Bette:  Oh, my fucking god. We would still be in therapy if not institutionalized maybe in prison. Angie would have been an orphan.

Tina:  Yeah… I do not think we could handle another problem at that point. And you must not have obtained a copy of the will at the time of Melvin’s death. Nor did Kit.

Bette:  I know that I didn’t. I guess Kit didn’t either because we would have noticed the provision for Mary Southerland and her child. Jesus, why didn’t I do that?

Tina:  We were having a baby. You were terminated from your job at your father’s wake. We were just getting back together. There was one thing right after another. Getting a copy of the will was not on the priority list. That was not a time in which we were all thinking logically. We were all doing well to put one foot in front of the other and get through each day.

Bette: Now that I think about it, you are right. I would be a candidate for the psyche ward if I had heard that from Melvin then.

Tina held Bette close and rocked her a little and then stepped back to drink her water and encourage Bette to drink hers.

Tina: Bette, things have not always happened the way we would have like them to. But things usually work out one way or another. Mary and Paris and now Jeanette are a part of our lives now and have been for almost ten years. And they came into our lives without Melvin’s help. They are a part of our family now. And Melvin, has provided us with the resources to do whatever we want to do with our lives. He provided for Mary and Paris and for me as well as you, Kit and David. He did the best he could for who he was. Sure, he could have done better in the relationship department, but he didn’t. He loved you. He loved Kit and he loved Mary. He just did not know how to show it. Now he’s gone.

Bette: I’m glad we came and talked to Harriett. I think she loved him too.

Tina:  Do you think he had a thing with her?

Bette:  No. She was his office wife and nothing more. They were friends and he made sure she was taken care of. I don’t know anything about her personal life. But I am rather certain there was no hanky-panky between Melvin and Harriet. I think she loved him as a friend and nothing more.