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And there, in small warm pools of lamplight, you could see what Leo Auffmann wanted you to see. There sat Saul and Marshall, playing chess at the coffee table. In the dining room Rebecca was laying out the silver. Naomi was cutting paper-doll dresses. Ruth was painting water colors. Joseph was running his electric train. Through the kitchen door, Lena Auffmann was sliding a pot roast from the steaming oven. Every hand, every head, every mouth made a big or little motion. You could hear their faraway voices under glass. You could hear someone singing in a high sweet voice. You could smell bread baking, too, and you knew it was real bread that would soon be covered with real butter. Everything was there and it was working.

Not to turn every argument into a fight for supremacy. I don't believe it's weak to be the one to give in. In fact, I think it's wise. The only couples I see who last are those where one of the two... manages to take a step back, but is really a step ahead.

And I suppose there's... the possibility I'm afraid of what another person might do to who we are and how we get from one day to the next.

The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

Personally, I don't get the family thing. It's like a big fucking circle, you know? You're like your dad, and he was like his dad... I fought with my mother, so now I fight with my sister. It's boring. You know what the biggest jerk-off of all is? Beyond family even, because you can't control your family, is jobs. I mean, this totally mystifies me. Can you believe people|actually accept this? It's like you work all day, people tell you what to do all day long. You know, and then on top of taking shit all day, they can fire you.

It's turning me bad, I'm loaded, pages taking me over
I just wanna be home with all my friends and family
Mum and dad, it's closing in on me, I need recovery, coming home
I'm coming home and I need closure, I need closure.

— Fallon, you're sitting in your own publishing house.
— That will never be a real empire, because I am too busy putting out my dad's fires. And every time I think I have gotten a breath of fresh air, I end up choking on his smoke.

You know, I grew up in a family where, if you don't stab someone in the back before dinner, you don't get dessert, so I forget sometimes that there are some decent people in this world.

— I can see that you are emotional. But this isn't about your being a woman.
— Wow. Really? Every day I spent with you at C. A helping you build that company, and all of a sudden, Adam shows up, and the prodigal son returns.
— And what does Adam have to do with this?
— I've fought my entire life for the respect and privilege that youhave given him just he got in just 48 hours!
— Maybe because he has been denied for a long time what you have all your life. I've never denied you anything.
— No. I struggled. You didn't give me the company, I snatched it myself.
— But you don't deserve it! Carrington Atlantic was too much for you.
— Too bad? But when our name is thrown in the mud, my teeth are suddenly strong!