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[ relaxing music ]
>> Ridge: So, I'm surprised

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to see both of you here.
>> Brooke: Why not welcome

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you back from your trip?
>> Taylor: Yeah. It went well?

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>> Ridge: Did-- did it go
well? I wasn't--

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I wasn't on holiday.
It was-- I was, um...

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I spent time soul searching,
if that's what they call it.

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>> Brooke: Glad to hear it.
>> Taylor: Yeah, me too.

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>> Ridge: Okay.
I got a text.

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>> Taylor: Yeah, we both
wanted to see you.

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>> Brooke: Yeah.
>> Ridge: And that's

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understandable. I-- I could
only imagine what you guys

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have been going through
and now, I just--

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For my part in this,
I apologize. I'm sorry.

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>> Brooke: Are you?
>> Taylor: Are you really,

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Ridge?
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>> Hope: I think Ridge might
be coming back to Los Angeles

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to reunite with my mother.
>> Steffy: Wouldn't count

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on it.
>> Hope: Well, we know Ridge

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left to do some thinking.
>> Steffy: Well, the more time

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he considers what he wants
in life, I think he'll realize

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it's my mother.
>> Hope: But, if he has to

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think that hard about it,
is it really meant to be?

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[ knocking on door ]
>> All: Hi.

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>> Finn: We, uh, ran into
each other on the elevator.

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>> Hope: Oh, uh, well I think
it's good you're both here.

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>> Liam: Yeah, why?
To referee?

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>> Steffy: No, actually.
Hope and I were having

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conversation. >> Liam: Why?
a fairly civilized
What happened?

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>> Steffy: My father is
coming back home.

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>> Liam: Oh, wait. So Ridge is

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on his way home now?
>> Steffy: Yeah.

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>> Finn: He must have made
his decision. Either he's
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spend his future with Taylor
or with Brooke.

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>> Hope: I think we all know
what direction

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this is headed in.
>> Steffy: I can see it now.

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My parents married, living
blissfully at the beach house.

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>> Hope: I know that's
what you want to have

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happen, Steffy.
>> Steffy: That's what's

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>> Liam: Well, okay, to be
gonna happen.
fair,

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the only reason Ridge and
Brooke broke up in the first
place

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was because of Thomas'
whole stupid scheme

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with the fix--
>> Steffy: I admit, what my

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brother did was reckless,
and I do feel bad for Brooke,

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but it doesn't erase the bond
my parents created.

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>> Hope: Even though a big
part of it is based on a lie?

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>> Finn: No. Ridge made it
very clear that the CPS call

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had no bearing on him wanting
to marry Taylor.

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>> Liam: Yeah, true, but
he didn't go through with

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the wedding, so.
>> Steffy: Okay, part of me

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does wish I didn't say
anything and I let my mom

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tell my father about Thomas
after the ceremony.

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they still would be together
right now.

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♪♪♪
>> Ridge: Did anything happen

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while I was gone?
>> Taylor: Well, I--

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>> Charlie: And there he is.
The big cheese.

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The grand fromage.
Welcome back to Los Angeles,

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oh, exalted one.
Get the sense that my timing

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is a little bad here.
I'll uh, circle back later.

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>> Taylor: Alrighty. So, um,
where were we?

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>> Brooke: Well, um,
we were wondering if Ridge

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really does feel remorseful.
>> Taylor: Oh, that's right.

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>> Ridge: I do. I'm, uh--
I'm more sorry than I could

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say. I'm trying to explain
to you--

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>> Taylor: We are not here
to listen to your explanations

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or your apologies, so.
>> Brooke: No.

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You are here to listen to us.
>> Taylor: Yeah.

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To actually hear us.
You've put us through a lot.

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>> Hope: Well, at least the
kids seem unaware of all

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the concern. They had a blast
decorating cookies last night.

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>> Steffy: Yeah, they did.
Kelly's finalizing her

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list for Santa, singing songs.
I mean, it does feel normal

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at times.
>> Finn: It's nice considering

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things have been rather
unpredictable lately.

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>> Liam: That's the
understatement of the decade.

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Somehow, I didn't have Sheila
coming back from the dead

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on my bingo card.
>> Steffy: It's complicated

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enough.
>> Hope: Yeah. And then

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we had Thomas faking that
CPS call, trying to ruin

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my mom's marriage.
>> Liam: See, that right
there,

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I've given up on trying to
predict everybody's next move.

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>> Steffy: Same, but I do have
my suspicions.

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>> Hope: Steffy, we all know
you want your parents to ride

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off into the sunset together.
>> Steffy: I do.

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>> Hope: Okay, just...
you know, Ridge has let you

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down before.
That's all I'm saying.

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>> Finn: To be fair, we just
need to wait it out.

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>> Liam: We all know that you
both want what's best

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for your mothers.
>> Hope: Yeah, but at this

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point, it's almost a guarantee
that one of our moms is going

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to get her heart broken.
>> Steffy: Well, we do know

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how much Brooke wants this
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I'm predicting a meltdown.
>> Charlie: Hi, everybody.

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And what a handsome group
you are too.

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>> Liam: Hey, Charlie.
How've you been, man?

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>> Charlie: Well, I've been
good. I, uh, don't mean

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to interrupt, but I have
some breaking news that you

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might want to hear.
>> Steffy: Is-- is this about

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the raffle prizes for
Pam's bake off because we

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really don't need to hear that
right now.

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>> Charlie: No, it's about--
it's about your right hand
man.

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You're co-compadre?
>> Steffy: What?

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>> Charlie: Your dad.
He's back.

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>> Steffy: Charlie, I know.
Yeah, he's coming home.

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>> Charlie: N-- No, no, no.
I mean he's back, back, back.

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He-- Ridge is on the premises.
>> Hope: Already?

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>> Charlie: Yeah. He's in the
office de grand fromage

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having a tete-a-tete-a-tete.
>> Hope: So, who's he with?

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>> Steffy and Hope: My mom?
>> Charlie: Affirmative.

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And affirmative.
>> Steffy: What do you mean,

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Charlie? Is my father with
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>> Hope: Or with mine?
>> Charlie: Well, Ridge is

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with Taylor.
>> Steffy: Oh, thank God.

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>> Charlie: And Brooke.
>> Hope: Wait, so Ridge is

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with both of them?
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>> Brooke: Taylor and I
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>> Ridge: You've been talking.
Well that's-- that's good.

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>> Taylor: Is it good? Is it?
>> Ridge: Yes, it's good.

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I've always said that you--
you guys should talk to

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each other.
You have a lot in common.

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You have a lot of--
a lot of things to talk about,

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see eye to eye on a few
things, right? Why not?

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>> Taylor: Yeah, well we
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on a few things now.
>> Brooke: Yup, yup. We have

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a lot more in common than
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>> Ridge: I've always been
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>> Brooke: We're mothers
and we have successful careers

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and we've been waiting for
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adult life.
So, did you...

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process any of your thinking?
>> Taylor: Well, I'm thinking

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he did because he went away
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perspective, you know.
>> Brooke: Of course.

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And you went away too.
>> Taylor: I did too.

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I went away also.
I went away to do the same

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thing and I kind of wanted
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like I've done in the past,
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I want to stay in Los Angeles.
>> Ridge: I'm not sure what

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you guys are doing here,
but um, glad you're back.

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For the kids.
>> Taylor: For the kids.

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For the kids, yup.
That's what this is all about.

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Yeah. Speaking of our kids,
I should've told you what

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Thomas did before the ceremony
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But man, I was-- I was thrown
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I kept thinking about
all of the promises that you

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had made me in Aspen.
Your commitment to me,

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to our kids. I just...
I wanted to believe you.

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I did believe you. I-- I...
I took you at your word.

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But I do want you to know
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together was um...
magic.

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>> Brooke: And I want you to
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you've always been the love
of my life, and you still are.

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>> Taylor: You know, I've
never known you as anything
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a-- but a wonderful man,
a loving father.

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My heart...
Yeah.

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>> Brooke: I feel the same way
Every breath that I've taken,

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every heartbeat has all been
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>> Taylor: My best friend.
>> Brooke: My destiny.

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But you can't have
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>> Ridge: I know.
And I went away because I...

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I know I can only be with
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>> Taylor: No.
>> Brooke: You can't.

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>> Liam: So, the three of them
are together right now?

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Ridge, Brooke and Taylor.
In one room.

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>> Hope: Mm-hm.
>> Liam: Cool.

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>> Hope: Yeah.
Sounds pretty intense.

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I wonder what they're
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>> Finn: Well, whatever Ridge
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I hope he lets the other one
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>> Steffy: Yeah, my father's
not gonna be a jerk about it.

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>> Hope: But it's not really
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he's kind of...
He has their future in

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his hands.
>> Steffy: I'm sure he's not

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enjoying this. He's not going
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witness Brooke suffering first
>> Liam: Like we had to
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when she thought it was like,
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I do not want to watch her
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>> Hope: Yeah, I don't think
she'll be the one hurting.

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>> Steffy: You haven't seen
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The love they have between
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>> Hope: We could say the
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and my mom. I mean, I grew up
with it. I've heard all the

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stories, you know,
about how they first met,

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my mom catering at the
Forrester estate. How they

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locked eyes from across the
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sight, but I do have to say,
I think that love

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is going strong.
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>> Brooke: As much as I adore
you, Ridge, when you left me

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in Aspen--
>> Ridge: I left you in Aspen

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because I thought you betrayed
me, my son and my family.

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>> Brooke: I know. You told me
you thought it was my voice,

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but it wasn't. It was Thomas!
But the thing that really

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gets me is that you didn't
talk to me about it.

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You didn't open up,
and if you did, we could've

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there. Instead, you ran off to
handled it right then and
Aspen,

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I followed you there,
you walked away from me,

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I had no idea what was going
on. I thought I did something.

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I mean, oh, my God!
Who does that?

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What kind of man runs to
Taylor, to propose to her,

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all the while, he's still
married to me?

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>> Ridge: I'm sorry I hurt
you. >> Taylor: You hurt both
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Ridge.
I didn't know any of this.

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Nothing.
You came chasing after me,

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like literally chased me.
You chased me up a mountain.

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Because I was running away
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and I told you to leave.
But you didn't. You stayed.

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convinced me and you pleaded
You stayed me and you
with me

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and you told me that this time
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Out of all the other times,
this time was different

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because-- because you had
seen the light.

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And you knew what you wanted
and that was me.

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For always.
And then you promised me

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that you would...
keep my heart safe.

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And I bought it.
I bought it!

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And then what happens?
We get engaged.

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And then, what did you do
at the wedding? What--

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what happened at the wedding?
>> Ridge: What did I do

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or what happened?
>> Taylor: Both.

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>> Ridge: Steffy objected.
>> Taylor: Oh okay, so
that's--

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that's what you're going to
say to everything I just said.

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Sure, Steffy objected.
She knew that Thomas had made

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that CPS call on himself
and she also knew how
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it was to not start a marriage
on a lie.

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And here's what I was
thinking. The same thing

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because if what you promised
me in Aspen was the truth,

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we would've gotten married
regardless.

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But we didn't.
You walked away.

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You left me there
with my heart shattered.

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Again.
You lied! Why?

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This is wrong, Ridge.
Everything, everything you

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have done is wrong!
God!

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>> Brooke: Taylor's right.
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>> Steffy: Look, I know all

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about Brooke and my father's
romantic history. Who doesn't?

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>> Hope: Well then, you should
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that isn't easily broken.
>> Steffy: I'm not clueless.

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I know on some level that
my father will always love

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Brooke. I just don't want her
to continue to be obsessed

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over him.
Brooke was with my father

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for many, many years and now,
it's time for my father to

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be with my mother.
>> Hope: So now Taylor gets

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a turn? Steffy, this is not
how this should work.

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>> Steffy: Look. Obviously,
our mothers are fighting over

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the same man, and that man
happens to be my father.

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You think that Brooke needs
my father and I think

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my mom does.
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>> Taylor: We don't need
you, Ridge.

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>> Brooke: No.
We are not weak women.

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>> Ridge: I never said that
you're weak women. You are

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strong, independent women.
>> Taylor: You have no idea

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how strong we've had to be.
>> Brooke: We have been stuck

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in this same cycle for
decades. >> Taylor: For
decades!

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You've had it good though.
You have two families.

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One with me, one with Brooke.
You love two women.

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Lucky guy.
>> Brooke: But you can't have

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two women.
I mean, we both love you,

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Ridge, but...
>> Ridge: But what?

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>> Taylor: But we're tired
and exhausted, actually.

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>> Brooke: Yes. We are
better than this.

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>> Taylor: We're done
fighting. >> Brooke: We
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be happy.
>> Ridge: I agree.

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I always agreed with that.
>> Brooke: Good. Glad you
agree.

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>> Taylor: Mm-hm.
>> Brooke: Because Taylor

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and I, we've made a decision.
And we choose us.

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>> Taylor: Yes.
We choose ourselves.

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Our dignity, our self-respect.
We're done.

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>> Brooke: We are done.
>> Taylor: We're done.

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>> Brooke: We are.
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>> Taylor: Goodbye, Ridge.
>> Brooke: Goodbye.

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Come on, Taylor.
>> Taylor: Yeah.

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Oh, one minute.
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