Bette: I thought that color would look good on you.

Melvin: Cause you’ve got the eye. Look at that … beautiful.

Bette to Tina as she’s backing up the car: Can you just move over … I can’t see. Thanks Tina.

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Restaurant

Bette: And then Daddy MOCA had the show but I just wouldn’t give up. You know what I did? I went to Peggy Peabody myself.

Melvin: Incredible … what do I always tell you? You are my child. You can do anything you set your mind to.

Melvin to Tina: So what do you think of my girl?

Tina: Oh I think she’s amazing. I think the show is going to be incredible.

Melvin: And how is your career shaping up Miss Kennard?

Tina: I don’t have much of one at the moment. I left the studio about seven months ago.

Bette: Well the thing is Daddy … Tina is doing something very special; something for the both of us. Tina would you like to tell him?

Tina: Um okay … uh Melvin Bette and I are having a baby.

Bette: Daddy we’re having a baby.

Melvin: I don’t understand.

Tina: I’m pregnant.

Melvin: And you’re happy about that?

Bette: Daddy!!

Tina: Of course we are.

Melvin: I’m sorry. I’m not familiar with the proper response.

Bette: Well um this is something that we’ve been trying to do for a very long time; we want this very much.

Melvin: I was unaware of that.

Bette: Well how do you feel about it?

Melvin: I’m not sure. This child … you’re going to be taking care of it and Miss Kennard?

Bette: Dad, we’re a couple. We are starting a family.

Melvin: If that makes you happy.

Bette: Well doesn’t it make you happy that you’re going to have another grandchild?

Melvin: That’s biologically impossible. Unless there’s been a medical breakthrough that I don’t know anything about the possibility that this child will be my grandchild does not exist, therefore I am happy if that’s what you want and your friendship with Miss Kennard but I can’t realistically be asked to participate in this fiction of your creation.

Tina: Bette and I have gone through so much to get here. We’ve talked about how our child could truly reflect who we are when we’re so limited by biology. That is why we decided to use an African American donor so that when we look at our child and you look at your grandchild we’ll all be looking into a familial face.