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0:06coffee
0:08black. Thanks.
0:19I've only got a five on me.
0:21>> Then it's a $5 bag.
0:25>> Bless you, honey. Thank you.
0:28>> Don't thank me, sugar. Thank the cook.
0:39Nobody says that but Frank Dawson.
0:52Claire Dawson
0:5414 years buddy.
1:05Did you save me the last slice?
1:07>> Homework first.
1:21Refill before you go back out in that
1:25Luke.
1:28Hey, Claire.
1:36>> You're still in the Navy?
1:39>> Still Navy Seal team out of Virginia
1:42Beach.
1:44>> And you're in Laurel Vow because
1:48>> two weeks leave. A buddy's got a cabin
1:50up the mountain.
1:51>> Claire, take your break. 10 minutes.
1:53>> Don't leave.
1:57I mean 10 minutes.
2:08>> You tipped before you drank it.
2:13>> I was in a hurry.
2:15>> You were always in a hurry. Dad called
2:18you the boy for two whole years before
2:20he'd say your name.
2:22>> He said I hadn't earned a name yet.
2:24He said you burn the hash browns
2:27>> once
2:28>> every Tuesday.
2:39>> Aunt Claire, can I pet him?
2:46>> Danny's boy, Toby. He's been with me
2:48three years.
2:49>> Danny's Where's Danny? Black Ice on 221
2:52three winters ago.
2:56>> Danny and me worked that grill side by
2:58side for 5 years.
3:00>> I know.
3:02>> And your dad
3:05>> another time.
3:10>> His name's Atlas. Let him smell your
3:12hand first. Low like this. Let him come
3:15to you.
3:25Is he a police dog?
3:27>> He went to school for it. Got kicked
3:29out.
3:30>> For what?
3:32>> Too friendly.
3:34He'd rather lick the bad guy.
3:37>> Same.
3:40>> Claire, I need you.
3:43>> How long are you here?
3:45>> 13 days.
3:55Four days you've come in for the same
3:57black coffee.
3:58>> It's good coffee.
4:00>> It's Rose's coffee. It's terrible.
4:04>> I've had worse on a boat.
4:11>> You quit Dad's grill and left town
4:13without a word.
4:16That's what you think happened?
4:19>> Danny went by the next morning to tape a
4:21sign on the door. Your keys were on the
4:23mat.
4:25That's all. Not even a note.
4:31A few days later, the lady at the post
4:34office tells me you joined the Navy.
4:42>> There was a note. It was with the keys.
4:46I got my date that afternoon, 6:00 a.m.
4:49Charlotte, then a plane to Great Lakes.
4:52I told your dad. He let me off early to
4:55go pack.
5:00>> Dad knew you were leaving.
5:03>> Just since that afternoon,
5:0610:30, I came back. Tuesday night, you
5:09always did the books and we'd split a
5:11pie.
5:12I was going to tell you the place was
5:15dark. I called you twice. Voicemail.
5:21I went by your place, too. Dark.
5:25I had to be on the road at 4:00.
5:30So, I wrote it down and I put it through
5:33the slot with my keys.
5:39>> 9:00 we were closing up. Dad went down
5:42at the grill. I found him.
5:46Ambulance took him to Ashefer.
5:48I lost my phone somewhere in that ER.
5:51New phone, new number.
5:55Every number I had was in the old one.
5:58Yours, too,
6:00>> Frank. Is he?
6:02He held on till November.
6:10>> 14 years. I figured he was back there
6:12flipping eggs.
6:15>> Good boy.
6:16>> You never called after.
6:20>> First call they let me make, your number
6:22was disconnected. I called the diner. It
6:25rang and rang.
6:27>> We were closed 6 weeks
6:31>> out in California. I wrote you at your
6:32apartment. It came back. Moved. No
6:35forwarding address.
6:40I figured that was my answer. I wasn't
6:43going to make you say no twice.
6:45>> No. To what?
6:50>> What did it say? The note
6:54>> doesn't matter now.
7:01Did you see that? He caught it in the
7:03air.
7:05>> I saw.
7:06>> You've got an arm, kid.
7:09>> I pitch sometimes.
7:20So, the ring on your chain,
7:25somebody waiting for you in Virginia
7:27Beach.
7:28Nobody's waiting. Never married.
7:30>> Then whose ring is it?
7:34>> Somebody who never said yes.
7:37>> She missed out.
7:44>> Monday when Toby ran in and grabbed you.
7:47I thought he was yours. I had the leash
7:49on. I was halfway out the door.
7:56You thought I had a 10-year-old and
7:58nobody in this county mentioned it to
7:59you?
8:01>> I haven't talked to anybody in this
8:02county in 14 years.
8:1514 years and we're still guessing at
8:17each other.
8:20I looked you up once online. Nothing.
8:23>> We're not supposed to be findable.
8:25>> That's convenient.
8:26>> It was till now.
8:31>> You ever think about coming back here?
8:34>> Every October,
8:36leaves turn, I smell a flat top grill
8:38somewhere, and I'm 20 again.
8:41>> And then
8:43>> And then I'd tell myself there was
8:44nothing to come back to.
8:56She thinks it was somebody else's.
9:06>> Can Atlas come today? We're going to
9:08Grandpa's Diner to sign stuff for the
9:10coffee people.
9:10>> Toby,
9:12>> what you said?
9:14>> Dad's place. Dawson's. It's been closed
9:18since Danny.
9:19A chain that does drive-through coffee
9:21wants the lot.
9:24>> They want an answer by Friday.
9:26>> I'm going down today to clear out his
9:27things.
9:30>> Want a hand?
9:36>> Take the whole week. Claire, go do what
9:38you need to do.
9:39>> Can Atlas come, please?
9:43>> Fine. Everybody's coming.
9:53The door eats the mail.
9:56Dad used to say it ate the electric
9:58bill.
10:14He smells a mouse
10:16>> probably.
10:29Danny lost a yard stick under there
10:31once. Whatever it eats, it keeps.
10:35>> It's gone, buddy.
10:41Your pie case still leans.
10:43>> Pies have slid left since before I was
10:45born.
10:47>> I'll level it before I go.
11:00After the surgery, Dad had a stroke. He
11:02couldn't get a whole sentence out. The
11:03last few days, all he'd say was
11:07the boy answer over and over.
11:14I figured he was asking where you'd gone
11:17or he was confused.
11:23After the funeral, I tried to go in
11:25there once, got as far as the spot where
11:27he fell, and I walked right back out.
11:31Never went in again.
11:34Danny could. I can't.
12:06here. So, you're not waiting on me to
12:07get in.
12:12>> Did you know my dad? Like, really know
12:14him?
12:16>> Your dad taught me to flip an egg
12:18without breaking the yolk. Took me a
12:20month.
12:23>> He could do it with his eyes closed.
12:26He showed off like that every single
12:28morning.
12:32>> Can we have Grandpa's peach pie? Dad
12:35used to make it.
12:37>> Your dad made it. Grandpa made it. I
12:39never have.
13:12Is it supposed to taste like the ocean?
13:21He labeled them backwards.
13:24>> He what?
13:30>> Salt. Your dad switched the labels so
13:33the new hiders wouldn't sneak sugar for
13:35their coffee. I drank salty coffee for a
13:38week. Danny knew. You never cooked. And
13:42it's still working.
13:48He's still pranking us in his own
13:50kitchen.
13:54Claire, they'll come up 10% if you sign
13:56by Friday.
13:59It's not for sale. Not Friday. Not at
14:02all. Thank you.
14:08I can't afford this. The compressor in
14:10that pie case is dying. The wiring's
14:12from 1971. The roof
14:18Let me help. I've got money. I've had
14:22nothing to spend it on.
14:24>> I'm not a charity case and you're not a
14:26bank.
14:28>> Then make it a loan.
14:33>> In writing with interest with a due date
14:36and the diner's mine, the recipes are
14:39mine.
14:41>> Yes, ma'am.
14:51Toby D. Witness.
14:54I'll have the lawyer and Boon type it
14:55out next week.
15:01Dad can hold on to it.
15:09Aunt Claire comes to every game. She
15:11sits in the top row so she can see me
15:13and still yell.
15:15>> What does she yell?
15:16>> Eye on the ball, Toby. Every single
15:19pitch. Even when I'm not batting.
15:31>> Six days, buddy.
15:41Chief, leave's canceled. We're going
15:43early. Team room Wednesday 1800.
15:45>> Copy.
15:53>> Toby, take Atlas out back for a bit.
16:00>> Every contractor's number, the part
16:02number for the compressor, the
16:04electrician in Marion is the honest one.
16:11No payback.
16:13This isn't what we wrote.
16:15>> Call it a gift.
16:16>> We had terms.
16:21>> I got called back. We deploy early. 7
16:25months, maybe more. I leave at 5:00
16:28tomorrow morning.
16:33>> When were you going to tell me?
16:36I was going to lock up on my way out and
16:38drop the key through the slot.
16:40>> Through the slot with a note like last
16:44time.
16:46>> Last time I never got an answer
16:48>> because I never got it.
16:51>> I know that now.
16:52>> Then ask me now. Whatever it was, ask
16:55me.
17:03You've got Toby.
17:05You've got this place.
17:08I can't tell you where I'm going or when
17:10I can call. I'm not going to ask you to
17:12sit by a phone for 7 months.
17:20There it is. You're deciding what I can
17:22carry again.
17:26Toby, we're going.
17:58Enr writen with interest.
18:04Said I'd level it before I go.
18:39Not through the slot. Not this time.
18:56You said 5. It's 4:40.
19:00>> You came
19:01>> last time you were gone before the sun
19:03came up. I wasn't going to hear it from
19:05the post office twice.
19:10>> You asked me what the question was.
19:18>> Where
19:21The door opens in. It pushed it under.
19:2414 years.
19:30It ate the electric bill.
19:39Claire,
19:40they gave me my date today.
19:43I report at 6:00 tomorrow morning. I
19:46never told you I'd signed up because I
19:49didn't want to say it out loud till it
19:50was real.
19:52It's real now.
19:57I asked your dad this afternoon if I
19:59could marry you. He said yes.
20:05The boy answer.
20:13He wasn't confused.
20:15He wasn't asking where you went. He was
20:17asking me if I'd answered you.
20:20You knew Saturday when I told you.
20:25I thought the letter was gone.
20:28I didn't want to give you one more thing
20:29you couldn't fix.
20:36Then he laughed and said,
20:38"She'll make you wait for an answer, so
20:40ask her early."
20:43So, I'm asking early. I've got a ring.
20:46It isn't much.
20:49Graduation's in December at Great Lakes.
20:52If you're in the Blouchers, that's Yes.
20:55If you're not, I'll understand. I won't
20:58ask again.
21:01I love you.
21:03I'm sorry I couldn't say this to your
21:05face, Luke.
21:10You looked for me.
21:13Every face in that drill hall. Twice.
21:17I was the only one in my division.
21:19Nobody came for
21:23that December. I was packing up dad's
21:25things. I didn't know there was a seat
21:27for me.
21:34Somebody who never said yes.
21:37>> She never got the chance.
21:39>> She's got it now.
21:48Not on a dusty floor at 5 in the morning
21:50with your truck packed. You come home
21:53and you ask me properly in front of Toby
21:57top row.
22:00>> That's 7 months.
22:04>> I waited 14 years for a letter I didn't
22:07know about. I can wait seven months for
22:08a question I know is coming.
22:11I loved you when I wrote that. I never
22:14stopped.
22:16>> I know.
22:18>> I'm in the bleachers, Luke. I'm just 14
22:20years late.
22:42Can he stay with us while you're gone?
22:51>> He's not alone. He's a promise.
22:55I have to come back for him.
22:58>> Will you be back for my games?
23:01>> Save me a seat.
23:03>> Top row.
23:31Thank you.
23:33>> Get it.
23:36Best pie in the county, Claire. Thank
23:38you.
23:39>> Don't thank me, sugar. Thank the cook.
23:42>> See here. Not sure badly
23:45reaching first.
23:46>> Yet
23:49ain't Claire. We're going to be late.
23:51We're going to be late.
23:54>> Did he write this week?
23:56>> Thursday. Still says May.
24:00>> It's May.
24:01>> I know what month it is. Get in the car.
24:07>> Eye on the ball, Toby.
24:41Claire Dawson,
24:43I asked your dad 14 years ago. I'm
24:45asking you now. Will you marry me?
24:52Yes, it was. Yes. 14 years ago. It just
24:55got stuck under the pie case.
25:03>> Did she say yes?
25:04>> Let's come.

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