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    The speaker angrily tells his mother that his ex-girlfriend Lucy has greatly improved her life since they broke up, while he continues to struggle. He questions why his mother keeps bringing up Lucy despite knowing it upsets him. The speaker also expresses frustration that he is unable to focus on his own recovery and self-improvement without his mother having health crises that require him to return and care for her, preventing him from living freely for himself.

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    The Little Flower of East Orange - Lucy

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    The speaker angrily tells his mother that his ex-girlfriend Lucy has greatly improved her life since they broke up, while he continues to struggle. He questions why his mother keeps bringing up Lucy despite knowing it upsets him. The speaker also expresses frustration that he is unable to focus on his own recovery and self-improvement without his mother having health crises that require him to return and care for her, preventing him from living freely for himself.

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    The Little Flower of East Orange - Lucy

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    There’s nothing to find Ma, okay?! There’s nothing! She lives in LA and I live here!

    And the fuckin’ truth,


    Ma, is that the minute we weren’t together anymore was the exact minute that her whole fuckin’ life
    improved dramatically, Mom- not, “oh, it improved slightly”- I’m talkin’ huge, gigantic “dreams come
    true”, “all the sounds of the earth are like music”, “a little brown maverick is winking its fuckin’ eye”
    quantum leap improvement on every fuckin’ level- okay? Why do you persist in a line of fuckin’
    questioning that’s gonna elicit this kind of reaction from me?! Huh?! You know I don’t like talking about
    Lucy with you- even when things were good I didn’t like talking about her with you- and yet, despite the
    fact that there’s like ten thousand other issues far more pertinent to present-day reality, and despite the
    fact that I am doing my level fuckin’ best not to call you on shit that I know will upset you, you, on the
    other hand, just think it’s okay to talk about whatever you wanna talk about and ask whatever you
    wanna ask, and I’m just supposed to- I don’t even know what- sit and just submit to whatever you
    wanna ask whenever you wanna ask it?! It’s fuckin’ bullshit! No! No! You asked your questions, now let
    me ask mine, ‘cuz I only got one: How come I can’t go anywhere without you ending up in a hospital
    somewhere and I gotta come back and fuckin’ tend to it?! Forget about fun shit, forget about fuckin’
    career shit- how come I can’t go to fuckin’ rehab to try and save my fuckin’ life without you going off the
    deep end and try to- I don’t know what- and then you end up here, and I gotta deal with it, and deal
    with fuckin’ you when all I should be truly trying to deal with right now is fuckin’ me?! And you can say
    “Oh, honey, I want you to be free, Danny” all you want, but the fact is, you want me to be free only to
    the degree that it doesn’t adversely affect you! You know what’s really fucked up, Mom? That you’re
    broken beyond repair and I still believe I have no right to anything past failed expectations and self
    medication unless I can fix you- ‘cuz it’s not okay to pass you by…

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