Reverend Moore: [discusses his daughter] We're losing her, Vi. Don't you see that?
Vi: No. I see you chasing after her and I see her running from you.
Reverend Moore: She's become so willful, so obstinate.
Vi: She's like her father. The two of you were so wonderful once. You had so much to talk about. I was almost jealous.
Reverend Moore: It's not as if we don't talk. It's just that sometimes people run out of things to say.
Vi: [pause] Shaw? It's 20 years now I've been a minister's wife. And I've been quiet, supportive, unobtrusive and after 20 years I still think you're a wonderful, a wonderful preacher. You can lift a congregation up so high they have to look down to see heaven. But it's the one to one where you need a little work.
Vi: No. I see you chasing after her and I see her running from you.
Reverend Moore: She's become so willful, so obstinate.
Vi: She's like her father. The two of you were so wonderful once. You had so much to talk about. I was almost jealous.
Reverend Moore: It's not as if we don't talk. It's just that sometimes people run out of things to say.
Vi: [pause] Shaw? It's 20 years now I've been a minister's wife. And I've been quiet, supportive, unobtrusive and after 20 years I still think you're a wonderful, a wonderful preacher. You can lift a congregation up so high they have to look down to see heaven. But it's the one to one where you need a little work.
Reverend Moore : [discusses his daughter] We're losing her, Vi. Don't you see that?
Vi : No. I see you chasing after her and I see her running from you.
Reverend Moore : She's become so willful, so obstinate.
Vi : She's like her father. The two of you were so wonderful once. You had so much to talk about. I was almost jealous.
Reverend Moore : It's not as if we don't talk. It's just that sometimes people run out of things to say.
Vi : [pause] Shaw? It's 20 years now I've been a minister's wife. And I've been quiet, supportive, unobtrusive and after 20 years I still think you're a wonderful, a wonderful preacher. You can lift a congregation up so high they have to look down to see heaven. But it's the one to one where you need a little work.
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