HOOLIE: This might be the afterlife, or the pre-life or the during life, but I'm not going to live in a fantasy world. I live in the real world, and in the real world, you are an old lady and I am a middle-aged man. Hope I'll be seeing you there because I want to be with you in the real world, and I won't insult you or your intelligence by pretending it's a place where everyone is young and everything is grand.
PEG: I'm not trying to live in a fantasy world. I'm just naturally protecting myself from the general onslaught of time and others' perception of time on my dignity.
HOOLIE: You used to be like Mary Tyler Moore in Ordinary People, and now you're like Jessica Lange in Coven.
PEG: Oh, that's the real world to you.
HOOLIE: No, that's a world of hyperbole, beauty fame and skill, of parable.
PEG: Do we have to live in a parable together?
HOOLIE: God no Mom I hope not.
PEG: You just live in a respectful world and I'll live in the world I'm going to live in. We'll meet up on the other side.
HOOLIE: Like I say. Real world.
PEG: Like I say. Respect me.
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