An American Affair Page #4

Then his head snapped back

then forward

Jackie climbed over the trunk like she's looking for something

and the cars drove away.

- God...

- I gotta get back to the office.

But you've just got here 10 minutes ago.

Oswald hired a lawyer.

I'll be there all night.

It must have been horrible.

Yeah, it was.

At least it's over.

Thank God for small favors.

I'll us, see you buddy.

Oh, hello.

I just... I was wondering if I might come in for a moment.

No, I don't think so.

I just wanted to make sure

that Adam is alright.

He's fine.

I think he has something of mine.

Well I'll make sure that I ask him.

Okay.

Upstairs.

- I just want...

- Now.

Oh, I have to agree with you.

F*** the glass,

go straight for the bottle.

Just leave me alone.

I just wanted to check on you,

make sure you're okay.

Where did you find Ruby?

He a friend of Del Valle's?

Friend of yours?

It's a little more complicated than that.

Complicated?

He's the president

and he's dead.

Was...

The president. Was.

When I married you...

you were the most idealistic man

I'd ever met.

The man who's gonna change the world.

You've changed the world alright...

You lost every ideal you ever had...

Times are different.

Times are the same

you are different.

I didn't lose my ideals,

Catherine.

I've lost you.

He wouldn't listen... not to anybody.

I need the diary, Catherine.

Need a little deniability, Graham?

Point A leads to point B

leads to finger on the trigger?

Just leave me alone.

I am a ex...

Ex wife,

Ex mother,

Ex lover.

- If you don't give it to me...

- I'll talk.

I'll break every rule in your little book.

I'll talk about you and Lucian

and Del Valle.

Who put your fingers on that trigger?

Lee Harvey Oswald

was the only man

with his finger on the trigger.

Leave me alone and it will stay that way.

Besides, I burned it.

It's not like you.

You got diaries going back to the third grade.

What is like me, Graham?

What am I like?

- Harris was...

- F*** you.

It wasn't your fault...

I... I've lost you.

And I want you back.

We could go away...

start over, just the two of us,

anywhere you want.

I think I'd like that.

But you must give Lucian the diary.

I told you I burned it...

Talk to him, tell him,

and then we'll go whereever you want.

I'll think about it.

Do...

Do that...

I'm leaving.

I fully expect never to see you again

and I hope that the feeling is mutual.

Where are you going?

I'll be gone.

You won't have to worry about me anymore, agreed?

The diary poses a problem.

You can't shut up everyone, Lucian.

I don't have to, just the people who will talk.

The diary is in a safe place.

Leave me alone

and it will stay there.

I just love a good mystery.

I mean it, Lucian.

I wonder where it could be,

that's the question.

No doubt, the safe place.

And who knows...

you might even give it someone.

The safest place, the place I would never think to look.

I wonder where that could be.

Who that could be.

You wouldn't...

Catherine, I would do anything I had to

anything at all.

And to bring the point home

he stood before that horrible wall

and declared to the world:

"Ich bin ein Berliner".

We are all...

Jelly dougnuts.

Excuse me?

"Berliner", he pronounced it wrong.

He said we're all jelly dougnuts.

Is that a joke?

No, sister.

Stand up.

Come here.

Hold out your hand.

John F. Kennedy

was the greatest president

that this country will ever know.

A Catholic

a man with a vision for the future.

I will not tolerate jokes at his expense.

I wasn't trying...

A great man has been taken from us.

Now go... and you pray.

Pray hard.

Adam.

What are you doing here?

I told them I was your aunt.

I need it back.

What?

What do you think?

I'm sorry I...

Don't be sorry,

just give it back.

It's at home.

Bring it to me then.

Okay?

After school, meet me at the steps at 3:30. Okay?

- Okay.

I'm going away for a little while.

Where?

I don't know.

India, maybe.

Some place exotic and foreign,

where I can't understand the language.

Why?

Because I can't...

Life is about meaning.

You know, finding things in life that have meaning.

Children, art...

love.

Well I don't have anything of that anymore.

You have me.

I know I do.

But sometimes, one person

isn't enough.

You put all your desires and your dreams into them and then...

...they're gone.

If I was older...

Then you wouldn't be you.

Hope...

It's something that gets lost as you get older...

I need to find it again.

Is that some sort of life lesson or something?

Something like that.

Graham, it's me.

I'll have it this afternoon.

Graham, I'm happy we're going away.

You're home early.

So are you.

Is everything okay, buddy?

Why was he here?

Who?

The trenchcoat.

That guy...

Well he's uh an old friend of your mom's and mine and he uh...

Where is it?

What did you do with it?

There are some things that don't make sense when you're a kid.

She wants it back.

I'm sure that she does.

I said I'll give it back.

When you're older you... you'll understand.

I am older, I do understand.

Adam.

You told me the truth when it suits you.

You lie to me for my own good?

Catherine has never lied to me,

not once.

I'm sorry, Adam.

You are my father...

You're supposed to do the right thing... for me.

I did.

Adam...

That's mine.

Actually... it's not.

It's not yours either.

You're absolutely right.

Adam.

Catherine's had a full life.

Art, love, intrigue...

Sometimes, with a life like that

it starts to get confusing.

Catherine was confused.

The diary said that.

Where is she?

Isn't she waiting for you?

Bobby said you were a fag.

Good for him.

He said that you offered

to suck his dick for a quarter.

So?

So what are you're gonna do about it?

He said you were gonna suck...

You're the fag!

- A**hole!

- What?

P*ssy!

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