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"It’s the son," Mildred announced as Janet Leigh drove toward Bates Motel "He killed his own mother and kept her body He dresses up in her clothes"

"Thanks for ruining it," gruot We saith the Merrills when it first came out You remember, at the theater before it burned down?"

"I’d rather have so

More wine? asked the eggs Thanks, I’d love solass The day called for it

Once again, she was in love with soed to tell herself a pretty little story with butterflies and Lindt chocolate truffles and a devastatingly wonderful man who adored her but just didn’t quite know it

And, she sensed, once again she was about to be du had happened with Charlie, that she knew

That ten days (ten and a half) after the ball had beeneverything Toht her flowers one day (and yes, pathetic fe it!--no ht her flowers before, if you ruled out Dad) He pressed her against the wall and kissed her till her knees wobbled, and they did it on the kitchen table The kitchen table, people! Co cere the woman chased by her honey so he could steal a kiss? No She hadn’t Then, the day of the plane ride, the cul For a little while, it had felt so perfect that the air itself shie son, biology be damned And when Tom had kissed her hand and sray eyes she hadn’t seen yet

Peace

And maybe a little love, as well

I believe that’s called wishful thinking, said the eggs, their eyes glued to Anthony Perkins as he peered through the knothole Is there any popcorn?

"Oh, no, she’s getting in the shower," Mildred observed "Honey, don’t do it! He’s about to kill you!" Honestly It was like watching a ie Bowet that per now Sit in the back next time"

So far as Honor could tell, there were two possible scenarios for the future One, she’d marry Tom and live in pathetic hope that he’d come around Have a baby if she was lucky Yearn for Tom to love her Gradually adjust to the fact that he didn’t, or couldn’t Work out a divorce when the time came Move back in with Dad and Mrs Johnson and raise her child, always a little melancholy to see those pieces of Tom Barlow in him or her, always blue when Toht dinners and every other weekend She’d coradually add her own aching knees and lactose intolerance to the list of coe andsince committed suicide

Two, see above, minus the kid

"Anthony Perkins would’ve made an attractive woman," Frank Peters said as Norman Bates killed the detective "He has nice eyes"

"My mother had that same dress," murmured Louise Daly

When the ht of Victor Iskin and Lorena Creechout in the back row Eel," she said

"Thanks, Mrs Gianfredo," Honor said "It’s true," she ? We still have the discussion" Pathetic, that she’d rather stay here than head home to face the tension there

"Sweetheart, the Girl Scouts es, and we don’t want tohere? What about the food poisoning?"

"That’s different," Goggy said "This is the Girl Scouts They’d never poisonTell that handsome Tom I said hello"

"Okay," Honor said She waved as the Watch and Whine audience tried not to trah that she couldn’t suppress, she put Spike in her bag, stood up and started packing theinto the cart, and Spike barked, then whi her throat "Hey How are you?"