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Em has mail from Higginson, and she is ecstatic.
He says her poetry is wholly new and original.
I love Hailee Steinfelds squeal that her poetry is alive.
And I love the fashion in this episode, especially here.
It looks like something I wouldve tried to copy out of KlutzsBraids & Bowsas a kid.
(Real ones know!)
Go off, I guess.
before penning this tone-deaf equivocating plea for civility asking us to listen to both sides.
Wow, no thank you!
Oh also, its his birthday.
and maybe actually bad for everyone involved (also sometimes family).
Nah, better to leave him with those little pyromaniacs.
She says she can convince Austin to go because husbands have to listen to their wives.
I mean … is that how her marriage has gone so far?
Do she and Austin listen to each other at all?
He wants one-on-one time with his son.
Then she straight-up tells him she wishes he would go to war.
Low blow, Sue!
Down in South Carolina, Henry runs school.
All the students want guns.
Henry inspires them to embark on learning the alphabet with a rousing speech about how America is a paradox.
Its very compelling, I have to say, and his charges agree.
The family reminisces about how Mom and Dad met and fell in love.
Em respects the mood with a song (I think a variation onthis one?
), and Austin shows up to harmonize perfectly.
Hes too calm and everyone should spot it, but Em is too happy to see him to notice.
Austin intends to divorce Sue, he says, and take full custody of their child.
Sues response is to coolly say that Austin wont even remember this in the morning.
We just pretended not to.
Em tells Austin on his way out that she is choosing their father over him.
Which … has the series led us to believe that this is what this character would do?
Vinnie breaks her vow of silence to say, This family is absolutely insane.
Em goes upstairs to find Sue in her room at her desk, not wanting to be touched.
(She really did send this to him!)
Now Sue is crushed that Em shared this poem with someone else.
Yet again, I am confused and frustrated by the characterization of Sue.
Did Sue not spend theentiretyof last seasonbeggingEm to send her poetry to other people?
Did she not literally say that it was too much to be Ems only reader?
And now she feels betrayed that Em did … exactly what Sue has been telling her to do foryears?
Sue is mad that Ems letter doesnt even mention [her].
I mean,howwould the letter mention you?
If you could just keep that between us, though, Id appreciate it.
Anyway, heres Safe in their Alabaster Chambers.
Sue yells that Em is just like Austin.
You think youre fighting for something, but really youre just running away.
I dont think thats a fair characterization of whats going on here!
But then again, Sues had a rough night.
And I have a feeling shell remember it all in the morning.
