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Gaby does know talent.

And furthermore she has

contacts in the industry outside

of this podunk town that could

get our daughter launched,

and you also seem to be

forgetting that I have just a

teeny bit of experience

in the business myself.

- Ah that is true,

you did a couple

of big parts 20 years ago.

So fair enough.

If this dancing is as lucrative

as you seem to think it is

then our future's set.

Right, Sara can dance all she

wants, I don't have to lay

anybody off so here's

my line in the sand.

If she wins that

state championship she

can dance as long as

the scholarship lasts but

if she loses that is it.

Kay, there's no more dancing

and she can do whatever her

heart tells her to.

- Her heart tells he to

get out there and dance.

For people who can

actually recognize talent.

So she doesn't die a

meaningless life in suburbia

surrounded by mediocrity.

- Ah, that's what this is.

You know what Jeanette?

When you sober up if that ever

happens we're gonna continue

this, it's not over.

- Stevie?

- Hey Mrs.. G, what's up?

- Can I talk to you?

- Sure.

- God this is so awkward.

Um, you've, I'm sure noticed

that things have been

a little tense

around here lately?

- Well it's not my place.

- Oh come on, you and

alba, you're like family.

I, you can be honest.

- Yes I been seeing

you fighting a lot.

- It's mister Grayson I, he's

acting so strange lately I

don't even feel like it's

the same man I married.

You know I'm worried about

Jason and Sara and I,

I think we're gonna

have to get divorced.

- Well I'm so sorry Mrs.. G.

- And the weirdest thing is

he's making up things like he,

he thinks that you stole his

brand new set of golf clubs.

- He does?

I would never do

something like that

alba and I've been with this

family for five years Mrs.. G.

- Oh I know and I believe

you it's just he's just,

he thinks that it's

a money thing 'cause,

well he over heard

you and alba talking

about her mother in law.

- Oh she's sick, very sick Mrs..

We're hoping to bring her

here to see a specialist

but we have no money.

- I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.

You know what, I think

there might be away for us

to help each other.

- How Mrs.. G?

I'll do anything to

make my albita happy.

- Well um.

- Oh madre Mia.

- That's 3000 to be exact

and if you agree to my plan

there's more where

that came from, okay?

It's just, I need your

help, if I have to raise

Jason and Sara on my own,

he's a lawyer he's gonna,

he's gonna leave

me with nothing.

- What do you want me to do?

- Sara is in a dance competition

okay, and she stands to win

20,000 dollars and

she gets to go to L.A.

And then we, we can start

over, that's our way out.

It's just, there just one,

one thing standing between us

and freedom, she has a

competitor, Melanie hoyson,

and I need your help to make

sure that girl doesn't make it.

- Oh Mrs.. G are you saying

what I think you're saying?

I couldn't hurt the little girl.

- Oh no, no, not in a million

years that's not what I meant.

She can't make it to the

competition, I just need you

to delay her a little.

- Sorry Mrs.. G but

it's no feel right.

- Does going back

to jail feel right?

He's a lawyer, he makes one

call to your parole officer

and tells him about the

golf clubs and it's over.

- But I didn't.

- Well then where are they?

- I don't know they're in here.

They were here this morning.

- They're gone, I looked

everywhere, he's got us Stevie,

he's got us both.

But if you help me,

I can help get you outta this.

There's no other way

Stevie we have to do this.

- Okay.

- So you hungry?

- Yes.

- What are we thinkin'?

Some burgers?

- Ah pizza.

- Pizza, let's do pizza.

- Yeah.

- Hey hoyson girls, what'd

ya say we go grab a bite

at that new restaurant

on third street?

I'll drive, I saw you eyein'

my sweet new ride yesterday.

- Oh you know I don't know.

- Please mom, come on let's go.

- No you guys should come.

- Yeah it's on me

don't worry about it.

Come on winners

gotta stick together

and you deserve some time

off for for good behavior.

Come on let's go.

- Really Melanie you are

such a natural talent,

you've clearly inherited some

of you mother's dancing genes.

- Well glad it worked

out for someone

because it certainly

did not work out for me.

You know all those years

of dreaming about making my

living on my feet I was

thinking it was gonna be ballet

not so much working at

a gourmet coffee shop

but it is what it is.

I mean my feet are so bad

i honestly can't remember

the last time I had a pedicure.

- Why would we worry about

your feet when you go of the

house looking like this everyday

without a stitch of

make up on please.

Now where are you

working these days?

The same place?

- Oh yeah mister salvadore,

i mean he's been amazing

he's so good to our family

and has been so supportive

of everything.

- Yeah, yeah it's a great

idea that he had to open a

catering division, my

husband used it last month

for a fund raiser or

something for his law firm.

- Actually I worked that

event, I looked for you

but I only saw Dean.

- Oh isn't that funny.

I don't know how i

would have missed you.

- Mom I'm just gonna head

to the restroom for a second

um Sara you wanna come?

- Ah mom I'll be right back.

- Sure.

Oh thank god I thought

they'd never leave.

Ohhh.

- Okay.

- Seriously though, i

don't know how you do it,

raising her all by yourself

without her father around

all those shifts you work,

i mean not to mention

giving up on your dreams ahh.

I know it may not

seem like it but

you know I had dreams too.

- What were your dreams?

- Well I mean after

miss Indiana i--

- you were miss Indiana?

- Was the runner up,

but I was robbed.

I am telling you the

things that girl...

That's a story for another

bottle of chardonnay but,

but I was gonna be an

actress, I was I was out there

I was hustling, I'd

gotten a few small parts--

- wait so you were on TV?

What show?

Would I, would I have seen it?

- Well it didn't get picked

up, I mean it was some

political thing, you understand,

it happens all the time,

but the point is, is

that I was making it

and then my mom got sick

and I had to come home

and take care of her and

just time got away from me.

I met Dean and one

thing led to another

and the rest is

history as they say.

But oh my, I'm so sorry

I'm totally running

off at the mouth.

- No, no, no, no it's nice,

it's nice to get a chance

to get to know you and you know

what, I think at some point

we all have to take

a look at our past.

- Yeah, yeah we do.

And I look at my past and

i vow that my little girl

will not go through

what I went through.

Well that's why we work

so hard right now right?

To give our little girls

everything we didn't have.

- I know that's why I've

been working so hard.

I've been picking

up extra shifts.

It's just exhausting, mentally,

physically, financially.

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