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[woman narrating]
The records of Emily Dickinson's life,

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up to and including
Sue and Austin's marriage,

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are full and factual
compared with what lies ahead.

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Over the next few years,
just a handful of letters survive.

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The truth, perhaps,
is hidden in her poems.

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[projector clicking, speeding up]

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[machine wheels clanking]

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["Wild Wild Woman" plays]

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[no audible dialogue]

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[no audible dialogue]

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[Austin chuckles]

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[fly buzzing]

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[knocks on door]

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[woman] Mrs. Dickinson.

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[door closes]

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[music fades]

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Look straight ahead. Relax.

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[stomps foot]
Okay. Doctor, what do you think?

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-It doesn't look good.
-I'm not going blind, am I?

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-No, no. Not blind, no.
-Oh, thank God. That's a relief. Good.

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Do you still have the blurriness?
The odd flashes of light?

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Yes. Like sometimes when I'm writing,
the edges of the page just disappear.

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-Do you write often?
-All the time.

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Ah, well, [chuckles] you might
wanna stop doing so much of that.

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-Stop writing?
-Uh-huh.

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Well, wait. Could all that writing
be hurting her eyes?

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Anything's possible.

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Oh, my God. Emily, dear, you don't want to
cause any increasing harm to your vision.

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Well, again, you're not going blind.

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-See?
-It appears she is suffering from iritis.

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It's an inflammation of the iris.

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Along with a touch of myopia.

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All right. So what's the treatment?

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Sit in dim rooms if you can.

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Avoid the sun. And remember,
you can't necessarily trust what you see.

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-[Edward] Avoid the sun?
-[doctor] Yes.

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-That's it?
-Mm-hmm.

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[stammers] Well-- Goddamn it, man.

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This was a lot of money to pay
for a bit of impossible advice.

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"Avoid the sun"?
She's not a bat, you know.

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Dad, it's okay. I don't need the sun.
I still have the moon.

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Emily, hush. Can't you see
I'm in the middle of shouting at this man?

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If you like,
you could stay a couple more days.

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-I could conduct further observation.
-I wanna go home.

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[doctor] Let me just
present you with the bill.

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[Edward] Aw.

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You're a crook.

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I'm actually America's
very first ophthalmologist.

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Oh, this is outrageous!

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You'll have to come back
in about six months

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to see if there's been any improvement.

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-So you think it might get better?
-Oh, no.

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It will only get worse.

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[train whistle blows]

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[Emily] Before I got my eye put out -
I liked as well to see

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as other creatures that have eyes -
and know no other way -

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But were it told to me, Today,

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That I might have the Sky

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For mine I tell you that my Heart
Would split for size of me -

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This is highway robbery, this man.
Unbelievable.

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-Do you have to keep muttering?
-D--

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I'm just trying to figure out
how three days at the doctor's office

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cost us the equivalent
of a trip to Europe.

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Sorry for being so expensive.

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Oh, no, it's not you. No, honey,
I spend barely anything on you.

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[sighs] It's your brother, unfortunately.

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I spent far too much on that house of his.

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Had to have the finest of everything.

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And then the market crashed,
and the railroad went bankrupt...

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Do you mind if I go back to thinking now?

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No.

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You really are a poet.
You write all the time these days.

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Well, what do you do with all these poems?
You never show them to me.

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Well, I could--
I couldn't show them to you.

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Why not?

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You-- You wouldn't understand them.

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Oh.

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-Well, you're probably right.
-Hmm.

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I just hope that you do find
someone who can understand.

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Oh, don't worry.
[stammers] I have someone. I do.

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["Flooded Field" plays]

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[exhales]

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Long ride from New York.

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-Thanks for coming.
-Of course. Let me get this for you.

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Yes. Ooh, careful. Careful.

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You would not believe
how much I spent on this.

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[grunts] I'm sure I wouldn't.

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Oh, God, I hope she likes it.

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There we go.

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-[grunts]
-Thanks again, Henry.

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-Mr. Dickinson, before you go--
-Uh, actually, just call me Austin.

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Honestly, it feels less awkward.

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-Austin then.
-Yeah.

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-I was just wondering...
-Yes?

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...whether the barn might be free tonight?

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Oh. Yes, absolutely.

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Free as a bird.

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So, it's all right if I...

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You do your thing in there, Henry.

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And if anyone asks you any questions,
you send them right to me.

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Hmm?

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-You're a kind man, Mr. Dickinson.
-Austin.

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Okay.

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Your father is being
so terribly frugal these days.

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He frets about every little expense now.

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You know,
he's even asked us to take in a boarder.

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-Excuse me?
-I was shocked too.

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I said, "What kind of respectable people
will we be

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if we have a stranger living with us?"

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Luckily, I managed to find
someone we already know.

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Do you remember that nice young man
who dropped out of Austin's college class?

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Mr. Shipley.

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-Wait, Mom, the one that I used to--
-Oh, and he's already arrived.

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Hello, boarder.

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How are you?

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What is even happening right now?

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[Emily humming]

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[continues humming]

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Hello.

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Was I talking to myself?

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I think I know you from somewhere.
What is your name?

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I'm nobody!

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Who are you?

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I'm Emily Dickinson of Amherst.

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Really, I must have met you before.
You look so familiar. I--

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[light thud]

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Thank you.

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I, um--

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Hey, who are you?

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The train doesn't even have a dining car.
No wonder the railroad went bust.

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Who were you talking to?

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Nobody.

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Cool dolls.

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[chuckles]

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What are you doing in my house?

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The last I heard, you were back
in Kentucky making bootleg whiskey.

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I was actually selling pharmaceuticals.

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It's, uh, just one of my many
successful business ventures.

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Okay. If it was so successful,
then what are you doing back in Amherst,

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paying rent for a room
in my parents' house?

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I'm glad you asked.

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I came here for you.

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-I'm surprised you even remember me.
-Of course I remember you.

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You're the most pure, simple, quiet,
traditional girl I ever knew.

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And that is why...

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I wanna make you my wife.

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[laughs] Ship.

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Ship, we hooked up once,

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and then you hooked up
with someone else the same night.

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Uh, that wasn't very chivalrous of me.

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You'll see I've changed, Lavinia.

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I'm not that college dropout
who got drunk and tobogganed into a lake.

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I'm a serious adult man
with entrepreneurial instincts

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and a profound respect for women
who embody traditional values,

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such as submissiveness, chastity,

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and a willingness to do household chores.

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I'm not even like that.

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You're Lavinia Dickinson.

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You have tea parties for your cats.

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Okay. Well, yes,
but, um, I've changed too.

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Oh? And how have you changed?

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I'll show you.

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Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you doing?

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Don't you think we should wait?
Until marriage?

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Henry "Ship" Shipley...

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I don't think you have any idea
who you're dealing with.

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[cat meows]

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[sighs] Feels good to be home.

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-[Edward] We're home!
-[Mrs. Dickinson] Hello?

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They're back from their journey.

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What did the doctor say?

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You have no idea
how hard this has been for me.

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Mother, I'm the one with the eye problem.

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Well, I'm the one with a daughter
who may be going blind.

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I'm not going blind.

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God, why is this happening to me?

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Again, not happening to you.

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A blind child to take care of.

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Strange boarders living under our roof.

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-The wallpaper is cracking.
-We just got this wallpaper.

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-Well, it's already out of style.
-I'm not going blind.

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-Don't worry.
-[sighs] I'm so happy to hear that.

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-I missed you.
-I missed you too, Vin.

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I have so much gossip for you.

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I'm sorry. I don't have time.
I have to get back to work.

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Wait, why are you rushing?

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You've been away for three days.
Don't you want to say hello?

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No. I want to write.

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My mind is bursting with ideas.

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No, the doctor said you shouldn't be
writing. It's bad for your eyes, Emily.

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Then stab my eyes out and be done with it.

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I don't need my eyes to see. I don't.

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All I need is my soul.

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That's what I see the truth with.

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And the truth can be seen by a blind man,
so let me be blind.

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As long as I have my poetry,
I'm not afraid of the dark.

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Huh. See?
Everything's going to be all right.

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[Austin] Em, wait up.

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-[Edward] Hi.
-[Lavinia] Hi.

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Sue wants to know,
are you coming to the party tonight?

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No. But, Austin, please tell Sue
that she has to come over and see me.

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She's at our house, getting ready.

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-But I need to talk to her.
-Yes, and she wants to talk to you too.

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That's why she specifically asked me
to ask you to come to the party tonight.

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Okay, well, tell Sue that I can't come
to the party tonight.

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Tell her that you told me that she
told you to tell me to come over,

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but I'm telling you that she should come,
but that I told you--

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I'm tired of playing messenger
between you two.

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Just come to the party.
We live right next door.

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You know, sometimes that lawn
feels like it's 100 miles long.

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[sighs]

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Was I even invited to the party?

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Mom, we all have to go to the party.

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Sue's salons are the talk of New England.

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I memorized the write-up of the last one.

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"Mrs. Austin Dickinson of Amherst dazzled
at her latest well-attended soiree.

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The parlor of her splendid villa,
the Evergreens,

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was packed with a veritable
who's who list of New England society.

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Italian wine was served, and it was hard
to say which flowed more pleasantly,

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the liquor or the conversation."

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It is so crazy.

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Sue is an influencer.

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Really? I can't even believe I know her.

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-And guess who's coming tonight?
-Um, Ithamar Conkey?

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No. Mr. Samuel Bowles.

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The editor in chief
of The Springfield Republican.

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Sue has a connection to him.
And she networked, and he's coming.

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Mom, he's a media mogul.

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He could write about all of us
in the paper. We could all be famous.

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I have to find something to wear.
I need to wear something insane.

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I need to go change.

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Why do things have to change?

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[sneezes]

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[Lavinia laughs]

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-[Ship speaks indistinctly]
-[Lavinia laughs]

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[Emily] The meadows - mine -
The mountains - mine -

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all Forests - stintless stars -

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as much of noon, as I could take -

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Between my finite eyes -

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The motions of the dipping Birds -
The morning's amber Road -

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For mine - to look at when I liked,

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The news would strike me dead -

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Hi, Maggie.
I didn't even know you were in here.

244
00:15:30,180 --> 00:15:32,182
A good maid knows how to be invisible.

245
00:15:33,892 --> 00:15:35,811
You've been writing so much.

246
00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:38,105
Soon it'll take up the whole trunk.

247
00:15:38,188 --> 00:15:40,399
We'll have to find a new place
for your nighties.

248
00:15:40,816 --> 00:15:42,860
Will you put the sheets on top of them
so they stay hidden?

249
00:15:44,570 --> 00:15:47,114
Your whole family knows
you're a poet now, don't they?

250
00:15:47,781 --> 00:15:49,867
I still like to keep a few secrets.

251
00:15:50,826 --> 00:15:51,827
[sighs]

252
00:15:53,412 --> 00:15:55,247
Uh, I'll let you get back to your work.

253
00:15:55,747 --> 00:15:59,918
Though I don't know how you can write with
all that racket over at Sue and Austin's.

254
00:16:00,002 --> 00:16:02,254
Sounds like they're doing
all the latest jigs.

255
00:16:02,337 --> 00:16:03,922
[loud music, chattering]

256
00:16:04,006 --> 00:16:05,007
[sighs]

257
00:16:07,759 --> 00:16:10,053
["Purple Hat" playing]

258
00:16:11,847 --> 00:16:13,891
[laughter, chattering]

259
00:16:23,317 --> 00:16:24,943
[no audible dialogue]

260
00:16:26,612 --> 00:16:27,613
[Austin] Let's go.

261
00:16:34,453 --> 00:16:37,164
Place is sick! And they got oysters!

262
00:16:37,247 --> 00:16:39,625
Oysters are actually a cheap
and widely available food.

263
00:16:39,708 --> 00:16:40,709
[grunts]

264
00:16:40,792 --> 00:16:42,878
-Yo, Shipley.
-Dickinson!

265
00:16:42,961 --> 00:16:46,173
Ah, you look like you're doing well,
man. Look at this place.

266
00:16:46,256 --> 00:16:48,300
Well, my dad made me partner in the firm.

267
00:16:48,383 --> 00:16:50,385
Ah! That is awesome, bro.

268
00:16:50,469 --> 00:16:52,054
-I'm a businessman myself.
-Huh.

269
00:16:52,137 --> 00:16:54,014
[Ship] We should discuss our portfolios.

270
00:16:54,097 --> 00:16:55,891
Yeah. Well, I hope I see you around, man.

271
00:16:55,974 --> 00:16:57,476
Oh, you will.
I'm living with your parents.

272
00:16:57,559 --> 00:16:59,186
And your sister and I are engaged.

273
00:16:59,770 --> 00:17:01,021
Uh. Uh, we-- we are not.

274
00:17:01,104 --> 00:17:04,273
We're engaged to be engaged
but we're taking it slow, you know?

275
00:17:04,358 --> 00:17:06,777
-Out of respect.
-Okay.

276
00:17:06,859 --> 00:17:10,030
Um, I hope he treats you better
than Joseph Lyman.

277
00:17:10,113 --> 00:17:11,865
-[gasps]
-I can handle myself.

278
00:17:11,949 --> 00:17:14,952
-Lyman! What happened to him?
-He went down to New Orleans.

279
00:17:15,035 --> 00:17:17,538
Oh, word. Nola.

280
00:17:17,621 --> 00:17:19,330
[chuckles] The Big Easy, right?

281
00:17:19,414 --> 00:17:22,209
Yeah. Heard it's super chill
down there. Yeah.

282
00:17:22,709 --> 00:17:25,546
And the, uh, tobacco is mad cheap.

283
00:17:26,213 --> 00:17:28,214
Yeah. Because of slavery.

284
00:17:28,298 --> 00:17:30,717
[piano: classical music]

285
00:17:34,137 --> 00:17:36,098
I'm loving the pianist.

286
00:17:36,181 --> 00:17:38,809
I've never heard this piece before.
Is this Handel?

287
00:17:38,892 --> 00:17:40,227
I think so.

288
00:17:40,310 --> 00:17:43,146
-Well, I can't Handel it.
-Abby, shh.

289
00:17:43,230 --> 00:17:44,398
Okay.

290
00:17:44,481 --> 00:17:45,941
We should start a string quartet, guys.

291
00:17:46,024 --> 00:17:48,819
We tried, but Toshiaki
never showed up for rehearsals.

292
00:17:48,902 --> 00:17:50,237
I was doing calligraphy.

293
00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,489
-Jane, you should just go solo.
-Yeah, I should.

294
00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:54,825
What about a book club?
Can we start a book club?

295
00:17:54,908 --> 00:17:56,410
Sure, what do you wanna read?

296
00:17:56,493 --> 00:17:57,578
I don't know. Emerson?

297
00:17:57,661 --> 00:17:58,954
Emerson is canceled.

298
00:17:59,037 --> 00:18:00,831
[Abby] Oh, okay. Uh, Melville?

299
00:18:00,914 --> 00:18:02,207
How about Hawthorne?

300
00:18:02,291 --> 00:18:04,334
You know all those guys
just sleep with each other?

301
00:18:04,418 --> 00:18:06,295
-That's cool.
-I know it's cool.

302
00:18:06,378 --> 00:18:09,673
[Jane] Anyway, I don't have time
for a book club. My life is crazy.

303
00:18:09,756 --> 00:18:11,425
Oh, my God, Jane, it is.

304
00:18:11,508 --> 00:18:13,635
I have a baby. And I'm a widow.

305
00:18:13,719 --> 00:18:15,387
-I don't know how she does it.
-Mm.

306
00:18:15,470 --> 00:18:17,973
I can't believe my husband died
right after I gave birth.

307
00:18:18,056 --> 00:18:21,268
Honestly, you are so strong,
and we are so proud of you.

308
00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:23,645
I actually fainted yesterday.

309
00:18:23,729 --> 00:18:25,814
Of course you fainted. You're a widow.

310
00:18:25,898 --> 00:18:26,899
I know.

311
00:18:26,982 --> 00:18:28,233
-[music ends]
-[applause]

312
00:18:28,317 --> 00:18:29,318
-[Sue] Bravo.
-Oh.

313
00:18:32,154 --> 00:18:33,614
I love your dress.

314
00:18:33,697 --> 00:18:35,199
Oh. Thanks.

315
00:18:35,699 --> 00:18:37,576
Did Betty make it for you?

316
00:18:37,659 --> 00:18:40,954
[laughs] Oh, no,
I don't shop at Betty's anymore.

317
00:18:41,038 --> 00:18:42,831
-It's from New York.
-Oh.

318
00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:46,001
Actually, the original design
is from Vienna.

319
00:18:52,841 --> 00:18:54,134
[gasping]

320
00:18:54,510 --> 00:18:55,511
[man] Give her some space.

321
00:18:55,594 --> 00:18:57,596
-She fainted.
-So cool.

322
00:19:27,417 --> 00:19:28,418
[chuckles]

323
00:19:31,088 --> 00:19:33,757
[laughter, chattering]

324
00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:44,601
[sighs]

325
00:19:51,817 --> 00:19:53,068
[groans]

326
00:19:55,195 --> 00:19:56,488
-Evening papers.
-Thank you.

327
00:19:56,572 --> 00:19:58,198
-Can you make it to the barn tonight?
-Yeah, I'll try.

328
00:19:58,282 --> 00:19:59,533
You know these parties always go late.

329
00:19:59,616 --> 00:20:01,410
We'll be working all night, okay?

330
00:20:01,493 --> 00:20:05,122
Ah, the evening papers. Speaking of
the papers, where is Mr. Bowles?

331
00:20:05,205 --> 00:20:07,499
-I thought he'd be here by now.
-[door opens]

332
00:20:07,583 --> 00:20:08,834
[Emily] Sue, I came to see you.

333
00:20:08,917 --> 00:20:10,169
What's wrong with your eyes?

334
00:20:10,252 --> 00:20:13,338
Oh, the doctor wasn't sure.
Iritis, I guess.

335
00:20:13,422 --> 00:20:16,341
No, Emily.
You have ink all over your face.

336
00:20:17,259 --> 00:20:18,343
Here. Come with me.

337
00:20:26,310 --> 00:20:29,771
Only you would show up at a party
looking like a raccoon.

338
00:20:29,855 --> 00:20:32,983
I'm not here for the party.
I'm here to see you.

339
00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:35,360
As long as I can still see,
I wanna look at you.

340
00:20:36,236 --> 00:20:38,780
Well, I'm hosting.

341
00:20:38,864 --> 00:20:41,992
You're always hosting.
You spread yourself so thin.

342
00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:45,037
Come on, I've been waiting all day.
All week.

343
00:20:45,120 --> 00:20:46,455
-I need to know.
-Emily.

344
00:20:46,538 --> 00:20:48,290
What did you think of my poems?
Tell me.

345
00:20:48,916 --> 00:20:50,000
I loved them.

346
00:20:51,001 --> 00:20:52,002
You did?

347
00:20:53,420 --> 00:20:54,421
Oh, thank God.

348
00:20:55,380 --> 00:20:56,423
Thank God.

349
00:20:56,965 --> 00:21:00,135
I always love your poems.
But these new ones, they were...

350
00:21:01,929 --> 00:21:03,055
-What?
-Beyond.

351
00:21:04,348 --> 00:21:07,809
Say more. Please.
Come on, say more, say more. Say more.

352
00:21:08,852 --> 00:21:12,105
Uh, reading them, it's like,
it's like my...

353
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:15,859
it's like my heart almost explodes.

354
00:21:16,568 --> 00:21:17,569
Oh, Sue.

355
00:21:18,237 --> 00:21:19,613
-That's what I want.
-[chuckles]

356
00:21:19,696 --> 00:21:21,156
That's what I want you to feel.

357
00:21:23,450 --> 00:21:24,451
Yeah.

358
00:21:25,661 --> 00:21:28,455
It's--
Sometimes it can be almost too much.

359
00:21:29,706 --> 00:21:30,707
It...

360
00:21:31,917 --> 00:21:33,502
It can be so painful.

361
00:21:35,128 --> 00:21:36,630
What do you-- What do you mean?

362
00:21:39,842 --> 00:21:42,594
It's just that your poems, they...

363
00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:44,721
What?

364
00:21:46,265 --> 00:21:50,352
They make me feel things
that I don't want to feel.

365
00:21:53,981 --> 00:21:54,982
Like what?

366
00:21:58,694 --> 00:22:01,238
[sobs] Like when I lost the baby.

367
00:22:02,948 --> 00:22:03,949
Oh, Sue.

368
00:22:05,075 --> 00:22:08,328
St-- Stupid to call it a baby, I suppose.

369
00:22:08,412 --> 00:22:10,664
-No, it's not.
-[sniffles]

370
00:22:10,747 --> 00:22:13,166
It wasn't a baby... yet.

371
00:22:14,877 --> 00:22:16,879
But it was something. And...

372
00:22:19,923 --> 00:22:21,133
then it was gone.

373
00:22:27,890 --> 00:22:32,728
Do-- Do you ever...
talk to Austin about it?

374
00:22:32,811 --> 00:22:35,105
No. No, he knows nothing.

375
00:22:35,189 --> 00:22:37,816
-And you swore...
-I know I did.

376
00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,694
-...never to tell him.
-I know. I won't, I promise you, I won't.

377
00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:53,665
God, look at me.

378
00:22:54,499 --> 00:22:56,919
I'm supposed to be out there
hosting a salon,

379
00:22:57,628 --> 00:22:59,880
and I'm in here on the verge of tears.

380
00:23:01,089 --> 00:23:03,342
[sighs] Why do you always do that to me?

381
00:23:05,093 --> 00:23:07,846
Listen. I'm so glad that you came tonight

382
00:23:07,930 --> 00:23:11,225
because there's someone coming
to this party that I need you to meet.

383
00:23:11,808 --> 00:23:14,436
In fact, I specifically invited him
so that you could be introduced.

384
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:15,771
What? Who?

385
00:23:16,313 --> 00:23:19,816
Sam Bowles, editor in chief
of The Springfield Republican.

386
00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:24,947
He's a powerful man, very good taste,
and he loves to publish women.

387
00:23:25,781 --> 00:23:28,367
Emily, this could be the man
to put you in the spotlight.

388
00:23:30,953 --> 00:23:33,372
You mean... publish my poems?

389
00:23:33,455 --> 00:23:35,832
Yes. Emily, it's time.

390
00:23:35,916 --> 00:23:37,709
You need to share your writing
with the world.

391
00:23:37,793 --> 00:23:39,920
Oh, but you know I can't publish.
My father won't approve.

392
00:23:40,003 --> 00:23:42,631
Oh, come on.
Don't give me that old excuse.

393
00:23:43,257 --> 00:23:46,301
You're an adult now.
You have to make your own choices.

394
00:23:46,385 --> 00:23:48,095
You can't let your father
stand in the way anymore.

395
00:23:48,178 --> 00:23:49,805
I'm not. I can't.

396
00:23:49,888 --> 00:23:50,973
You can!

397
00:23:51,598 --> 00:23:53,642
Your poems are works of genius.

398
00:23:54,476 --> 00:23:56,937
And you owe it to the world
to let them be seen.

399
00:23:58,272 --> 00:24:02,109
I don't need the world to see them.
I only need you--

400
00:24:02,192 --> 00:24:04,403
Well, I can't be your only reader anymore.

401
00:24:05,529 --> 00:24:08,323
It's not enough. You need more.

402
00:24:09,116 --> 00:24:12,411
And that's why
I've invited this man tonight.

403
00:24:12,494 --> 00:24:16,290
This man who is going to fall in love
with your poems.

404
00:24:17,249 --> 00:24:20,127
["Sexy Black Timberlake" plays]

405
00:24:25,174 --> 00:24:27,050
Mr. Bowles, you're here.

406
00:24:27,509 --> 00:24:30,888
I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else.
How are you, Suzie? What's new?

407
00:24:31,430 --> 00:24:36,143
Sam, I'd like you to meet
my sister-in-law, Emily Dickinson.

408
00:24:36,226 --> 00:24:40,314
Of course. The famous poet.
I've heard all about you.

409
00:24:40,397 --> 00:24:42,482
Oh. Nobody's heard of me.

410
00:24:43,317 --> 00:24:46,320
Well, it's my job to know things
before other people find out.

411
00:24:46,862 --> 00:24:50,657
I'm a newsman. I gotta keep my ear to
the ground. I gotta stay one step ahead.

412
00:24:51,074 --> 00:24:54,119
The world is changing fast and so is
the news business, I'll tell you.

413
00:24:58,540 --> 00:24:59,666
What's all over your face?

414
00:25:01,251 --> 00:25:02,836
Oh, it's ink.

415
00:25:03,921 --> 00:25:04,922
Huh.

416
00:25:06,089 --> 00:25:07,090
You're interesting.

417
00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:09,676
I'm interested.

418
00:25:14,097 --> 00:25:16,683
I've been in five cities
in the last three days, Suzie,

419
00:25:16,767 --> 00:25:20,270
zipping around the railroad,
meeting people, so many people.

420
00:25:20,896 --> 00:25:23,273
It is a crazy time to be alive.

421
00:25:23,690 --> 00:25:26,610
[Sue] You know, Mr. Bowles was the one
who made The Springfield Republican

422
00:25:26,693 --> 00:25:29,112
-into a daily paper instead of a weekly.
-Hmm.

423
00:25:29,196 --> 00:25:30,656
That was his innovation.

424
00:25:31,406 --> 00:25:32,866
Move fast and break stuff.

425
00:25:32,950 --> 00:25:35,619
I am seriously addicted to the news.

426
00:25:37,454 --> 00:25:40,123
Well, like I said,
I've heard so much about you.

427
00:25:40,749 --> 00:25:43,126
Apparently,
you can write like nobody's business.

428
00:25:43,585 --> 00:25:45,212
[Sue] She's a genius, Sam.

429
00:25:45,295 --> 00:25:47,548
I know she's going to be
your new discovery.

430
00:25:49,424 --> 00:25:52,344
So? When do I get to read a poem?

431
00:25:54,805 --> 00:25:58,267
Emily, you could recite one for us.

432
00:25:58,350 --> 00:25:59,351
Right now.

433
00:25:59,726 --> 00:26:00,769
I'd love to hear it.

434
00:26:08,569 --> 00:26:09,570
[clears throat]

435
00:26:18,537 --> 00:26:19,788
[hums]

436
00:26:27,754 --> 00:26:28,839
Nobody?

437
00:26:33,135 --> 00:26:34,136
Emily?

438
00:26:35,095 --> 00:26:37,389
[indistinct whispering]

439
00:26:37,472 --> 00:26:38,974
Come on, this is your moment.

440
00:26:40,642 --> 00:26:42,060
[Nobody] So safer -

441
00:26:44,104 --> 00:26:46,940
guess - with just my soul

442
00:26:48,358 --> 00:26:49,860
Opon the window pane

443
00:26:51,778 --> 00:26:53,947
Where other creatures put their eyes -

444
00:26:56,950 --> 00:26:59,203
Incautious - of the Sun -

445
00:27:11,381 --> 00:27:12,716
[clears throat, sniffles]

446
00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:15,219
[woman whispering]
There's something wrong with her.

447
00:27:17,179 --> 00:27:18,180
Not tonight.

448
00:27:19,473 --> 00:27:21,475
-Please.
-I would prefer not to.

449
00:27:24,645 --> 00:27:26,355
[murmuring]

450
00:27:28,023 --> 00:27:30,025
Typical Emily Dickinson.

451
00:27:30,108 --> 00:27:31,318
She's a lot.

452
00:27:36,323 --> 00:27:39,785
["Where Do You Go" playing]

453
00:27:43,997 --> 00:27:47,084
Do you want a new America?
Do you want a new America?

454
00:27:47,167 --> 00:27:51,672
Our paper is called The Constellation.
We are bringing change, revolution.

455
00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:54,132
Each of us is gonna do our part.

456
00:28:01,932 --> 00:28:04,226
-Thank you so much for coming.
-[man] Thanks.

457
00:28:10,023 --> 00:28:12,192
[music continues]