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Ellen: Callie is doing the pageant this year. Will's mom is the pageant director. She was Miss Teen Bluebonnet in 1991.
Callie: Rosie Dickson's your mom? Really?
Willowdean: Far as I know.
Callie: Hey, maybe sometime Elle Belle and I could come over and I could ask your mom some questions about the pageant. You know, just casually.
Willowdean: Well, unfortunately, my mom's not home all that much. She's either at pageant meetings or at the nursing home wiping old peoples' butts. It's what happens to a lot of ex-beauty queens.
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Willowdean: "The difference between winning and losing is all in the details", she said.
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Willowdean: It's a protest!
Millie: What's our point?
Hannah: It's a revolt against the oppressive hetero-patriarchy unconsciously internalised by the female psyche!
Millie: [Slight pause] Oh.
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Millie: There's nothing in the rules that says that big girls need no apply.
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Willowdean: As far as I'm concerned, a swimsuit body is a body with a swimsuit on it.
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[Last lines]
Bo: Hey, did you win?
Willowdean: No. I got disqualified.
Bo: That's my girl.
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Willowdean: You and I... we don't work together in the real world, Bo. You're supposed to be with someone like Bekah.
Bo: What are you talking about?
Willowdean: Oh, my God... I'm talking about this.
[Willowdean points at her overweight body]
Willowdean: How are you missing this? Do you not know what it would be like to be with me?
Bo: Never took you for the type that cares much what people think.
Willowdean: I can't, Bo. And that might make me a coward, but I...
Bo: [sharply] It does.
[pause]
Bo: Willowdean Dickson, I think you're beautiful. To hell with anyone else who's ever made you feel less than that.
[Willowdean does not respond]
Bo: Doesn't really matter what I think, does it?
[Bo walks away. Willowdean sighs, deeply saddened]
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