- Baby say Cry.
- Baby say Cry again.
- Baby say I don’t know what to do about it, really. You’re just gonna be you.
- Baby say Let’s have lunch.
- Baby say Let me buy you lunch.
- Baby say Let’s go out to lunch.
- Baby say I wish you’d say something. Something at all.
- Baby say I’ll have the tuna-melt.
- Baby say With a salad and an iced tea.
- Baby say So…
- Baby say The weather’s nice. It’s nice to sit outside.
- Baby say No?
- Baby say I gotta pee. I’ll be right back.
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- Baby say Did you miss me?
- Baby say They had a funny picture in the bathroom. You should check it out when you have to go.
- Baby say You’ll like it.
- Baby say nothing.
- Baby say I want you to know, this whole thing is just a me thing. I mean, it’s got nothing to do with how I feel about you. It’s just how I feel.
- Baby say Right now.
- Baby say That probably sounds stupid.
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- Baby say Huh?
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- Baby say Thank you.
- Baby say Yes, please.
- Baby say Thank you.
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- Baby say Won’t you at least say hello?
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- Baby say Hello! Hellohellohello!
- Baby say I saw that smile.
- Baby say You know you don’t hate me. Not really. You know you have feelings. You just need to get them out. You need to try to understand. You do. I understand. I do. I know all the things you must be feeling, I’ve felt them myself. I have.
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- Baby say I never told you about the time I dated a total tweaker, only I didn’t know it at the time. He would go out all night long, doing god knows what, and he would tell me he was out of town.
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- Baby say On a Tuesday he would come over and tell me all about his work, how stressful it was, and how he just needed a quiet night, a night with me and the TV, and how that would make him the happiest man in the world.
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- Baby say And I wanted to make him the happiest man in the world.
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- Baby say And so we’d lay there on the bed and watch re-runs of The Golden Girls and we’d laugh, and his laugh would be so tired, and I’d try to get him excited, I’d try…
- Baby say But he’d just fall asleep limp in my hand.
- Baby say My mouth didn’t do any better…
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- Baby say After that night, I didn’t hear from him again. I tried calling, but the phone was disconnected. It was only a few days later that I started scratching.
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- Baby say I didn’t know what it was. I was dumb. I kept scratching, all day, all night.
- Baby say I was young. I didn’t know any better.
- Baby say A week later, I got a random knock on the door. I looked through the peephole, and it was a kinda cute girl smiling right at me.
- Baby say I opened the door and said “Yes” like it was a question.
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- Baby say She said “I believe these are yours.”
- Baby say She left a brown paper bag at my feet and took off towards the stairs.
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- Baby say Inside the bag, was another bag full of water and some sort of buyable crabs.
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- Baby say All I could think to do was throw the bag out the window. I didn’t even think who it would hit, if anybody. But I did. I threw it out the window and went to shave myself clean.
- Baby say Oh, I’m okay. Thanks.
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- Baby say And it didn’t take me long to realize that wouldn’t work.
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- Baby say Anyway, I know a shit situation.
- Baby say I know.
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- Baby say Let me buy this. It’s on me.
- Baby say Yes it is. Whether you like it or not.
