[voiceover] Grown-ups like to tell you where they were when President Kennedy was shot, which they all know to the exact second. Which makes me almost jealous -- like I should have something important enough to know where I was when it happened. But I don't, yet. And the fact that it was a better time then, and people knew what they were supposed to do and how to make the world better...now nobody knows anything. We know who's popular, or that Social Studies is boring, or that Brian always has stomach trouble -- but nobody knows anything important. Instead of changing the world, people sit in class and write notes about other people.
“Guns and Gossip” · Season 1, Episode 3
In this episode: Angela Chase (4), Patty Chase (2)
I'm Patty Chase.
AAmber
Hi.
Angela's mom?
AAmber
Oh, WOW. Angela! Oh, Rayanne talks about her all the time. She's in love with her! She wants to be Angela.
Really! Gosh, they seem so different.
AAmber
Oh, you know kids. They find one person and they just can't get enough of them! It's like being in love, only they're not allowed to have sex.
Riiiight.
AAmber
No, don't you remember? There'd be, like, this one person, who had, like, perfect hair, or perfect breasts, or they were just so funny, and you just wanted to eat them up -- just live in their bed, and just be them. It's like everybody else was in black and white, and that person was in color. Well, Rayanne thinks Angela is in color. Major color.
[voiceover] When I was twelve, my mother gave me my sex talk. I'm not sure either of us has fully recovered.
Now that you and Jordan are um...
Oh, my God. Mom, please...
Angela, I can accept that you have a boyfriend.
I don't have a boyfriend!
Fine. A pal. A male pal.
[voiceover] It's such a lie that you should do what's in your heart. If we all did what was in our hearts, the world would grind to a halt.
[voiceover] It's amazing the things you notice, like the corner of his collar that was coming undone. Like, he was from a poor family and couldn't afford new shirts. That's all I could see. The whole world was that unraveled piece of fabric.
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