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My Heart Says Yes

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yemme

Benvolio...

Out here professing his love for a quarter cent Ho

His no good uncle couldn’t teach him the rules of engagement when it came to women.  That was a part of his responsibility when his daddy died.  But NO!  Now he fleeing the brothel like a cockroach when the kitchen light turn on.

I’m angry at him for even thinking this ho wanted to be with him… Baby I need you to be smarter than that.  Just cause she showed up for the wedding it don’t mean the bitch came for you.  She came for the food!

I had to let my anger go though… That run to Rosaline’s house released the blood flow to his brain to make him start thinking right… Bless you Friar, on your last night still working miracles.

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He realized the only love he has, the only partner he can count on in his entire life is Rosaline.  It took a trauma for reality to set in and he’s finally seeing clear.  She is good, she is fair.  She is all that you have…  All.

Chile… she’s all he got that they’re dressing like twins already come next week.  Relations new new yah heard and they dressing alike, hiding in the closet and shit side by side.  Just as it should be written.

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“’How do you explain to your child, she was born to be hurt?’ This line from Imitation of Life evokes the United States in its last desperate years of institutionalized racism. It seems more than coincidence that Douglas Sirk filmed his masterpiece in late summer of 1958, less than three years after Rosa Parks sat down in that bus in Montgomery and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the boycott. Only a few years earlier, neither Hollywood nor the American public would have accepted this picture. (Even the 1934 Imitation of Life, conservative, safe, and devoid of subtext, encountered roadblocks…) In the spirit of those times, what might Juanita Moore’s lines to Lana Turner– ‘How do you explain to your child, she was born to be hurt?’ –have meant to audiences north and south when the film opened in 1959? What does it mean today? And how might we, in the ‘progressive’ twenty-first century, explain to those audiences at the the tail end of a similar era, that so much has changed, and so little?” –Sam Staggs, Born to Be Hurt: The Untold Story of Imitation of Life
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