not be the one
who travels 300 miles
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to be rejected
and look like a fool.

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So if life doesn't want
me and Topanga together,

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then you can't
fight life, can you?

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Cory.

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Topanga!

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Aren't you
going to hug me?

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Well, you know,
wet and everything.

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I missed you.
I missed you so much.

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Hi, Topanga.

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Hi, honey.

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Do your parents
want to come in?

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Actually there
are no parents.

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 So your parents
dropped you off?

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I'm betting no.

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I couldn't be
without you.

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I wasn't doing
too good either.

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Topanga, your parents
don't know you're here,
do they?

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No. No, they don't.

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Topanga, your parents
are going to be very
worried about you.

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Why would they be
worried about me now?

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They weren't worried
about me when they
decided to move.

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I told them how much
Cory meant to me

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and how I couldn't be
away from him.

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They said I was too young
to say things like that,
that I didn't know.
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So you ran away from them?

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I ran away to Cory.

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Okay. It just
got serious now.

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Topanga, I'm going
to have to call them.

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No, Mom. Didn't you hear
what she just said?

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Her parents don't
understand her, okay?

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Just like you two
don't understand me.

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We want to be together.
Okay? That's what we want.

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Topanga, I know
you miss Cory,

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but to come here without
your parents' permission,
that's just wrong.

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How can it be wrong, Mom,
if she loves me enough
to do that?

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I mean, I'm sorry
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Help me, Alan.

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First of all,

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we are not the enemy.

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We understand that
you two want to be
together,

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but this is not
the way to go about it.

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I'm calling.

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Listen, I promise no one
is going to take you
away from me. I promise.

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We have to.

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So the first day
we didn't connect
was Monday,

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but I figured
you were busy
with school

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and you had a lot
of other stuff to do,

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but then we missed
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and I started wondering
who were you with?

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Cory, I could've sat
and talked to you on
the phone every day,

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but it was just the phone,
and every time I hung up
it got harder for me.

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I just tried
to stay busy.

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Well, does busy include
going to the school dance
with your new friends?

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How'd you know?

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It was a guess.

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It was just
something to do.

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And I had a lousy time
because all I thought
about was you.

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You missed
a phone call or two.
What were you up to?

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Listen, if I missed
a phone call,
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it was because I was
out at the mailbox
checking for a letter.

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Hey, Cory!
The Sparrow sisters called.
They want to see us again.

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Hey, Topanga.

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Naturally, I told them
you were married.

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So the Sparrow sisters.
They were in your mailbox,
were they?

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Trust me.
I love you.

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I know you do.
I love you, too.

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Okay, your hair's wet,
you're wearing
Cory's clothes.

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You ran away,
didn't you?

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She gets that from me.

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Hey, she ran away!

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 Bad, bad, bad girl!

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We called your folks,
Topanga, to let them
know that you're here

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and that you're all right.

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And later on...
And later on, what, Mom?

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She's going back
to her house?
Then, fine.

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I'm going with her.
We can do this
again there.

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Cory, you live here.
Topanga lives
in Pittsburgh.

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I didn't do it.
Stop jumping on me.

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No, no, Mom.
I'm not jumping on you
because of where we live.

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All right? I'm jumping
on you because you
seem happy about this.

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I mean, why don't you
want us to be together?

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I hear yelling.

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Eric, upstairs.

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No, no, I hear yelling.
I'm not involved.
I'm staying.

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You cannot make
adult life decisions

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without adult life
experiences behind
those decisions

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to make them stand up.

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Mom, I love her.

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So you say, Cory.

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But what does love mean
to you at 16-years-old?

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I have been
with your father
for 22 years,

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and I am just now
beginning to realize
what love really means.

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Wait right there.

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Was I a big surprise?
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Okay, Cory,
you educate me.

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You tell me what
love means to you.

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Mom, listen,
I haven't been
together with Topanga

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for 22 years,
but we have been
together for 16, okay?

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That's a lot longer
than most couples
have been together.

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I mean, when we were born,
you told me that we used
to take walks

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in our strollers together
around the block.

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When we were two,
we were best friends.

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I knew everything about
this girl. I knew her
favorite color.

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I knew her
favorite food.

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Then we got to be six,
and Eric made fun of me

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because it wasn't cool
to have a best friend
that's a girl

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or to even know a girl.

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(CHUCKLES) Yeah, and you
listened to me. Idiot.

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So for the next seven years,
I threw dirt at her.

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I like to call those
the lost years.

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You were the one
who made him
throw dirt at me?

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You were a girl,
noogiehead.

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Then when I was 13, Mom,
she put me up against
my locker,

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and she kissed me.

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I mean, she gave me
my first kiss.

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She taught me
how to dance.

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She always was talking
about these crazy things,

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and I never understood
a word she said.

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All I understood was that

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she was the girl
I sat up every night
thinking about.

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And when I'm with her,

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I feel happy
to be alive,

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like I can do anything.

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Even talk to you
like this.

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So that's what
I think is love, Mom.

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When I'm better
because she's here.

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And now
she won't be.

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So I'm finished.

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I think it's a good thing
 that Cory's the only boy
I've ever loved.

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I was looking forward to
doing all the things that
people do who are in love

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with Cory.

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And not with just
some guy in Pittsburgh
because I'm there.

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Well, should I call
the caterers?

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(DOORBELL RINGS)

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Never mind.
They're here.

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No. That would be
Topanga's aunt.

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My aunt?
Aunt Prudence?

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Your parents said
they were going to
call her.

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Hey, maybe she'll
be on our side.

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No, not my aunt.

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Well, maybe she'll realize
that we're Romeo and Juliet.
We belong together.

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Look, my aunt has
never been in love,
never been married,

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and wouldn't even know
who Romeo and Juliet were.

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Hello. I'm Topanga's aunt.

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Okay. Now,
how's that possible?

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Because my aunt looks
like an elephant.

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That is my sister
you're talking about.

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(SCOFFS)
She does, man.

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Hi. I'm Alan Matthews.
This is my wife, Amy.

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Prudence Curtis.
Hello, Topanga.

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Aunt Pru.

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And this must be
the young man who has
my niece so smitten.
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Hi, uh, I'm
Cory Matthews.

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Listen, you're my
last chance. Please
don't take her away.

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I'm sorry, Cory,
but my instructions are
to take Topanga home with me

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and put her on the train
to Pittsburgh, first thing
in the morning.

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Cory, help.
Topanga, I don't know
what to do, okay?

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Everyone seems
to want us apart.
Except dad.

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Dad, listen, you really
haven't said anything
during this whole time.

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Are you going to let her
take her away?

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I don't think
I'm going to have to.

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What?

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Well, you know,
 you may have known Topanga
since you were born,

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but I've known your mother,
like, forever, okay?

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So?
So...

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What I know
about your mother,

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besides her favorite
food and color,

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spaghetti and red,

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and the thing that
I respect in her the most

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is that she has always
put her faith in love,

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when she sees it,
when she recognizes it.

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Which is why
she chose me

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when her parents
told her not to.

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Yeah, but, Dad,
she wants us to have
other relationships.

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Love is faith, Cory.
Do you love your mother?

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Yeah, of course I do.

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Then have faith.

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It would be

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wrong

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for Topanga to go
back to Pittsburgh.

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00:16:24,701 --> 00:16:26,033
Guess I have
a lot to learn.

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Certainly you're
not suggesting

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00:16:29,434 --> 00:16:33,033
that I let some
puppy love between two
16-year-old children

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interfere with
her parents' wishes?

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00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,567
I am suggesting
that Topanga was
born in Philadelphia

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and has spent
her entire life here.

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 All of her friends,
everything she knows
is here.

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And to rip her
out of high school
in her junior year

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and drag her to Pittsburgh
where she has to make
new friends for one year,

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and then have to leave
again for college is
irresponsible.

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00:16:56,701 --> 00:17:00,267
Are you saying that my
sister and brother-in-law
are irresponsible?

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00:17:01,901 --> 00:17:03,234
Yes, I am.

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00:17:04,033 --> 00:17:05,300
Then keep talking.

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00:17:11,667 --> 00:17:14,834
I have known Topanga
for 16 years, too.

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00:17:18,667 --> 00:17:20,534
It's hard not to love her.

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00:17:23,367 --> 00:17:25,834
Everything Cory says
she is, she is.

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00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,067
And no matter
how old Cory is,

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it will be hard for him
to find better.
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Mom.

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You're my son.

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I never want you
to be in pain.

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00:17:47,434 --> 00:17:49,300
Topanga, Cory,

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00:17:49,367 --> 00:17:52,534
would you excuse us
so that I may speak to
Mr. and Mrs. Matthews?

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00:18:03,934 --> 00:18:05,234
Oh, I'm staying.

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00:18:11,901 --> 00:18:15,167
Mr. Matthews,
Miss Lawrence.

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00:18:15,234 --> 00:18:17,801
No, no. This isn't
the classroom,
Mr. Matthews.

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As you were.

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Even though this
isn't the classroom
at the moment,

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would you mind
if I taught you
a lesson anyway?

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Please.
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00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,434
Believe it or not,

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00:18:33,501 --> 00:18:35,601
there was a time
in my life

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when I cared for
someone as deeply

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00:18:38,734 --> 00:18:40,801
as you two care
for each other now.

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00:18:42,534 --> 00:18:45,133
You believe we
love each other?

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00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:47,834
And for no reason
I understood,

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00:18:47,901 --> 00:18:50,234
my wife was
taken from me,

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00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:53,167
and I haven't been
so deeply in love since.

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00:18:54,167 --> 00:18:56,667
Feeny believes
we love each other.

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00:18:56,734 --> 00:18:58,567
I believe that
when you find love,

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you hold onto it

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00:19:01,334 --> 00:19:03,100
and cherish it,

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00:19:03,167 --> 00:19:05,367
 because there is
nothing finer,

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and it may
never come again.

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00:19:09,067 --> 00:19:10,834
And that, my dears,

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00:19:10,901 --> 00:19:13,100
is the most
important thing that
I could teach you.

372
00:19:14,534 --> 00:19:16,133
Who is that guy?

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00:19:18,033 --> 00:19:19,300
That's Mr. Feeny.

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00:19:19,367 --> 00:19:20,701
He knows everything.

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00:19:21,534 --> 00:19:23,067
No, he doesn't.

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00:19:26,334 --> 00:19:27,534
Beg your pardon?

377
00:19:29,234 --> 00:19:32,200
Prudence Curtis.
I'm Topanga's aunt.

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00:19:32,267 --> 00:19:35,501
George Feeny.
I'm Topanga's teacher.

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00:19:35,567 --> 00:19:40,367
Well, I don't know that
I appreciate what you're
teaching these children, sir.

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00:19:40,434 --> 00:19:42,767
To plant wild ideas
about true love
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00:19:42,834 --> 00:19:47,634
in young undeveloped minds
is as irresponsible as my
sister and brother-in-law

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00:19:47,701 --> 00:19:50,601
ripping her from
the only environment
she's ever known

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00:19:50,667 --> 00:19:52,234
at this delicate time.

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00:19:52,300 --> 00:19:57,300
Madam, if you choose
to question my opinions,

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then you disregard 38 years
in the public school system

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00:20:02,801 --> 00:20:06,501
where I have borne
the responsibility
of those opinions

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00:20:06,567 --> 00:20:09,567
for 30,000 students,

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00:20:09,634 --> 00:20:11,501
none held
in higher regard

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00:20:11,567 --> 00:20:14,067
than Mr. Matthews
and Miss Lawrence.

390
00:20:14,133 --> 00:20:15,467
You like me?

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00:20:15,534 --> 00:20:17,801
Stay out of this.

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00:20:17,868 --> 00:20:19,968
The only thing
I presume, sir,
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00:20:20,033 --> 00:20:22,968
is that you are
as verbose as
you are snappy.

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00:20:26,467 --> 00:20:27,934
Well, then...

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00:20:30,167 --> 00:20:31,634
There we are.

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00:20:33,467 --> 00:20:36,300
Topanga, your aunt has
something to tell you.

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00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:42,567
I have spoken
to your parents,

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00:20:42,634 --> 00:20:47,601
and while I don't condone
the intensity or exclusivity
of this relationship,

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00:20:47,667 --> 00:20:51,901
I also cannot condone
the actions of my sister
and brother-in-law.

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00:20:51,968 --> 00:20:55,400
Therefore I've decided,
and they have agreed,

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00:20:55,467 --> 00:20:57,067
that if you'd like
to live with me

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00:20:57,133 --> 00:20:59,601
during the remainder of
your high school education,

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00:21:00,367 --> 00:21:01,901
I'd be happy to have you.

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00:21:03,334 --> 00:21:04,467
I'm verbose?
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00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:08,334
Did you hear
what she said?

406
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:10,334
Yeah, she said
you're staying here.