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00:00Mom made me promise I'd come by today. It's my birthday.
00:05Wait, today is your birthday?
00:07Yeah.
00:08Happy birthday.
00:10It's Brett.
00:12I'm Isabelle.
00:14Yeah, I know.
00:20Most relationships end.
00:24Friendships, romances.
00:26They lose.
00:29They break.
00:36You okay?
00:40If you look closely, you'll find something tragic is happening.
00:49Are you interested in writing something for us?
00:51I don't do assignments anymore.
00:53Well, you're a better writer than most people do anything.
00:55Have you heard the tapes?
00:57No. Of what?
01:00Federal Police Department was shot.
01:02Hey, we've had some break-ins in my neighborhood and there's a real suspicious guy.
01:07Looks like he's up to no good or something.
01:14I want to be in the story.
01:19Really inside the story.
01:24And build a thesis that shows how all of this is linked.
01:30I gotta be honest with you. I don't understand. I don't see it.
01:35You go and write your story. Folks need to know about this.
01:40You're trying to make sense of racism, but your thesis is flawed.
01:46It was all lies. They knew we weren't inferior.
01:50You don't escape trauma by ignoring it.
01:57You escape trauma by confronting it.
02:02I don't write questions.
02:08I write answers.
02:19I write answers.