Why didn't you wanna go, Pa? Oh, I don't know. On a night like this with a lot of...
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Selma Jacobson: [after Martinius turns down Pete Hanson's offer to drive him to the grange meeting] Why didn't you wanna go, Pa?
Martinius Jacobson: [smoking his pipe on the porch and contemplatively looking up at the night sky] Oh, I don't know. On a night like this with a lot of people around, I... I get lonesome feeling.
Selma Jacobson: Can you be lonesome with people?
Martinius Jacobson: Sometimes.
Selma Jacobson: Are you lonesome now?
Martinius Jacobson: No.
Selma Jacobson: [pointing to herself] But I'm people.
Martinius Jacobson: [sitting down] No, jenta mi. You're my daughter.
[They smile and warmly embrace each other]
Martinius Jacobson: [smoking his pipe on the porch and contemplatively looking up at the night sky] Oh, I don't know. On a night like this with a lot of people around, I... I get lonesome feeling.
Selma Jacobson: Can you be lonesome with people?
Martinius Jacobson: Sometimes.
Selma Jacobson: Are you lonesome now?
Martinius Jacobson: No.
Selma Jacobson: [pointing to herself] But I'm people.
Martinius Jacobson: [sitting down] No, jenta mi. You're my daughter.
[They smile and warmly embrace each other]
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No jente mi
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you're my daughter
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Movie Summary
A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
