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Farewell, Pinky.

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The potatoes!

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Potatoes?

4
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Potatoes?

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Pinky?

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Pinky, what do you mean?

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Oh!

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Oh, Pinky.

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Be free, Sylvia.

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Don't worry. I'll be okay.

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I wasn't always this alone.

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My childhood was full of people.

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Dad used to say that
childhood was like being drunk.

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Everyone remembers what you did
except you.

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But my childhood
was sobering, Sylvia.

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I remember everything
right from the start.

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I'd always liked
feeling caged in.

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Snug and protected.

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It was a shock
to be born premature.

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I wasn't fully baked
and looked like a baby rabbit.

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I was named
Grace Prudence Pudel.

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My twin brother Gilbert.

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The nurse said we had two souls
but one heart.

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I liked that.

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Our birth was very strenuous
for Mum, and she died.

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We left her womb.

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She entered her tomb.

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Mother snails do the same
after they've had their babies.

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Don't they, Sylvia?

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As I grew older, I suffered
a smorgasbord of afflictions.

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I was always back in hospital
for something.

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The doctors said I was
like a China doll

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you could shatter
with just a stare.

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Eventually they needed to fix
my floppy lip.

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Things went bad.

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I lost so much blood
I needed a transfusion.

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The doctor asked Gilbert
if he'd give me his.

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Huh?

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Oh.

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He said yes

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even though he thought
he'd have to die to save me.

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How long before I die?

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They quickly explained
he wouldn't die.

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His body would make new blood.

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Oh.

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He became
everyone's hero that night,

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especially mine.

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To cheer me up, Dad gave me
Mum's old jewelry box.

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Inside, it had her snail
collection and her ring.

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She had loved snails as well
and had been a malacologist.

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I thought Gilbert
should have the ring.

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Ooh. I'm gonna wear this
till the day I die, Gracie.

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Despite my woes, Sylvia,

54
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I believed in glasses half-full
and silver linings.

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Gilbert's glass
was half-empty, though.

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I remember how he was often sad.

57
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Seemed like he had a secret
he wanted to tell.

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He was like Holden Caulfield,
James Dean,

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and Charlie Brown,
all rolled into one.

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He saw people as a threat.

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At school
he was always my warrior.

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My defender.

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Rabbit face! Rabbit face!

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Rabbit face! Rabbit face!

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Gimme that.

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Hey, morons!

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Hmm?

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...able to
breed a chicken with a giraffe.

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He said
that he's able to lay eggs

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but has a really long pecker.

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Our home was our sanctuary.

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A place where we felt safe
to read our books

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and watch our favorite shows.

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I loved my bedroom.

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It's where everything
was just so.

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Right angles brought me
enormous comfort

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as did my snails, Sylvia.

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They were my friends.

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So I made more of them.

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I knew they'd never leave me.

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Hurt me.

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Or die.

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I didn't like people dying.

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I wanted to save people.

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Save the homeless.

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My favorite was James.

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One Christmas, I covered him
in decorations

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so he could feel
some Christmas cheer.

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He loved his tea.

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Huh?

91
00:10:08,939 --> 00:10:12,342
Ah, good on ya, little possum.

92
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Good on ya.

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He was once a magistrate

94
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but was defrocked
for masturbating in court.

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Back then, I thought
masturbation meant

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chewing
your food thoroughly.

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He once told me

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that masturbation
was the thief of time.

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-Ooh!
-Huh?

100
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James gave me
my first real snail.

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Aha!

102
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Your Mum, Sylvia.

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He told me to put her
in a big jar

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and feed her Vegemite.

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While I was busy trying
to save the world,

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Gilbert wanted
to break free from it.

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Free others.

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What?

109
00:11:05,475 --> 00:11:09,211
Once, he let our
neighbor's cockatoo escape.

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Fly, Mildred! Come on, fly!

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Bye, Mildred!

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Gilbert said Mildred
never seemed so happy.

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If he wasn't letting animals
free, he was rescuing them.

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He didn't care about
the dangers.

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I'll save it, Gracie!

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Gilbert!

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Come on, Stella!

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Over here, Gracie!

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Gilbert loved animals
so much he became a vegetarian.

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Ohh, now she's got a boyfriend.

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Look, Gracie, they're hugging.

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Eggs, wow!

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We'd created our own
little family.

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They've hatched Gracie. Babies!

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You became my favorite, Sylvia.

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Your swirl went opposite
to the others.

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Gilbert named you
after Mum's favorite author.

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But the thing
that made Gilbert really unique

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was his love of fire.

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He wanted to eat it.

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He'd spend hours
playing with fire.

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I remember how he always
smelt like burnt matches.

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At school, the girls swooned.

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He was the flame,
they were the moths.

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00:14:07,246 --> 00:14:11,584
But he was more interested
in reading and magic.

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I think he just
wanted to disappear

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and spend all his pocket money
at Bert's.

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Bert was the type of person

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parents told you
to avoid, Sylvia.

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Someone who might offer you
boiled lollies.

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Ooh, wow.

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Bert seemed anything
but magical.

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00:14:47,912 --> 00:14:51,317
Gilbert's dream was to be
a street performer in Paris.

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Look, Gracie!

145
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He was always practicing.

146
00:15:11,481 --> 00:15:14,450
Oh, shit!

147
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Ow! Ow! Argh!

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And often burnt himself.

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00:15:22,514 --> 00:15:24,782
We got little scars
from the sparks.

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And when we put our arms
together, they formed a face.

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Oh, look, Gracie!

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It felt great when we did this.

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Our feelings aligned.

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00:15:39,947 --> 00:15:44,385
A lot of twins say this,
Sylvia, and it's true.

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I felt his emotions.

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His happiness and his sadness,

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which seemed to be
the fourth member of our family.

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Mum's death had left a hole.

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Dad had tried to fill the void,

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but he had his own problems.

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00:16:05,182 --> 00:16:11,155
Dad was French and had once
been an animator in Paris.

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He made stop motion films
with an old Bolex camera.

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He showed them to us sometimes.

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To pay for his art form,
he busked on the streets.

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Mum met him on a holiday

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she'd won in the Woman's
Weekly magazine.

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Wow!

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Ooh-la-la!

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They fell in love, and he
followed her back to Australia.

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Wanker!

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Hey, watch out!

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Mum had only just got pregnant

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when his career was cut short
by a drunk driver.

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He never juggled again
and became a paraplegic.

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Then, slowly an alcoholic

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just like the guy who'd hit him.

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Money had always been a problem.

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Much worse since his accident.

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00:18:07,951 --> 00:18:11,821
His pension barely paid
for his wheelchair batteries.

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Winning scratchies was the only
thing that brought him hope.

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We found them everywhere.

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To make matters worse
he developed sleep apnea.

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Huh?

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We'd have to clap
to wake him up.

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Despite our hardships,

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our little family unit
was strong.

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And there was plenty of joy.

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Ready!

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00:19:03,786 --> 00:19:06,256
Whoo!

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00:19:10,153 --> 00:19:14,124
Our happiest day was
when we went on the Big Dipper.

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It was scary.

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Scary because it was
a hundred years old.

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Dad felt alive.

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Escaped his body.

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When he died, he said
he wanted his ashes sprinkled

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off the Big Dipper.

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The day got even better
on the way home,

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when Gilbert found
a scratchy on the ground.

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We won 20 dollars!

200
00:19:51,753 --> 00:19:53,523
So Dad bought 20 more.

201
00:19:55,254 --> 00:19:58,023
Too bad, Dad.

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00:19:58,122 --> 00:20:00,958
He hated
we had to look after him.

203
00:20:03,687 --> 00:20:08,059
I suppose his cage was his body.

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00:20:08,155 --> 00:20:13,626
His glass wasn't full
or empty, just a glass.

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00:20:15,122 --> 00:20:19,725
Knitting and black jellybeans
were his other addictions.

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00:20:19,821 --> 00:20:22,158
He was the one
who knitted my snail hat

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00:20:22,255 --> 00:20:26,859
and made the eyeballs
out of his old juggling balls.

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00:20:26,956 --> 00:20:29,125
The jellybeans made
his tongue all black

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00:20:29,222 --> 00:20:32,458
and his breath aniseedy.

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00:20:32,555 --> 00:20:33,755
Watch, Gracie!

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00:20:33,855 --> 00:20:34,990
We arranged them on his head

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00:20:35,089 --> 00:20:37,258
while he pretended to be asleep.

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00:20:37,355 --> 00:20:39,390
He let us do stuff like that.

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00:20:44,688 --> 00:20:47,859
We were free to do
what we wanted, Sylvia.

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00:20:50,389 --> 00:20:54,127
He said, "Childhood
was life's best season.

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00:20:54,223 --> 00:20:57,792
It never lasts,
but everyone deserves one."

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00:21:02,256 --> 00:21:06,260
He was so proud Gilbert
wanted to be a performer.

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00:21:06,356 --> 00:21:08,425
Follow in his footsteps.

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00:21:08,523 --> 00:21:10,458
Whoa. Whoa!

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00:21:10,556 --> 00:21:13,259
Bravo!

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That night,
we got out Mum's jewelry box

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00:21:16,523 --> 00:21:18,859
and sang our heads off.

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00:21:18,957 --> 00:21:20,657
♪ Alouette, gentille Alouette ♪

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♪ Alouette, je te plumerai ♪

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00:21:24,424 --> 00:21:28,660
♪ Je te plumerai la tete,
je te plumerai la tete ♪

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♪ Et la tete, et la tete,
Alouette, Alouette ♪

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♪ Oh ♪

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Ha! Good one, Dad.

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Later, Dad got out
his old Bolex camera

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and gave me some tips
on how to animate.

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I wanted to become an animator,
just like him.

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To top the day off,
we had a competition

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to see who could create
the best hairdo.

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00:22:02,858 --> 00:22:05,894
Mr. Ian Ramsbottom,
who is agnostic, dyslexic...

235
00:22:05,991 --> 00:22:07,658
- I won.
- ...and insomniac.

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00:22:07,756 --> 00:22:10,759
He stays up all night wondering
if there is a dog.

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00:22:10,858 --> 00:22:14,428
I remember
the stillness that night,

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the wonderful memories
of that day fresh in our heads.

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00:22:21,492 --> 00:22:26,130
A day so precious

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but fleeting.

241
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,027
Huh?

242
00:22:53,759 --> 00:22:56,796
Despite our clapping

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00:22:56,892 --> 00:23:01,662
this time Dad never woke.

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00:23:11,793 --> 00:23:14,462
We couldn't afford
a proper funeral,

245
00:23:14,559 --> 00:23:17,762
so Dad was cremated
by the government.

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00:23:17,860 --> 00:23:22,498
His ashes given to us
in a cardboard box.

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00:23:22,593 --> 00:23:25,829
I sprinkled him
into his jellybean jar.

248
00:23:25,926 --> 00:23:28,329
He woulda liked that.

249
00:23:36,827 --> 00:23:39,563
Child Services came
to take us away.

250
00:23:39,659 --> 00:23:43,831
Come on, you two. Let's go.

251
00:23:43,927 --> 00:23:47,898
And we were to be sent to
foster homes in separate states.

252
00:23:51,027 --> 00:23:54,831
We had no relatives, and
no one wanted to adopt twins.

253
00:23:54,927 --> 00:23:58,231
Especially weird ones like us.

254
00:24:05,927 --> 00:24:08,997
Look after it, Gilbert.

255
00:24:16,927 --> 00:24:19,897
Hurry up. Say your goodbyes.

256
00:24:19,994 --> 00:24:22,697
Bye, Gracie.

257
00:24:22,795 --> 00:24:25,364
Bye, Gilbert.

258
00:24:30,095 --> 00:24:33,631
That was the last time
I saw my brother.

259
00:24:33,728 --> 00:24:37,665
The last time I smelt his scent
of burnt matches.

260
00:24:43,262 --> 00:24:46,866
We never got to sprinkle Dad
off the Big Dipper.

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00:24:54,995 --> 00:25:00,467
Our lives were turned upside
down and back to front, Sylvia.

262
00:25:00,562 --> 00:25:03,432
We had no choice
but to move onwards.

263
00:25:03,529 --> 00:25:06,699
Upwards. Sidewards.

264
00:25:10,929 --> 00:25:14,800
I was sent to live with
a childless couple in Canberra

265
00:25:14,896 --> 00:25:20,135
which had won Safest City
three years in a row.

266
00:25:20,230 --> 00:25:23,133
Some people even wore helmets,
driving.

267
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:32,833
Back then, Canberra wasn't
the exciting place it is today.

268
00:25:35,864 --> 00:25:40,835
I suppose "settled" is
the wrong word for how I felt.

269
00:25:40,930 --> 00:25:44,000
"Traumatized" was more accurate.

270
00:25:46,030 --> 00:25:50,869
The separation from Gilbert
made me anxious.

271
00:25:50,964 --> 00:25:53,733
But you
and your siblings, Sylvia,

272
00:25:53,830 --> 00:25:56,133
you brought me some comfort.

273
00:25:58,897 --> 00:26:01,700
Lovely.

274
00:26:01,797 --> 00:26:05,434
My new foster parents
Ian and Narelle

275
00:26:05,531 --> 00:26:08,167
were pleasant enough.

276
00:26:08,264 --> 00:26:10,299
They were accountants
for a company

277
00:26:10,397 --> 00:26:13,334
that made traffic lights.

278
00:26:13,431 --> 00:26:17,401
They were well meaning
and addicted to self-help books.

279
00:26:17,498 --> 00:26:19,700
Hmm?

280
00:26:19,798 --> 00:26:22,467
-Good morning!
-Hey!

281
00:26:22,565 --> 00:26:28,036
They believed a good dose
of self-esteem cured everything.

282
00:26:28,132 --> 00:26:31,201
Every week they'd make me
a new certificate.

283
00:26:31,298 --> 00:26:35,669
Our little baby.
Oh, we're so proud.

284
00:26:35,764 --> 00:26:38,901
Now, watch this. My finger work!

285
00:26:38,998 --> 00:26:43,002
On the weekends,
they'd play netball.

286
00:26:43,098 --> 00:26:44,933
Gracie, can you get
the ball for us?

287
00:26:45,031 --> 00:26:47,767
They tried to get me
to play, as well.

288
00:26:50,365 --> 00:26:52,100
Here we go!

289
00:26:54,298 --> 00:26:55,433
Catch it!

290
00:26:55,533 --> 00:26:56,666
Oh!

291
00:26:56,765 --> 00:26:58,901
Oh, no!

292
00:26:58,999 --> 00:27:01,135
Ian, what's happened to her?

293
00:27:01,232 --> 00:27:02,266
You right, babe?

294
00:27:02,365 --> 00:27:03,399
Babe!

295
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:04,867
She's going blue!

296
00:27:04,966 --> 00:27:06,502
Sometimes I faked
asthma attacks.

297
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,334
Hey, Narelle,
better get the puffer!

298
00:27:08,432 --> 00:27:10,667
- Okay.
- I felt bad telling lies,

299
00:27:10,765 --> 00:27:13,401
but sport was one
of my allergies.

300
00:27:13,500 --> 00:27:14,733
You alright, babe?

301
00:27:14,832 --> 00:27:17,702
Breathe, pumpkin, breathe!

302
00:27:24,966 --> 00:27:28,870
Their favorite color
was beige.

303
00:27:31,099 --> 00:27:34,470
They even had guinea pigs
that were beige.

304
00:27:34,567 --> 00:27:37,736
Okay, we're off now, pumpkin.

305
00:27:37,833 --> 00:27:41,137
-See you later!
-Bye!

306
00:27:41,233 --> 00:27:43,569
On Saturdays
they went to key parties.

307
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,001
Ready, love?

308
00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:47,202
I'm looking forward
to tonight, babe.

309
00:27:49,033 --> 00:27:51,402
They were swingers, Sylvia.

310
00:27:52,633 --> 00:27:53,701
Daryl!

311
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:04,005
Back then I thought
swinging meant something else.

312
00:28:06,634 --> 00:28:09,438
My new school
was predictably bad.

313
00:28:09,535 --> 00:28:10,635
- Grace Pudel!
- Huh?

314
00:28:10,734 --> 00:28:12,936
Stop daydreaming.

315
00:28:15,901 --> 00:28:19,638
I tried to make friends

316
00:28:19,734 --> 00:28:23,539
but Gilbert wasn't there
to break their fingers.

317
00:28:23,634 --> 00:28:27,638
So I absorbed the abuse,

318
00:28:27,734 --> 00:28:32,372
came home,
and played with my clay friends.

319
00:28:32,468 --> 00:28:35,337
I missed Gilbert like crazy.

320
00:28:35,436 --> 00:28:36,836
We wrote each other letters

321
00:28:36,934 --> 00:28:40,405
and I saved every cent I could
to go see him.

322
00:28:42,068 --> 00:28:43,803
He'd been sent
to live with a family

323
00:28:43,901 --> 00:28:46,704
of fruit farmers near Perth.

324
00:28:48,135 --> 00:28:51,004
I definitely got
the better family, Sylvia.

325
00:28:51,101 --> 00:28:53,704
He hated his.

326
00:28:55,168 --> 00:28:59,038
"Dear Gracie, My new
parents Ruth and Owen

327
00:28:59,135 --> 00:29:02,938
are strange
and do a weird sort of praying."

328
00:29:11,635 --> 00:29:15,406
"They make me pray
four times a day.

329
00:29:15,503 --> 00:29:17,036
They said the more I pray

330
00:29:17,136 --> 00:29:20,906
the more the pain
of Dad's death will disappear.

331
00:29:21,002 --> 00:29:25,773
They're really old fashioned
and don't even have a phone.

332
00:29:25,869 --> 00:29:29,873
We all have to have
magnets taped to us.

333
00:29:29,969 --> 00:29:32,439
They reckon it keeps
our auras balanced.

334
00:29:32,537 --> 00:29:36,474
Protects us from the devil.

335
00:29:36,570 --> 00:29:41,274
Ruth is obsessed
with her poor budgies.

336
00:29:41,370 --> 00:29:45,441
I reckon she loves them
more than her own kids."

337
00:29:48,504 --> 00:29:50,271
Worship thy apple!

338
00:29:50,370 --> 00:29:54,807
"They've built their
own church and school.

339
00:29:54,903 --> 00:29:58,273
Owen is the Minister."

340
00:29:58,371 --> 00:30:00,305
Cleanse thy soul!

341
00:30:04,670 --> 00:30:09,576
Cast out thy demons
and worship thy fruit!

342
00:30:13,203 --> 00:30:15,772
Hmm?

343
00:30:18,103 --> 00:30:19,972
"He's got stomach ulcers,

344
00:30:20,071 --> 00:30:22,407
which he blames on the devil."

345
00:30:30,670 --> 00:30:34,975
"My new brothers are all morons.

346
00:30:35,071 --> 00:30:37,940
One of them is always staring."

347
00:30:42,671 --> 00:30:45,408
Worship the baby Jesus!

348
00:30:48,771 --> 00:30:51,975
"I have to work
in the orchard after school.

349
00:30:52,071 --> 00:30:55,074
The brothers get
the better jobs."

350
00:30:57,171 --> 00:31:00,442
"Ruth said if I'm going to be
a good orchardman

351
00:31:00,539 --> 00:31:04,376
I'd have to start at the bottom
and work my way up."

352
00:31:06,405 --> 00:31:08,673
"I'd rather eat glass."

353
00:31:13,905 --> 00:31:16,174
"Anyway they can all get stuffed

354
00:31:16,273 --> 00:31:19,309
because as soon as I'm
old enough and got money

355
00:31:19,406 --> 00:31:21,641
I'm coming to get you.

356
00:31:21,738 --> 00:31:25,443
I'll walk across
that big burning desert.

357
00:31:25,540 --> 00:31:27,575
We'll escape to Paris.

358
00:31:27,672 --> 00:31:30,876
I'll become a fire eater.

359
00:31:30,972 --> 00:31:33,708
And you'll become
an amazing animator!"

360
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,641
"It'll be great."

361
00:31:59,241 --> 00:32:01,876
Gilbert's letters gave me hope.

362
00:32:01,973 --> 00:32:04,610
So I tried to get on with life

363
00:32:04,707 --> 00:32:07,676
squashing my sorrows
down into my shoes

364
00:32:07,773 --> 00:32:10,009
as the years dragged on.

365
00:32:10,106 --> 00:32:11,841
To pass time,

366
00:32:11,940 --> 00:32:15,944
I began volunteering
at the local library.

367
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,513
One of my jobs was to erase
rude drawings done by boys.

368
00:32:22,673 --> 00:32:25,377
That's when I first met Pinky.

369
00:32:27,275 --> 00:32:30,978
I saw her returning books
into a rubbish bin.

370
00:32:31,074 --> 00:32:33,776
She thought it was
the return chute

371
00:32:33,874 --> 00:32:37,278
and had been doing it
for months.

372
00:32:37,375 --> 00:32:39,310
-Excuse me?
-Hmm?

373
00:32:39,408 --> 00:32:40,675
Um...

374
00:32:40,773 --> 00:32:43,377
She was mortified
when I explained.

375
00:32:43,475 --> 00:32:45,042
Ah, poo.

376
00:32:45,141 --> 00:32:47,544
Don't worry,
I won't turn you in.

377
00:32:47,641 --> 00:32:52,380
Oh, thank you dear.
Bless your cotton socks.

378
00:32:52,475 --> 00:32:54,377
What's your name?

379
00:32:54,475 --> 00:32:56,277
Grace Pudel.

380
00:32:56,375 --> 00:32:58,410
Oh, I'm Pinky.

381
00:32:58,509 --> 00:33:01,512
Just Pinky. Like Cher.

382
00:33:01,609 --> 00:33:04,077
Or Liberace.

383
00:33:04,176 --> 00:33:06,378
Or Prince.

384
00:33:06,475 --> 00:33:08,611
Casanova.

385
00:33:08,708 --> 00:33:11,077
Popeye.

386
00:33:11,176 --> 00:33:13,711
People call me Pinky
because of this.

387
00:33:13,808 --> 00:33:16,978
Lost it dancing in Barcelona.

388
00:33:22,209 --> 00:33:24,043
Argh!

389
00:33:27,576 --> 00:33:30,179
Why are you dressed like an ant?

390
00:33:30,276 --> 00:33:33,979
Oh, um...

391
00:33:34,075 --> 00:33:35,477
No, I'm a snail.

392
00:33:35,576 --> 00:33:39,313
Oh!
Funny.

393
00:33:39,409 --> 00:33:42,246
I used to think I was a pigeon.

394
00:33:43,809 --> 00:33:45,811
She was a true eccentric

395
00:33:45,909 --> 00:33:50,114
and smelt like ginger
and secondhand shops.

396
00:33:53,377 --> 00:33:55,613
Dickhead!

397
00:33:55,709 --> 00:33:57,944
She clothed herself in corduroy

398
00:33:58,042 --> 00:34:01,113
and her face had
more wrinkles than her jacket.

399
00:34:01,210 --> 00:34:05,314
It was hard to know where the
fabric ended and her skin began.

400
00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:07,279
Apart from you, Sylvia,

401
00:34:07,377 --> 00:34:10,580
she was my first real friend.

402
00:34:10,676 --> 00:34:14,847
My only real friend.

403
00:34:14,943 --> 00:34:17,147
She'd lived an amazing life.

404
00:34:17,244 --> 00:34:20,713
I thought one day
I might make a film about her.

405
00:34:20,810 --> 00:34:24,281
She'd seen the Northern Lights.

406
00:34:24,377 --> 00:34:26,546
Floated in the Dead Sea.

407
00:34:30,877 --> 00:34:33,980
Been an exotic dancer
in a schnitzel bar.

408
00:34:40,677 --> 00:34:44,482
Won a bee beard contest.

409
00:34:44,578 --> 00:34:45,945
My turn.

410
00:34:46,044 --> 00:34:48,646
Bathed with a snow monkey.

411
00:34:50,211 --> 00:34:54,948
Made love to John Denver
in a helicopter.

412
00:34:55,045 --> 00:34:58,315
Take me home, country road!

413
00:35:01,011 --> 00:35:05,617
And once played ping pong
with Fidel Castro.

414
00:35:10,379 --> 00:35:11,713
She'd never been sick.

415
00:35:11,811 --> 00:35:14,481
Her secret to longevity
were coffee enemas

416
00:35:14,579 --> 00:35:17,349
and a daily shot of ginger wine.

417
00:35:19,446 --> 00:35:21,381
She'd outlived two husbands.

418
00:35:21,479 --> 00:35:26,551
The first, Hector, had died just
a week after they got married.

419
00:35:26,645 --> 00:35:28,414
Careful, sweetie.

420
00:35:31,778 --> 00:35:33,281
Bugger.

421
00:35:37,712 --> 00:35:40,249
Her second husband, Bill,

422
00:35:40,346 --> 00:35:43,048
had been a postman

423
00:35:43,147 --> 00:35:47,017
who wrote love notes
on her mail.

424
00:35:47,113 --> 00:35:50,716
"Roses are red,
violets are camp.

425
00:35:50,812 --> 00:35:54,617
I'll be your letter,
you be my stamp.

426
00:35:54,712 --> 00:35:58,350
You are the clouds,
and I am the skies.

427
00:35:58,447 --> 00:36:03,485
Let me shipwreck meself
between your thighs."

428
00:36:03,580 --> 00:36:05,282
Smile!

429
00:36:07,779 --> 00:36:11,017
Ready for my close up,
Mr. DeMille.

430
00:36:13,014 --> 00:36:15,849
They'd just begun a trek
across Australia...

431
00:36:15,946 --> 00:36:17,983
Just a little
to your left, sweetheart.

432
00:36:18,081 --> 00:36:19,781
...when nature struck.

433
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:24,983
No! No!

434
00:36:27,281 --> 00:36:28,549
Bugger.

435
00:36:37,381 --> 00:36:39,083
Careful, kiddies.

436
00:36:39,181 --> 00:36:44,886
She was a real survivor,
and had so many jobs.

437
00:36:44,981 --> 00:36:47,083
Dickhead!

438
00:36:47,181 --> 00:36:48,149
Dickhead!

439
00:36:48,248 --> 00:36:50,316
But they never lasted long.

440
00:36:50,414 --> 00:36:52,984
You're fired.

441
00:36:53,082 --> 00:36:54,782
On her 80th birthday

442
00:36:54,881 --> 00:36:59,052
she'd got a job promoting
pineapple chunks.

443
00:37:01,847 --> 00:37:04,783
Gosh, she had a great sense
of humour.

444
00:37:06,747 --> 00:37:09,084
She drove her dead husband's
postal truck

445
00:37:09,182 --> 00:37:11,384
and once told me
she wanted to die peacefully

446
00:37:11,482 --> 00:37:15,052
in her sleep like her cousin,
who was a bus driver

447
00:37:15,149 --> 00:37:18,619
not screaming in horror
like his passengers.

448
00:37:18,715 --> 00:37:20,717
I'm not sure
whether she was joking.

449
00:37:20,815 --> 00:37:23,285
It was hard to know with her.

450
00:37:25,249 --> 00:37:28,018
Her house was fabulous.

451
00:37:30,681 --> 00:37:33,385
It smelt like popcorn
and mothballs.

452
00:37:38,549 --> 00:37:41,886
She had an enormous
trophy collection

453
00:37:41,983 --> 00:37:44,718
which I soon discovered
were other people's trophies

454
00:37:44,815 --> 00:37:47,085
she'd found
at secondhand stores.

455
00:37:52,049 --> 00:37:54,952
There were post-it-notes
everywhere.

456
00:37:55,049 --> 00:37:57,352
She had a dreadful memory.

457
00:37:59,550 --> 00:38:03,454
She was terrified of Alzheimer's
and had taken up tap dancing.

458
00:38:03,550 --> 00:38:06,019
She'd read it staved
off dementia.

459
00:38:09,583 --> 00:38:13,287
She didn't believe in banks and
put her savings in an old tin.

460
00:38:13,383 --> 00:38:17,053
She said she kept
her secrets in there as well.

461
00:38:17,151 --> 00:38:23,524
You know, Gracie, biscuit
tins rarely contain biscuits.

462
00:38:23,617 --> 00:38:25,886
I'd never seen her
mysterious tin.

463
00:38:25,984 --> 00:38:28,920
She was always hiding it
in different places

464
00:38:29,017 --> 00:38:32,921
and often couldn't
remember where.

465
00:38:33,017 --> 00:38:37,054
Her home was also full
of seedlings

466
00:38:37,151 --> 00:38:42,022
which she later confessed
were marijuana.

467
00:38:42,117 --> 00:38:45,287
She loved to bake
ginger hash-people

468
00:38:45,384 --> 00:38:50,456
because she said
they relieved her arthritis.

469
00:38:50,551 --> 00:38:52,453
She also enjoyed gardening

470
00:38:52,551 --> 00:38:55,287
especially when she felt
a bit miserable.

471
00:38:55,384 --> 00:38:58,053
She called it her "pity-pit."

472
00:38:58,152 --> 00:39:01,721
She wanted her ashes sprinkled
in her pity-pit.

473
00:39:01,818 --> 00:39:04,320
Be returned to nature.

474
00:39:04,418 --> 00:39:08,256
Fertilize her veggies.

475
00:39:08,352 --> 00:39:11,054
Gardening fixes everything.

476
00:39:17,885 --> 00:39:22,356
She also enjoyed mini-golf
and had built her own course.

477
00:39:33,886 --> 00:39:37,688
Aha! Hole in one!

478
00:39:37,785 --> 00:39:40,555
But the thing
that made Pinky truly remarkable

479
00:39:40,651 --> 00:39:42,154
was what she did every Monday.

480
00:39:42,253 --> 00:39:43,787
There, there.

481
00:39:43,886 --> 00:39:47,489
She'd visit the lonely
and hold their hands.

482
00:39:47,585 --> 00:39:52,624
She said the thing the elderly
craved most was human touch.

483
00:39:52,718 --> 00:39:55,755
She'd sit with them
calmly in silence.

484
00:39:55,852 --> 00:40:00,056
Something so simple
yet so comforting.

485
00:40:02,887 --> 00:40:06,023
An occasional ginger
hash-person helped as well.

486
00:40:10,685 --> 00:40:15,791
Pinky told me she'd never got
to hold her own parents' hands.

487
00:40:15,887 --> 00:40:17,989
She never said why.

488
00:40:18,087 --> 00:40:22,424
Her childhood was off-limits.

489
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,022
Whoo-hoo!

490
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:29,992
You know, life isn't about
looking backwards, Gracie.

491
00:40:30,087 --> 00:40:33,090
It's about living forwards.

492
00:40:33,187 --> 00:40:37,057
She was the jewel
in the Canberra junk heap.

493
00:40:37,154 --> 00:40:42,959
She'd crammed so much into her
life and I'd crammed nothing.

494
00:40:45,021 --> 00:40:48,458
Pinky's friendship helped ease
my sadness,

495
00:40:48,554 --> 00:40:50,890
my feelings of loss.

496
00:40:50,988 --> 00:40:54,324
I suppose she was the medicine
I needed.

497
00:40:54,420 --> 00:40:57,290
A vitamin for hope.

498
00:40:59,653 --> 00:41:03,391
Bugger.
Better luck next time, Gracie.

499
00:41:05,721 --> 00:41:09,024
The years
fluttered past, Sylvia.

500
00:41:12,188 --> 00:41:15,725
Apart from Pinky, letters from
Gilbert were the only things

501
00:41:15,821 --> 00:41:18,724
that confirmed I existed.

502
00:41:29,655 --> 00:41:32,925
I missed Gilbert like crazy.

503
00:41:58,289 --> 00:42:01,559
Ian and Narelle were still
obsessed about my mental health

504
00:42:01,656 --> 00:42:03,925
and sent me to self-help classes

505
00:42:04,023 --> 00:42:06,726
which were supposed
to raise my endorphins,

506
00:42:06,823 --> 00:42:10,493
balance my chakra,
and cleanse my third eye.

507
00:42:10,589 --> 00:42:14,026
Ready, set, go!

508
00:42:14,123 --> 00:42:16,893
Ha! Ha! Ha!

509
00:42:29,591 --> 00:42:31,259
Ooh!

510
00:42:34,290 --> 00:42:36,692
Oh, Craig.

511
00:42:36,790 --> 00:42:38,593
Heal me, heal me!

512
00:42:38,690 --> 00:42:39,825
I'll heal you, Vicki.

513
00:42:39,924 --> 00:42:43,261
- I'll heal you.
- Oh, Craig!

514
00:42:43,357 --> 00:42:44,324
Oh, Vick.

515
00:42:44,423 --> 00:42:47,660
Oh, Craig!

516
00:42:47,757 --> 00:42:51,227
Part of me
died in those classes, Sylvia.

517
00:43:05,625 --> 00:43:09,494
Self-help was just
a shallow quick fix.

518
00:43:09,592 --> 00:43:12,094
None of it actually worked.

519
00:43:12,191 --> 00:43:15,961
I just wanted the earth to stop
so I could get off.

520
00:43:17,892 --> 00:43:22,396
Puberty arrived
and brought its gifts.

521
00:43:22,491 --> 00:43:25,728
I'd have loved a boyfriend.

522
00:43:32,125 --> 00:43:34,427
It didn't help matters
when Pinky convinced me

523
00:43:34,526 --> 00:43:36,660
to get a perm.

524
00:44:03,792 --> 00:44:07,096
Nice hairdo.

525
00:44:14,226 --> 00:44:17,296
Dickhead!

526
00:44:17,393 --> 00:44:18,661
There, there, love.

527
00:44:18,759 --> 00:44:20,461
Ignore him.

528
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:22,895
I think we look fabulous.

529
00:44:22,993 --> 00:44:24,961
Thank God for Pinky.

530
00:44:25,059 --> 00:44:27,496
She became
my real foster parent.

531
00:44:27,594 --> 00:44:31,632
Especially as Ian and Narelle
weren't around much anymore.

532
00:44:31,727 --> 00:44:33,061
They'd discovered nude cruises

533
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,362
and were gone
for weeks at a time.

534
00:44:35,460 --> 00:44:36,562
Whee!

535
00:44:36,660 --> 00:44:38,128
Good morning.

536
00:44:38,226 --> 00:44:40,028
Oh, hi!

537
00:44:46,293 --> 00:44:49,329
I still grieved the loss
of my family

538
00:44:49,426 --> 00:44:54,932
and continued filling the void
with more and more snails.

539
00:44:57,261 --> 00:45:02,933
If I saw something snaily
it had to be mine.

540
00:45:03,027 --> 00:45:06,164
My obsession
had blossomed, Sylvia.

541
00:45:06,261 --> 00:45:10,331
My room had become
a snail shrine.

542
00:45:10,427 --> 00:45:14,265
I'd become a snail hoarder.

543
00:45:19,828 --> 00:45:23,899
Oh, I missed Gilbert so much.

544
00:45:23,995 --> 00:45:26,864
His letters still gave me hope.

545
00:45:26,961 --> 00:45:29,598
But he began to worry me.

546
00:45:29,694 --> 00:45:32,797
I felt he wasn't
telling me everything.

547
00:45:32,895 --> 00:45:36,499
"Dear Gracie,
Life at the Garden of Eden

548
00:45:36,595 --> 00:45:38,564
is certainly no Garden of Eden."

549
00:45:38,661 --> 00:45:41,864
Gilbert, get back to work!

550
00:45:41,961 --> 00:45:44,831
"Ruth seems
to have it in for me.

551
00:45:44,928 --> 00:45:46,663
But I don't give a stuff."

552
00:45:46,761 --> 00:45:49,130
Sorry, Ruth.

553
00:45:49,228 --> 00:45:54,667
"Oh, and she hates that
I call her Ruth instead of Mum.

554
00:45:54,762 --> 00:45:58,600
And she hates that
I won't let Owen shave my head.

555
00:45:58,695 --> 00:46:02,332
They make me work really hard
for lousy money.

556
00:46:04,029 --> 00:46:09,234
There's no one here to talk to.
I try to be friendly

557
00:46:09,328 --> 00:46:14,568
but their weirdo religion
has them all brainwashed.

558
00:46:14,662 --> 00:46:17,965
The brothers really hate me."

559
00:46:18,062 --> 00:46:19,998
Poofta!

560
00:46:33,129 --> 00:46:35,466
"Owen forces me
to read the Bible.

561
00:46:35,564 --> 00:46:39,300
And Ruth forces me to eat meat."

562
00:46:39,397 --> 00:46:41,064
Hello, piggies.

563
00:46:47,197 --> 00:46:48,665
Eat it.

564
00:46:48,763 --> 00:46:51,666
"She's barred me
from playing with fire.

565
00:46:51,763 --> 00:46:55,967
She's bonkers and thinks
magic is the devil's vice.

566
00:46:56,063 --> 00:46:57,566
And she's always trying to stick

567
00:46:57,663 --> 00:47:01,200
more and more magnets on me
to fix my aura.

568
00:47:01,297 --> 00:47:04,800
But I don't care.

569
00:47:04,897 --> 00:47:08,066
I hide behind the church
to practise my stuff

570
00:47:08,164 --> 00:47:13,169
with one of the brothers
who seems to like me.

571
00:47:13,264 --> 00:47:19,236
Ruth reckons Lucifer's
trying to invade my soul.

572
00:47:19,331 --> 00:47:23,402
So they tried to baptize me
to get the devil out."

573
00:47:37,466 --> 00:47:42,504
Dunk thee
and cleanse thy demons!

574
00:47:44,898 --> 00:47:47,368
"I pretended
I was possessed.

575
00:47:47,466 --> 00:47:50,536
I hid some of Owen's
antacid tablets in my pockets."

576
00:47:52,432 --> 00:47:53,666
Oh, my goodness!

577
00:47:53,765 --> 00:47:55,501
"It was hilarious."

578
00:47:57,798 --> 00:47:59,568
"Ben loved it."

579
00:48:06,199 --> 00:48:08,868
"Ruth is always trying
to control me.

580
00:48:08,965 --> 00:48:11,369
She even tried drugging me."

581
00:48:16,665 --> 00:48:19,001
Eat it.

582
00:48:34,866 --> 00:48:38,703
"But I'm not dumb.

583
00:48:38,799 --> 00:48:41,669
I hid the pills in my cheeks.

584
00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:46,737
Ruth says Jesus' love
isn't free.

585
00:48:46,833 --> 00:48:51,505
So what money we do earn,
Gracie, goes back to Jesus."

586
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:55,870
Pennies for Jesus.
Pennies for Jesus.

587
00:49:01,234 --> 00:49:05,171
Pennies for Jesus.
Pennies for Jesus.

588
00:49:05,268 --> 00:49:07,802
That's a good boy.

589
00:49:16,700 --> 00:49:19,069
Gilbert!

590
00:49:22,034 --> 00:49:25,438
"And Jesus then gives
his money back to Owen."

591
00:49:26,667 --> 00:49:30,305
Thank you, Jesus.

592
00:49:30,401 --> 00:49:32,135
"And his vices."

593
00:49:34,469 --> 00:49:36,404
Oh, Owen, how are ya?

594
00:49:36,502 --> 00:49:38,404
The usual?

595
00:49:44,302 --> 00:49:46,337
Have a good night.

596
00:49:50,202 --> 00:49:54,138
Pennies for Jesus,
and whisky for Owen.

597
00:50:06,435 --> 00:50:09,305
"They're such hypocrites!

598
00:50:09,402 --> 00:50:11,504
But I made them pay for it."

599
00:50:11,602 --> 00:50:14,405
Run free, guys. Come on, run!

600
00:50:21,768 --> 00:50:24,305
"I hate it here.

601
00:50:24,403 --> 00:50:27,373
No! My budgies!

602
00:50:28,570 --> 00:50:31,739
"And I hate her.

603
00:50:31,836 --> 00:50:34,173
She punished me.

604
00:50:34,270 --> 00:50:35,870
Big time."

605
00:50:43,936 --> 00:50:46,373
Hold him tight!

606
00:50:48,104 --> 00:50:51,340
Sinners must
be punished, Gilbert.

607
00:50:51,437 --> 00:50:56,875
Leviticus 24 -- An eye
for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

608
00:50:59,304 --> 00:51:02,907
Burn, thy wicked thoughts
of pleasures!

609
00:51:03,003 --> 00:51:05,173
- Burn! Burn!
- "She punished me,

610
00:51:05,271 --> 00:51:07,106
but it didn't bother me.

611
00:51:07,204 --> 00:51:10,140
I'm fine.

612
00:51:10,237 --> 00:51:13,806
Anyway, I better go.

613
00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:16,706
I'm saving my money
and I'll be escaping soon

614
00:51:16,803 --> 00:51:19,740
and crossing that desert
to come and get to you."

615
00:51:32,803 --> 00:51:35,706
"Hang in there, Gracie.

616
00:51:35,803 --> 00:51:39,575
Everything is okay.

617
00:51:39,671 --> 00:51:42,807
See you soon. Hopefully.

618
00:51:42,904 --> 00:51:46,074
Love, Gilbert."

619
00:51:55,971 --> 00:52:00,443
Puberty finally finished
its cruelty, Sylvia.

620
00:52:00,539 --> 00:52:03,974
The season of our teens ended.

621
00:52:05,938 --> 00:52:07,973
But life got even lonelier

622
00:52:08,072 --> 00:52:12,776
when Ian and Narelle retired
to a nudist colony in Sweden.

623
00:52:12,871 --> 00:52:15,208
It's a shame
we never really connected.

624
00:52:15,306 --> 00:52:19,976
What family we did have,
though, was now gone.

625
00:52:20,072 --> 00:52:22,774
Is that your foot?

626
00:52:25,905 --> 00:52:30,210
Despite my woes, Sylvia,
I tried to be optimistic.

627
00:52:30,306 --> 00:52:32,741
Be more social.

628
00:52:34,906 --> 00:52:36,074
I remember how there were

629
00:52:36,173 --> 00:52:40,510
intriguing people
at the library.

630
00:52:40,606 --> 00:52:44,010
But they lived vicariously.

631
00:52:45,772 --> 00:52:48,842
A boyfriend
seemed a work of fiction.

632
00:52:50,540 --> 00:52:55,144
I felt invisible. Began to fade.

633
00:53:01,541 --> 00:53:04,443
Pinky was the only color
in my life.

634
00:53:04,541 --> 00:53:07,010
Still effervescent.

635
00:53:07,107 --> 00:53:11,077
Her hand-holding idea had
become a fully fledged charity.

636
00:53:11,174 --> 00:53:14,676
She'd even engaged the long-term
unemployed to help out.

637
00:53:16,474 --> 00:53:19,177
We went from home to home.

638
00:53:19,274 --> 00:53:21,376
Hand to hand.

639
00:53:30,507 --> 00:53:36,346
I think over time the loss of
my family had somehow frozen me.

640
00:53:40,375 --> 00:53:46,181
I thought it was safer
to just live in a pretend world.

641
00:53:46,275 --> 00:53:48,510
Oh, Dad would have
been disappointed

642
00:53:48,608 --> 00:53:51,810
I'd resorted to trashy novels.

643
00:53:51,908 --> 00:53:55,345
It was now just me,
some sexy pirates,

644
00:53:55,441 --> 00:54:00,647
and a few frisky guinea pigs
who mocked my virginity.

645
00:54:00,741 --> 00:54:03,478
The stereotype
was now complete, Sylvia.

646
00:54:03,575 --> 00:54:06,677
I'd become an unloved recluse.

647
00:54:06,774 --> 00:54:09,344
And the guinea pig hair
that coated me?

648
00:54:09,442 --> 00:54:12,112
A lonely person's glitter.

649
00:54:17,376 --> 00:54:20,579
As my boredom worsened,

650
00:54:20,675 --> 00:54:24,013
I found myself having new urges.

651
00:54:26,409 --> 00:54:31,047
I added kleptomania
to my list of hobbies.

652
00:54:31,142 --> 00:54:35,513
Buying, hoarding
and now stealing

653
00:54:35,609 --> 00:54:38,212
became a cheap thrill
and distraction

654
00:54:38,309 --> 00:54:41,879
from my mundane world

655
00:54:41,976 --> 00:54:45,580
which slowly began to collapse.

656
00:54:50,775 --> 00:54:53,445
I lost three guinea pigs
that night.

657
00:54:56,577 --> 00:54:59,679
I cremated them in the backyard

658
00:54:59,775 --> 00:55:02,445
and put their ashes
in little jars.

659
00:55:02,544 --> 00:55:06,114
It looked like I was starting
a guinea pig spice rack.

660
00:55:10,210 --> 00:55:13,647
My life had become
truly pathetic

661
00:55:13,743 --> 00:55:16,847
and things had gotten
out of control.

662
00:55:18,477 --> 00:55:21,180
I held my own hand patiently,

663
00:55:21,278 --> 00:55:24,447
waiting for Gilbert to come
and rescue me

664
00:55:24,544 --> 00:55:26,512
while I continued to withdraw

665
00:55:26,610 --> 00:55:30,713
into the safety
of my snail fortress.

666
00:55:30,809 --> 00:55:36,249
Lonely, loveless,
and imprisoned.

667
00:55:45,444 --> 00:55:49,882
But just as I was considering
joining a nunnery,

668
00:55:49,978 --> 00:55:54,283
from the mess of my life came
one of those silver linings.

669
00:56:01,878 --> 00:56:04,080
His name was Ken.

670
00:56:07,212 --> 00:56:10,815
And he was obsessed
with his leaf blower.

671
00:56:13,312 --> 00:56:18,083
There he stood, more delicious
than a Chiko Roll.

672
00:56:24,212 --> 00:56:27,015
Well, hi.

673
00:56:27,112 --> 00:56:30,714
Hey. Could I, ah...maybe, ah...

674
00:56:30,812 --> 00:56:33,949
He wanted to know
if he could blow my leaves.

675
00:56:34,046 --> 00:56:38,651
His presence gave me
hot flushes and sweaty knickers.

676
00:56:38,779 --> 00:56:41,748
It was love at first sight.

677
00:56:41,846 --> 00:56:45,383
He was a Canberra Adonis.

678
00:56:45,479 --> 00:56:47,814
A Cadonis.

679
00:56:53,213 --> 00:56:56,116
He was a microwave
oven repairman and told me

680
00:56:56,213 --> 00:57:00,117
that he was extremely shallow
and one dimensional.

681
00:57:00,213 --> 00:57:03,850
He said if he was an onion
and you peeled back the layers

682
00:57:03,946 --> 00:57:06,849
you'd just find more onion.

683
00:57:06,947 --> 00:57:12,286
He had hobbies like me and
enjoyed repairing broken bowls.

684
00:57:12,380 --> 00:57:15,917
It was a Japanese art form
called Kintsugi

685
00:57:16,014 --> 00:57:19,884
based on the philosophy
that just like the soul,

686
00:57:19,980 --> 00:57:25,886
all things can be repaired
and our cracks celebrated.

687
00:57:25,980 --> 00:57:27,749
Ken said
that I was a broken bowl

688
00:57:27,847 --> 00:57:30,216
and that he'd help
repair my wounds.

689
00:57:30,314 --> 00:57:32,716
Fill up my cracks.

690
00:57:35,047 --> 00:57:38,817
He was so thoughtful
and community minded.

691
00:57:38,914 --> 00:57:42,484
He volunteered as a lifeguard
at the local pool.

692
00:57:42,581 --> 00:57:46,185
Mm. Hello.

693
00:57:46,281 --> 00:57:48,983
He adored me

694
00:57:49,081 --> 00:57:52,919
and even built a milkshake
station in my kitchen.

695
00:58:05,415 --> 00:58:07,584
We dated for a month and then...

696
00:58:07,681 --> 00:58:08,782
What do you reckon?

697
00:58:08,881 --> 00:58:12,785
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪

698
00:58:12,881 --> 00:58:20,189
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah,
hallelujah ♪

699
00:58:20,282 --> 00:58:24,019
He said he really did love me.

700
00:58:24,115 --> 00:58:25,449
Loved my quirks.

701
00:58:27,615 --> 00:58:30,518
We celebrated
with another milkshake.

702
00:58:30,615 --> 00:58:32,717
He said he'd make me
something special.

703
00:58:32,815 --> 00:58:36,452
Spoonful of that. Cinnamon.

704
00:58:36,549 --> 00:58:38,050
-No!
-What?

705
00:58:38,149 --> 00:58:43,388
Oh...um...
That's my guinea pig.

706
00:58:43,482 --> 00:58:45,517
A normal person
would have thought I was bonkers

707
00:58:45,615 --> 00:58:48,451
keeping those
guinea pigs' ashes.

708
00:58:48,550 --> 00:58:51,719
But he didn't.

709
00:58:51,815 --> 00:58:57,021
He loved all of me,
even my bum and wobbly bits.

710
00:59:01,316 --> 00:59:04,152
Yeah. Nice. Oh, yeah.

711
00:59:04,249 --> 00:59:06,185
Oh!

712
00:59:06,283 --> 00:59:08,218
Yeah. Nice, Gracie.

713
00:59:08,316 --> 00:59:13,888
He moved in
and I finally lost my virginity.

714
00:59:13,983 --> 00:59:15,885
We were desperate
to get pregnant.

715
00:59:15,983 --> 00:59:17,185
Clean up, Room 6.

716
00:59:17,284 --> 00:59:19,853
But Ken was told he was sterile

717
00:59:19,950 --> 00:59:22,620
from all those microwave ovens
he'd repaired.

718
00:59:22,716 --> 00:59:25,052
Rotten luck.

719
00:59:25,150 --> 00:59:27,286
But I wasn't too disappointed.

720
00:59:27,384 --> 00:59:30,754
I had more than I could ever
wish for, Sylvia.

721
00:59:30,850 --> 00:59:34,453
I had a Cadonis,
a herd of guinea pigs,

722
00:59:34,551 --> 00:59:36,586
and a horde of snails.

723
00:59:36,684 --> 00:59:40,021
Say cheese, Gracie.

724
00:59:40,117 --> 00:59:44,589
We set a wedding date
and sent Gilbert the good news.

725
00:59:44,684 --> 00:59:46,252
Huh?

726
00:59:46,350 --> 00:59:48,219
Oh! Wow!

727
00:59:48,317 --> 00:59:50,920
Hey, Ben, guess what?

728
00:59:53,350 --> 00:59:55,019
Ooh!

729
00:59:55,118 --> 00:59:58,254
Ken gave him money
for an airfare to Canberra.

730
00:59:58,351 --> 01:00:01,521
I asked Gilbert
to walk me down the aisle.

731
01:00:01,618 --> 01:00:04,554
Pinky would be the flower girl.

732
01:00:07,485 --> 01:00:09,887
We'd finally be a family again.

733
01:00:09,984 --> 01:00:12,887
Finally sprinkle Dad's ashes.

734
01:00:14,752 --> 01:00:16,921
My glass was now brimming.

735
01:00:17,018 --> 01:00:20,855
And there were silver
linings galore.

736
01:00:20,951 --> 01:00:22,886
Gilbert would live with us.

737
01:00:22,985 --> 01:00:25,788
He'd be here tomorrow!

738
01:00:30,418 --> 01:00:33,721
I'd never felt so happy.

739
01:00:33,818 --> 01:00:35,954
So optimistic.

740
01:01:03,252 --> 01:01:04,720
Delivery!

741
01:01:04,819 --> 01:01:06,955
I'll get it.

742
01:01:09,386 --> 01:01:11,288
Oh.

743
01:01:16,554 --> 01:01:18,821
Ooh!

744
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,088
Ooh, for you, dear.

745
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:30,493
"Dear Grace, This is Ruth,
Gilbert's foster mother.

746
01:01:30,588 --> 01:01:32,088
It saddens me to tell you

747
01:01:32,187 --> 01:01:37,458
that Gilbert has died
in an horrific fire.

748
01:01:37,555 --> 01:01:39,222
Our church burnt down

749
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:43,157
and he was unable
to escape the flames.

750
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:53,294
Last week I found Gilbert
and my son Ben fornicating.

751
01:01:58,588 --> 01:01:59,988
Lucifer!

752
01:02:00,087 --> 01:02:02,356
I'm sure you will agree
our only course of action

753
01:02:02,455 --> 01:02:07,059
was to purge and correct
their homosexual sickness

754
01:02:07,154 --> 01:02:10,324
in the correct fashion,
as instructed by

755
01:02:10,421 --> 01:02:14,325
The Lord our Saviour.

756
01:02:14,421 --> 01:02:16,924
This was not a simple task.

757
01:02:17,021 --> 01:02:20,191
We could not just
pray the gay away

758
01:02:20,288 --> 01:02:24,192
so the only solution
was a dual expulsion

759
01:02:24,288 --> 01:02:26,424
to cast the demons out,

760
01:02:26,522 --> 01:02:28,624
eject the devil
from their souls,

761
01:02:28,721 --> 01:02:31,291
and correct their auras."

762
01:02:31,388 --> 01:02:34,525
Out, out, evilness!

763
01:02:34,622 --> 01:02:36,723
Out, out, Satan!

764
01:02:40,821 --> 01:02:44,192
The time has come!

765
01:02:44,289 --> 01:02:47,091
Purge their souls!

766
01:02:48,689 --> 01:02:51,192
Cleanse their sickness!

767
01:02:54,088 --> 01:02:57,058
Gay away!

768
01:02:57,155 --> 01:02:59,492
Out, gayness!

769
01:02:59,590 --> 01:03:01,724
Purge their souls!

770
01:03:01,822 --> 01:03:05,193
Out, out, Lucifer!

771
01:03:05,289 --> 01:03:10,994
Cast out thy demons
and shock the gay away!

772
01:03:33,823 --> 01:03:37,461
Enough!

773
01:03:37,558 --> 01:03:39,692
Excellent, excellent.

774
01:03:39,790 --> 01:03:44,362
"I am glad to say
for my son this was a success.

775
01:03:44,457 --> 01:03:49,429
But for your brother
the devil would not vacate.

776
01:03:49,524 --> 01:03:53,428
And being so full of Satan,
well..."

777
01:03:57,524 --> 01:04:00,193
"...he assaulted me."

778
01:04:00,291 --> 01:04:03,794
Aah! Lucifer!

779
01:04:12,525 --> 01:04:14,293
Get him!

780
01:04:16,392 --> 01:04:18,259
Look, an angel!

781
01:04:18,358 --> 01:04:20,092
-Huh?
-Ooh!

782
01:04:23,124 --> 01:04:24,459
Liar!

783
01:04:27,991 --> 01:04:28,926
Huh?

784
01:04:29,025 --> 01:04:31,894
You Judas!

785
01:04:31,991 --> 01:04:34,595
He's escaping! Catch him!

786
01:04:34,691 --> 01:04:36,427
Get him!

787
01:04:48,091 --> 01:04:52,162
"He then raced to
our church and set it alight."

788
01:05:20,427 --> 01:05:24,197
No! Gilbert, stop!

789
01:05:33,793 --> 01:05:36,062
"He then sacrificed himself...

790
01:05:36,159 --> 01:05:38,462
- Let me out!
- "...as penance for his sins."

791
01:05:38,561 --> 01:05:41,796
"We tried to rescue him,

792
01:05:41,893 --> 01:05:44,796
but the Inferno was too intense.

793
01:05:44,893 --> 01:05:47,729
The Good Lord took his soul."

794
01:05:50,661 --> 01:05:52,895
Let me out!

795
01:05:54,060 --> 01:05:57,030
"And Lucifer lost the battle."

796
01:06:13,127 --> 01:06:16,797
Now cleansed
and with the baby Jesus.

797
01:06:16,894 --> 01:06:18,664
"We had a memorial for him

798
01:06:18,761 --> 01:06:21,331
and are confident he is now
in a happier place

799
01:06:21,428 --> 01:06:24,864
with God and the baby Jesus."

800
01:06:29,296 --> 01:06:32,666
"Please find enclosed a vessel
of your brother's ashes.

801
01:06:32,761 --> 01:06:35,431
I think it best you have them.

802
01:06:35,528 --> 01:06:39,499
Once again I am sorry to be
the bearer of such tragic news.

803
01:06:39,595 --> 01:06:41,095
Gilbert was a good soul

804
01:06:41,196 --> 01:06:46,267
who sadly fell
to repugnant persuasions.

805
01:06:46,362 --> 01:06:50,098
We will always pray for him
as well as you.

806
01:06:50,196 --> 01:06:54,266
Our deepest sympathies,
Ruth and Owen Appleby."

807
01:07:05,095 --> 01:07:10,100
Losing a twin
is like losing an eye, Sylvia.

808
01:07:10,197 --> 01:07:13,567
You never see the world
quite the same way again.

809
01:07:15,995 --> 01:07:18,932
Grief is a nothingness.

810
01:07:19,029 --> 01:07:22,333
Leaves a metallic taste
in your mouth.

811
01:07:22,430 --> 01:07:27,235
Places stones in your stomach.

812
01:07:27,330 --> 01:07:29,566
Tears don't flow.

813
01:07:29,664 --> 01:07:32,166
They're too scared.

814
01:07:32,263 --> 01:07:37,468
I no longer believed in silver
linings or glasses half full.

815
01:07:37,564 --> 01:07:40,166
My glass was shattered.

816
01:07:40,263 --> 01:07:45,935
I'd lost my mother,
father, brother.

817
01:07:53,930 --> 01:07:57,134
Luckily I had Pinky.

818
01:07:57,231 --> 01:07:58,332
Hey, Gracie.

819
01:07:58,431 --> 01:08:00,065
And Ken.

820
01:08:00,164 --> 01:08:04,000
His spoonfuls of love
kept me going.

821
01:08:06,498 --> 01:08:13,037
But weirdly, my snails seemed
like my real family.

822
01:08:13,131 --> 01:08:16,501
Real ones hoard together
when threatened.

823
01:08:16,598 --> 01:08:18,866
Survival in numbers.

824
01:08:21,931 --> 01:08:26,403
I was emotionally attached
to every single one of them.

825
01:08:26,498 --> 01:08:32,204
That's why I couldn't ever,
ever throw any of you away.

826
01:08:32,299 --> 01:08:37,337
So I kept buying, adding,

827
01:08:37,432 --> 01:08:39,367
and stealing.

828
01:08:48,698 --> 01:08:50,534
Eventually...

829
01:08:50,632 --> 01:08:52,767
Excuse me, Madam.

830
01:08:52,865 --> 01:08:54,634
...I got caught.

831
01:08:54,731 --> 01:08:57,368
The shame was crushing.

832
01:09:00,032 --> 01:09:02,468
And there were consequences.

833
01:09:07,300 --> 01:09:09,302
Oh, Gracie.

834
01:09:18,166 --> 01:09:22,970
And then things got even worse.

835
01:09:24,567 --> 01:09:26,168
Love can be blind.

836
01:09:26,266 --> 01:09:28,368
Huh?

837
01:09:28,466 --> 01:09:32,370
It can hide darkness and horror.

838
01:09:37,133 --> 01:09:40,802
It seemed Ken's onion
did have layers.

839
01:09:40,899 --> 01:09:43,603
He didn't love me.

840
01:09:43,699 --> 01:09:46,002
He loved my fat.

841
01:09:53,100 --> 01:09:57,038
He had some sort of fetish.

842
01:09:57,134 --> 01:09:58,901
He didn't want to fix my bowl.

843
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:03,704
He wanted to fill it,
and fill it, and fill it.

844
01:10:03,799 --> 01:10:06,169
With lard.

845
01:10:06,267 --> 01:10:09,404
It was one thing for me
to create a cage for myself.

846
01:10:09,501 --> 01:10:11,069
Bit of duck for luck!

847
01:10:11,167 --> 01:10:13,869
It was another for
someone else to imprison me.

848
01:10:13,968 --> 01:10:15,203
Nice, Gracie.

849
01:10:15,301 --> 01:10:17,936
I knew he admired my largeness

850
01:10:18,035 --> 01:10:19,702
but this was something more.

851
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:22,270
Oh, yeah. Nice.

852
01:10:22,367 --> 01:10:26,605
He said he'd love me more
the bigger I got

853
01:10:26,700 --> 01:10:29,304
and now I knew why.

854
01:10:29,402 --> 01:10:32,205
What an idiot I was.

855
01:10:32,302 --> 01:10:34,770
But not for much longer.

856
01:10:45,801 --> 01:10:49,039
Whoa!

857
01:10:49,135 --> 01:10:50,469
Oh!

858
01:11:03,701 --> 01:11:06,271
Sorry, Gracie.

859
01:11:23,902 --> 01:11:28,040
Pinky moved in
and tended to my wounds.

860
01:11:28,136 --> 01:11:30,038
I'd read that snails hibernate

861
01:11:30,136 --> 01:11:32,939
when they needed
to repair themselves.

862
01:11:33,037 --> 01:11:38,075
I slept for a week
and wrestled my demons.

863
01:12:00,937 --> 01:12:03,472
I loathed myself.

864
01:12:03,571 --> 01:12:06,307
My hoarding had caused this.

865
01:12:06,404 --> 01:12:08,072
It had kept me poor.

866
01:12:08,170 --> 01:12:12,575
And being poor
had kept me from Gilbert.

867
01:12:12,671 --> 01:12:16,308
The money I'd wasted could have
bought a dozen plane tickets

868
01:12:16,404 --> 01:12:18,472
to see him, Sylvia.

869
01:12:18,571 --> 01:12:21,140
Now he was dead.

870
01:12:29,904 --> 01:12:32,106
Gracie?

871
01:12:34,837 --> 01:12:38,174
Got your lunch.

872
01:12:38,271 --> 01:12:41,740
Pinky put me on a strict diet

873
01:12:41,837 --> 01:12:46,075
and life became
slightly bearable.

874
01:12:46,171 --> 01:12:48,974
As I slowly emerged
from my darkness

875
01:12:49,071 --> 01:12:52,908
I began to notice
how much Pinky had aged.

876
01:12:54,872 --> 01:12:56,273
I'll never forget the day

877
01:12:56,371 --> 01:12:59,808
I discovered she had
the beginnings of dementia

878
01:12:59,905 --> 01:13:01,640
when I found her attempting
what she thought

879
01:13:01,737 --> 01:13:06,243
was a jigsaw of a rooster.

880
01:13:06,339 --> 01:13:09,375
That was just
a few months ago, Sylvia.

881
01:13:11,039 --> 01:13:13,975
She was diagnosed
with Alzheimer's

882
01:13:14,072 --> 01:13:16,007
and went downhill quickly.

883
01:13:16,105 --> 01:13:18,641
Pinky, what are you doing?

884
01:13:18,738 --> 01:13:21,442
I'm looking for something.

885
01:13:21,539 --> 01:13:22,974
What?

886
01:13:26,372 --> 01:13:28,308
I don't know.

887
01:13:31,973 --> 01:13:34,509
Roles reversed.

888
01:13:34,606 --> 01:13:37,409
It was my turn to care for her.

889
01:13:39,573 --> 01:13:43,476
Ah, ah, ah. My medicine.

890
01:13:45,806 --> 01:13:48,809
One day she decided
not to get out of bed.

891
01:13:48,906 --> 01:13:52,443
Did I tell you that thing
I can't remember?

892
01:13:52,540 --> 01:13:56,311
That thing I was looking for
but don't know what it is?

893
01:13:56,407 --> 01:13:59,410
Oh, stupid brain.

894
01:13:59,507 --> 01:14:01,242
Stupid disease.

895
01:14:01,340 --> 01:14:05,578
What's the name of that
German guy whose disease I got?

896
01:14:05,674 --> 01:14:09,311
Ah, Guggenheimers?

897
01:14:09,407 --> 01:14:12,143
Yeah, Guggenheimers.

898
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:14,108
Relax, Pinky.

899
01:14:14,207 --> 01:14:16,209
It doesn't matter.

900
01:14:16,307 --> 01:14:18,475
Oh, Gracie.

901
01:14:18,574 --> 01:14:21,810
Such a marvelous friend.

902
01:14:50,675 --> 01:14:53,811
Farewell, Pinky.

903
01:15:00,175 --> 01:15:02,277
The potatoes!

904
01:15:06,342 --> 01:15:08,477
Potatoes?

905
01:15:08,575 --> 01:15:10,610
Potatoes?

906
01:15:10,708 --> 01:15:12,243
Pinky?

907
01:15:12,342 --> 01:15:15,912
Pinky, what do you mean?

908
01:15:16,008 --> 01:15:18,277
Oh!

909
01:15:18,375 --> 01:15:20,411
Oh, Pinky.

910
01:15:51,176 --> 01:15:53,445
Farewell, Pinky.

911
01:16:18,244 --> 01:16:20,479
Be free, Sylvia.

912
01:16:42,311 --> 01:16:44,179
Potatoes?

913
01:16:44,277 --> 01:16:46,179
Potatoes?

914
01:16:46,277 --> 01:16:48,713
Sylvia. Oh!

915
01:16:48,811 --> 01:16:52,448
Maybe that's what she wanted
her last meal to be?

916
01:16:52,544 --> 01:16:54,313
Oh!

917
01:16:54,411 --> 01:16:57,147
Goddamn life!

918
01:16:57,245 --> 01:16:59,247
Oh, goddamn life!

919
01:16:59,345 --> 01:17:00,813
Such a...

920
01:17:00,911 --> 01:17:04,248
Such a stupid, stupid puzzle!

921
01:17:04,345 --> 01:17:06,314
Damn it!

922
01:17:10,278 --> 01:17:12,247
I'm so alone!

923
01:17:12,345 --> 01:17:16,082
I'm so -- so alone.

924
01:17:26,646 --> 01:17:28,914
Rabbit face! Rabbit face!

925
01:17:29,012 --> 01:17:31,515
Rabbit face! Rabbit face!

926
01:17:31,613 --> 01:17:32,647
Nice, Gracie.

927
01:17:32,745 --> 01:17:34,180
Nice hairdo!

928
01:17:34,278 --> 01:17:36,814
Come on, you two, let's go.

929
01:17:36,912 --> 01:17:39,348
"I hate it here.

930
01:17:39,445 --> 01:17:40,813
I'll be escaping soon

931
01:17:40,912 --> 01:17:42,747
and crossing that desert
to come and get to you."

932
01:17:42,845 --> 01:17:44,615
"It saddens me to tell you

933
01:17:44,712 --> 01:17:47,616
that Gilbert has died
in an horrific fire."

934
01:17:47,712 --> 01:17:49,881
Fire...Fire...Fire...

935
01:18:07,614 --> 01:18:09,949
The potatoes!

936
01:18:14,147 --> 01:18:16,049
The potatoes!

937
01:18:37,682 --> 01:18:41,351
"Dear Grace,
If you're reading this

938
01:18:41,447 --> 01:18:44,685
then I'm as dead as a doughnut

939
01:18:44,781 --> 01:18:46,950
and you found my biscuit tin

940
01:18:47,048 --> 01:18:50,985
and some things
I want you to have.

941
01:18:51,081 --> 01:18:53,685
You've been asleep for days

942
01:18:53,781 --> 01:18:56,917
and I need to tell you
important stuff

943
01:18:57,014 --> 01:18:59,817
before my brain fully rots."

944
01:19:01,481 --> 01:19:05,051
"Oh, old age is such a bastard.

945
01:19:05,148 --> 01:19:08,151
Creeps up without you knowing.

946
01:19:08,248 --> 01:19:14,488
One day you sink your teeth
into an apple and they stay."

947
01:19:16,148 --> 01:19:20,118
"You go to straighten
the wrinkles in your pantyhose

948
01:19:20,215 --> 01:19:23,452
and then realize you're
not wearing any."

949
01:19:23,549 --> 01:19:25,451
Oh.

950
01:19:25,549 --> 01:19:28,452
"Anyway, I digress.

951
01:19:28,549 --> 01:19:30,884
My secrets.

952
01:19:30,982 --> 01:19:34,018
Firstly I'm an orphan

953
01:19:34,115 --> 01:19:36,885
and was raised in an orphanage

954
01:19:36,982 --> 01:19:39,652
after the Great War.

955
01:19:39,748 --> 01:19:41,784
It was a terrible place

956
01:19:41,882 --> 01:19:45,886
where I was kept in a crib
day and night.

957
01:19:45,982 --> 01:19:49,553
Never held, or hugged.

958
01:19:49,650 --> 01:19:54,689
The only contact
the little boy next to me.

959
01:19:54,783 --> 01:19:59,287
No, I won't tell you
the horrors I remember

960
01:19:59,382 --> 01:20:04,955
but do want to tell you what
it's like to feel imprisoned.

961
01:20:05,050 --> 01:20:06,251
Caged.

962
01:20:06,349 --> 01:20:09,886
It was simply dreadful.

963
01:20:09,983 --> 01:20:12,919
But in the years since

964
01:20:13,016 --> 01:20:16,820
I've learnt that the worst cages

965
01:20:16,916 --> 01:20:21,254
are the ones
we create for ourselves.

966
01:20:21,350 --> 01:20:27,022
You have created a cage
for yourself, Gracie.

967
01:20:27,116 --> 01:20:30,787
Your cage has never been locked.

968
01:20:30,883 --> 01:20:33,986
But your fears
have kept you trapped.

969
01:20:37,551 --> 01:20:41,254
Get rid of those snails.

970
01:20:41,350 --> 01:20:44,521
Set yourself free.

971
01:20:44,618 --> 01:20:47,787
You got rid of that creepy Ken.

972
01:20:47,884 --> 01:20:51,754
Now it's time
for you to shed your shell.

973
01:20:51,850 --> 01:20:55,754
Purge your hoard.

974
01:20:55,850 --> 01:20:58,387
Start anew.

975
01:20:58,484 --> 01:21:01,920
Oh, a bit of self pity's okay.

976
01:21:02,017 --> 01:21:05,522
But it's time to move on.

977
01:21:05,618 --> 01:21:10,055
There'll be pain
but that's life.

978
01:21:10,151 --> 01:21:13,422
You have to face it head on.

979
01:21:13,519 --> 01:21:15,920
Be brave."

980
01:22:04,353 --> 01:22:08,756
"Anyway, I want
to thank you, Gracie.

981
01:22:08,852 --> 01:22:11,456
You've been terrific.

982
01:22:11,553 --> 01:22:15,657
Not long now
till my number's up.

983
01:22:15,752 --> 01:22:19,056
It's time to close my curtains.

984
01:22:19,153 --> 01:22:24,925
For the first time in my life
I feel older than I look.

985
01:22:25,019 --> 01:22:28,890
And I look like a testicle.

986
01:22:28,986 --> 01:22:35,560
Life's a beautiful tapestry
that needs to be experienced.

987
01:22:35,654 --> 01:22:39,824
Its small pleasures savored.

988
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:44,459
Like smoking a cigar
in the rain.

989
01:22:46,387 --> 01:22:51,626
Or wearing a jumper
straight from the dryer.

990
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,690
Enough rambling.

991
01:22:53,787 --> 01:22:58,226
Time for both of us to let go.

992
01:22:58,322 --> 01:23:05,061
Like I've said, life can only
be understood backwards

993
01:23:05,154 --> 01:23:09,124
but we have to live it forwards.

994
01:23:09,222 --> 01:23:13,359
Snails never
go back over their trails,

995
01:23:13,455 --> 01:23:17,024
always moving forwards.

996
01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,325
Time for you to leave
some glittering snail trails

997
01:23:20,422 --> 01:23:23,692
all over the world.

998
01:23:23,788 --> 01:23:29,160
And remember,
never, never go back."

999
01:23:35,821 --> 01:23:39,526
All rise! Order in the court.

1000
01:23:39,622 --> 01:23:41,490
Miss Pudel.

1001
01:23:41,589 --> 01:23:43,990
Your crime is serious.

1002
01:23:44,088 --> 01:23:49,160
Theft is theft, whether
it be a diamond or a cucumber.

1003
01:23:49,256 --> 01:23:51,157
And if you forgive the fox
for stealing your chickens,

1004
01:23:51,256 --> 01:23:53,692
well, then he'll steal
your sheep.

1005
01:23:56,256 --> 01:24:00,594
However...
I can tell from your face

1006
01:24:00,690 --> 01:24:04,059
that you are full
of shame and regret.

1007
01:24:04,157 --> 01:24:07,427
And true regret is
punishment enough.

1008
01:24:07,523 --> 01:24:11,427
I know you are a kind person,
as many years ago,

1009
01:24:11,523 --> 01:24:16,060
a little girl showed me kindness
when I was at my lowest ebb.

1010
01:24:16,157 --> 01:24:18,192
Ah.

1011
01:24:19,490 --> 01:24:21,459
Ah, good on ya, little possum.

1012
01:24:21,557 --> 01:24:23,192
Good on ya.

1013
01:24:23,290 --> 01:24:27,261
That little girl gave me hope
and courage to start again.

1014
01:24:27,357 --> 01:24:30,059
And escape my -- my vices.

1015
01:24:30,157 --> 01:24:31,258
Oh!

1016
01:24:31,357 --> 01:24:34,793
You may have light fingers,
Miss Pudel,

1017
01:24:34,890 --> 01:24:37,025
but I know you have
a heart of gold

1018
01:24:37,122 --> 01:24:39,892
and have done many good deeds.

1019
01:24:39,990 --> 01:24:44,596
I therefore release you
from your charges.

1020
01:24:44,691 --> 01:24:46,758
Case dismissed!

1021
01:25:08,791 --> 01:25:11,595
Life had bashed me round a bit

1022
01:25:11,692 --> 01:25:15,229
but the roses smelt better.

1023
01:25:15,325 --> 01:25:19,429
And I finally started to become
the person I'd always wanted.

1024
01:25:21,924 --> 01:25:24,094
I made a film about my life.

1025
01:25:44,024 --> 01:25:46,760
It wasn't very good.

1026
01:25:46,857 --> 01:25:49,026
But a few people came.

1027
01:25:49,125 --> 01:25:52,229
I even had a question and answer
session afterwards.

1028
01:25:52,326 --> 01:25:55,162
Any -- Any questions?

1029
01:26:04,559 --> 01:26:06,595
Oh, well.

1030
01:26:06,693 --> 01:26:09,629
Thanks for coming.

1031
01:26:09,725 --> 01:26:13,363
Yes.

1032
01:26:13,459 --> 01:26:15,494
I've got one.

1033
01:26:17,858 --> 01:26:21,929
Do you believe in magic?

1034
01:26:33,793 --> 01:26:36,063
Gilbert?

1035
01:26:36,160 --> 01:26:37,528
Yes.

1036
01:26:37,627 --> 01:26:40,330
It's me.

1037
01:26:40,427 --> 01:26:43,463
I walked across that desert.

1038
01:27:43,128 --> 01:27:46,498
It took me a while
to believe Gilbert was alive.

1039
01:27:53,629 --> 01:27:56,165
How he'd escaped the fire.

1040
01:28:00,096 --> 01:28:03,166
And how his ashes
were nothing more than...

1041
01:28:03,262 --> 01:28:05,797
ashes.

1042
01:28:05,895 --> 01:28:09,765
His urn now found a new purpose.

1043
01:28:12,828 --> 01:28:16,032
The cycle of life continued

1044
01:28:16,129 --> 01:28:19,967
and your job was done, Sylvia.

1045
01:28:21,296 --> 01:28:25,434
We were all finally free
of our cages.

1046
01:28:29,496 --> 01:28:33,167
And even though our family
had shrunk a little...

1047
01:28:34,997 --> 01:28:37,900
...we were together again.

1048
01:28:43,697 --> 01:28:47,800
With only one thing left
to release.

1049
01:28:55,331 --> 01:28:59,935
Gilbert still smelt
like burnt matches.

1050
01:29:00,030 --> 01:29:04,068
The setting sun
tingled our skin,

1051
01:29:04,164 --> 01:29:06,765
our two souls,

1052
01:29:06,864 --> 01:29:10,168
and our single heart.

1053
01:29:26,531 --> 01:29:31,936
♪ Alouette, gentille Alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai ♪

1054
01:29:32,031 --> 01:29:37,036
♪ Alouette, gentille Alouette,
Alouette, je te plumerai ♪

1055
01:29:37,131 --> 01:29:39,434
♪ Je te plumerai la tete,
je te plumerai la tete ♪

1056
01:29:39,532 --> 01:29:43,336
♪ Je te plumerai la tete,
je te plumerai la tete ♪