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Twenty years may change everything… but some memories never fade. 💔 As old friends reunite under heartbreaking circumstances, the past comes rushing back, reminding them of the love, dreams, and promises they once shared. Sometimes, the hardest goodbye leads you back to where it all began.
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00:01My parents think you're dangerous.
00:03They're right. Sooner or later, I'm going to have to pay for what happened today,
00:06and I can't have you standing next to me when I do, okay?
00:09I can't have you getting hurt.
00:11I'm not going to get hurt.
00:12You hang around with me long enough, and you will.
00:13I don't care. I don't care.
00:17I mean, Dawson, do you want this? Do you want me?
00:21I do.
00:24I do.
00:37All right.
00:46Just give me one second.
00:48Sure thing.
00:55Hey, you work here?
01:01You look a lot like an old friend of mine.
01:05People tell me I look like my dad.
01:07Yeah.
01:09Bobby Cole.
01:11You knew him?
01:13Goddammit, Aaron.
01:14How many times I got to tell you that...
01:17Well, as I live and breathe,
01:20prodigal son returns.
01:22Uh-huh.
01:22I want to stay away from that shit.
01:24Good talking.
01:26It's been a long time, Dawson.
01:28About 20 years.
01:42You know who that is, Aaron?
01:45That's Dawson Cole.
01:46Hmm.
01:47Hmm.
01:49Hmm.
01:49Hmm.
01:50Hmm.
01:53Hmm.
01:54Hmm.
01:54Hmm.
01:55Hmm.
01:56Hmm.
02:12I thought maybe you'd need a hand.
02:15Hmm.
02:34Hey, I thought you might want this.
02:39I can take you.
02:40I just didn't want to pack things away if you might want to keep them.
02:43It's okay. I don't want much.
02:44I'll make my own box.
02:46Okay.
02:50What? What is it?
02:53Nothing.
02:55Is there something you want to say?
02:57No.
03:01I guess I just want to know if you're happy.
03:04About facts, I went to Tulane, as planned.
03:12Got pregnant sophomore year, not planned.
03:15Got married, moved to Baton Rouge, bought a house, had another baby, did some volunteer work, bought a bigger house.
03:25Law school?
03:27I didn't finish college.
03:30I had so many plans.
03:34I don't know what happened.
03:36Life?
03:38I guess.
03:40Anyway.
03:41Am I happy?
03:43Being a mother makes me happy.
04:05Look what I found.
04:08Oh, wow.
04:14I forgot he had this.
04:17She's a real beauty.
04:22Thanks.
04:36So, if you're not going to college, then why do you study so much, huh?
04:39Oh, oh, wait.
04:40I know why.
04:41Because you are going to college.
04:42You'll definitely get in.
04:43You'll probably get a scholarship.
04:45Grab the stuff from the back, please.
04:46I got it.
04:48All right.
04:49These are applications.
04:51I know what they are, team.
04:52All right.
04:53Well, then get started on them.
04:54There's a problem.
04:55Already?
04:56You haven't even started yet.
04:57They want a home address.
05:00You live with Tuck.
05:01Why don't you ask him?
05:01No, no.
05:02Don't ask Tuck, please.
05:03Why?
05:03He's private.
05:04He won't like you snooping around and stuff.
05:07Please.
05:07Amanda!
05:07Okay!
05:08Amanda!
05:10Tuck?
05:11In here.
05:13Oh, hi.
05:15Hi.
05:15Wow, you look handsome.
05:17Here, I got you these.
05:18They're chocolate-covered prawns.
05:20I hope you like them.
05:21Can I ask you a couple questions?
05:23Okay.
05:24Do you have an onion?
05:27I do.
05:28Good.
05:29Because we forgot one.
05:30Second thing.
05:31We were just going over Dawson's college applications,
05:33and we were wondering,
05:34can we use your address as his home address?
05:37That'll be fine.
05:39Great.
05:42Let's get cooking.
05:48Maybe you should set the table.
05:49Maybe I should set the table.
05:55Wow, those are beautiful.
05:57Yeah, they came in real good this year.
05:59The wet spring.
06:02These are my wife's favorite.
06:04Oh, yeah?
06:06How long were y'all married?
06:08Oh, we're still married.
06:10We're just on different schedules.
06:13She had a stroke four years ago this May.
06:17I'm sorry.
06:19There's still times that I'll step outside there at night
06:22and have a little chat with Clara.
06:25They're not foolish.
06:29All I'm saying is when two cars break down on consecutive days
06:33that bring two people together that fall in love,
06:35that's destiny.
06:37Destiny?
06:37It's the best.
06:38Destiny is the name the fortunate give to their fortunes, man.
06:40What is that supposed to mean?
06:41That means that people never call bad things destiny.
06:44You are absolutely impossible.
06:45Why can't you disagree with anything that I have to say, Dawson?
06:47Why?
06:48Tug, please help me out here.
06:50Come on, Tug.
06:51What?
06:52What do you think?
06:53I never did believe in any of that stuff.
06:57But I will tell you one thing now.
06:59Yeah.
07:02Back in the war, I was in the Navy.
07:05I'm serving aboard a destroyer.
07:08And at the Leyte Gulf, we took a Jap torpedo.
07:14Blew me right off the deck.
07:15Broke my back.
07:17There I am, bobbing around in the water like a fish in cork.
07:22All hell breaking loose all around me.
07:24And I started singing.
07:29This old Irving Berlin song,
07:31What'll I do with just a photograph to tell my troubles to?
07:36What'll I do?
07:37What'll I do?
07:40What'll I do?
07:43Well, after a few verses of this,
07:45this calm just,
07:47whoof,
07:48came over me.
07:51I knew right then I was going to be all right.
07:53I was going to go home.
07:54I was going to...
07:59I was going to hold my wife again.
08:05Well, a few years passed by
08:07and we built that little cottage at Vandermeer.
08:10And I...
08:11I walked outside one day
08:13and Clara was out there in the garden singing.
08:17What'll I do?
08:22Well, she saw a look on my face
08:24and so I told her the story.
08:27And then she told me hers.
08:31It seems like right about that same time
08:33she'd had a dream.
08:35A dream where I was singing to her.
08:39Now, you care to take a guess
08:40at the name of the song?
08:43Come on.
08:44Get out of here, Tuck.
08:45Well, now, I don't know exactly
08:47what you'd call that,
08:48but whatever you call it,
08:50it got me home.
09:01Would you dance with me?
09:03You can dance?
09:04No.
09:05I figured you'd make me learn sooner, Lee.
09:08I guess you have a good boy.
09:17Don't step on my feet.
09:19I'll try not to.
09:22Look at me.
09:25What'll I do?
09:32What'll I do?
09:56What'll I do with John?
10:02What'll I do with John?
10:08Dawson?
10:14I'd like to talk to you.
10:17Four years after Jared was born,
10:20Frank and I had another child.
10:23A wonderful little girl.
10:27And she was so full of joy.
10:30I, Tuck, loved her.
10:33She shines with her own light, he said.
10:37You were right about that.
10:41She was diagnosed with leukemia
10:43a few weeks after that picture was taken.
10:47She'd just turned two.
10:52And I remember that day.
10:56You know, it was just a day.
11:01And you want so much to go back to just a not-so-special day like that, you know?
11:09But you never can.
11:12I can't imagine how difficult that must have been for your family.
11:17We both started drinking too much.
11:20I quit.
11:21He never did.
11:25I wish I'd have been there for you.
11:28Yeah.
11:32That didn't happen.
11:36It's life.
11:40What was her name?
11:44B.
11:45Her name was B.
11:48A.
11:55Mmm.
11:56I've gotten better at that.
11:58Yeah, 20 years later, I can chop an onion.
12:01Sorry.
12:01Sorry.
12:04I bet you're the smartest guy in the rig, huh?
12:07Of course I am.
12:11Yeah, you know, I got pretty good at computer, actually, and, uh, my boss wanted me to go
12:15back to school, get certified, and, uh, my boss wanted me to go back to school and get
12:16an IT specialist.
12:19Then let me guess.
12:20You don't want to do that.
12:23I like my job.
12:25But you might like the new one more.
12:26I don't know why you just don't go to college and get the piece of paper.
12:30Well, I don't.
12:31Yeah, that's her.
12:34That's the girl who just wouldn't let me settle.
12:40Yeah, well, I haven't seen much of her lately, so...
12:45Yeah, but there she is.
12:52To her.
12:58Does it ever get lonely out there?
13:00I mean, are you asking me if I'm single?
13:03Are you?
13:09Um, well, I've had, you know, relationships, I guess, and things.
13:19I mean, nothing, yeah, no, no, not right now.
13:23You ever been in love?
13:27Were you?
13:30That was 20 years ago.
13:3221.
13:35Well, I don't even say it.
13:39You set a high bar.
13:41Seriously?
13:43Are you saying that I'm the reason that you're alone?
13:45Don't ask questions if you don't have one of the answers.
13:47That's ridiculous.
13:50I mean, honest to God.
13:57What? Why are you laughing?
13:59I don't know, I guess I just...
14:02I miss this, I miss...
14:05You getting all mad at me.
14:07I'm not mad.
14:09You're being a little pushy.
14:10I'm not pushy.
14:11You just care so much, Amanda.
14:15You just can't help yourself.
14:20I should go.
14:23What?
14:24This is dangerous.
14:27We've had wine,
14:29and somehow you have gotten better looking,
14:32which is so annoying.
14:35You couldn't have gotten bald or fat or something.
14:37Jesus!
14:39You know, it kinda seems a little silly
14:41to take two cars to Vandermeer tomorrow.
14:45You know, I have a confession to make.
14:49Okay.
14:51It wasn't destiny
14:52when my car broke down at school.
14:55I disconnected the battery myself
14:57so you could save me.
15:01I know.
15:02What?
15:03I know.
15:04I knew the minute I saw your battery line yanked out.
15:05Oh, my God.
15:07Why didn't you tell me?
15:10How often is the mechanic the hero of the story?
15:49on the line with your songs.
15:52Get back because you like it.
15:52Wimersy and my sister,
15:54how often comes the connection?
15:56You have to picture the right post.
15:56That's nice.
15:57I trust you, Amanda.
15:57You're both bucur.
15:58No, I don't trust Washington,
15:59I'll certainly love you in this moment.
15:59I love you.
16:06Can't if he's gone.
16:06So, you have one to want?
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