![]() ![]() ![]() Ah, you can almost smell the dysfunction.They each pretend to be asleep, lost in their own sad thoughts. Esther is exasperated because the decision to send Deborah away was hard, and she doesn't want to backtrack now. Jacob wonders if they're doing the right thing.While the parents lie in bed in their motel room, they have a tense and strained conversation about Deborah-which they can do because they got Deborah her own separate room.They reminisce about past family vacations and avoid the difficult reality of what they're doing. The Blaus stop to eat dinner at a nice restaurant that night and go to a movie. ![]() The father thinks about the diagnosis of his daughter and thinks that the doctors must be wrong: they're strangers who don't know his daughter.The Blaus follow Deborah into the diner to keep an eye on her.When Deb goes off to use the restroom, it becomes obvious that her parents don't want their daughter to be alone: they're concerned about her for some as yet undisclosed reason…but we get the hint that it's a diagnosis of some kind. ![]()
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