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right now. Yeah, just drape it on there.

Sorry to say, I'm gonna have

to withdraw some cash.

'Cause I went for that

second opinion and...

you know, Fannie got some X-rays.

Okay, we're gonna open her up...

And now, they put me

on the Total Care Plan.

What's that?

She had to have some involved surgery

and so... we gotta pay by the month.

Yeah. Not too happy about it.

Based on our radiographs

we got a foreign object

that looks like... a key of some sort

located in the intestine.

We've got a lot of intestinal

fat here in the omentum.

- I'm so sorry.

- So...

Look at you, coming in here

with a toy for my dog.

It's a cheap toy.

Picked it up in a bargain bin.

- Well, it's the thought.

- The thought. Yeah.

We're gonna take a look here.

Very nice viable tissue.

Very pink and pretty with all the mesenteric

vessels in good shape.

And... there we go.

That doesn't belong there.

It appears...

with our little animal friends that they're

a lot tougher than us humans.

A lot of them,

after a major abdominal surgery

seem to be fairly oblivious

to real pain.

And...

this is what Ms. Fannie has gotten into.

So, you know, I got...

no Fannie for about a week.

Are you just sittin' around on weekend?

You need some company?

I'm going to a pancake jamboree.

You know, at the Legion,

I'm going there tomorrow.

See the old guys.

I like hangin' out with folks

worse off than me.

Makes me look at the bright side.

- I also like pancakes.

- I've never been to that. Always meant to.

Well, you should come on down.

I think you'll enjoy it.

Maybe I will.

Numbers are still good, 96 over 168.

As we close her up here, what we'll do

is put absorbable sutures in the midline.

She had no appearance

of any intussusception

which is where the intestinal tube

envelopes down on itself just like...

when you pull your sock off at night

and it's half off

and still half on your foot.

The tube of the sock...

- Give little Fannie a squeeze for me.

- Oh, sure.

- Don't worry too much, okay?

- Yeah.

I was sinking

Deep in sin

Far from the peaceful shore

Very deeply stained within

I was sinking to rise no more

But the master of the sea

He heard my despairing cry

From the waters he lifted me

Now so safe am I

And it was love

Lifted me

Love lifted me

You sad girl

It was love

Lifted me

I said when nothing else could help

Oh, when nothing else could help

I said it was love

Lifted

Me

Not bad?

Very good.

See you soon.

Someone said, I thought it was you.

I never said a word about bananas.

Now did you hear me say something?

Nobody gets it, except him.

He eats a banana in two bites.

How many people do you know who eats

a banana in two bites? And he did.

In two bites?

And his name was Harry Belafonte?

Not those little Mexican turds,

you know.

- The big Hawaiian chalambos.

- I bet you I can do it.

We'll get a banana later. Let me have this

first, I just don't wanna fill myself...

Why the guy didn't go

to the carnival with that?

I remember last time... You know, I was 8

years old when I went to my first carnival?

And it was amazing, there were lights,

smell of cotton candy in the air.

That time I could smell,

I had a sense of smell, I lost it.

Oh, my sense of smell is not

very good either. I've noticed.

Anyway, I was really into it.

I took my little sister and we

went over to this ride called...

Ride A Boat Across The Pond.

And there were these kids in front of us.

It was pretty sad 'cause they were

all sick, I think. They had bandages.

They had a nun with them.

Meanest, ugliest face you ever saw.

I mean, it was really mean.

I remember being scared.

Now they all get in this boat and they

strap themselves across with the big bar.

And they just take off.

All of a sudden, boat starts to tip.

It's real quiet and we watch

this thing just tip.

And then, bam!

Tips over.

I never saw anything like it.

We just froze.

Few seconds go by and this nun,

she comes up under the boat

and she's screamin'.

No children with her.

Just screaming, "Help, help."

So few of the guys on the line did jump in

the water start swimming toward the boat.

They can't do anything.

No children, just the nun.

And so they start swimmin'

under the boat

seein' if they could get to the... to the

little kids and just pull 'em out, you know.

And this just goes on and on and on.

It was like endless and they

just keep doin' it over and over again.

Finally this guy gives up.

He looks over at us, says,

"They're dead."

- What happened to the nun?

- All of them?

Yeah. All the children were dead.

I don't know.

Sounds like an act of God to me.

Yeah, well, how you ever

gonna tell me there's a God?

How anybody gonna tell me

there's a God after that?

No way.

I'm just a hungry bear.

Yeah, a few more.

Say, you could... you could...

Don't be stingy on the bacon.

How are you doing... Dawn?

Hey, how you doin' there, Dawn?

Sorry. Nice to see ya. You made it out?

Good seeing you.

- Come on, grab yourself... some food.

- Yeah, I thought...

- I'm gonna grab us a table.

- I thought I'd check it out.

My mother and brother and I,

we moved to Sacramento.

Have you ever been there?

Sacramento?

- No. Never have.

- It's real beautiful.

- Yeah.

- Big trees.

What d... what did your brother do?

Don't laugh, but for a while

he was a professional mime.

I don't know what's so funny about it.

You said don't laugh, but it's funny.

You're right.

I just saw a mime. You believe it?

Couple of days ago, in the park.

- I mean, they used to be everywhere, right?

- I know. What happened?

- Lost art, I suppose.

- Yeah.

- You've been here your whole life?

- No. I come from north of here.

Yeah. I moved... I moved here

about 40 years ago. Close to it.

I liked it. I thought maybe

it'd be a good place to raise kids.

You know, I got a son...

and a granddaughter.

- You ever think about retiring?

- Retiring? No, that'd be terrible.

I wouldn't know what to do.

And you know what they say

"Idle hands is the devil's playthings."

I would probably get into a lot

of trouble like the man over there.

He's a time bomb. Yeah.

Hey, Ned. He's sweet though.

Nah. You know what I'd like.

I'd like to get in my boat.

I got a boat. With Fannie.

Get on the ocean and just disappear.

You know,

float away.

What would I do without my friend around?

You know, I'd be sad on Fridays.

Oh, yeah.

Well, that's... that's...

that's nice to hear.

Would you? Yeah?

Well, it's good to know that.

I'm enjoyin' this, you know.

Sitting around with you here.

You got my mind off a lot of stuff.

Crowds' thinned down. There used to be

a lot more people comin' to these things.

Same amount of pancakes though.

Let's do it again?

Okay.

If I could go back...

if I could go back,

I would change things.

Every night I go to bed, I would wake up

hoping things were like they used to be...

like...

we'll be young again.

I don't have time

to put up with it anymore.

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