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Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: [as they are taking the subway to get home] Mom, I wanna go to Times Square to watch the ball drop.
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: Well, I plan to avoid this entire section of the city tonight.
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: OK, well, I don't want you to stay, I want you to go home!
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: Ouch!
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: There's this guy in my history class. His name is Seth and I, I've... I've been hoping, you know, I have that sick dream that, you know, we get to hang out at midnight, and then, of course, you know, I'll come right home.
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: Honey, I'm sorry. I'm just, I'm not confortable allowing you to stay in Times Square at night alone, period!
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: End of discussion. Got it.
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: Sorry, come on.
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: You know I'm fifteen!
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: I know, Hailey.
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: [She pulls up her sweater to reveal her bra-clad torso] This is not a training bra!
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: And this is not "Girls Gone Wild", my gosh!
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: Mom, you know I'm an honors student, okay? I don't drink or do drugs or anything! I'm trying really hard to be the perfect daughter, but it's like you don't trust me!
Kim - Mother & Daughter Story: Well, it's not... it's not you I don't trust.
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: Well, then who do you not trust, mom? The world? You don't trust the world? Or it's just New York? Because it's a big scary city!
Newark Commuter - Mother & Daughter Story: [just then a male passenger walk past them] Have you ever been to Newark?
Hailey - Mother & Daughter Story: Look, mom! The world doesn't scare me, okay? It's just getting good. I wanna start living in it. You used to.
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Griffin Byrne - Maternity Ward Story: [to Tess] Come on, Honey. Nobody wins when pregnant women fight.
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