"Peop/e came from far to the mountain town." "I came from the north to find purpose." "The doctor came from a city to escape regret." "Fate had other p/ans for both of us." "You cou/d argue it's better to be neg/ected by fate than we/- attended." "When it marks you for favor, you can bet your /ife wi/ change rare/y for the better though a/ways deeper." "The most cost/y casua/ty is a/ways the heart." "Nothing hurts so much as that." "Like sacrificing your queen, you can sti/ p/ay on/y you can't he/p fee/ that the game is a/ready /ost." "But strange/y, crue/y, a distraught heart keeps beating no matter how much you wish it wou/d stop." "So you take another breath, another step." "You wake again to the unsympathetic sun." "Amy, you wanna get up?" "Not really." "You go through the motions pretending for a/ the wor/d to be a warm-b/ooded creature." " Hey, uh, Delia, make sure he packs right." "I know how to pack." "He means no flannel." "It's not allowed in New York." "Oh, right." "Well, maybe I do need some help." "You'll feel better once you get there, Dad." "You won't think about Mrs. Hayes so much." "The doctor and I both knew a /ot about that." "We both came a /ong ways on/y to find that purpose doesn't /ast and regret can burn a ho/e through any happiness." "And that just when you think fate is done kicking you around and maybe it's time to hope again that's when the rea/ surprises come." "Yeah." " What's this?" " A letter." "For me?" "I'm right here." "This required some formality." "Your letter of resignation." "Your typewritten letter of resignation." "Well, this is very thoughtful, Harold." "Thank you." "I hate to be ungrateful, but why are you resigning this morning?" "You're gonna wanna fire me in five minutes." "I'd like to preserve some dignity." "I've done something you'll no doubt find upsetting." "Did you finish the half-and-half again?" "I told you, come early." "The milk dregs are fair game." "I told Amy." "About Madison, about Ephram, the pregnancy." "All of it." "I know you told me in confidence, but I wasn't in a position to lie." "Actually, that's not true." "I could have lied." "She deserved to know, so I told her knowing full well the consequences for you, thus my resignation tendered." " Did she tell him yet?" " No." " Is she planning to?" " She doesn't know." "She's been lying in bed avoiding the decision." "Can't say I envy her." "She's in love with her boyfriend wants him to know the truth." "On the other hand, she's a girl in love with her boyfriend who doesn't want to lose him or crush him just before the most important audition of his life." "Take it back, Harold." "Not accepted." "But I'm half the reason that you didn't tell Ephram when you had the chance." "I betrayed your trust." "Someone had to." "Go back to work." "I'm hardly in a position to offer advice but you did want to tell Ephram yourself once." "Now may be the last chance to do so yourself." "I am going to let him go to New York and audition." "He's worked hard for that and he deserves his chance at a future." "That's why I kept this from him in the first place." " Are you sure of this?" " Well, I've waited this long." "He can't hate me any more than he already will." "He may not hate you." "I would." "Hey." "Yes, I know we're only going for two days and I'm packing for, like, a month." "I was thinking about when we land we can go to HH for the good-bagel breakfast." " Hello." " Hmm." "But you have to make good on your promise to try lox." "You insult my people when you refuse our gross fish." "I have to tell you something." "What's up?" "I don't think that I can come to New York with you." "Is your dad freaking out again?" "Tell him you have your own room." "We can sign separate bed affidavits if we must." "No, it's not him." "Actually, it's more your dad." "My dad?" "What's wrong with my dad?" "I mean, what, out of the many things wrong with him, is the problem this time?" "Well, I've just been thinking about it and, um, I don't think that it's my place to go on this one." "I mean, we've had our time in New York." "You and your dad worked hard to get this." "You should do this with him." "If you're gonna cheat on me, think of a better excuse." " Make up, like, a sick relative or something." " I'm serious." "Why can't I be serious about this?" "Uh, because you've been doing the good-bagel countdown since we first talked about this." " What's up?" " Nothing." "Look, my head just isn't in a very good space right now." " I don't wanna bring you down with me." " Well, what's wrong with your head?" "We can deal with it when you get back." "I'll tell you everything, I promise." "Look, don't worry about it, go to New York kick ass, get into Juilliard and bring me some pizza, okay?" "Well, sometimes I impress even myself." "Whoo!" "Let it be known I could do another 20 minutes but choose not to out of respect for the time limit on these machines." "Arbitrary though it may be." "Whoo!" " Irv?" " Harold." "Keeping that clogged heart flowing freely, good for you." " I didn't know you worked out here." " Oh, I'm here all the time." " Gotta stay in shape." " Oh, absolutely." "I'm here thrice weekly for my cardio, plus a weight-training session with Franco." " So how is it I never see you here?" " Oh, I prefer to work out at night." " Helps me sleep." " Really?" "So, what's your routine like?" "Stocky fellow like yourself." "I can see you as an old-school free-weights man." "Hmm?" "A little of this, a little of that." " I'm here to shower up today." " What's wrong with the shower at home?" "Nothing." "I'm not allowed to use it." " You and Mother have another spat?" " You could say that, heh." "What would be more accurate to say?" "Well, I guess you could say we sort of split up." " Split up?" "Oh, you don't mean..." " I moved out a month ago." " She didn't tell you?" " A month?" "Criminy." "Oh, are you all right?" "Where have you been staying?" "I've been sleeping on the couch at my office, washing up here." "Working mostly." " I made some good progress on..." " Have you tried talking this through?" "Your mother's not the talking kind." "You know how she is." "I know how old she is." "Time has washed you clean of function." "How many more times do you think you can fall in love?" "Maybe we don't get any more love in life." "Maybe we do." "I know I'm the one that walked out and she's not much of a forgiver." "She'd rather give a kidney to a stranger than grant a loved one a second chance but still..." " You've been a good son-in-law to me." " I thank you for that." " No, don't talk like that." "There's no other way to talk." "I screwed up." "I may spend the rest of my days paying for it but there's nothing left to be done except maybe to try to find some way to move on." " Do you really think you can do that?" " I have to." "Hard to believe, isn't it?" "We've been gone so long, heh." "Weird to finally be back?" "I can't tell yet." "Ask me after we've ordered room service." "Yeah, I haven't been here since the summer." "I feel like I never left." "You okay?" "I'm not sure." "Well, I know what it is." "It's your first time back since Mom died." "It's gonna be a lot of memories, like, all at once." "You'll be all right." "Hey, we're here." "Well, look who's here." "Hello, Thomas." "Welcome back, Dr. Brown." " Good to see you." " Good to see you too." "Oh, God, look at this." "This is just..." "Just traffic." "Yeah, I mean, there's noise, crowds, spit on the ground the pizza guy's name is Ray, the grocery guy's Korean." "Life as it should be." "I mean, Fifth Avenue, how did we ever leave this place?" "Well, you put us in a car and forced us." " Hey, slow down." " No, no, you keep up." "Everwood has made you slow." "I can't believe we stayed away this long." "If I get a pretzel, does that make me a tourist?" "Only if you pay more than a dollar." "Now, don't get me wrong." "I mean, I love Everwood, but I mean this this is my natural habitat." "It's as though I evolved just to survive in this place." "Feet made for walking on the pavement, lungs for filtering out cab fumes." "I mean, listen, there is no other place like this in the whole world." "None whatsoever." "Hey, hey, I'm walking here." "Okay?" "God, it's great to be back home." " What?" "You think I'm manic?" " No, it's good." "You've been depressed for too long." "I have been depressed?" "Your girlfriend's boyfriend came out of a coma." "I'm the one guy on earth who can totally relate." "Well, I'd forgotten all that." "You know what, husbands, girlfriends, neighbors, wives I'm giving that up until we get back to Everwood." "Which I may never wanna do." "Wanna catch a matinee?" "My name is good for house seats." "We don't have to do everything in the first hour." "I wanna make up for lost time." "We lived here for years, never did anything together." " Good times." " I mean it." "I mean it." "The first time we've been in New York together and liked each other." "I can't believe I never took you ice skating at Rockefeller Center or Wollman." " Hey, let's go ice skating." "You wanna go?" " Dad." "Okay, let's check out the Crystal exhibit in the park." "No, I can't." "I gotta go check in for my audition." "What about dinner?" "We could go to the deli." "You, me, couple of pounds of corned beef." " You're gonna be all right?" "Told you." " I'm gonna be great." "Something is seriously wrong here." " Not now, Bright." " No, I mean it." "This is important." "Important as in "I'm on fire" important or "I just beat my Snood high score" important?" "Both." "Get this." "I feel great." " I can't deal with you right now." " Think about it." "I've got no reason to feel good." "My life sucks." "I got fired." "It's too cold to do anything fun." "Mom and Dad think I'm a joke." " You are a joke." " See?" "Exactly, I have no reason to be happy but I am." " I was thinking about it, how come?" " I don't know, you prayed?" " No wait, porn." " Nope." "Because of Jillian." "I'm sorry." "Um, you feel great because of the girl who almost filed a sexual-harassment suit against you and got you fired?" "Because I apologized to her for getting bored with her and treating her like crap." "Like, I dumped her ass, but then I said I was sorry and I meant it." "Oh, now I feel great." "Wow." "It must be nice to be you." "So simple." "So you know what I'm gonna do?" "I don't know." "Find a new job?" "Well, since I have so much time I'm going to apologize to every girl that I've not called back, dumped or just dicked over." "How great is that?" "Seriously, Bright, can't you just volunteer at a hospital?" "I made a list." "Please tell me you didn't." "I thought I would go in chronological order." "Starting, you know, from sixth grade in school." "Laura Lewis, she was the first to develop in my class." "She let me touch them." " But then I Frenched Patricia Matthews..." " You hooked up with Kayla?" "Oh, right." "I don't think that you were supposed to know that." "The funny thing is that I keep coming up with more names to put on the list." "Like Taco Bell chick with the clock tattoo." "Or was it TacoTime chick with the bell tattoo?" " I mean, how do you spell Cassandra?" " Ugh." "How on earth did it come to this?" " And why didn't you tell us sooner?" " There's nothing to tell." " There was a man here, now there isn't." " I understand why you're mad." "The son of a bitch walked out on me." " How should I be?" " You should be angry." "Fuming." "If it were me, I might consider violent." "Don't think I ruled it out." "I got a squad full of old Army buddies." "I can have the man cornered in a parking lot and beaten with a sack of nickels." "So long as you've found your peace with it." "Oh, don't worry." "I'm a decorated war veteran." "I've tied tourniquets on blown-off legs with blood squirting clear across a tent." "One time my hand cramped, I had to use my teeth." "I can handle some git can't tie his shoes." " Taking a powder, leaving me with dishes." " Now, there's no shame in it, Edna." "You still have unresolved feelings for Irv." "Well, I shouldn't." "That's not how I work." "When Hal Senior kicked, it hurt like hell." "It made sense in the grand scheme of things and my heart could do its repair work." "With this one, it's weeks later, I'm still in it." "When something is over, it should be over." "Why should I care if his smell is leaving the pillow?" "Because you're still in love." "It's like poison in the blood." "Well, get it out." "Give me a pill and I'll take it." "I'm too old to feel this way." "Well, maybe if you told Irv how you feel..." "Oh, no." "He left." "I thought we could fix things." "I had a broom ready to sweep the whole nonsense under the rug and he walked out." "Sat right there on that bench and told me we needed a break that goes on forever." " I don't go crawling back after that." " That's pride talking." "No place for that in marriage." "Do you know what I had to do to keep Harold from joining the seminary three days before we got married?" " I don't want to." "The point is you wouldn't still feel this way if this marriage wasn't worth saving." "I would rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than be with someone who can do without me." "Well, at least now we know." " We can take better care of you." " Oh, I'm fine, Rose." "I know you like to pretend that nothing gets to you and sometimes you mean it too." "Today, however, is another matter." "Here." "Take your coat." "You're coming with me." "Thanks." "Take it easy." "You think he's gonna try to take me out before my audition?" "Watch out for dark alleys." "Uh, I'm Ephram Brown." "I have, uh, a 4:00 on Sunday." "Yes, you do, and you're all set." "Sunday at 4:00." "Great." "What do I do until then?" "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" "Thanks, Marie." " Rick." " Yeah." "Andy?" "Hey, man, I almost didn't catch you under all that beard." " You still here?" " I'm still here." "It's still nuts." "I'm about to go into a double aneurysm." "How are you doing?" "Still in Neverland?" " Everwood." " How's that going?" " Things are good." " Good." "Just checking in with the past?" "Yeah, something like that." "How's Tess?" "Oh, she's great." "You know, she's 9 now." "No, 10." "Carol just threw a birthday party for her." " Well, how was it?" " Oh, you know, it was, uh, fine." " I couldn't really make it, you know." "We need you." "Um, listen, it's good seeing you." "I really gotta get in there." " Good luck in there." "Thanks." "Hey, um..." "Do you mind if I borrow that for a second?" " You any good?" " I'm okay." "You've been practicing." "I don't even know what to say." "How are you?" " Uh, what are you doing here?" " I live here now." "I..." "Heh, I work nearby." "What are you doing here?" "Uh, I'm just applying to schools." " Um, yeah, I came in to do that and..." " Juilliard." "You got an audition." " My dad and I came in for that." " Your dad's here with you." "I was supposed to meet him." "You should come with me." "He'd love to see you." " I can't." "I'm working." " Oh, there he is right now." "Dad!" "Uh, how random is this, right?" "She lives here now." "Can you believe that?" "It's good to see you." "So come on, blow off work and come with us." "I..." "I can't, really." "All right, okay." "So, uh, breakfast tomorrow?" "Sound good?" "There's so much I wanna catch up on." "Yeah, me too." "Okay." "Call me." "Will do." " Bright Abbott." " Sarah, I wasn't sure you'd remember me." "Heh, are you kidding me?" "I still have the bite marks." "Are you pregnant or just go nuts for the carbs?" "It's a girl." "Girl bun in the oven, sweet." "Oh, is that why you got a little...?" "No, no, heh." "We got married almost a year ago." "We planned this." "Man, I haven't even planned what I'm wearing tomorrow." "Uh..." " You're a grown-up." " Ha, ha." "What about you?" "What are you up to?" "Heh." "Well, you know, not much." "You know, just, uh, sort of hanging out, wondering where it all went wrong." "The usual." "I really just came by to say that I'm sorry." " For what?" " The way that it ended with us, you know." "I built it up and then I pulled the plug out of nowhere." "I mean, you're really cool, you know, and it was awesome the way you took my virginity like that and all and I, you know, I just..." "You don't deserve to be treated like that." "Bright, I'm not really looking to get back together." "Oh, no, that's not what this is about." "I'm just trying to make it right." "Well, that's really sweet of you." "Yeah, you know, I was upset for a while." "You said you needed time for yourself." "Then a day after, you hooked up with Janet Miller." "Oh, right, Janet Miller." "Yeah, I was an ass, you know." "It turned out to be the best thing that happened to me." "Remember Milo Kornwallace?" "That nerdy kid from math." "He used to stare down your shirt all the time." "Heh, yeah, well, he was really there for me when I was upset about you." "After a few weeks, we stopped talking about you and started talking about us." "Now he's my husband." "Hey, cool, so I get like an RBI." "Well, hey, you look really, uh, happy." "Never thought of you as a settle-down type." "Oh, I always wanted to settle down." " You never said anything like that." " I didn't wanna settle down with you." "No offense." "You're a great guy and a lot of fun but not the type of guy a girl thinks of building a home with." "Oh." "You wanna hang out?" "Milo's got the game on the big screen." "Oh, no, you know, uh..." "I got a whole list of apologies to go through, so, uh..." "But tell Milo I say hello and, um, good luck with that bun." "Madison?" "This is Andy Brown." "I know you have no reason to say yes, but I'd like to see you." "I don't know why you bother." "Well, because a homespun hollandaise can say I love you as much as..." "Well, saying I love you, especially over your asparagus." " Mm." " Ha, ha." "I should call your mother." "She's still here?" "But she was here for brunch." "I assumed her usual one-meal limit." " Rose?" "No, no." "Oh." " Edna?" "These are not usual days." "She needs us now." "Is there a problem?" "Oh, I think we're soon to eclipse problem, move right to catastrophe." "I bumped into Irv living like a refugee at the gym." "Apparently, I invited him to supper." "Well, I think you can sense our predicament." "Mm, smells good, Rose." " I don't know how much I can eat, though." " Yes, well, uh, perhaps you should go then." "You're depressed." "That can take a toll on the appetite with benefits to the waistline." "Nature's way of slimming you down to attract the next mate, I'd imagine." "God's wonders can't be fought." " Or perhaps, uh, a nice nap instead." " Easy there." "I'm the one who's bereft." "How come you look like you just sat on a land mine?" "Oh, no reason." "Heh, I forgot I need to make a phone call very quick." "Well, too late." "Yes." "Ah." "I didn't know you would be here." "Well, I am." "Glad to see you." "I'd like to introduce you to a friend." "You brought a friend?" "He brought a friend." " Wonderful." " This is Gretta." "Um, hope you don't mind I brought her along." "Isn't that just rich." "Egg yolks on ice." "You sure didn't waste any time." "Couple weeks alone, he's already found a chippy." " Excuse me?" " All right, hussy then." "That hair." "Makeup like she's ready to do kabuki." "She's trolling for a fourth husband and you bit on that worm like it was made of sunshine." " Wait a minute." " Fine, if that's what you want." "Pair of cheap shoes, some store-bought knockers." "Go ahead." "Have a nice life." "You're not gonna let me get a word in?" "I wasted enough time listening to you when I had to." " Mouth like yours, no wonder I left." " More power to you." "Better luck with the next one." "He farts like a bull in his sleep." "Good luck." "Irv, you said you were going to try to move on." "You move quickly." " Guess what I just did." " Hmm, played the crap out of Haydn?" "That too." "I was gonna tell you about the package I sent you." "You're not gonna tell me what's in it?" "Uh, you should get it tomorrow." "You won't have to wait long." "That's still mean." "So how's New York?" "Great." "I managed to score one of the hotel's stray cocktail-hour pianos." "I've been practicing nonstop." "First break in like three PowerBars." "Hmm, sounds like I'm really missing out." "So listen." "I, uh..." "I bumped into Madison today." "Wow." "Um..." "Madison?" "Really?" "Uh..." " How is she?" " She's good." "She's good." "She's fine." "We really didn't get a chance to talk long." "But, uh..." "We're gonna meet up again tomorrow." " But she seemed okay?" " Yeah." "Yeah, it was totally weird." "It was like I used to have all these feelings and everything, but I'm over it." "It was /ike running into my cousin." "Anyway, I just wanted you to know." "Reaction?" "Uh, just surprised, um..." "Are you gonna see her again?" "Yeah, unless you have a problem with that." " But she knows it's your audition, right?" " Yeah." " I don't want anything to throw you off." " It won't." "We're just catching up." "If she gets clingy, I'll just walk out of the diner." "Well, then tell her I say hi." " Thank you." " Um..." "You should, uh, get some sleep." "You got a big day coming up." "Yeah, I don't know." "I feel ready though." "What?" "I was just trying to find something better to say than I love you." "Heh." "Well, I'll take it." "Then I love you." " I'll call you first thing after my audition." " Okay, bye." "Where is he?" "He went to practice for a few hours." " Listen, I know you're gonna see Ephram..." "Save it." "Heh, really." "I listened to you once and it was a mistake." "I spent the last year regretting the fact that I didn't tell Ephram the truth." "I'm not gonna make that mistake again." "I know." "I want you to tell him." "There hasn't been a day that's gone by that I haven't thought about what's happened to you wondering how I could have done that what you decided to do with the baby." " I'm not gonna tell you what I did." " Good, don't." "I don't deserve it." "You don't even get it." "I was broke and pregnant and I didn't know what to do." "I didn't have anyone I could trust except for you and you sent me away thinking that your money would make it all better." "Yes, I did." "I made a terrible mistake with you, Madison, and I am so sorry." "I thought I was protecting Ephram but I was just putting more lies between us." "When I left, it was hard." "And there were times when I didn't know if I had the strength to make it." "Turns out that I did." "I came here tonight to tell you that." "That was all." "You know, I've never been a big believer in fate." "I lived in this city for a very long time and I only saw a world that could be controlled by my own hands." "And since then, everything I've done, everything that's happened to me has had a current of its own." "Now of all times and I have to find meaning in that and the only meaning that I can find is that all of my instincts all of my intentions are wrong." "I hope yours are better." "Tell him everything." "I plan to." "The dude's been in New York a half an hour and he's already sent you a care package." "Does he ever run out of ways to be your bitch?" "Ooh, bagels." ""You promised. "" "Lox." "Score." "Yep, those are all yours." "So shouldn't you be out, uh, apologizing or something?" "I'm done." "Cleared the whole list." "Told them all I suck, I'm sorry." " So how were they?" " You know, pretty much fine." "Couple of girls got married, some are at school, two are modeling." "Thank you very much." "And only one girl really porked out." " Jodie Marie, huh?" "Heh." " Yeah." " You saw that coming, huh?" " Mm-hm." "Most of them dug the apology thing though." "Yeah." "One girl even told me I should call her." " You'd think they'd learn." " Well, good job." "In your own way, you've taken your first step towards respecting women." "It was weird seeing them all." "They used to all be such a big deal to me." "And I was to them but now they're like fine without me." "You expected weeping?" "It was more like they all moved on but didn't see me as someone they'd wanna move on with." "Right." "Well, you'll settle down when the time is right." "When's that?" "When it doesn't feel like settling anymore." "Right." " When's that?" " If you were a normal person I would say..." "Okay, how about this?" "When you saw those girls did you wish that you were with them?" " No." "Okay." "Ever miss them while they were gone?" "Sometimes in the shower but mostly, no." "You'll know who you're supposed to end up with when you miss them." "Do all chicks believe that crap or just you because you're, like, super chick?" "I'm gonna take these in the kitchen before you inhale them all." "Oh, uh, what are you and Hannah doing tonight?" "Because, uh, this girl that I apologized to, she works at this art-film place." "They're doing some killer Hong Kong film festival." "It'd be nice to take her and show her where she said her parents were." "Plus sword fighting." "She's not here actually." "She's, uh, way the hell up in Minnesota with her family, finally." " Really?" "Until when?" " Hmm, next week I think." "That long?" "That sucks." "I know, tell me about it." "Um..." "But I could still go if you want." "No." "Hannah lets me talk during the movies." "It wouldn't be as much fun without her." "Eight a. m. with your coffee mug, looking for the newspaper like clockwork." "That's not cute." "That's stalking." "I don't have anything to say and even less to hear." "So get whatever it is you came for and get out." "You got a problem, lady, because I came for you." " You're doing fine without me." " Hold on." " That wasn't just some date back there." " Oh, save it." " Whatever you have to say, I don't care." " Yes, you do." "You care bigtime." " I saw you about to tear my head off there." " I still might." "That's right, because you're flaming jealous." " You're jealous." "You still love me." " I don't." "You know, you had me there, believing that you are done with me." "No way you'd have gone off like a tub of napalm unless you still loved me." "And if you'd give me half a second with your cakehole shut..." "Oh, stop it." " I'd tell you that I still love you." "I do." "Goodness, there's so much I wanna tell you." "Here." "What's this?" "A page from my book." " Your book?" "You started it?" " I finished it." "It's a long time coming." "Good job, Harper." "There's more." "I've got interest in it." "That woman I brought over wasn't just some date, you twit." "She was my editor friend from back in Annapolis." " Editor?" "She like it?" " She said it broke her heart." "Said she wanted to print it, if she'll forgive that bit about her knockers." "So she wasn't just some hussy?" "Even if she was, there's only one hussy that I'm interested in." "I left this house because I felt the world was calling me to a journey." "I couldn't step a foot away." "You, Edna, you're my journey." "Wherever you are, that's the adventure." "I know that now." "Read it." "It's my last page." "The last page." "I woke up this morning and I wrote you a new one." ""I made my mistakes." "Now I have my regret to keep me company." "Voices and books for friends." "I walked away from my life's work and she doesn't even know it. "" "Go on." ""I know I should move on." "Let it end there with loss accepted." "I know I should go." "Something keeps me still." "There isn't so much a cure for regret as a remedy." "You can sit and mourn a/ you did wrong ride an empty fantasy of how you'd do it better if on/y you cou/d go back or you can do better now. "" "You know, we lived in this building with this view for 15 years and I never brought you up here either." "You're making up for a lot this week." "You're seeing Madison today." "Yeah, all the way downtown." "How long do you think it will take me to get there?" "Well, traffic's pretty heavy." "You should probably leave soon." "I don't know what's gonna happen with my audition." " I do." " No, don't jinx it but..." "I was thinking that if they, you know, do make a mistake and decide to take me and I get to live here again that..." "Yeah, maybe you know." "What?" "Well, maybe, you know, you and Delia would wanna come too move back here with me." "You love it here and you've been a mess ever since you and Amanda broke up." "It's not like your dating options are gonna improve." "Here, you have an entire city full of women 10 years older than me that think you're a viable dating option." "It's perfect." "You're serious?" "I'm not saying that I'm gonna live with you." "I mean, you could go back to surgery or not." "You know, people here need free clinics as well." "And also, Delia is gonna be 12 soon." "Good luck finding a bat mitzvah tutor in Everwood." "I don't know what to say." "Heh, it's just, you know, you dragged us to Everwood so that we could find a way to become a family." "And I thought you were insane at the time." "You were insane at the time." "I don't know." "Somehow it worked." "You know, everything you took us there to find we got." "I never thought I'd actually be saying this but it was the right thing to do." "And you're right." "We've missed too much already, you know." "Let's keep it together." "Thank you, Ephram." "All right, but if you get all sentimental on me, deal's off." "Okay?" "No, I just..." "I never thought we'd get here." "Well, the odds were against it." "Well, I promise you if you feel this way when the time comes, I will be right here with you." "All right." "I gotta go meet Madison." "I know." "This is good, Dad." "It's good." "Maybe that's why of a/ the peop/e in the mountain town I keep thinking about the doctor." "He gave /ife to so many on/y to have his own torn out of his chest." "Yet somehow he managed to set aside his grief and his regret and /ooked ahead to new memories." "And new mistakes." "I think of him and I remember there's a/ways a reason to try again." "I think of him and I can hope to hope."