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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 16:16:27 GMT -5
"Oh, but you poor dear, to be deprived of things like that. I can't imagine."
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 9, 2007 16:21:51 GMT -5
*Ice cream really wasn't that important, he thought, in the grand scheme of things.*
"Do you think I'd have been a better person if I'd had it more?"
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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 16:31:22 GMT -5
*She blushed a little*
"I don't mean just that. I mean a lot of things. From what I've heard, your life wasn't easy in the least."
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 9, 2007 18:21:12 GMT -5
*Norman's dark eyes shot up to meet hers.*
"What... what have you heard?" *he asked nervously.*
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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 18:32:01 GMT -5
*She shrugged*
"Rumors, really. That your mother didn't allow you a whole lot of things, some of them a lot more major than just food."
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 9, 2007 18:35:24 GMT -5
*Norman's face felt hot with embarrassment.*
"Oh! That's... I didn't know they'd given out..."
*He frowned. He just didn't understand people, he figured.*
"That's... private."
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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 18:41:22 GMT -5
*Oh, crap, she'd said the wrong thing...again*
"I'm sorry, Norman! I didn't mean to embarrass you! It's rumor stuff, and not a lot of it!"
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 9, 2007 18:43:22 GMT -5
"No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't snap at you. I... I just didn't know everyone knew all about it. She... she was still Mother, you know?"
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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 18:51:16 GMT -5
*She felt bad about her stupid blunder, but how in the world could she tell him that she knew what she did only from people talking about a movie about him?*
"I wouldn't say everyone. Some people don't want to hear that."
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 9, 2007 18:55:38 GMT -5
"No, of course not," *he said bitterly.* "No one wants to hear about 'those things.' Unless they're gossips. I don't doubt there were rumors about me. About... us."
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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 19:00:32 GMT -5
*Sarah snorted*
"Ugh, don't get me started on gossips. They're locusts--they devour every little bit of information and leave destruction in their wake."
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 9, 2007 19:13:38 GMT -5
"They used to talk about Mother that way," *he said darkly.* "I hated it. I still do. I'm not... I'm not crazy, anymore. I know what she did. But I still hate what they said."
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Post by Maria on Oct 9, 2007 19:28:42 GMT -5
*She reached out and patted Norman's arm*
"That's normal, to want to protect her, even if she did things that weren't acceptable. Moms are special that way."
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Post by Norman Bates on Oct 10, 2007 9:31:46 GMT -5
"People just jump to conclusions. They see things as right or wrong, good or bad. Even when she was... even when I thought she was alive, people'd ask me why I didn't just send her away to rot in some nursing home, or a lunatic asylum. They thought she was taking advantage of me. Well it's not right, is it?"
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Post by Maria on Oct 10, 2007 9:52:50 GMT -5
*At the mention of jumping to conclusions, Sarah briefly thought of Buffy.*
"People need to get their facts straight before they automatically condemn or spout things as truth. All it does is make you look like an idiot if you make assumptions like that."
*She shook her head*
"Nobody ever tries to see what the situation is."
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