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Norma and Virginia were lovers for almost fifty years. They died isolated; the vibrant pre-Stonewall lesbian community of their youth long gone. A love story about the unforeseen trajectory of lives lived outside the mainstream told through the 2000 snapshots left behind.
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Main credits
Citron, Michelle (film director)
Citron, Michelle (film producer)
Citron, Michelle (screenwriter)
Citron, Michelle (editor of moving image work)
Citron, Michelle (narrator)
Citron, Michelle (photographer)
Other credits
Cinematography, Michelle Citron; editor, Michelle Citron; music composition, Joseph Fosco; animatino, Mark Begale & Sarah Cortese.
Distributor subjects
Cinema Studies, Documentary Studies, Gender, LGBTQIA, Mass Media & Popular CultureKeywords
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♪♪
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(indistinct chatter)
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(camera shutter clicks)
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(crowd cheering)
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(female narrator)
When they needed groceries,
Norma went to the store.
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She backed her
\'55 Ford Fairlane--
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baby blue and white--
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out of the garage and drove
to the Jewel.
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She drove slowly.
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She was an old woman
and her reflexes
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weren\'t as fast
as they used to be.
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One day, the young man who lived
across the alley appeared
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as Norma was backing out
her baby blue.
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\"You left
your garage door open
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after you went to work today,\"
she said.
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\"I closed it.\"
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She was an athlete
when young.
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You could see it in her stance,
in her self-assuredness.
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She was formidable.
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\"Thank you,\" he said.
\"By the way, my name is Kevin.
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\"I try to watch out
for the neighborhood.
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See what’s going on,
just so you know.\"
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That broke the ice.
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(bird squawking)
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(birds chirping)
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Kevin left the garage door up
a couple of more times,
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and their conversations
deepened.
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Kevin was always the one
who initiated their talk:
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\"What’s your dog’s name?\"
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\"I had to take my boyfriend Tom
to the doctor today.\"
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Occasionally Kevin would broach
the subject of being gay.
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He once told her
that he had just come back
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from the march
on Washington.
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Norma said,
\"I think it\'s right
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that people have
their rights.\"
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That’s all she’d concede.
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It went on like this
for two years.
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One winter\'s day,
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Kevin was going
to the grocery store.
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He asked Norma if she wanted
to ride there with him.
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He had noticed her limp.
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They settled into
a new routine.
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Kevin waited in the alley
and Norma would come out
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and just get in the car.
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They went shopping together,
each with their grocery list.
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It was only then that Norma
mentioned Virginia.
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After shopping,
Kevin carried Norma\'s groceries
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down the gangway between
the houses
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and up the back stairs.
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Norma always went first,
opened the door,
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turned and said,
\"I\'ll take it from here.\"
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Kevin set the bags down.
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Through the open back door,
he could just make out Virginia
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at the kitchen table in a cloud
of cigarette smoke.
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\"Hi,\" she said,
and gave a little wave.
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(indistinct chatter)
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Norma’s legs got worse.
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She moved slower, tired quicker.
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Kevin drove her to the doctor
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or picked up her medication
from the pharmacy.
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Occasionally,
he drove to Indiana
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to buy Virginia\'s supply
of cigarettes for the year...
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52 cartons.
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Virginia would stand
at the back door,
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a teeny woman wearing enormous
dark glasses, and wave,
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sort of like the Pope,
or the queen at the balcony.
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Kevin never saw Virginia
step outside.
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In all those years,
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he never once saw her leave
the house.
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(waves lapping)
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(splashing and laughter)
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One day Norma said,
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\"I don’t feel well enough
to go.
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Would you pick up
some groceries for me?\"
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She’d give him a list
twice a week.
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Norma would comb
the newspaper
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every day,
cutting out coupons.
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That would determine
her shopping list.
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If there was one thing
on the list, she wanted four.
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Four 24 packs
of toilet paper.
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Four one-pound cans
of coffee.
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Four tubs of chicken livers--
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That was for Cindy,
their dog.
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Four jars of pickled herring,
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eggs, bacon,
dog food, dog snacks.
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Lots of sliced deli meat
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and a couple of six-packs
of O’Doul’s.
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Never a fresh vegetable,
though occasionally she\'d ask
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for some plums or a banana
or maybe a bunch of grapes.
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And always a large tub
of peppermint candy,
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individually wrapped,
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looking like little red
and white pinwheels.
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They had this deal:
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Norma would pay Kevin $5
for each errand he ran.
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But she didn’t actually give him
the money.
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She\'d put it
in his \"vacation\" fund,
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which she held for him
like a bank.
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Once Kevin went on a trip
to San Francisco
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and cashed it in.
Norma handed him $265.
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(indistinct chatter)
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When Kevin got back
from San Francisco,
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a neighbor told him
that Norma and Virginia
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were in the hospital,
both of them.
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Virginia went in first.
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The visiting nurse
that Kevin arranged for
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sent Virginia there because
her leg started bleeding
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and the wound wouldn’t heal.
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Three days later, the nurse
came back to check on Norma.
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There was no answer
at the door.
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She broke in and found Norma
unconscious on the floor.
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Who knew how long
she lay there?
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In the hospital, Norma
and Virginia roomed together,
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their beds
across from each other.
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The first day Kevin visited,
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they each had
a TV up on the wall
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and they were both watching
the same baseball game.
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The Cubs, of course.
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The room had become
their clubhouse.
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(indistinct chatter)
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(indistinct chatter)
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With Norma and Virginia
in the hospital,
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Kevin started taking care
of Cindy, their dog.
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He fed her,
walked her twice a day.
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Tossed a ball with her.
Took her to the beach.
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Norma got worse.
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First she transferred
out of their shared room.
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Once moved,
she slipped into a coma.
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Two weeks later
she died of sepsis,
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made vulnerable by years
of alcoholism.
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(wind blowing)
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Virginia was still
in the hospital,
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and it fell to Kevin
to tell her that Norma had died.
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There was no one else.
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Kevin was scared.
He was just the guy
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who helped them with
their groceries.
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If anything,
he was Norma’s friend.
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He had hardly exchanged
more than a \"Hi\" with Virginia.
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Kevin went to the hospital
and just told her.
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And Virginia was...
diffident.
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Kevin said the hospital wanted
to know about Norma’s body.
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What to do with it,
who to call.
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He asked Virginia about
a funeral, what she wanted.
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\"Let them take it.
Let her go,\" she said.
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\"She’s dead.\"
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Kevin felt strange
about that,
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but he didn\'t know
what else to do.
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So no one claimed
Norma’s body.
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She lay in the Cook County
morgue for several months
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while the authorities tried
to find her next of kin.
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They never considered
Virginia.
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So the county paid
to bury Norma.
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$49.50 for a pinewood coffin.
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$186 for the funeral.
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A lone clergyman
presided over the burial,
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while three cemetery workers
looked on.
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Norma was buried
in a mass grave
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with 31 other unclaimed bodies,
mainly homeless.
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(bird squawks)
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(birds chirping)
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A month later,
Virginia’s leg was amputated.
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They would sit and talk.
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When Kevin asked her
about Norma, Virginia replied,
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\"I think about her sometimes,
but I’m alive.\"
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She always kept her face on.
Both of them did.
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Whatever sentimentality
they had together was long gone.
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It was like Virginia
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was stepping through air,
moving toward.
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Everything behind her was...
just gone.
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After the amputation,
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Virginia was transferred
to a nursing home.
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You know the kind of place.
Layers of smells.
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Urine overlaid
with disinfectant,
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overlaid with last night’s
dinner.
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(heart beating)
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Residents walked into doors
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and sat in the hallways
moaning,
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or talked to friends
no one could see but them.
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It was clean.
It was friendly.
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It wasn’t hell.
More like purgatory.
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Virginia begged Kevin
to get her out of there.
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(heart continues beating)
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(birds chirping,
dog barking)
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The nursing home didn’t want
to release Virginia.
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\"She’ll die at home.\"
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But Kevin understood
her need for home
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and he used that need.
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\"If you want to go home,\"
he told her,
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\"you must let me
clear the house out.\"
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And that’s how he got in.
Kevin once got a peek
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when he left the groceries
at the back door.
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They were floor-to-ceiling
people.
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Packers.
He felt like he\'d walked
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into someone\'s private world
uninvited.
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Over the years,
as he delivered the groceries,
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he could see the stuff
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encroaching towards
the back door.
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The last time, there was maybe
two feet of space
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in which to lay
the groceries down.
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(birds chirping,
dog barking)
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(wind chime ringing)
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Norma was the collector,
Virginia the tidy one.
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Her bedroom was neat,
sparse,
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the corners
of her bedspread tucked in.
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But outside her bedroom,
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the inventory in their house
was astonishing.
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They bought everything.
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They saved everything.
They collected everything.
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They spent years watching
TV infomercials,
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and the stuff was coming in,
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and when it came in,
it never left.
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There was a big oak table
in the dining room
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that Kevin didn\'t even know
was there
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until a week
into the cleaning,
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he unearthed it from
the mountain of objects.
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As Kevin cleaned paths
through the stuff,
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he imagined Norma
and Virginia
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sitting across from each other
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in a small clearing
at the kitchen table.
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Norma told stories,
Virginia listened.
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A lot went on
in the backyards of Chicago
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and Norma took it all in,
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from the back door
to the back gate.
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She brought
the outside world home
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and Virginia experienced
that world through Norma’s eyes.
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Kevin imagined them sitting
at the kitchen table,
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reading the newspaper,
watching TV,
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surrounded by their objects.
Day in and day out,
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they hunkered down
and became a world of two,
12:37.499 --> 12:39.475
or perhaps two worlds of one,
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finding a space of privacy
in their silence.
12:43.418 --> 12:45.976
They never visited
their neighbors.
12:46.000 --> 12:46.643
In 14 years,
12:46.667 --> 12:53.000
no one ever visited them,
except for Kevin.
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(footsteps echoing)
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Norma never
threw out anything.
13:04.334 --> 13:06.310
There were the matchbook covers
picked up
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from every restaurant
and lounge
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they had eaten or drunk at,
1,258 of them.
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There were the 36
paint-by-number pictures,
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a few unfinished.
There were the magazines.
13:17.959 --> 13:21.185
\"Baseball Digest,\" \"Coronet,\"
\"Animal Life,\"
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\"Dog Fancy,\" \"Cat Fancy,\"
\"Bird Fancy,\"
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\"Reptiles,\" \"Stamp Collector,\"
\"Baseball Collector,\"
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a weekly subscription
to the \"National Enquirer,\"
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a daily subscription to
the \"Chicago Sun Times.\"
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Trading cards.
\"I Love Lucy\" 12-sets,
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\"Mayberry RFD\" four-sets.
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Boxes of commemorative coins,
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15 drawers filled
with stamps
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in small glassine envelopes.
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500 beta cassettes
of old TV programs.
13:47.499 --> 13:50.768
\"MacGyver,\" \"Marcus Welby M.D.,\"
\"Magnum P.I.,\"
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to name just a few.
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Scrapbooks
of newspaper clippings
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from when Will Rogers died,
when Jean Harlow died,
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covering ten years of
U.S. manned space travel,
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from Glen to walking
on the moon.
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Old lesbian pulp fiction,
as well as books
14:04.292 --> 14:08.810
on war, crime, murder,
Freud, and Chicago history.
14:08.834 --> 14:11.102
14 pictures of Angie Dickinson,
14:11.126 --> 14:13.601
nine anniversary cards
sent to by friends,
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each containing
a small ladies handkerchief
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folded neatly inside.
14:18.042 --> 14:21.475
Every single one of Norma\'s
bowling shirts, 18,
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with Norma\'s name brightly
embroidered on the back.
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Three electric
pencil sharpeners.
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One million sports cards,
baseball and football mostly.
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Seven cameras,
nine cartons filled
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with memorial beer
and pop cans,
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six cash boxes,
14:38.542 --> 14:41.475
a case of old carafe
wine bottles,
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empty of course.
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And 2,182 old snapshots
14:46.500 --> 14:52.418
taken of friends when Norma
and Virginia were young.
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After Kevin tidied up
and shopped in food,
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he carried Virginia
out of the nursing home
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and drove her back
to the house.
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She was small and thin,
quite birdlike.
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Kevin hired his niece at $10
an hour to come by every day
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to do what he couldn’t,
like give Virginia a bath.
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Virginia moved from a wheelchair
to crutches
15:17.499 --> 15:21.976
to a walker
to walking on her own.
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They settled into a routine:
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grocery shopping,
taking Virginia to the doctor.
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This went on for a year.
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(TV playing indistinctly)
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Virginia spent her days
watching television.
15:39.583 --> 15:44.185
\"Jerry Springer,\" \"Oprah,\"
\"The View,\" the news.
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She refused
to go to elder day care.
15:46.499 --> 15:48.685
She didn’t want
to leave the house.
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Her whole world consisted
of Kevin,
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who visited every day,
and the TV.
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She experienced the world
15:55.499 --> 15:58.499
through the box
in her living room.
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Then came 9/11.
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She sat there, day and night.
16:04.667 --> 16:07.893
She wouldn’t, or couldn’t,
turn it off.
16:07.917 --> 16:10.475
The tired news men,
the terrified New Yorkers,
16:10.499 --> 16:16.227
and the buildings falling over
and over and over.
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All she said was,
16:17.000 --> 16:21.060
\"This is terrible,
this is terrible.\"
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She was an old woman
in her 80s.
16:24.499 --> 16:25.394
A working class woman,
16:25.418 --> 16:28.685
who grew up in the \'20s
and \'30s.
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She was concrete.
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She couldn’t sleep.
She stopped eating.
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Kevin was worried.
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She was wasting away.
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He insisted she go
to the hospital.
16:42.542 --> 16:43.685
Kevin carried her to the car,
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she was light as a bird,
and drove her to the ER.
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They hooked her up
to IVs.
17:00.499 --> 17:04.768
Kevin visited every day.
He talked to her and, later,
17:04.792 --> 17:08.935
as she faded, he would just sit
by her bedside.
17:08.959 --> 17:10.935
Then one morning,
three weeks, later,
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the phone rang at 6:00 A.M.
17:13.042 --> 17:15.475
\"You’d better get here
quickly.\"
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By the time Kevin arrived
at the hospital,
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20 minutes later,
Virginia was already dead.
17:22.209 --> 17:26.768
It was early in the morning.
The floor was quiet.
17:26.792 --> 17:29.268
Kevin sat with her
for a while.
17:29.292 --> 17:31.018
Then the nurse peeked in.
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\"I’m sorry about your mother,\"
she said.
17:33.334 --> 17:35.268
\"We all really liked her.\"
17:35.292 --> 17:38.935
Kevin said,
\"She wasn’t really my mother.\"
17:38.959 --> 17:41.935
And the nurse asked,
\"Was she married?
17:41.959 --> 17:43.518
Did she have a family?\"
17:43.542 --> 17:46.143
Kevin laughed.
\"She was in a relationship
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with another woman for 45 years.
She was a lesbian.\"
17:50.499 --> 17:53.042
And the nurse went, \"Oh.\"
17:54.126 --> 17:54.643
After she left,
17:54.667 --> 17:57.475
Kevin bent over Virginia’s body
and whispered,
17:57.499 --> 18:01.475
\"Well, I used the L-word,
I hope that’s okay.\"
18:01.499 --> 18:06.042
Virginia, in death,
finally came out.
18:06.709 --> 18:09.394
Kevin had Virginia cremated.
18:09.418 --> 18:10.893
He tracked down Norma\'s
burial number
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in the Cook County cemetery
for the indigent.
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And one afternoon,
on a bright fall day,
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he scattered Virginia’s ashes
over the common grave.
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♪♪
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(indistinct chatter)
19:30.167 --> 19:33.959
(shutter clicking,
camera winding)
20:33.667 --> 20:36.643
(shutter clicking,
camera winding)
20:36.667 --> 20:39.583
(birds chirping)
21:28.875 --> 21:32.084
(shutter clicking,
camera winding)
21:46.583 --> 21:51.499
(man and woman clearing throat)
22:17.583 --> 22:21.000
(indistinct chatter)
22:25.126 --> 22:28.251
(shutter clicking)
Distributor: Women Make Movies
Length: 23 minutes
Date: 2014
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Color/BW:
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Closed Captioning: Available
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