"This is so exciting, Pumpkin." "Everybody is here." "So I want you to smile and try to pay attention." "Don't daydream." "You look so handsome." "Here's your discus." "Are you ready?" "Let's go, sweetheart." "Pumpkin" " Meu namorado Pumpkin " "Carolyn, yes." "Courtney, Anne Chung, yes." "Carolyn, an emphatic yes, yes, yes!" "Bye." "My God, Julie." "Our first day under your presidency." "Guess what, Carolyn?" "We are gonna beat those Tri Omegas for Sorority of the Year." "Look at them, those mastodons." "There isn't one under 5'8"." "But, Julie, how on earth will we beat them?" "They've won SOY for 22 straight years." "We have the best girls coming in for rush our formal is with the Kappa House and the coup of all coups I chose a killer charity." "The Challenged Games." "We're going to be helping a lot of special people this semester." "My God, that's great." "We will beat the Tri Omegas." " Hello." " Hello, Mom?" "I made it safe." "What a relief." "Dad waited for the call." "He's setting off now." "I hope Dad breaks par." "Carolyn sweetie you've got to be careful this year." "I read in the newspaper how they're letting all these people in from God knows where." "Kent!" "No boys above the first floor." "I gotta go, Mom." "Hey, just one minute." "No boys on the grounds during rush or above the first floor ever." "Thank you." "Off, boys!" "Yes, you." "Thank you." "Thank you, jungle dancers and thank you especially, Carolyn McDuffy." "You rushees have just witnessed AO Pi perfection." "And now you are going to taste AO Pi perfection in the shape of hot sausages of all sizes and ethnicities barbecuing succulently in our backyard to which you should all repair immediately." "Look who we're about to snag." "Merle Fenza, 5'7" and a half 1,600 on her SATs and her father is the CEO of something." "I forget what, but it's big." "Very big." "She's our blue chip." "Over there we have what I call our diversity girls." "Just what the Greek Council was ordered to consider this year." "Loquata Jefferson." "I think she's the spitting image of Whitney Houston." "Next to her is Fidelia Lagos a Filipina, indeed yet with really light skin and cute Caucasian features." "No offense, Anne Chung." "None at all." "She's just as cute as a bug's ear." "You should be very proud, Julie." "We all should be proud." "Our spirit this year, Carolyn, you've really been a catalyst for this has been convincing." "We are gonna out-recruit those Tri Omegas." "Go on, Carolyn, tell her." "Tell Julie what we've been talking about." "What is it, Carolyn?" "We have no secrets between us." "Jeanine and I wanna beat the Tri Omegas for SOY as badly as any girl in the house." "It's just..." "Go on, Carolyn, you promised." "Jeanine and I don't think the charity you've chosen is quite right." "What do you mean?" "We don't think it's appropriate to bring those challenged people on campus right out in the open like that." "They're really different." "And Jeanine and I don't think that's the image AO Pi should convey." "My God." "I certainly didn't expect this from you, Carolyn." "What next, Carolyn and Jeanine?" "You'll get rid of our Filipina and the black girl and me before we graduate." "No, Anne Chung." "You misunderstand." "That's not what Jeanine and I meant at all." "Don't be so PC." "You have no idea what these people are like." "I have this cousin, Vince..." "I can't believe that I am hearing this from a sister." "What kind of people are you?" "Let's go down to our rushees." "I'm gonna forget I ever heard this." "You two have got a lot of serious thinking to do." "Trust me, Julie could care less about those unfortunates." "And I want no part of it." "Jeanine, Tri Omegas." "Don't even look at them." "Pretend they don't exist." "And for God's sake, none of your tirades." "That's exactly what they want." "Hi, Carolyn." "Hi, Jeanine." "Cute hair, Carolyn." "Formidable." "Comme il faut!" "How's that tennis star hunk of yours, Kent?" "Still together?" "Cute shoes, Jeanine." "They make your feet look really petite." "Why don't you girls just cut the crap and tell us what you're trying to say." "Your Julie is certainly going all out to try to displace us at the top of the heap." "What rushees." "Diversity plus." "That little Filipina girl is just darling." "Feliz Navidad?" "Rumor has it you girls have her in the bag." "That's not her name and you know it." "And your charity." "I thought ours was rough." "Safe Sex in the Public Schools." "But you girls are making quite a commitment." "I hear those kind of people are very easily aroused." "I certainly hope that you girls take the proper precautions." "Did you hear that?" "They make my blood boil." "We have to beat the Tri Omegas for SOY." "Whatever it takes." "Hi, Carolyn." "Welcome back." "I had a terrible summer." "I bet yours was perfect." "Sorry, Cici." "Mine was pretty good." "See you in poetry class." "At times like this, I think you're lucky, Cici that no house chose you." "Dates may be harder to come by." "But if you only knew what we have to do just to satisfy everybody." "Okay, girls, each of you have been assigned a specific challenged athlete." "Here are their photographs with a short description of their abilities on the back." "Get to know them, please." "Casey Whitner." "He doesn't look so bad." "Who's yours, Carolyn?" "Pumpkin." "Pumpkin Romanoff." "What kind of a name is Pumpkin?" "Mr. Wohlfert." "Yeah." "Does mine have a real name?" "'Cause I can't call somebody Pumpkin." "Why don't you ask him what he wants to be called?" "They can understand." "Okay." "They're coming, they're coming." "Come on, girls." "Smile." "Smile and greet them." "Do something." "I'm sorry, Casey." "I'm really sorry." "It's not your fault." "It's not mine." "It's the system!" "Jeanine!" "Jeanine, come back!" "The Greek Council judges are coming!" "Okay." "That's how they say you're supposed to do it." "Why don't you try?" "Do you do it from the chair or are you supposed to stand?" "'Cause it says on your photo that you can stand." "And you can talk, too." "So I don't really know what's going on." "What are you trying to tell me?" "Carolyn." "Julie?" "Mr. Wohlfert?" "Okay, good." "Good." "Now throw it, just like I showed you." "Great job, Carolyn." "You're a natural." "No, I don't think..." "What?" "Why did you do that?" "I don't wanna talk about it." "Who's that?" "That's Pumpkin, my challenged athlete." "He doesn't look so bad." "He's kind of cute." "He kept trying to tell me something." "I can't stand him looking at me when you touch me." "You are being a big baby." "These people are just like you and me." "God just chose for them to be different." "Your life's been too perfect." "Everything can't be that way for everyone." "You have no idea how horrible it was out there today." "The way he looked at me." "Jesus Christ!" "You cannot let this stupid sorority competition ruin your life, Carolyn." ""Sister Alpha, sister Omega" ""Sister Pi, Pi, Pi" ""Joining hands and joining voices" ""Singing songs to the sky, sky, sky" ""We are sisters, we have hope" ""And we strive together high, high, high" ""Joining hands and joining voices" ""Singing songs to the sky, sky, sky"" "Carolyn, you're not yourself." "What happened to our most enthusiastic sister?" "If this goes on, we're gonna lose those rushees." "My name is Robert Meary." "I'm a poet, not a professor." "And this is not a class, even though I supposedly teach here." "No, this is a class." "And I'm taking it to get credit in order to graduate." "This is a poetry workshop." "And you'll get your stupid credit." "Take all your chairs and put them in a circle." "You can't teach anyone how to write poetry." "It has to come from your experience from your insides." "Listen, babe I could show you great poems which you will begin by imitating." "If you have some talent you might write a decent poem by the end of the semester." "What do you do if everything inside you is ugly?" "Your life may be ugly, kid but a successful poem about it will not be ugly because the poem will illuminate and communicate the horror of your life to other people." "What do you mean, the horror of our lives?" "Why should anything be horrible or ugly?" "Why can't everything be beautiful and perfect?" "Mrs. Romanoff, what has gotten into Pumpkin?" "It's pretty amazing, Ramona." "I've never seen him up on his feet for so long." "He doesn't eat, he just stays outside and practices." "Pumpkin, honey, don't you think you've done enough for today?" "That must be Miss Betsy." "Sit down, Pumpkin." " There, you look gorgeous." " Mrs. Romanoff, it's not Miss Betsy." "It's that horrible Miss Claudia from Orange County." " I told her no, but..." " Claudia, what a surprise." "I brought Hansie." "I thought the boys could play together while you and I have a little chat." "Judy, the issue between us is about who can do more for the children." "Claudia, no one cares more for those kids than I do." "For 10 years, all you've cared about is beating us in the games." "My God, it's a fundraiser, not the Super Bowl." "Right." "That's why you guys are now training at SCSU." "I'm not gonna let myself get dragged into this." "But don't forget, Claudia, this isn't about us." "It's about our two blessings outside in the backyard." "My goodness, Judy what a good stander Pumpkin has become." "But this is wonderful." "He wants to show you." "He's going to throw it." "I think he's going to throw it." "Stop that, Hansie!" "Hansie, let him throw it." "Okay, Mom." "He's just gonna drop it like he does every year." "My gosh." "For Carolyn." "I want my life back, Jeanine." "This is ruining my senior year." "It's too distracting." "It's spoiling everything." "I'm quitting the Challenged Games." "What a fucking relief." "You're the only fucking sister who's talked to me since I quit." "It's not that we're horrible people, Carolyn." "You understand it makes them feel even worse to come to a campus like this full of normal people." "I guess I'll have to tell him, too." "You should see the pain in his face." "He's so hurt." "He keeps trying to tell me something." "Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I wonder what it'd be like to look into his wounded soul." "Cut that out, Carolyn!" "You're right." "I can't stand it." "I can't wait until tomorrow when it's all over and I quit." "Pumpkin, I have to tell you something." "Carolyn you are my friend." "You are beautiful inside." "I think we'd better practice." "Carolyn why does the moon change?" "I really don't know, Pumpkin." "I'll try to find out, okay?" "What's troubling you, Carolyn?" "It's nothing, Mom." "Yes, there is, dear." "I can tell by the furrow in your forehead." "I love you, Mother." "You know me so well." "Did you ever have the experience of wanting to know someone but not being able to?" "No." "Some people have this mystery about them that you can't get out of your head." "Do you know what I mean?" "No, dear." "It sounds terrible." "Hi, Margaret." "Are you having problems with Kent?" "No." "There's no mystery about Kent." "He just is what he is and I love him." "Though I don't think that I've been the best company recently." "I see." "Is this person a boy?" "But it's not romantic or anything." "I hope this mystery has nothing to do with this young man being from a different culture." "Chinese, Persian African or worse." "I mean, most mysterious." "Jewish?" "No, Mother, it's nothing like that." "I've seen a lot of marriages come to grief over a lot less." "Mother, it's not romantic." "I just feel the need to get to know him better." "But, really, I don't want anything to do with him!" "Okay, fine." "Is there anything you wanna tell me about him?" "No." "No, Mother." "I just wanna free myself from these feelings." "I think I understand." "Darling, you don't have to save the world." "I'm sure, in time, there'll be another young lady he'll get involved with." "He'll be fine." "Thank you." "You know, Mom life isn't as easy as I thought." "Honey..." "Yes, it is." "Pumpkin's really made huge strides." "He's become a neat eater and he's always a gentleman." "Look at him, he's amazingly physical." "You've really done a great job with him." "I guess I have." "But you know that sorority mentor of his, Carolyn McDuffy?" "She seems to have how shall I put it inspired him." "Don't sell yourself short, Judy." "After Lou died Pumpkin was all I had." "Darling." "I have a surprise for you, Pumpkin." "This isn't a special training session." "I had to fib a little with your mother." "I didn't think she'd understand." "To be honest, Pumpkin, you're a mystery to me." "But I have the sense that with a little love you could really flourish." "No." "Pumpkin, I have a boyfriend." "You have to understand that." "That doesn't mean you can't have a connection with someone else who might really be simpatico." "Now, now, Pumpkin." "We're gonna have a lot of fun today." "Carolyn, I thought we were going to the beach." "We are." "We're going on a double date." "Kent Woodlands, I'd like you to meet my friend, Pumpkin Romanoff." "Okay, I'm gonna get Pumpkin's date." "I wanna talk to her a little bit first." "You two chat while I'm gone." "Carolyn, I just wanted to thank you for arranging this." "Do you realize how long it's been since I've had a date?" "How do I look?" "You look wonderful." "It's going to be great." "Now, Cici, I just wanna warn you that he's a bit different." "He's special." "He's got a deep soul like you." "I think you two will understand each other right off." "I hope so." "I hope he likes me." "I want you to be patient with him, Cici." "Don't jump to conclusions." "He's really very sensitive." "Just look into his eyes and you'll understand." "Don't worry, Carolyn." "I'm just happy to have a date." "Cici, you know Kent." "And this is Pumpkin Romanoff." "Pumpkin, I'd like you to meet my good friend, Cici Pinkus." "Hi, Pumpkin." "Glad to meet you." "Off to the beach!" ""B-l-N-G-O, B-l-N-G-O" ""And Bingo was his name-o" ""There was a farmer who had a dog" ""And Bingo was his name-o" ""B-I-N-G-O"" "Come on, guys, join in." "We're having fun." "All right." "If you don't like that one, how about John Jacob?" ""John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" ""His name is my name, too" ""Whenever we go out, the people always shout" ""There goes John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"" "Carolyn, did you tell Cici about Pumpkin's problem?" "Not exactly." "I didn't wanna prejudice her before she saw what a great guy he was." "Don't worry, Kent." "It'll all work out." "I just know it will." "Why don't you take all that stuff down and get us a nice place on the beach?" "Would you help me with the wheelchair?" "Chicken salad, anyone?" "I put curry in it." "It's really good." "Doesn't anyone wanna play Frisbee or badminton?" "Kent, why don't you set up the net?" "Or better yet, why don't you tell everybody about the important tennis match you're going to play against Arizona State?" "Cici, Pumpkin did you know that Kent is number one in singles?" "Look, I'm not a dummy." "I understand what's going on here." "I knew this wasn't going to be easy for any of us." "And I know this isn't exactly conventional." "But, Cici, you and Pumpkin you'd be surprised how much you two have to talk about." "Are you completely out of your mind?" "I'm gonna go see if she's okay." "Here's the sunscreen, here are the drinks and food." "I'll be right back, okay?" "What the hell were you thinking?" "You really hurt her feelings, fixing her up with him." "What about his feelings?" "His feelings, too." "Jesus, Carolyn." "Sometimes I wonder how they let girls like you in SCSU." "I see you all walking around, eating your yogurt." "It just blows my mind." "I'll have you know, I got 1,400 on my SATs." "If it weren't for my sorority responsibilities, I would be on the honor roll." "I'm the only one who's thinking about his feelings." "Is that how you think of me, Carolyn?" "I think a lot of you, Cici." "I loved your poem about suffering and being alone." "I can't believe you're acting like this." "I thought you'd understand." "I understand, all right." "Look, if you're not attracted to him, fine." "But he's a human being with feelings." "He suffers, too, and he's lonely." "How would you like it if he ran away from you sobbing?" "You know what rejection is like." "Carolyn, you're an idiot." "No, Kent, you're the idiot." "Didn't you tell me that God chose him to be different?" "Why can't we have a good time at the beach without all this hysteria?" "I wanna go home right now." "Please take me home." "Well?" "Look what you've done to her, Carolyn." "Well, for God's sake, the least you can do is take her home!" "Get out, Kent." "I've been thinking of what you said about girls on campus eating yogurt as if we didn't have a thought in our heads." " I didn't say that." " It's what you meant." "I think you should think about that and give me time to cool off." "Good luck training for the big match." "I'm sorry." "This has been the worst day of my life." "When they came to commit this morning, they were looking for you." "You weren't here." "We just lost our two most important rushees." "That black Loquata Jefferson and that Filipina girl." "This is terrible." "How could I have forgotten that today is commitment day?" "But, Julie, it's not fair to blame it all on me." "Why on earth couldn't they have handed their commitment to you or Courtney or Gina or even Anne Chung?" "Listen to yourself, Carolyn." "We are all sisters in this sorority." "If one link is weak, the chain breaks." "Oh, my God, I forgot him." "I totally forgot." "I am so sorry, I'm really sorry I'm late for my appointment." "It totally slipped my mind." "I don't believe a fucking word of this poem you wrote." "I mean, there's no real emotion here." ""Ode to Pasadena"?" "Read that out loud to me and I challenge you to really listen to your words." ""Ode to Pasadena," by Carolyn McDuffy." ""Thou still and quiet town of beauty" ""Thou suburb of gardens and slow pace" ""I miss your perfect roses" ""I miss your proud palm trees" ""I miss your warbling birdies" ""Most of all, I yearn for the embrace" ""Of your gentle mothers" ""And the wisdom of your proud papas"" "It's bullshit." " It's all bullshit." " What?" "Life isn't like that." "People are mean, they're brutal." "They're unhappy, they're jealous." "Good." "You've made some progress." "Now what on earth made this happen?" "Something I left on the beach." "Pumpkin, forgive me." "I'm ruining everything." "My sorority Kent, Cici and worst of all, you." "You don't need someone like me meddling with your life." "Don't cry, Carolyn." "I'm not angry." "Pumpkin, you're so beautiful." "How do you do it?" "How do you stand the pain?" "I've been feeling pain, Pumpkin, for the first time in my life." "And now I know how it feels." "It feels like everything inside me is shattered." "Like a broken mirror." "Like a broken mirror?" "That's exactly how pain feels." "Like a broken mirror." "You're the smartest girl that I've ever met." "No one's ever said that to me." "I know that the pain that I feel is just a tiny fraction compared to what you must feel." "But it makes me feel closer to you." "Do you want me to come inside and explain to your mother what happened?" "Let me help you in your chair." "Jeanine, what's wrong with my brush?" "How about we choose you a really nice outfit?" "I was thinking that my tan jumper and my butterfly scarf would really suit you." "I just realized that you haven't been using my brush recently." "And I found all the clothes I lent you in cleaning bags in my closet yesterday." "In fact, you haven't spoken a word to me all morning." "Hi, Courtney." "Hi, Gina." "Hi, Anne Chung." "Carolyn McDuffy, this is a formal announcement." "The sisters voted last night to send you to Coventry." "No girl in the house will speak to you again until further notice." "Hopefully, the ban will end in time for our formal with Kappa House." "What in the world did I do?" "These are the last words you'll hear from me." "Pumpkin Romanoff's mother appeared at our door during supper." "Carolyn McDuffy, it is improper to fraternize with the recipients of our charity." "One more last word, Carolyn." "Jeanine has been taken out of Coventry." "When she saw what your attitude had done, she felt remorse about her own lack of spirit." "She finally understood that each of us is just another link in the chain." "That's the only way, Julie, that we can still win SOY." "Hi, Carolyn." "Poor Carolyn, ostracized by your own house." "We don't think it's fair." "Word has it, Carolyn you went on quite a date yesterday." "It's rumored you have a thing for this retarded boy." "Of course, that's nothing that we would believe." "If you three bitches come near me again, I'll rip your fucking heads off!" "Unfortunately, I have to discuss with you some administrative bullshit." "Your final grades will be based 40 percent on class participation 30 percent on your sincere attempts at producing some acceptable poetry." "Do you have a problem, Miss McDuffy?" "I thought poetry was supposed to be sacred." "How can you grade us?" "You carry on like you're some kind of rebel." "Yet you conform, just like the people that you find contemptible." "Everyone, even you is forced to conform in this fucking world." "And the minute you try to do something from the heart every-fucking-body beats you down." "I'm sorry." "I can't take any more of this bullshit!" "I don't have a lot of time to coax you, Miss McDuffy." "Thousands of students come here for counseling." "Most of them are helped." "It's not a big deal." "You're obviously hurting otherwise you wouldn't be here." "It's horrible." "I can't tell you." "I can't." "Have you been raped, date-raped drugged or fondled, assaulted or sexually harassed?" "No." "Are you having mental problems such as high anxiety, depression manic episodes, multiple personalities or maybe even voices urging inappropriate actions on you?" "No." "Are you having sexual feelings or fantasies towards members of your own sex your immediate family, your professors or any non-traditional subjects?" "No not exactly." "You're not helping me very much, Miss McDuffy." "I assure you that anything you say here is confidential." "I'm not going to judge you." "You have nothing to be afraid of." "It's not exactly sexual, Dr. Cruz." "It's just that I'm afraid I'm falling in love." "And I don't want to." "It's ruining everything." "Love is not such a bad thing, is it?" "Yes, it is." "He's mentally retarded." "You say retarded." "Retarded is not a medical term." " How retarded?" " Retarded retarded." "He's in the Challenged Games, and I'm his mentor." "He has this beautiful soul." "It's like my poetry teacher says:" ""Only people who suffer can grow into beauty."" "You definitely have a problem." "I've been in this business for over 20 years, and..." "Do you have a boyfriend that's not retarded?" "We've been having problems." "I haven't been myself." "Let me suggest something to you." "You are letting your compassion take over to create a fog of poetic romantic fantasy." "You need to ground yourself in what's real." "That's in your relationship with your boyfriend." "The one that's not retarded." "The fantasy will disappear and the fog will lift." "Thank you for coming, Miss McDuffy." "Dr. Cruz, you don't know how badly I want my life back." " I was so happy." " Good, Carolyn." "Just remember that when you indulge in these fantasies you dangerously affect the object of your compassion." "My God." "What are you doing with your late father's magazines?" "Those are not for little boys." "I'm not a little boy." "I'm a man." "You're right." "You are a man now." "But..." "How am I gonna explain this to you?" "You're a special man which means that this kind of stimulation isn't good for you." "You don't have natural restraints." "My goodness, how can I make you understand?" "Believe me, Pumpkin, it's better this way." "And you shouldn't be walking like that, Pumpkin." "You'll fall." "Now what are you doing?" "He's calling on the phone, Mrs. Romanoff." "No more cleaning, Ramona." "You can go home now." "Information?" "Yes." "Sorority house." "AO Pi." "SCSU." "Carolyn McDuffy." "Carolyn McDuffy." "So that's what's gotten into you." "What were you doing with her when she kept you out all night?" "Those magazines, that is not what challenged athletes think about." "I know you and Carolyn didn't do anything naughty." "But what happened to my Pumpkin who wanted to beat Orange County so much with the discus and the javelin and the shot put?" "I want to talk to Carolyn." "Trust me, Pumpkin she's not good for you." "You two live in different worlds." "I'm sorry, Kent." "I just want everything perfect again the way it was." "With birdies and sunshine and loving sorority sisters and Kent beating Arizona State and Kent kisses and Kent smiles and Kent hugs." "I wanna talk." "Now?" "What?" "I think I'm having some problems with the Greek system." "What do you mean, you're having problems with the Greek system?" "It just seems to divide people." "You have the people who get in and the people who don't the good fraternities and the bad fraternities the good sororities and the not-so-good sororities." "It just seems like a way for some people to feel better than other people." "And there's no good reason for it." "Especially in a public university that's paid for by taxes." "Kent, do you think I'm intelligent?" "This is all about that guy." "That Pumpkin guy." "Isn't it?" "Pumpkin?" "Anne Chung will be your mentor from now on." "Your mother and I decided this change would be best for you." "Casey, this is Carolyn." "She'll be your mentor from now on." "Tell her what your events are." "Do you know soccer?" "Game, Kent Woodlands." "Woodlands' lead, 6-2, 4-1, second set." "15-love." "30-love." "Yeah!" "40-love." "Isn't Kent amazing?" "Look at those Tri Omegas drool over him." "Julie, aren't you going to have to take Carolyn out of Coventry?" "I mean, the formal's coming up, and Kent's not going to go without her." "You can't forget they were voted King and Queen." "I don't know what we're gonna do, Julie." "I mean, it never hurts to have the top school athlete at your formal." "It sure would score points with the Greek Council for the SOY." "You know what?" "For the sake of AO Pi, maybe Jeanine should go sound her out." "I got permission to see how you felt about things." "The girls and I were talking about the formal and how you and Kent, you know what a cute couple you two make." "What have they done to you, Jeanine?" "You sound just like them." "I was so unhappy, Carolyn." "Julie suggested a therapist and he put me on medication." "And you have no idea how much it helps." "You used to be such a rebel but now you're like a Stepford wife." "40-15." "She left." "She left in the middle of a point." "Game, set, match." "Todd Ridgeway, Arizona State." "Thank God you're finally done." "I need to talk to you." "Do you realize what you just did to me?" "What?" "You fucking walked out in the middle of a fucking point and destroyed my fucking concentration." "Because of you I lost the match." "We lost the meet to Arizona State." "Lost our number-one ranking." "And I lost the respect of my team." "I'm sorry." "You're sorry?" "You're fucking sorry?" "Goddamn it!" "All right." "You better fucking make me understand why it was so important for you to walk out in the middle of my fucking point." "It was about you, Kent." "There I was up in the stands and I realized that we're going in different directions." "My God, Carolyn." "What's happened to you?" "I don't know." "You don't know?" "That's no answer." "Ever since you started working with that fucking retard..." " You're in love with him, aren't you?" " No." "Admit it, you're in love with him." "No." "That's not why I'm here." "I can see you wheeling him down the aisle." "That's it, you're in love with him." " No." " Yes." " Yes, you are." " No." "Yes!" "Yes." "It's true." "It's not a fantasy." "He understands me." "I'm in love with him." "You are?" "That's impossible." "I'm leaving you, Kent." "Carolyn." "Can I come in?" "Hold me, Pumpkin." " Hello." " Hi, Betsy Collander here." "I didn't wake you, did I?" "No, no, no." "I've been up for hours, working." "I've arranged for Pumpkin to star in our Public Service Announcement for this year's Challenged Games." "Claudia has forced Hansie on us every year." "But this year the director says he refuses to work with him." "He says Hansie's too difficult." "What a coup." "Thank you, Betsy, thank you." "Pumpkin, I've great news for us!" "You've raped my son." "You whore." "Slut!" "You prostitute!" "Pedophile!" "Pumpkin will never understand what you've done to him!" "I'm gonna call your sorority the Dean and the President of the University!" "And your parents!" "You will never see Pumpkin again!" "You poor, poor dear." "Did they throw you out?" "There, there, darling, I understand." "You couldn't face them." "Did he rape you?" "It was consensual." "It's just a phase, darling." "Just a horrible phase." "Let's get you inside where no one can see you." "Father?" " Hello." " Mrs. Romanoff?" " Yes?" " This is Carolyn McDuffy." "I need to speak to Pumpkin." "Mrs. Romanoff." "Please." "We feel for you, man." "I've heard about guys losing their chicks to black guys or even to lesbians." "But to a retard?" "Your manhood must really be hurting." "Hey, man, no offense intended." "The chicks still love you, Kent." "You could have anyone." "Ball!" "Game, set, match." "Kent Woodlands, SCSU." "I'm a free man." "My God." "That was amazing." "How could Carolyn even think about..." "I mean the little retarded boy must be like some kind of superman." "I want Carolyn." "Kent Woodlands how could you want Carolyn after what she did to us?" "She has made us pariahs on Sorority Row." "She has not only disgraced this house made us ashamed to show our faces she has jeopardized our chances of winning Sorority of the Year." "We need you at our formal to have any chance at SOY." "The Greek Council adores you, Kent." "If you don't look down on us no one else will." "Please let me fix you up with one of the girls." "Courtney, Gina even Anne Chung." "I want Carolyn." "She's the only one." "Sweetie?" "Are you all right?" "I'm sorry to bother you, sweetie, but you have some guests arriving soon." "What?" "Who?" "It's nothing to worry about, dear." "Some really nice people are coming over." "Mama?" "There, there." "I didn't mean for any of this to happen." "But he's just so sweet so pure." "He understands what's good in me." "No one else does." "And, Mama, when he touches me he's so gentle so tender." "There, there." "In time, this will heal." "We just have to forget this ever happened." "I know." "Mom, I know." "Don't be afraid, dear." "We were wrong to turn our backs on you." "That is not what AO Pi is all about." "Can you hear me?" "Mr. Wohlfert has gotten the university to promise that there will be no repercussions from what you did." "There will be no repercussions from what you did." "This is Jeanine, your roomie." "I think what the girls are trying to say is that you can trust us." "No one's perfect." "You know that, I know that." "We're here for you now." "Why are you all smiling?" "Kent, talk to her." "I want you back in the worst way." "I want you to come back to school and move back in with the sorority." "Be my girl, again, and..." "And go to our formal with your own Kent Woodlands." "You and Kent are still slated to be King and Queen and to dance the first dance." "You have always been AO Pi's best sister." "Please say you'll come back to the house and go to the dance with Kent." "Please?" "It's such a long commute from Pasadena to SCSU." "I love you, Carolyn." "Now, let's pack your things and move you back." "What do you say?" "You're the Queen, Carolyn." "And you're going to have a wonderful time at the dance with Kent." "Just to let you know, it cost me $1,400 to fix the car on top of all this." "I'm not retarded." "Okay, you're not retarded." "That's a bad word." "You're just special." "But I can assure you, we had you tested." "Extensively tested." "I'm not special and I'm not retarded." "Darling." "Now you come on down and get some sleep." "Come on down, give your mama a kiss, come on." "Hell, Pumpkin, I wish you could drive go to Harvard go out with that bitch Carolyn." "But it's just not in the cards." "This is the best formal the Greek Council has been to for years." "Did you see how many giant prawns they ate?" "Any minute now, Carolyn and Kent will make an appearance the dance can begin and then we're back on the road to SOY." "Thank God you got them back together." "Are you all right?" "I'm fine, Kent." "I'm fine." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "Ready?" "Ladies and gentlemen, the King and Queen of the formal from Kappa Lambda Sigma Mr. Kent Archibald Woodlands and from the AO Pi House, Miss Carolyn McDuffy." "The first dance." "There is something wrong, isn't there?" "It's just, I threw something in the wastebasket I shouldn't have." "I'm sorry." "This isn't working, you and I." "Why?" "Because of him." "My God." "We took a cab." "It was easy." "I came to dance with you." "Goddamn, fucking dimwitted retard!" "I am going to obliterate you." "No, Kent, he can't defend himself." "You can't do that." "He doesn't understand." "If he's man enough to take my girl, then he's man enough to fight me." "Come on, boy, let's do it!" "Outside." "Stop!" "Get off me!" "I didn't mean to hurt him." "It must've been all the training." "I think they want us to leave." "He's right." "You two better go." "You've caused enough damage already." "No." "I am a sister of AO Pi." "And Pumpkin Romanoff is my guest." "If it hadn't been for you sanctimonious hypocrites he would've been my date tonight." "Pumpkin and I are going inside to dance." "No!" "Why?" "You two are not an appropriate couple." "I'm sorry." "Pumpkin's not going to sit in the back of the bus anymore." "God, no!" "Hello." "Look what you've done to me, Carolyn." "They say I'll never play tournament tennis again." "I'm sorry." "I'm so sorry." "I may not even walk because of you." "You will, I know you will." "Now I'm just like him." "I'm to blame." "I'm to blame for everything." "I've caused everyone a great deal of grief." "You were all right." "What I did with Pumpkin was against nature." "And now everyone's suffering because of it." "I ruined rush." "I ruined our charity." "I ruined the formal." "Kent is probably injured beyond repair." "And AO Pi is runner-up again." "I'm sorry." "I'm leaving the sorority." "I'm quitting SCSU." "I'm transferring to a community college." "But you're a senior." "You can't transfer to community college." "You have too many units." "Then I'm transferring to Long Beach Tech." "Long Beach Tech?" "My God." "We're having lamb chops." "Medium rare, your favorite." "Would you like to join us for your last dinner?" "No, thank you." "I have to get my life straight." "I have to leave the lamb chops the sisters, Kent and Pumpkin, whose trust I betrayed." "Goodbye, everyone." "Where are you going?" "I'm leaving school." "I'm transferring to Long Beach Tech." "Life isn't handed to people there." "Carolyn, you've become my best student." "Not hardly." "I couldn't even finish my poem." "I'm very sorry, Pumpkin." "But Carolyn's gone away from all of us." "From you, too, Pumpkin." "You have a room for rent?" "On a sadder note SCSU will enter the National College Tennis Championships without their star, Kent Woodlands who was tragically injured in a car accident." "Investigation is pending as to the cause of this untimely catastrophe." "We can only hope and wish for the best." "Kent, you have a visitor." "I don't wanna see anyone." "Ladies and gentlemen please help me in welcoming our challenged athletes." "Remember to work as a team." "Don't be afraid to be hard-nosed." "We're gonna beat Orange County." "Beat Orange County!" "By the power vested in me, once again as President of the State of California Challenged Games let the games begin!" "My son, Hansie." "What are you working on, Carolyn?" "Nothing." "A poem." "You know, you're such a mystery." "You don't tell us where you come from you just pop in out of the blue." "I'm from a very, very bad place, Sascha." "I tried to change it and change myself, but..." "That's what I'm working on." "A poem about giving in to the world." "Come on, let's hear it." ""I once had a dream that I could change pumpkins into coaches" ""But the world said no" ""And sent me packing to the sea" ""Now pumpkins remain pumpkins..." ""Mice remain mice" ""And I am only me"" "I can't seem to get it right." "Maybe the problem is, Carolyn you don't wanna give in to the world." "Ready for the relay?" "No." "I want Carolyn." "Listen to me." "No matter where Carolyn is you're still her champion." "Now, you owe it to yourself to finish what you two started." "Take your marks." "Set..." "Go, baby, go!" "Did you see me?" "Did you see me run?" "He's a true champion like Carl Lewis in all ways." "I'm so proud of you." "You have a wonderful son." "I've always admired you, Kent." "But I had no idea you could be such a caring, good person." "I'll never forget what you've done." "I know a better man when I see one." "He's all yours." "Should I call you Jesse from now on?" "I mean, that is your real name." "No." "Pumpkin will work just fine." "Pumpkin, when you asked me about the moon did you mean it literally or metaphorically?" "What?" "Done by (c) dcd / June 2017"