I Love You, Daddy Page #7

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You're a minor!

And you're seventeen!

Okay, so what are you gonna do?

What, you're gonna

call the cops on me?

Because I'm going, Daddy.

This is good for me.

And you're such a hypocrite,

because you worship him.

And you're just mad that

he didn't invite you to go to Paris.

Oh, my God.

And that he never took you to lunch.

And it's really f***ed up that

you would take that out on me.

When this trip could be

really good for me.

I know, I know, it's terrible.

Do you know what

the real shock is though?

I went back.

Yeah, yeah. I did.

I had to do it again.

I loved it.

I love to repeat the worst

moments of my life.

So, leave nothing on the table, gang.

Misery is dessert.

Chin-chin.

Hi, come in.

How are you?

I'm just cooking.

Why are you always

laughin' at me?

You're funny.

Okay.

You look at me like I'm

the sky.

And you've never seen it.

You are the sky.

You're the sky.

And I've never seen it.

Oh, my God, Glen.

For a jaded old f***er,

you sure fall hard for a pretty girl.

I mean, that's all I am?

No, you're a lot more than that.

Not really, and I don't

need to be, but thank you

for trying.

Shall we read the script?

Um, maybe you should read it

alone when I'm gone.

Okay.

Hey, I hope it's not

a sore point, but

I hear China's having

a great time in France.

You heard from Leslie?

Well, everybody's there right now, so.

Everybody.

She's quite the hit.

Hmm.

Look, Glen.

This isn't all bad for her, Leslie.

Hmmm.

Look, if-if I'm the sky

and I'm amazing and all,

then just listen to me a little bit.

This is a positive thing for China

and I think you're smarter

than to be scared of it.

Okay, look, I-I get-I get that

there's a whole, you know...

It's like, different if you're-if

you're an intellectual, right?

Or if you're a f-um, f-f...

a rich artist.

Then, you're above all that,

I guess, you know.

Only poor people are pedophiles,

you know, because, we...

"We a-are Leslie Goodwin.

"We're after a higher

sense of personal stimulus and...

"We're not bound

by social mores and..."

Whatever, but

I mean he's an old f***

with a shady past

and she's a kid.

She's a kid?

Yeah, I mean she's a minor.

She's not competent to...

I mean... what if they're...

What if they're... you know.

What if they're f***ing?

Oh!

What if they are?

What if they are?!

Come on! Grace!

Jesus Christ.

She's not competent

to give consent.

Not to an old,

manipulative guy like that.

She's not-she doesn't have

the tools to sort that out.

So, you think when she turns 18

in three weeks,

she's going to suddenly

grow a magic tool of?

No, she's not, th-that's, but doesn't

mean she has it now.

I mean, this particular kid,

she is a child.

She knows nothing.

She's like a

Disney princess on estrogen.

She's not...

She knows nothing!

Well, considering that she is

gonna be an adult in three weeks,

she's in some trouble, then.

Something better grow her up.

I mean, she could do a lot worse.

So, you think it's-you think-

you think it's okay?

An old man and a-

and a girl?

I mean, doesn't society

have to protect her?

Society? You mean you?

Yes.

Yes. Me.

Because what?

Because she's 17?

I mean, come on, Glen.

It-It's a number.

A person isn't a number.

They declare you competent to

sleep with anyone you want at 18.

Why 18?

Huh? Because that's

when you can vote?

And own property, and

and get your own health insurance.

I mean, why would all those things

happen on the same day?

Why would a person

sexually mature at 13, or

12 and then be expected to be

put on ice for five or six years

so they can vote and f***

a grown-up on the same day?

I mean.

Look, I know, I know.

I-I know that kids have sex.

I'm not stupid.

But I-I-not-not with grown-ups.

They have sex with other kids.

Oh, great, great, so when a girl

does feel lust and desire,

she's gotta go

be with a f***ing boy.

Who's full of all these

new hormones

and far more dangerous

than a man like Leslie.

I mean, if your daughter is

as emotionally retarded

as you're selling her, then...

Look, this is-I-

what do I have to say?

This is wrong, this is-this is so-

this is just a g-

This is an old man

f***ing a kid.

But you don't know that

that's what they're doing.

That's not the point.

It is the point.

That you don't know.

You don't know Leslie.

And y-you don't really know her.

I don't know her-

You know, Grace...

You know...

No offense,

but you're not a mother yet.

No.

And you don't know

what it's like.

No, I really don't.

You know, it's easy for you

to sit there and say, you know,

uh, go let your daughter

f*** a corpse.

Which I didn't say.

But you know, whenever that-

whoever that is in there,

when they grow up,

you're gonna be upset all the time.

You have no idea.

No, I don't.

And you don't know me,

and I don't know you.

I mean,

you're what?

You're a

divorced man.

You were married

and then, what happened?

You cheated on her?

What?

Well... that's what I heard.

I mean, it's not a secret, is it?

You were f***ing around

and you got caught

and then she left you.

Okay, you know...

Y-you heard-you can-y-you

you can think what you want. I...

My marriage...

that...

People say what they want.

People think they know.

I mean, we-we hurt each other.

We were both in a lot of pain.

You know...

People think they know,

and they don't...

They don't know.

Nobody knows.

Nobody knows what happens

in a marriage.

Except those two people.

I mean, if there's one thing

I learned from that,

it's just-it's never to think

you know anything

about somebody else.

Or to think that you can judge

anybody on their private life.

Hmm.

This is different.

This is different.

This is basic. This is math.

He's old and she's a kid.

When I was 15,

I dated a man in his 50's.

Was it Leslie?

That's none of your

f***ing business, Glen.

It was my life. I don't regret it.

I wanted to be with

who I wanted to be with.

I'm sorry, Grace,

but you were raped.

What?

I don't know who the guy was,

but that was wrong.

You sh-you were raped.

How dare you.

How f***ing dare you,

you know who's gross, Glen?

You're gross!

It's really gross how

you believe you can just

wave your gavel and tell

women who they should be with.

It's my daughter!

For five more minutes.

She's just living her life.

Let her live it.

Look, I'm sorry,

I-I didn't mean to go that far.

- It's your family, and I'm-I'm...

- Yeah, it is.

Oh.

Ah.

- Oh.

- Ah.

Ooh!

Aah!

Oh, sh*t.

Ah, f***.

Glen.

What?

Glen.

What?

You gotta see this.

No, I don't. Ah!

Yes, you do.

What the...

- Right?

- f***.

What the f***

is goin' on down there?

Well, I mean, it's pretty clear.

What?

Well, he's a warmer.

He's-he's warmin' her up.

Warming her up for what?

For Leslie.

So, you think that

he handed her off to

Raymond Ross, yeah.

Someone closer to her age,

more of an animal, really,

I mean, that guy

bangs a girl, you know.

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