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ALAN: |
Hi,
everybody. |
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CAST: |
Hi.
Hello, Alan. You're back. |
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ALAN: |
What are you doing? |
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SUE: |
We're watching the news. |
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ALAN: |
What were you doing? |
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SUE: |
We
saw the saddest story. There was this girl. And she got lost from
her parents. |
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ALAN: |
It
doesn't sound very cheerful. |
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SUE: |
It
wasn't. |
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EILEEN: |
You
know it's time for you to go to bed, Sue. Tomorrow is a school day.
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SUE: |
But
I'm so unhappy. |
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ALAN: |
Why
are you unhappy? Because it's a school day? |
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MARTIN: |
Or
because it's bed time? |
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EILEEN: |
You
men don't understand. Aren't you ever unhappy? |
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SUE: |
Don't you ever cry? I'm melancholy. |
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EILEEN: |
No,
you're not. That's too much sadness. It was just a story. We had a
good cry, and now we feel better, don't we? |
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SUE: |
I
suppose. Can I watch some of the news? |
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ALAN: |
That will make you sadder. There are always unhappy events on the
news. They make me sad. |
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SUE: |
But
I want to watch. |
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EILEEN: |
Come along now, Sue. You know it makes me unhappy when you don't go
to bed. You have school tomorrow. I want you to do well in school.
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SUE: |
But
I need to know about the news for school. |
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EILEEN: |
I'm
getting unhappy. |
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SUE: |
Sad, or angry? |
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EILEEN: |
Angry! I want you to say "good night" and go to bed! |
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SUE: |
OK.
Good night, daddy. |
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MARTIN: |
Good night, Sue. Sleep well. |
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SUE: |
Good night, Alan. |
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ALAN: |
'Night. |
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EILEEN: |
Good night. I'll come in later. |
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ALAN: |
Why
is everyone unhappy? |
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MARTIN: |
We're not unhappy. |
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EILEEN: |
Some of us are sad because we watched a sad story. |
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ALAN: |
Ohhh, I see. What was it about? |
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EILEEN: |
It
was about a little girl. Her mother died from a very bad disease.
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MARTIN: |
You
aren't going to tell the whole, sad story, are you? |
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EILEEN: |
No,
not all of it. The little girl lived in the country. One night she
thought she heard her mother calling. She went into the woods and
got lost. |
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ALAN: |
No
wonder Sue was sad. She's afraid of the dark, and she doesn't like
forests. |
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MARTIN: |
She's a city girl. |
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ALAN: |
Why
did you watch that story? |
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EILEEN: |
It
was very good. |
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ALAN: |
But
it made you unhappy. |
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EILEEN: |
Yes, but we liked the story. |
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ALAN: |
Why? |
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EILEEN: |
It's important to know other people's feelings. We need to feel
unhappiness. |
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ALAN: |
Why? |
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EILEEN: |
We
want to know how our friends feel when they are unhappy. I need to
understand unhappiness when you and Sue are unhappy. |
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ALAN: |
Well, I'm not sad now. I'm just hungry. |
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EILEEN: |
Why
are you angry? |
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ALAN: |
Not
angry. Hungry. |
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EILEEN: |
Oh,
hungry. You're always hungry. Let's go to the kitchen. |
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