#56. In the restaurant
| WAITRESS | Would you like a drink? |
| ESABELLE | Patrome, please. Double. (to Jackie) What's up? |
| JACKIE | Last year, I lost Ben. |
| ESABELLE | What? |
| JACKIE | In the supermarket. |
| ESABELLE | You're lying. |
| JACKIE | It's true. |
| ESABELLE | That's impossible. You could never lose that kid for one second. |
| JACKIE | I did. |
| ESABELLE | Ben never mentioned it. |
| JACKIE | He just remembers I found him. |
| ESABELLE | Why didn't you tell me? |
| JACKIE | You know why. |
| ESABELLE | I never wanted to be a Mom. Well, sharing it with you is one thing. |
| Carrying it alone the rest of my life... always being compared to you. | |
| You're perfect. They worship you. | |
| I just don't want to be looking over my shoulder every day for 20 years... | |
| knowing... that someone else would have done it right... done it better... the way that I can't. | |
| JACKIE | What do I have that you don't? |
| ESABELLE | You're Mother Earth incarnate. |
| JACKIE | You're hip and fresh. |
| ESABELLE | You ride with Anna. |
| JACKIE | You'll learn. |
| ESABELLE | You know every story... every wound... every memory. |
| Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you. Every single moment. | |
| Don't you get it? | |
| Look down the road to her wedding…I'm in a room alone with her... | |
| fitting her veil... fIuffing her dress... telling her... no woman has ever looked that beautiful. | |
| And my fear is... that she'll be thinking... ''l wish my Mom was here.'' | |
| JACKIE | And mine is... she won't. |
| But the truth is... she doesn't have to choose. | |
| She can have us both... love us both. | |
| And she will be a better person because of me... and because of you. | |
| I have their past... and you can have their future. |
#57. In Jackie's house
| BEN | Hey, guys, it's Christmas! Wake up! (runs downstairs in a hurry) |
| I hope there's a white dove. There's gotta be a white dove. | |
| ESABELLE | Hark, I hear the gentle sounds of Benjamin. |
| LUKE | We'd better get out there before he starts ripping open all the presents. |
| Ben, Ben, Ben, have a little patience. | |
| BEN | Can I open my presents now? |
| ESABELLE | Actually, your Mom wants you guys to go upstairs... and open presents with her first, |
| then we'll open presents down here, okay? | |
| BEN | Okay. Me first. (goes upstairs) |
| JACKIE | Marry Christmas! |
| Sweetie, I think this has your name on it. | |
| BEN | Wow! A real magician's cape! Awesome! |
| JACKIE | Come here. l'll help you with it. |
| What does it have all over it? Could you see? | |
| BEN | Pictures of me and you. |
| JACKIE | And this right here? See that one? |
| That's our first official photo of you and me as a couple. See that? | |
| BEN | Did you know I was goodlooking right away? |
| JACKIE | Everybody in the hospital was talking about it. Are you kidding? |
| But this goodlooking was beyond my imagination. (kisses to Ben) | |
| BEN | (sighs) Are you dying? |
| JACKIE | What do you think? |
| BEN | Yes. Then I won't see you anymore. |
| JACKIE | Well, you won't see my body, but you know how a caterpillar becomes something else? |
| BEN | A butterfly. |
| JACKIE | Yeah. You just have to think of me as... off flying somewhere. |
| And, of course, the magician knows the secret | |
| that just because you don't see something doesn't meant that it's not there. | |
| So even thought it might seem like I'm gone, the magician knows better. | |
| BEN | So, where will you be? |
| JACKIE | (puts hands on Ben's chest) Right here. Right here inside the magician. |
| BEN | Can I talk to you when you're there? |
| JACKIE | Always, always, always. |
| You won't hear my voice but deep inside, you know what I'm saying. | |
| BEN | It's not good enough. |
| JACKIE | No..no.. Of course it isn't, because it isn't everything. |
| And we want everything, don't we? | |
| But we still have one thing. | |
| One of our greatest things we'll always have. | |
| You know what that is? | |
| Our dreams. We can still meet in our dreams. | |
| We can talk to each other there, and go for walks together in the summer | |
| and in the winter and in the rain and in the sun… | |
| and I can come and pick you up and we can go flying. | |
| BEN | Nobody's loved you like I do. (hugs Jackie) |
| JACKIE | Nobody ever will. |


