Name: Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) - 6/11
Uploaded: 2024-12-22T07:51:09.000Z
Duration: 9 min 18 s
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Past simple

So I made a list of subjects for you to talk about.

Oh, all of the stuff that you're scared of.

I told you, I have my early morning moments.

Mike taught me football, taught me music, taught me how to drive.

I used to drive around this empty lot for hours.

That's actually when I gave up music, when Mike died.

So I better get moving if I'm going to make anything out of my life.

Did you ever stop to think about what you're running from?

Okay, what do you want to tackle first here?

Uh, no, kids don't play stickball anymore, really.

Stickball was what all of the slum kids played, you know, where I grew up.

A broom handle and a rubber ball was all you needed.

The best place to play was right outside the candy store.

She was sick as long as I could remember.

I felt if I ignored it, maybe the sickness would go away.

She went to the hospital and she died there.

My father couldn't read English, so I had to read it.

That's how I learned that my mother had died.

It's all that's left of my mother, except memories.

My father, he was an immigrant from Russia, a very silent man.

After my mother died, he'd come home from work, when he could get work, and he'd never come in the house.

He'd stay outside, read the newspaper, until he knew I was asleep.

I needed him to hold me so I wouldn't be so afraid.

And from her, after I stopped being such a little smartass, I finally began to get the love that I'd been hard to forgive.

He said I had a new mother, and that I should forget.

He wouldn't even let me talk about my mother.

He couldn't give it, and he couldn't receive it either.

Not letting ourselves be loved, because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.

You're supposed to be in New York for the playoffs.

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Tuesdays with Morrie (1999) - 6/11

stuff

pretend

tackle

fear