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[Danny and Elaine have been fighting since their marriage]

Elaine:
I don't hate you, Danny.

Danny:
Well, you give the best damn impression of it I've ever seen.

Elaine:
I know.

Danny:
Why do you do that, Elaine? Why do you treat people that way?

Elaine:
It's a long story.

Danny:
I got time.

Elaine:
I had a sister, once. She was a couple of years older than me. Her name was Diana. She was bright and beautiful and good and kind. She was one of these people that made everyone around her feel good. When she was sixteen, she was killed in a car accident. The night she died, my father, in his grief said to me: "Why wasn't it you?" So, may mother was dead and my sister was dead and my father, who I loved more than anyone else in the world, wished I was dead... and I got angry. I got angry and cold and mean. And I decided then never to love anyone again.

Danny:
Oh, Elaine... I didn't know.

Elaine:
I love you, Danny. And maybe someday, if it's not already too late, you'll love me.