Since then it's just been us
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Dorothea:
That was my husband's Ford Galaxy. We drove Jamie home from the hospital in that car. Jamie:
My mom was forty when she had me. Everyone told her she was too old to be a mother. Dorothea:
I put my hand through the little window, and he'd squeeze my finger, and I'd tell him life was very big... and unknown. Jamie:
And she told me that there were animals, and sky, and cities... Dorothea:
...music, movies. He'd fall in love, have his own children, have passions, have meaning, have his mom and dad. Jamie:
When they got divorced, my father moved back east and left the car with us. He calls on birthdays and Christmas. Last time I felt close to him was on my birthday in 1974. He bought me mirrored sunglasses. I saw the president fall down the stairs and I threw up on the carpet. Dorothea:
Since then it's just been us
That was my husband's Ford Galaxy. We drove Jamie home from the hospital in that car. Jamie:
My mom was forty when she had me. Everyone told her she was too old to be a mother. Dorothea:
I put my hand through the little window, and he'd squeeze my finger, and I'd tell him life was very big... and unknown. Jamie:
And she told me that there were animals, and sky, and cities... Dorothea:
...music, movies. He'd fall in love, have his own children, have passions, have meaning, have his mom and dad. Jamie:
When they got divorced, my father moved back east and left the car with us. He calls on birthdays and Christmas. Last time I felt close to him was on my birthday in 1974. He bought me mirrored sunglasses. I saw the president fall down the stairs and I threw up on the carpet. Dorothea:
Since then it's just been us
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have his mom and dad
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When they got divorced
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my father moved back east and left the car with us
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He calls on birthdays and Christmas
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Last time I felt close to him was on my birthday in 1974
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He bought me mirrored sunglasses
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I saw the president fall down the stairs
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and I threw up on the carpet
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Since then it's just been us
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Movie Summary
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
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Dorothea Fields
