Lemon Page #6

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The black woman?

Yes.

Hi. Really?

What about week... what...?

Yeah, I can do Thursday.

Yes? Great.

So put that room on hold.

And who does your flowers?

Okay, I'm just gonna do my own.

I have the best family downtown.

They're right next door

to Moskatel's.

Do you know them?

Okay. They know what I like.

Were you crying last night?

How was your day?

I just wanted

to hear your voice.

Well, well, well,

we didn't think you were coming.

- I told you we were coming.

- I'm just playing.

And look at this little man.

Ruby fruit!

- How we doing, big man?

- Hungry.

You come to the right place.

Cousin June be

fixing food all day.

This is my friend Isaac.

Gilroy.

All my friends call me Gilly.

Any friend of Cleopatra

is a friend of mine.

I didn't know

there'd be accents.

Excuse me?

I want you to meet everyone.

- Did you put on sunscreen?

- I didn't.

Is that gonna be okay?

Do, do you need...

Do you need me

to cut that for you?

- Chewing too?

- Uh...

- Are you okay?

- Mmm.

Bam!

And to tell you the truth,

I don't even know who it was

that started it first.

I's boxed him, he box me,

we were both on the ground.

Fight didn't last

for more than a minute.

I thought my mother was gonna

beat my ass when I got home.

I was mugged.

- They pull a gun?

- They pulled at least two guns.

- All:
What?

- Kenmore:
You saw who did it?

It was a gang.

A Latino gang, not a black gang.

A lot of people still think

black when you say gang.

What people?

Not you guys and not me,

but people.

Is that right?

More white people are

on welfare than black people.

They make you think

it's the opposite.

This is where the resentment

in the white community

comes from.

Society's in a very

scary place right now.

Look around you, there's a

swell of brutality and cruelty.

Do you know how many

black men are in jail?

- Too many.

- The numbers are staggering.

I don't have them in front

of me, but I've seen them

and they're horrendous.

Mmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

Did you guys put

something in that?

She plays the numbers

every Sunday.

She have since she was small.

Last month, she hit not one,

not two, not three, not four,

not five, but six.

All the numbers.

- And the pot was big.

- Thirty million.

Thirteen million.

Before the government take half.

Well, she doesn't

have her papers.

No forms of identification,

no bills in her name,

no address, no nothing.

So, you know what she do?

She get her man

to claim the ticket.

- 'Cause he has his papers.

- It was a Monday.

- It was four Mondays ago.

- She went into work.

- Cleo:
Where does she work?

- She work over...

At the old home,

where Gilly's mother was at.

- Oh, yeah...

- And while she was at work,

he pack up a bag and went home.

- Shut up.

- He pack up

the whole damn place.

Beverly and Paula:

Gone, gone, gone.

- Cell phone and all.

- He took the money?

Uh-huh. And I hear,

he take the daughter too.

- Which one?

- The big one.

- The one in college?

- Yeah.

Can I get you something?

Are you sure, nothing at all?

B*tch.

What am I supposed to do?

What am I supposed to do?

Hi.

- You doing okay?

- Somebody say I wasn't?

Run.

I need air.

- Are you sure you're good?

- Can I have water?

Cleo:
Isaac!

Isaac!

What are you doing?

Isaac:
Running.

I can see that you're running,

but why are you running?

I forgot I drove here.

Hello?

Ramona?

- Ramona?

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Oh, no!

What? Why?

No, f***!

I called.

I'm suffocating without you.

I want to build with you.

I want to get strong with you.

And make friends.

I can make friends.

What is that?

My sister's double-parked.

I'm moving.

Out of state?

What did you expect?

I came to get my cage.

Birds are in the freezer.

Water's off 'til

end of day tomorrow.

- Hi, how you doing, sir?

- Good, how are you?

- Good.

- Hi.

Isaac Lachmann. I called you.

- Just died on me.

- It happens.

- It doesn't start?

- No.

- Driver:
Sign here, sir.

- Oh, of course.

Driver:
Sign right down there.

- Thank you.

- Driver:
Thank you so much. Have a nice day.

You too.

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