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- [Voiceover] Though my
parents lived in New York

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for many years,

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the European roots to find them.

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My Greek mother boasted about
the blueness of the Agean

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and my father praise the Swiss Alps.

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But for me,

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none of Europe's shrines
could compete with a place

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that was only several blocks from my home.

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Central Park is where my
brother and I found native soil.

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(boys mumble)

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Years later,

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Central Park's history and
presence still fascinates me.

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A few days ago,

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I was sitting on a
bench near the boat pond

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trying to imagine my surroundings

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as they looked a century ago,

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without asphalt or car traffic.

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Back then,

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the park was stocked with wild deer

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and it's meadows was home
to sheep and horn cattle.

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There were gilded birdcages

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and children driving goat-drawn carriages.

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My thoughts were in this Victorian park,

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but a woman with a team of
dogs caught my attention.

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- Come.

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Come.

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- [Voiceover] Why would
a professional dog walker

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carry such a big backpack?

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Then I see the backpack is loaded

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with laundry and blankets.

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Maybe it was her air of well-being

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that made me curious.

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When I introduced myself,
she said her name was Maggie.

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Then she calmly said that
she had been expecting me.

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That she had extrasensory perception

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and had been communicating
with me for several days.

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(people mumble)

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The next morning,

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I find myself near Bethesda Fountain

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looking for Maggie.

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- Sometimes I forget I have a face.

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I'm so used to doing
this without a fountain.

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I'm Hera, sister of Zeus.

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Now (giggles) Jupiter on the same,

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now that would be a relief.

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But, uh, in Stairway to
Heaven there's a little,

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♫ And did you know

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♫ Your stairway lies on the whispering

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The whispering wind is the voices,

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the radio control.

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Jupiter controls the radio waves.

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(soft brass ensemble music)

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- [Voiceover] Things don't
necessarily get clearer to me

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the more Maggie explains them,

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but I managed to piece this much together.

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She claims her father was
the Hollywood movie star,

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Robert Ryan.

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She once had an apartment
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with a roommate name Pea Green Palmer.

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She mentions a horse named Tangle

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and having once worked in Central Park

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as a carriage driver.

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Her oldest son, Michael, was born in 1969.

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The quintuplets, Justin,
Elizabeth, two Tracys, and Izador

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were born some time later.

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When I ask her who her husband was

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she says his name is Jupiter.

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- Prince William!

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Ah, she wants all of it. (chuckles)

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Put a lid on it, Mary.

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- [Voiceover] Maggie tells me

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that she's from the class of 86.

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That's the year she became homeless

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and took to the streets with all her dogs.

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After a few months on the street,

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or maybe after a year and a
half or two on the street,

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I'd meet these people who
had shown up on the street

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the same time I had

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and I noticed that we

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had pretty much evolved to a certain level

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whereby we weren't doing
soup kitchens anymore

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and we pretty much had
a network of friends

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and support system.

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And our clothes came from

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reliable upper east side garbage.

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(giggles) And, uh,

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we had reliable upper east
side dumpsters to dive and

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we pretty much had ourselves worked into

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a fairly comfortable situation.

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We weren't beligered and
lost and angry anymore.

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We pretty much just sort
of taking a breath and

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gearing up for the next phase, I guess.

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(dogs bark)

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- [Voiceover] The next time I see Maggie,

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she just found another mouth to feed.

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A pit bull who she's
named Sterling Silver.

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I wonder how Maggie supports herself

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and all her dogs.

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She said that she relies on
the kindness of strangers,

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but she also mentions friends who live on

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the upper east side.

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Does Jupiter pay alimony?

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In any case,

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when Maggie invites me to
go to the ASPCA with her

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to get a license for Sterling,

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I offered to pay for it.

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She accepts.

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- And we have no,

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we have no known vaccinations history.

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But you think, to you,

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do you notice any complaints
other than his skin problem?

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He's acting like a normal dog to you?

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- [Maggie] Yes, he's very nice.

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He's Sterling.

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- That's why his name is Sterling?

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- [Maggie] Yes sir!

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He's so amiable to suggestions,

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he's easy to handle.

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He's very nice and he likes me.

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He prefers me to other people.

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- [Veterinarian] He seems
like he gets along with dogs.

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He's still barking.

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- Mmm-hmm.

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Oh! He kissed!

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What is your name?

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- I'm Dr. Crominara.

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- [Voiceover] While Maggie was filling out

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the application forms at the front desk,

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I noticed that she gave
her current address as

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865 Madison Avenue.

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She even specified that
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of Saint James Church.

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- [Maggie] Mika Little
pups? (clicks tongue)

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Forrest?

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(clicks tongue) Mika Little pups.

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Mika little pup.

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(kisses)

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I'm listening to the news.

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The traffic report is very funny.

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(clicks tongue)

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Um, Michael Patrick was in the
traffic pattern last night.

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He just went by and said don't go.

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So I'm not gonna go into
all the cosmic gizmos

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that I'm directing.

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Traffic on planet Earth.

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- [Voiceover] Maggie keeps telling me

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that she spots her children
walking in the park

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or sitting in the back of a passing car.

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But she says she's never permitted
to talk to them directly.

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Only telepathically.

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Maggie also believes that
the radio she listens to

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transmits personal messages from Jupiter.

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It's clear to me that
Maggie is preoccupied

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by extrasensory perception,

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so I asked her to explain it further.

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- It's to be in a position of

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having a very finely tuned understanding

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of other people and what they want

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and how they feel they
can achieve their goals

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relative to your goals

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so that we can all just

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like move this everlasting peace grid

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just down that much closer to the Earth.

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It eventually covers the
Earth so that there's peace.

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It's a grid

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but you have to bring it
down with your brains.

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What did I used to call,

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a matrix or a grid.

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I think they're similar, aren't they?

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Matrix.

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She the daughter of

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a tricky one.

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We're in the shadow of the living room.

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- [Voiceover] The shadow
of the living room.

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What living room?

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I'm fascinated by Maggie's language,

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but I also feel like
I'm in a foreign country

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without my phrase book.

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The more cryptic her remarks,

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the more I strain to decipher them.

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I can't see the shadow of the living room.

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I don't know where or who Jupiter is.

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But I don't think these
phrases are arbitrary.

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I think Maggie is trying
to tell me something.

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(jazz music)

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It can be complicated to visit someone

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who roams 843 acres.

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Today I can't find Maggie,

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but I'm struck by how things and people

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have altered inside Central Park.

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The stage is huge and open.

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Sometimes the audience
becomes the spectacle.

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- So, I will burn this flag in protest.

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In protest.

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Liberty, vitality,
egality, and fortune moon.

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For everybody or nobody.

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Remember the French Revolution.

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Off with their head.

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Hallelujah.

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- [Maggie] Found and
repaired a new umbrella.

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Wanna see my new umbrella?

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- [Voiceover] Yeah.

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(giggles)

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- Hi guys!

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And a bee is buzzing above us.

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Busy, busy, busy, busy. (giggles)

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She's odd. I's odd.

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Come and get it! Come get it!

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Forrest, darling!

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A rat!

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Silver!

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Oh, that is wonderful.

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Boy, Sterling Silver, that really live us.

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Completes the look.

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Stop it!

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No!

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Stop it!

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Anyway, there's a man in the
park who eats these things.

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He's been eating rats
and pigeons for years.

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He lives above the the eighties.

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I'm taking this away from dogs.

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(dog growls)

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(gasps)

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Okay, we're putting this
in with the trophies.

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(rock and roll music)

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It's just a little ol' farm.

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'Cause it isn't a very big farm.

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Kinda looks like Wisconsin,

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you know, all these trees.

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It happens to be a city down there but

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- [Voiceover] Maggie
sees things that I don't.

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But there's a dark side
to this ability of hers.

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I learned, for instance,

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that she grew up with a
family on Long Island.

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But she insists that the
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aren't her real parents.

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She was switched with
another baby at birth.

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- The truth

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of the circumstances around my birth,

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after I'd been shifted
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to this other set of parents

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and these other circumstances,

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were to create

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the symptoms of Schizophrenia so that I,

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my thinking

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and my actions

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would render me

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invalid and therefore

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not capable of handling
anything like an inheritance.

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And the, uh,

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you know, the matter of hearing voices,

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rather than being considered a gift,

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would be considered a fault.

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I've been framed.

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I've been framed!

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And then I met this Bobby who, uh,

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had been adopted by the Caddy family

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during the war.

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And the things that happened to her

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validated in my own mind

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the suspicion that the link.

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I have two and a lustrious family

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is a real one.

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- Banana hates me.

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You'se mention, you mention my name,

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you show my picture to Joe Banana.

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I said Joe Banana, you are dead.

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00:17:07.613 --> 00:17:09.953
(giggles) That's the truth.

271
00:17:09.953 --> 00:17:10.799
And you ask the preacher,

272
00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:13.023
that's exactly what I used
to tell Sam Jean Connor.

273
00:17:13.023 --> 00:17:14.080
before he was killed.

274
00:17:14.080 --> 00:17:16.007
I used to be on stage out in Vegas, sonny.

275
00:17:16.007 --> 00:17:17.300
That's the preacher,
that's why he hated me.

276
00:17:17.300 --> 00:17:20.292
"You're not fit for a mother."

277
00:17:20.292 --> 00:17:23.504
I was on stage and I had a comedy act,

278
00:17:23.504 --> 00:17:26.356
similar to Richard Pryor's,

279
00:17:26.356 --> 00:17:29.672
and the preacher took it the wrong way.

280
00:17:29.672 --> 00:17:33.144
I was undercover, working as a waitress.

281
00:17:33.144 --> 00:17:35.707
And seeing and telling
dirty jokes on stage

282
00:17:35.707 --> 00:17:37.504
so I can see in here what was going on

283
00:17:37.504 --> 00:17:41.108
and know which mafia
chiefs spit in what face,

284
00:17:41.108 --> 00:17:44.157
what names, and who got together.

285
00:17:44.157 --> 00:17:45.715
And he ruined the whole thing!

286
00:17:45.715 --> 00:17:48.145
They would come in and
drag me off the stage.

287
00:17:48.145 --> 00:17:48.978
I'm not kidding you!

288
00:17:48.978 --> 00:17:50.659
And I don't dance nude 'cause, see,

289
00:17:50.659 --> 00:17:54.047
this happened because of who I really am.

290
00:17:54.047 --> 00:17:56.355
Because I escaped Auschwitz,

291
00:17:56.355 --> 00:17:59.272
I shouldn't have escaped Auschwitz.

292
00:18:02.290 --> 00:18:03.908
- [Voiceover] Sam Jean Conner,

293
00:18:03.908 --> 00:18:07.075
Joe Banana, Auschwitz, that's not all.

294
00:18:08.547 --> 00:18:10.787
Bobby also tells me that
before being adopted

295
00:18:10.787 --> 00:18:12.527
by the Kennedy family,

296
00:18:12.527 --> 00:18:14.065
she lived with either her father,

297
00:18:14.065 --> 00:18:16.198
Albert Einstein, in Switzerland,

298
00:18:16.198 --> 00:18:19.503
with her mother, Greta Garbo, in New York.

299
00:18:19.503 --> 00:18:22.503
- [Bobby] That's my hand. That's me.

300
00:18:25.247 --> 00:18:27.193
- [Voiceover] I'm
fascinated by these stories,

301
00:18:27.193 --> 00:18:29.571
but troubled as well.

302
00:18:29.571 --> 00:18:30.987
- [Man In Suit] Come on, come on.

303
00:18:30.987 --> 00:18:32.632
Come on. Come on.

304
00:18:32.632 --> 00:18:34.446
- [Voiceover] These are
dense plots in which

305
00:18:34.446 --> 00:18:36.944
Maggie and Bobby appear as heroines,

306
00:18:36.944 --> 00:18:39.360
but also as victims.

307
00:18:39.360 --> 00:18:41.232
Since arriving in New York,

308
00:18:41.232 --> 00:18:43.606
Bobby has spent her entire savings

309
00:18:43.606 --> 00:18:47.068
phoning the FBI five to 10 times a day,

310
00:18:47.068 --> 00:18:49.590
asking for her job back.

311
00:18:49.590 --> 00:18:53.340
It's a high price to
pay for her convictions.

312
00:18:54.558 --> 00:18:55.949
- Yay!

313
00:18:55.949 --> 00:18:59.832
(baby gibberish) Come down the road daddy.

314
00:18:59.832 --> 00:19:01.367
Come down.

315
00:19:01.367 --> 00:19:03.556
- [Voiceover] Can we stay up here?

316
00:19:03.556 --> 00:19:04.389
- Yeah.

317
00:19:06.218 --> 00:19:08.968
(baby gibberish)

318
00:19:10.211 --> 00:19:11.473
- [Voiceover] I go to the Catskills

319
00:19:11.473 --> 00:19:13.343
for a vacation with my family.

320
00:19:13.343 --> 00:19:15.176
- I'm driving the car.

321
00:19:19.307 --> 00:19:21.725
- [Voiceover] I'm a hundred
miles from Central Park,

322
00:19:21.725 --> 00:19:25.365
but Maggie's enigma will not release me.

323
00:19:25.365 --> 00:19:26.737
In our first meeting,

324
00:19:26.737 --> 00:19:29.573
she said she'd been expecting me.

325
00:19:29.573 --> 00:19:33.252
How was I suspected to
hear Maggie's riddles?

326
00:19:33.252 --> 00:19:36.344
Why does she believe that
Robert Ryan is her father?

327
00:19:36.344 --> 00:19:38.662
And where are her children?

328
00:19:38.662 --> 00:19:40.108
I wonder if it's appropriate for me

329
00:19:40.108 --> 00:19:42.275
to pursue these questions.

330
00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:47.908
Then a coincidence makes
me forget my misgivings.

331
00:19:47.908 --> 00:19:49.729
While visiting friends one day,

332
00:19:49.729 --> 00:19:54.313
I admire a carved wooden
bench on their front porch.

333
00:19:54.313 --> 00:19:58.856
I'm told that it was a gift
from Robert Ryan's daughter.

334
00:19:58.856 --> 00:20:01.292
Did they once know Maggie?

335
00:20:01.292 --> 00:20:03.198
I pressed for more information,

336
00:20:03.198 --> 00:20:07.116
but it was 20 years ago
and all pretty vague.

337
00:20:07.116 --> 00:20:10.294
They tell me Robert Ryan
used to live in the Dakota,

338
00:20:10.294 --> 00:20:12.966
the legendary building whose Gothic spires

339
00:20:12.966 --> 00:20:15.383
cast shadows on Central Park.

340
00:20:16.482 --> 00:20:19.634
Roman Polanski filmed Rosemary's baby here

341
00:20:19.634 --> 00:20:23.467
and John Lennon was
murdered at its door step.

342
00:20:27.187 --> 00:20:30.631
- Nobody suffers over
squirrels like these dogs.

343
00:20:30.631 --> 00:20:31.628
One,

344
00:20:31.628 --> 00:20:32.461
Forrest!

345
00:20:33.658 --> 00:20:34.610
Where is that dog?

346
00:20:34.610 --> 00:20:35.996
That's why they're crying!

347
00:20:35.996 --> 00:20:40.585
I'm missing (screams in surprise)

348
00:20:40.585 --> 00:20:42.502
I almost lost a finger.

349
00:20:43.655 --> 00:20:45.498
Okay, we'll leave without Forrest

350
00:20:45.498 --> 00:20:48.415
and hope that he finds a good home.

351
00:20:50.195 --> 00:20:51.028
Forrest?

352
00:20:52.424 --> 00:20:56.007
Forrest McHand Ratty,
the king of all dogs.

353
00:20:59.542 --> 00:21:01.106
You're going to be a mommy

354
00:21:01.106 --> 00:21:04.689
and you're running
around looking for rats.

355
00:21:05.708 --> 00:21:08.029
And you'll teach those babies.

356
00:21:08.029 --> 00:21:10.023
They're gonna be good ratters too.

357
00:21:10.023 --> 00:21:13.106
They're really gonna be good ratters.

358
00:21:19.075 --> 00:21:22.075
(suspenseful music)

359
00:21:24.588 --> 00:21:26.680
- [Voiceover] I begin to
wonder if I romanticized

360
00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:28.513
Maggie's outdoor life.

361
00:21:30.784 --> 00:21:32.752
With the cold weather approaching,

362
00:21:32.752 --> 00:21:34.782
how would Maggie keep
herself and all her dogs

363
00:21:34.782 --> 00:21:37.324
from freezing to death?

364
00:21:37.324 --> 00:21:39.050
I'm becoming less patient with Maggie.

365
00:21:39.050 --> 00:21:41.716
(clicks tongue)

366
00:21:41.716 --> 00:21:43.959
- This is an official.

367
00:21:43.959 --> 00:21:46.512
I'm a official (chuckles)

368
00:21:46.512 --> 00:21:51.136
in the Vatican Army. (laughs)

369
00:21:51.136 --> 00:21:53.136
I'm General Disturbance.

370
00:21:59.313 --> 00:22:02.980
(crowd whistles and cheers)

371
00:22:06.045 --> 00:22:07.472
- [Voiceover] For the next few weeks,

372
00:22:07.472 --> 00:22:10.023
I try to convince Maggie to leave the park

373
00:22:10.023 --> 00:22:12.399
and find an apartment.

374
00:22:12.399 --> 00:22:14.402
I contact city and private agencies

375
00:22:14.402 --> 00:22:16.663
that work with the homeless.

376
00:22:16.663 --> 00:22:19.213
They already know Maggie.

377
00:22:19.213 --> 00:22:21.045
It seems that nothing will budge Maggie

378
00:22:21.045 --> 00:22:22.837
from her sacred ground

379
00:22:22.837 --> 00:22:25.790
or separate her from her dogs.

380
00:22:25.790 --> 00:22:27.311
When Maggie does move,

381
00:22:27.311 --> 00:22:31.709
it's to a new camp under
a bridge in Central Park.

382
00:22:31.709 --> 00:22:34.188
It's here, in late October,

383
00:22:34.188 --> 00:22:36.287
that Nika Little's puppies are born.

384
00:22:36.287 --> 00:22:37.456
- [Maggie] Such a b-day.

385
00:22:37.456 --> 00:22:40.493
(dogs bark loudly)

386
00:22:40.493 --> 00:22:41.326
(dog whines)

387
00:22:41.326 --> 00:22:44.289
- She's trying to hide them.

388
00:22:44.289 --> 00:22:45.987
See? That's why she wanted to dig a hole,

389
00:22:45.987 --> 00:22:47.518
she wants to hide them.

390
00:22:47.518 --> 00:22:48.713
Even from you, Maggie.

391
00:22:48.713 --> 00:22:51.014
You know, as close as she is to you.

392
00:22:51.014 --> 00:22:53.028
This is new, only that's
what she's supposed to do,

393
00:22:53.028 --> 00:22:53.861
hide them.

394
00:22:57.971 --> 00:23:00.814
See, it check it. "Is it
alright? Is it alive?"

395
00:23:00.814 --> 00:23:02.147
Did she let you?

396
00:23:03.139 --> 00:23:04.056
Is it okay?

397
00:23:05.580 --> 00:23:07.038
- [Maggie] Yes, it's just a mess.

398
00:23:07.038 --> 00:23:07.964
Kicking around here too
- [Bobby] Oh! There she goes!

399
00:23:07.964 --> 00:23:09.272
Two.

400
00:23:09.272 --> 00:23:11.283
Alive and kicking but

401
00:23:11.283 --> 00:23:13.431
kicking the afterbirth out.
- [Maggie] There's afterbirth?

402
00:23:13.431 --> 00:23:15.181
Well, just wait then.

403
00:23:17.411 --> 00:23:19.744
(dogs bark)

404
00:23:21.713 --> 00:23:22.713
Little girl.

405
00:23:23.705 --> 00:23:26.372
(sings happily)

406
00:23:32.037 --> 00:23:35.204
(machine hums loudly)

407
00:23:55.331 --> 00:23:57.831
(puppies cry)

408
00:24:06.954 --> 00:24:09.624
Popeye here, Herculisa.

409
00:24:09.624 --> 00:24:10.624
Could it be?

410
00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:16.370
That's Seturna.

411
00:24:17.305 --> 00:24:18.555
That's Seturna.

412
00:24:20.662 --> 00:24:23.920
Oh, she's a little beauty too.

413
00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:25.508
And she's the daughter of Boris.

414
00:24:25.508 --> 00:24:26.675
She has little

415
00:24:27.574 --> 00:24:29.157
big, fat duke claws

416
00:24:30.249 --> 00:24:32.617
like Boris. Just like daddy.

417
00:24:32.617 --> 00:24:34.284
Just like her daddy.

418
00:24:41.337 --> 00:24:42.170
Hebe.

419
00:24:48.136 --> 00:24:51.461
She looks a lot like
Sterling Silver's markings,

420
00:24:51.461 --> 00:24:53.544
but she has Boris's nose.

421
00:24:56.013 --> 00:24:58.443
Ah! She is so beautiful.

422
00:24:58.443 --> 00:25:01.735
She looks like my daughter, Elizabeth.

423
00:25:01.735 --> 00:25:04.402
You do. You look like Elizabeth.

424
00:25:05.346 --> 00:25:08.679
I hope Elizabeth becomes your new mommy.

425
00:25:11.178 --> 00:25:13.158
Wouldn't that be fun to be with someone

426
00:25:13.158 --> 00:25:14.930
that looks like you?

427
00:25:14.930 --> 00:25:15.847
A Valkyrie.

428
00:25:19.360 --> 00:25:20.961
- [Voiceover] It doesn't
entirely surprise me

429
00:25:20.961 --> 00:25:23.676
that the litter is christened
after Greek divinities

430
00:25:23.676 --> 00:25:26.759
such as Herculisa, Seturna, and Hebe.

431
00:25:28.122 --> 00:25:31.276
Maggie promptly spins
myths around her newborns,

432
00:25:31.276 --> 00:25:35.443
making them puppies, children,
and goddesses all at once.

433
00:25:36.594 --> 00:25:39.490
The birth seems to spark Maggie's mind,

434
00:25:39.490 --> 00:25:43.407
but it also brings back
phantoms from her past.

435
00:25:44.296 --> 00:25:47.728
- One particular thing about remembering

436
00:25:47.728 --> 00:25:49.856
being kidnapped that always impressed me

437
00:25:49.856 --> 00:25:53.409
and I just figured out
this morning what it was.

438
00:25:53.409 --> 00:25:55.153
When this nurse, or whatever she was,

439
00:25:55.153 --> 00:25:57.173
walked into the nursery

440
00:25:57.173 --> 00:26:00.873
and I was astrally
projected on the ceiling

441
00:26:00.873 --> 00:26:03.141
having a stomach ache,

442
00:26:03.141 --> 00:26:07.243
the one thing I really
noticed was the stitchery

443
00:26:07.243 --> 00:26:10.194
or the stitching of the hem in her uniform

444
00:26:10.194 --> 00:26:12.789
and how the hem had
been folded over double,

445
00:26:12.789 --> 00:26:14.712
once and a half

446
00:26:14.712 --> 00:26:16.446
with little teeny, teeny frays

447
00:26:16.446 --> 00:26:19.131
visible through the white fabric.

448
00:26:19.131 --> 00:26:21.107
And it was very starched

449
00:26:21.107 --> 00:26:24.655
and the stitching was very, very precise.

450
00:26:24.655 --> 00:26:26.457
And that was her hem.

451
00:26:26.457 --> 00:26:28.687
And the man who raised me

452
00:26:28.687 --> 00:26:31.270
was the early Greek god Hemera,

453
00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:35.344
the early god of the dawn.

454
00:26:35.344 --> 00:26:36.177
Hem-era.

455
00:26:38.293 --> 00:26:40.548
And yesterday when we
were all standing around

456
00:26:40.548 --> 00:26:43.777
in that amphitheater type arrangement

457
00:26:43.777 --> 00:26:45.944
at the back of the tunnel,

458
00:26:48.783 --> 00:26:51.125
a man who looked just like him walked by

459
00:26:51.125 --> 00:26:53.230
and he was smiling at the fact that

460
00:26:53.230 --> 00:26:56.067
so many people were standing around

461
00:26:56.067 --> 00:26:57.451
all at once (giggles)

462
00:26:57.451 --> 00:26:59.784
in this Elizabethan setting.

463
00:27:01.699 --> 00:27:04.699
(somber jazz music)

464
00:27:06.942 --> 00:27:07.775
- [Voiceover] Who is this Hemera

465
00:27:07.775 --> 00:27:11.701
who kidnapped Maggie when
she was several days old?

466
00:27:11.701 --> 00:27:15.451
Did he and Jupiter
correspond to real people?

467
00:27:18.726 --> 00:27:20.891
Maggie's world reminds
me of the Greek myths

468
00:27:20.891 --> 00:27:24.109
my mother used to read to me.

469
00:27:24.109 --> 00:27:27.367
I think of the murky
afterworld called Erebus,

470
00:27:27.367 --> 00:27:29.883
where souls take refuge
after being separated

471
00:27:29.883 --> 00:27:34.011
from their bodies and
their earthly existence.

472
00:27:34.011 --> 00:27:36.851
These trees are fall scenery to me,

473
00:27:36.851 --> 00:27:41.018
but Maggie populates them
with spirits and voices.

474
00:27:42.511 --> 00:27:45.844
I'm in Central Park, Maggie's in Erebus.

475
00:27:56.043 --> 00:27:57.793
- Boy that look good.

476
00:27:58.896 --> 00:28:02.729
I mean, y'all getting
too used to people food.

477
00:28:07.330 --> 00:28:08.251
- Come on Boris.

478
00:28:08.251 --> 00:28:09.868
- [Bobby] Boris!

479
00:28:09.868 --> 00:28:10.951
- He'll come.

480
00:28:13.724 --> 00:28:16.192
- [Voiceover] It's the onset
of the coldest December

481
00:28:16.192 --> 00:28:19.290
in New York City's recorded history.

482
00:28:19.290 --> 00:28:23.262
So cold that on the anniversary
of John Lennon's murder,

483
00:28:23.262 --> 00:28:26.717
only a handful attend his memorial.

484
00:28:26.717 --> 00:28:29.212
I invite Maggie to the Lennon vigil,

485
00:28:29.212 --> 00:28:32.949
but she sees no reason to mourn him.

486
00:28:32.949 --> 00:28:36.282
She has more recent news of John Lennon.

487
00:28:37.768 --> 00:28:40.195
- Um, what year was that? 1980?

488
00:28:40.195 --> 00:28:43.028
When he was dead about five years,

489
00:28:44.066 --> 00:28:45.399
on his birthday,

490
00:28:46.990 --> 00:28:49.617
there was an article in
some Florida paper about

491
00:28:49.617 --> 00:28:52.423
his having been dead five years

492
00:28:52.423 --> 00:28:56.013
but there was also an article
on the back of that page

493
00:28:56.013 --> 00:28:57.846
about somebody who was

494
00:29:00.247 --> 00:29:04.269
doing furniture repair of
elegant old Spanish beds

495
00:29:04.269 --> 00:29:07.426
and elegant old works of arts

496
00:29:07.426 --> 00:29:11.166
from the 15th century, woodworking.

497
00:29:11.166 --> 00:29:14.999
And the fellow in the
picture was John Lennon.

498
00:29:18.143 --> 00:29:19.332
So in other words,

499
00:29:19.332 --> 00:29:23.195
he went from the dead to the bed, I guess.

500
00:29:23.195 --> 00:29:24.528
Old Spanish bed.

501
00:29:26.377 --> 00:29:27.674
So since my father,

502
00:29:27.674 --> 00:29:29.877
who had lived in that apartment before

503
00:29:29.877 --> 00:29:32.699
John and Yoko lived in that apartment

504
00:29:32.699 --> 00:29:34.349
isn't dead either.

505
00:29:34.349 --> 00:29:36.723
I guess it's a tradition
with that apartment

506
00:29:36.723 --> 00:29:40.261
to die Hollywood deaths artificially

507
00:29:40.261 --> 00:29:44.743
and just continue on your
life with some other name.

508
00:29:44.743 --> 00:29:45.576
Or names.

509
00:29:47.719 --> 00:29:51.886
This island is Many-hatta, yes? (laughs)

510
00:29:52.981 --> 00:29:54.481
We wear many hats.

511
00:29:59.875 --> 00:30:01.811
- What do you want?

512
00:30:01.811 --> 00:30:03.977
- I'm sorry. I guess I
must have the wrong place.

513
00:30:03.977 --> 00:30:07.663
- What, uh, place you're looking for?

514
00:30:07.663 --> 00:30:09.086
- [Army Man] Well I thought
it was this apartment.

515
00:30:09.086 --> 00:30:11.353
I was looking for a buddy of mine.

516
00:30:11.353 --> 00:30:12.871
- [Voiceover] This is Robert Ryan,

517
00:30:12.871 --> 00:30:15.707
the man Maggie claims is her real father,

518
00:30:15.707 --> 00:30:19.867
appearing in the Hollywood
classic, Crossfire.

519
00:30:19.867 --> 00:30:23.738
I learned that after Robert
Ryan's death in 1973,

520
00:30:23.738 --> 00:30:27.219
John Lennon bought his
apartment in the Dakota.

521
00:30:27.219 --> 00:30:29.599
Both men had lived above Central Park

522
00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:31.917
and Maggie had not
allowed them to leave it,

523
00:30:31.917 --> 00:30:33.417
not even by dying.

524
00:30:34.483 --> 00:30:36.470
Apparently John Lennon and Robert Ryan

525
00:30:36.470 --> 00:30:38.539
now reside in Erebus,

526
00:30:38.539 --> 00:30:41.204
along with Maggie's children, her puppies,

527
00:30:41.204 --> 00:30:42.537
and her deities.

528
00:30:45.760 --> 00:30:48.181
But if Robert Ryan was Maggie's father,

529
00:30:48.181 --> 00:30:49.641
then who was Hemera,

530
00:30:49.641 --> 00:30:52.066
the man who raised her and
who lurked near the site

531
00:30:52.066 --> 00:30:54.399
where the puppies were born?

532
00:31:06.302 --> 00:31:10.868
Fortunately, Maggie does
have less elusive contacts.

533
00:31:10.868 --> 00:31:12.252
After hearing for weeks about

534
00:31:12.252 --> 00:31:15.575
Maggie's upper east side friend, Catina,

535
00:31:15.575 --> 00:31:17.421
I finally meet her.

536
00:31:17.421 --> 00:31:20.088
- Anyway, I'm so happy
to see you! (laughs)

537
00:31:20.088 --> 00:31:22.624
Very happy to see you! God!

538
00:31:22.624 --> 00:31:24.151
We were all gonna leave
notes for each other

539
00:31:24.151 --> 00:31:26.151
behind phones and stuff.

540
00:31:27.602 --> 00:31:28.735
I thought you'd be, um,

541
00:31:28.735 --> 00:31:29.693
- I'm late.

542
00:31:29.693 --> 00:31:30.697
I'm late because I was on
the phone this morning.

543
00:31:30.697 --> 00:31:32.549
I called those two people to make sure.

544
00:31:32.549 --> 00:31:33.724
I went up to the vet

545
00:31:33.724 --> 00:31:34.752
and the vet said yes,

546
00:31:34.752 --> 00:31:36.037
the dogs could go into a home.

547
00:31:36.037 --> 00:31:37.093
Even though there's another dog,

548
00:31:37.093 --> 00:31:38.691
they're not contagious.

549
00:31:38.691 --> 00:31:39.578
I mean, they're not contagious,

550
00:31:39.578 --> 00:31:42.302
once they're on antibiotics, they're okay.

551
00:31:42.302 --> 00:31:43.554
- [Maggie] They need a
little care, that's all.

552
00:31:43.554 --> 00:31:44.387
- They're fine

553
00:31:44.387 --> 00:31:45.330
- [Maggie] They caught it real fast.

554
00:31:45.330 --> 00:31:46.482
- Yeah, I know.

555
00:31:46.482 --> 00:31:48.009
Yeah, 'cause of the weather.

556
00:31:48.009 --> 00:31:50.257
So Lucy's giving them the antibiotic.

557
00:31:50.257 --> 00:31:51.655
- [Voiceover] A few days ago,

558
00:31:51.655 --> 00:31:53.619
when the puppies were sick,

559
00:31:53.619 --> 00:31:55.461
Maggie permitted Catina to take them

560
00:31:55.461 --> 00:31:59.309
to a local animal clinic for adoption.

561
00:31:59.309 --> 00:32:03.210
Now Catina wants Maggie
to get Mika Little spayed.

562
00:32:03.210 --> 00:32:05.286
- She says you got to do that.

563
00:32:05.286 --> 00:32:07.258
- [Maggie] She's been
talking about it all morning.

564
00:32:07.258 --> 00:32:08.091
- Who?

565
00:32:08.091 --> 00:32:08.924
- [Maggie] Mika Little.
- She, okay.

566
00:32:08.924 --> 00:32:09.757
Well I'm calling her today.

567
00:32:09.757 --> 00:32:11.731
I didn't have a chance
to do it last night.

568
00:32:11.731 --> 00:32:14.369
Had to go watch my husband
perform Richard III last night.

569
00:32:14.369 --> 00:32:15.930
- [Maggie] Oh yeah? Was that an opening?

570
00:32:15.930 --> 00:32:17.547
- No, no. It's just a performance.

571
00:32:17.547 --> 00:32:19.475
One of the performances.
I haven't seen it yet.

572
00:32:19.475 --> 00:32:21.395
- [Maggie] Oh yeah?
- Turn over the riverside.

573
00:32:21.395 --> 00:32:23.438
- [Voiceover] Winter is becoming so severe

574
00:32:23.438 --> 00:32:25.690
that Maggie is forced to
move into an abandoned

575
00:32:25.690 --> 00:32:28.507
workman's shed in the park.

576
00:32:28.507 --> 00:32:32.148
She calls her new home Sugar Shack.

577
00:32:32.148 --> 00:32:35.196
Having a home makes it
easier to receive things

578
00:32:35.196 --> 00:32:37.408
and I'm surprised by
the sudden accumulation

579
00:32:37.408 --> 00:32:39.615
of Maggie's household.

580
00:32:39.615 --> 00:32:43.678
- This is Jill St John's little jacket.

581
00:32:43.678 --> 00:32:45.538
She came by and blessed us with

582
00:32:45.538 --> 00:32:48.621
all the little extras that we needed.

583
00:32:50.148 --> 00:32:51.163
Oh, goody goody.

584
00:32:51.163 --> 00:32:52.561
- [Man] Oh my God. Wait a minute.

585
00:32:52.561 --> 00:32:53.728
It got a hole.

586
00:32:54.573 --> 00:32:56.002
Oh sheesh.

587
00:32:56.002 --> 00:32:56.835
- So what?

588
00:32:58.058 --> 00:32:59.968
How long have you been homeless? (giggle)

589
00:32:59.968 --> 00:33:00.801
- Yeah, but I mean you know,

590
00:33:00.801 --> 00:33:05.639
I didn't want to give you
nothing raggedly, lady.

591
00:33:05.639 --> 00:33:08.531
- This is all a fantasy set, you know.

592
00:33:08.531 --> 00:33:10.660
There's a pool right over
there where the dogs are.

593
00:33:10.660 --> 00:33:12.936
You dig a pool and the
horses come down the hill

594
00:33:12.936 --> 00:33:13.897
and go into the pool

595
00:33:13.897 --> 00:33:16.193
and have their arthritis treated.

596
00:33:16.193 --> 00:33:17.509
- [Man] Alright, doggies. Let's go.

597
00:33:17.509 --> 00:33:18.342
Lay down.

598
00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:22.644
You got two seconds to lay down.

599
00:33:22.644 --> 00:33:24.497
- [Voiceover] Maggie might
fantasize Sugar Shack

600
00:33:24.497 --> 00:33:26.727
as an outdoor animal hospital,

601
00:33:26.727 --> 00:33:30.894
but to me it's a frozen
wastefill in Central Park.

602
00:33:31.917 --> 00:33:33.333
Catina visits often,

603
00:33:33.333 --> 00:33:36.666
bringing Maggie food and other supplies.

604
00:33:38.909 --> 00:33:41.973
One day, Catina arrives
with Joan Coldpepper,

605
00:33:41.973 --> 00:33:46.224
a psychic soul reader from
Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

606
00:33:46.224 --> 00:33:47.569
In Joan's view,

607
00:33:47.569 --> 00:33:52.074
Maggie might be the victim
of negative spirit entities.

608
00:33:52.074 --> 00:33:54.458
Joan wants to contact the aggressors

609
00:33:54.458 --> 00:33:55.745
and, if possible,

610
00:33:55.745 --> 00:33:57.828
ask them a few questions.

611
00:33:59.966 --> 00:34:02.777
One evening, Joan, Maggie,

612
00:34:02.777 --> 00:34:04.748
and the spirit entities are all invited

613
00:34:04.748 --> 00:34:08.044
to Catina's upper east side apartment.

614
00:34:08.044 --> 00:34:10.044
Joan goes into frequency

615
00:34:11.141 --> 00:34:14.391
- In six of your previous incarnations,

616
00:34:17.091 --> 00:34:19.008
in the awakening state,

617
00:34:21.992 --> 00:34:23.862
the totality of who and what you are,

618
00:34:23.862 --> 00:34:27.197
which is fifth dimensional in nature,

619
00:34:27.197 --> 00:34:29.011
this awakening took place

620
00:34:29.011 --> 00:34:31.928
at a very young and very early age.

621
00:34:33.462 --> 00:34:37.629
And as this awakening
vibration began to take place,

622
00:34:38.602 --> 00:34:42.897
you literally would see
pictures and flashes

623
00:34:42.897 --> 00:34:44.480
and hear voices and

624
00:34:46.496 --> 00:34:48.079
ideas and concepts.

625
00:34:49.368 --> 00:34:53.609
This traumatized you in all
five of these lifetimes.

626
00:34:53.609 --> 00:34:58.592
If you, at the fourth
dimensional facade soul level,

627
00:34:58.592 --> 00:35:02.161
you became very traumatized by this

628
00:35:02.161 --> 00:35:04.578
and were placed in a position

629
00:35:05.511 --> 00:35:08.178
of the family members around you

630
00:35:09.338 --> 00:35:13.056
of believing that there was something

631
00:35:13.056 --> 00:35:15.139
very very wrong with you.

632
00:35:20.696 --> 00:35:21.771
- [Voiceover] Whatever
the relevance of the

633
00:35:21.771 --> 00:35:24.724
fourth dimensional facade soul level,

634
00:35:24.724 --> 00:35:28.941
the session with Joan seems
to provoke memories in Maggie.

635
00:35:28.941 --> 00:35:30.966
I learn more about Hemera,

636
00:35:30.966 --> 00:35:35.133
the man who would allegedly
kidnap and raised her.

637
00:35:36.917 --> 00:35:40.224
His wife, Maggie explains, is Eris,

638
00:35:40.224 --> 00:35:42.641
the Greek goddess of discord.

639
00:35:43.835 --> 00:35:46.920
Maggie and Eris are not friends.

640
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.424
- It was just a matter of

641
00:35:49.424 --> 00:35:53.091
the goddess Eris being
jealous to the death.

642
00:35:54.681 --> 00:35:56.181
Jealousy is a poo.

643
00:35:58.739 --> 00:36:00.229
There's no room for jealousy.
- [Voiceover] But did she

644
00:36:00.229 --> 00:36:02.972
beat you? Did she neglect you?

645
00:36:02.972 --> 00:36:04.074
Did she?

646
00:36:04.074 --> 00:36:07.311
- Nope. She played by the
rules, she did everything right.

647
00:36:07.311 --> 00:36:10.636
Except that, by the time I hit puberty,

648
00:36:10.636 --> 00:36:12.536
she was hitting menopause

649
00:36:12.536 --> 00:36:15.203
and boy did she lay it on thick.

650
00:36:16.327 --> 00:36:18.744
She let it be known that she,

651
00:36:19.828 --> 00:36:23.245
underneath all the smiling, she hated me.

652
00:36:25.730 --> 00:36:27.581
So, you know,

653
00:36:27.581 --> 00:36:30.537
I had wanted to be a loving daughter

654
00:36:30.537 --> 00:36:33.047
and by the time I was 14,

655
00:36:33.047 --> 00:36:35.675
which is when Tom Cogen revealed

656
00:36:35.675 --> 00:36:38.557
that my mother was Maureen O'Sullivan,

657
00:36:38.557 --> 00:36:41.765
in a moment when he,
kissing me on the cheek,

658
00:36:41.765 --> 00:36:45.213
said "You're getting
to look more like your

659
00:36:45.213 --> 00:36:46.583
"mother every day."

660
00:36:46.583 --> 00:36:49.251
And Mrs. Cogen walked
through the hall and said

661
00:36:49.251 --> 00:36:51.362
"Oh, she doesn't look like me at all".

662
00:36:51.362 --> 00:36:54.865
And he said "No, she looks
like Maureen O'Sullivan".

663
00:36:54.865 --> 00:36:58.378
And Mrs. Cogen went "Woah" (giggles)

664
00:36:58.378 --> 00:37:00.310
and walked into the kitchen.

665
00:37:00.310 --> 00:37:02.400
We had a very small hall, by the way.

666
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:04.983
All this didn't take much time.

667
00:37:07.713 --> 00:37:11.060
- [Voiceover] After knowing
me for six and a half months,

668
00:37:11.060 --> 00:37:14.799
Maggie finally reveals her family name.

669
00:37:14.799 --> 00:37:17.992
Hemera and Eris are Mr. and Mrs. Cogen

670
00:37:17.992 --> 00:37:19.751
of New Hyde Park, New York.

671
00:37:19.751 --> 00:37:22.092
- Oh look at all those
other dogs. I wonder if,

672
00:37:22.092 --> 00:37:24.358
(gasps) they've discovered the other dogs.

673
00:37:24.358 --> 00:37:26.691
(dog barks)

674
00:37:27.720 --> 00:37:29.022
- [Voiceover] At Sugar Shack,

675
00:37:29.022 --> 00:37:32.756
Maggie repeats an address
to me several times.

676
00:37:32.756 --> 00:37:36.525
It must be the Cogen's retirement home.

677
00:37:36.525 --> 00:37:40.692
I'm convinced that Maggie's
asking me to contact them.

678
00:37:41.570 --> 00:37:42.960
When I call,

679
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:46.487
the woman who answers says
she's Maggie's mother.

680
00:37:46.487 --> 00:37:49.488
She hasn't seen Maggie
in more than four years

681
00:37:49.488 --> 00:37:53.100
and is surprised to learn
that Maggie's homeless.

682
00:37:53.100 --> 00:37:56.428
After unsuccessful attempts
to get her daughter committed,

683
00:37:56.428 --> 00:37:59.788
Mrs. Cogen says she's given up.

684
00:37:59.788 --> 00:38:02.328
Yet she adds that Maggie can come home

685
00:38:02.328 --> 00:38:04.562
anytime she wants to.

686
00:38:04.562 --> 00:38:07.229
(bells chiming)

687
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:13.302
I spend the family
Christmas in California.

688
00:38:14.149 --> 00:38:16.982
My son, Peter, takes center stage.

689
00:38:29.018 --> 00:38:30.871
When I returned to New York,

690
00:38:30.871 --> 00:38:33.861
I'm surprised to learn that
a number of city agencies

691
00:38:33.861 --> 00:38:37.361
had finally intervened in Maggie's plight.

692
00:38:42.035 --> 00:38:43.668
A coalition force,

693
00:38:43.668 --> 00:38:45.475
drawn from the parks department,

694
00:38:45.475 --> 00:38:48.767
the sanitation department, the ASPCA,

695
00:38:48.767 --> 00:38:50.512
and the police department

696
00:38:50.512 --> 00:38:52.595
knocked down Sugar Shack.

697
00:38:54.524 --> 00:38:57.958
Catina was there when it happened.

698
00:38:57.958 --> 00:38:59.638
- That shack was home.

699
00:38:59.638 --> 00:39:01.530
And to have someone come in and destroy it

700
00:39:01.530 --> 00:39:03.246
in front of your eyes.

701
00:39:03.246 --> 00:39:07.079
This is an extraordinary
primal experience of,

702
00:39:09.105 --> 00:39:10.737
just of, really.

703
00:39:10.737 --> 00:39:11.570
I mean that your home.

704
00:39:11.570 --> 00:39:12.941
It'll be somebody coming in and

705
00:39:12.941 --> 00:39:14.017
setting your house on fire,

706
00:39:14.017 --> 00:39:15.699
just evicting you.

707
00:39:15.699 --> 00:39:17.740
I mean it's an eviction and it's your home

708
00:39:17.740 --> 00:39:19.250
whether it's a shack in Central Park

709
00:39:19.250 --> 00:39:20.847
or an apartment on Fifth Avenue.

710
00:39:20.847 --> 00:39:22.647
It's still home and she had created,

711
00:39:22.647 --> 00:39:24.127
she had made it into her home

712
00:39:24.127 --> 00:39:25.929
and they just came with axes,

713
00:39:25.929 --> 00:39:28.691
big axes and were chopping it down.

714
00:39:28.691 --> 00:39:30.802
And she dealt with it brilliantly.

715
00:39:30.802 --> 00:39:34.219
She dealt with it brilliantly, I thought.

716
00:39:36.999 --> 00:39:40.582
- [Voiceover] Maggie
is exiled from Erebus.

717
00:39:45.291 --> 00:39:47.125
She's gone to Long Island City,

718
00:39:47.125 --> 00:39:49.766
just across the East River from Manhattan,

719
00:39:49.766 --> 00:39:53.183
with friends that found her an apartment.

720
00:39:56.681 --> 00:39:59.963
Now installed at Ninth
Street and 35th Avenue,

721
00:39:59.963 --> 00:40:02.777
Maggie is able to discuss
her recent eviction

722
00:40:02.777 --> 00:40:04.298
with humor.

723
00:40:04.298 --> 00:40:06.965
- Actually what happened is, uh,

724
00:40:08.074 --> 00:40:11.050
the police descended
upon us with the ASPCA

725
00:40:11.050 --> 00:40:15.154
and somebody else, I guess
the park's enforcement patrol.

726
00:40:15.154 --> 00:40:19.321
And (laughs) the Department of Sanitation

727
00:40:20.289 --> 00:40:23.779
and several sledge hammers (laughs)

728
00:40:23.779 --> 00:40:25.612
and a few garbage men.

729
00:40:26.528 --> 00:40:29.969
And there was that "Beep,
beep, beep", you know,

730
00:40:29.969 --> 00:40:33.346
that sound from the garbage
truck when it's backing up?

731
00:40:33.346 --> 00:40:34.311
- [Voiceover] Yeah.

732
00:40:34.311 --> 00:40:36.151
- You've heard that they,
- [Voiceover] And they just?

733
00:40:36.151 --> 00:40:38.234
- And they, the man said,

734
00:40:40.951 --> 00:40:43.118
(rabbles)

735
00:40:49.641 --> 00:40:51.235
- 'Cause natural gas doesn't have any odor

736
00:40:51.235 --> 00:40:52.480
until we add it to it,

737
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:54.140
so that's why they do
that, so you will smell it.

738
00:40:54.140 --> 00:40:55.169
- So you'll wake up?

739
00:40:55.169 --> 00:40:57.123
- Yep! Yeah, hopefully. (chuckles)

740
00:40:57.123 --> 00:40:59.462
Okay, the super's
calling the landlord now,

741
00:40:59.462 --> 00:41:00.594
so he's gonna take care of it

742
00:41:00.594 --> 00:41:02.422
and when it's done, we'll be back.

743
00:41:02.422 --> 00:41:03.915
- [Maggie] Okay. Thank you.
- Okay? Good luck.

744
00:41:03.915 --> 00:41:06.035
Bye bye.
- [Maggie] Bye bye.

745
00:41:06.035 --> 00:41:09.169
(dogs wimper)

746
00:41:09.169 --> 00:41:10.903
- [Voiceover] I meant to
ask Maggie about something

747
00:41:10.903 --> 00:41:14.042
Mrs. Cogen had proudly told me.

748
00:41:14.042 --> 00:41:15.931
That Maggie had achieved success

749
00:41:15.931 --> 00:41:17.871
as one of the first women carriage drivers

750
00:41:17.871 --> 00:41:19.204
in Central Park.

751
00:41:20.257 --> 00:41:22.360
Maggie had even been
interviewed by Hugh Downs

752
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:25.027
on the Today Show in the 1960's.

753
00:41:26.603 --> 00:41:27.926
But I postponed telling Maggie

754
00:41:27.926 --> 00:41:30.640
about my conversation with Mrs. Cogen

755
00:41:30.640 --> 00:41:34.423
because she seems
preoccupied by the apartment

756
00:41:34.423 --> 00:41:37.434
and busy introducing herself
to her new neighbors.

757
00:41:37.434 --> 00:41:39.792
- [Maggie] This Jason?

758
00:41:39.792 --> 00:41:42.596
- That one's cuter. This cute.

759
00:41:42.596 --> 00:41:44.076
- [Maggie] She's a chihuahua.

760
00:41:44.076 --> 00:41:45.624
Are you Jason's sister?

761
00:41:45.624 --> 00:41:46.457
- [Jason] No.

762
00:41:46.457 --> 00:41:47.290
- [Maggie] No, you're not related?

763
00:41:47.290 --> 00:41:50.162
(kids mutter)

764
00:41:50.162 --> 00:41:51.454
You're certainly nice children,

765
00:41:51.454 --> 00:41:52.740
it was nice talking to you.

766
00:41:52.740 --> 00:41:55.115
- [Boy] Your dog is cold.

767
00:41:55.115 --> 00:41:57.239
- [Maggie] What dog?

768
00:41:57.239 --> 00:41:59.739
What dog? I don't see any dog.

769
00:42:03.053 --> 00:42:04.148
- [Voiceover] I search everywhere

770
00:42:04.148 --> 00:42:06.611
for Maggie's appearance on the Today Show,

771
00:42:06.611 --> 00:42:09.194
which aired on June 27th, 1968.

772
00:42:11.027 --> 00:42:13.461
I called television stations and libraries

773
00:42:13.461 --> 00:42:15.787
all over the country.

774
00:42:15.787 --> 00:42:19.069
Apparently, the segment was destroyed.

775
00:42:19.069 --> 00:42:20.579
But when I looked in the national archives

776
00:42:20.579 --> 00:42:22.962
in Washington D.C.,

777
00:42:22.962 --> 00:42:24.670
I have a surprise.

778
00:42:24.670 --> 00:42:28.253
(cheerful orchestra music)

779
00:42:34.266 --> 00:42:35.099
- [Voiceover] In New York,

780
00:42:35.099 --> 00:42:37.312
22 year old Maggie Cogen
starts her work day

781
00:42:37.312 --> 00:42:39.690
by harnessing her horse, Batman.

782
00:42:39.690 --> 00:42:42.760
She is one of four female
horse and carriage drivers

783
00:42:42.760 --> 00:42:44.678
who take passengers for sightseeing trips

784
00:42:44.678 --> 00:42:48.511
in and around Manhattan's
famous Central Park.

785
00:42:52.481 --> 00:42:54.123
Maggie's passengers will pay anywhere

786
00:42:54.123 --> 00:42:56.407
from five to seven dollars
for an average trip,

787
00:42:56.407 --> 00:42:58.156
depending on length of time.

788
00:42:58.156 --> 00:42:59.582
A carriage ride in New York

789
00:42:59.582 --> 00:43:02.999
is like a gondola ride in Venice, a must.

790
00:43:05.555 --> 00:43:08.179
Some drivers earn up to two
thousand dollars a year.

791
00:43:08.179 --> 00:43:09.328
Maggie is careful to point out

792
00:43:09.328 --> 00:43:11.330
all important statues, buildings,

793
00:43:11.330 --> 00:43:14.330
and other landmarks during the ride.

794
00:43:19.081 --> 00:43:21.147
Maggie is never upset by barking dogs,

795
00:43:21.147 --> 00:43:24.416
angry motorist, or teasing youngsters.

796
00:43:24.416 --> 00:43:25.430
Once around the park, Maggie,

797
00:43:25.430 --> 00:43:26.916
and don't spare the horse.

798
00:43:26.916 --> 00:43:28.710
You're one woman who can't be called

799
00:43:28.710 --> 00:43:30.210
a backseat driver.

800
00:43:33.584 --> 00:43:36.084
(eerie music)

801
00:43:39.715 --> 00:43:41.009
- [Voiceover] How did Maggie go from

802
00:43:41.009 --> 00:43:43.545
circling Central Park in a carriage

803
00:43:43.545 --> 00:43:46.128
to living there 20 years later?

804
00:43:51.336 --> 00:43:54.337
As I struggle to piece
together Maggie's past,

805
00:43:54.337 --> 00:43:56.966
she continues to
straighten out the details

806
00:43:56.966 --> 00:43:58.383
of indoor living.

807
00:44:09.621 --> 00:44:10.871
- Uh-oh. Uh-oh!

808
00:44:12.345 --> 00:44:13.928
Uh-oh, little dogs!

809
00:44:16.715 --> 00:44:18.011
Little dogs.

810
00:44:18.011 --> 00:44:20.428
(dog growls)

811
00:44:22.186 --> 00:44:23.961
- [Voiceover] The apartment
is further evidence

812
00:44:23.961 --> 00:44:28.367
of Maggie's knack for
attracting generosity.

813
00:44:28.367 --> 00:44:30.095
I learned that friends of Maggie

814
00:44:30.095 --> 00:44:32.383
are sharing her rent with
a federal aid program

815
00:44:32.383 --> 00:44:33.300
called SSI.

816
00:44:35.055 --> 00:44:37.891
But one formality remains.

817
00:44:37.891 --> 00:44:40.091
To qualify for the government money,

818
00:44:40.091 --> 00:44:42.727
Maggie has to persuade
a shrink in Manhattan

819
00:44:42.727 --> 00:44:46.209
the very things she
herself doesn't believe.

820
00:44:46.209 --> 00:44:49.314
That her voices are hallucinations.

821
00:44:49.314 --> 00:44:53.044
Will she concede psychiatric disability?

822
00:44:53.044 --> 00:44:56.461
I'm not allowed into the shrink's office.

823
00:44:58.603 --> 00:45:01.574
- He asked if I ever been
in a psychiatric hospital

824
00:45:01.574 --> 00:45:04.074
and I named Hillside Hospital.

825
00:45:05.422 --> 00:45:09.089
He asked the dates, so
I gave him the dates.

826
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:14.768
And he asked me why I had been put there

827
00:45:14.768 --> 00:45:19.142
and I told him "Because
people wanted me to go there!"

828
00:45:19.142 --> 00:45:21.764
I'm such an obliging character.

829
00:45:21.764 --> 00:45:23.975
Then he asked if I had heard any voices,

830
00:45:23.975 --> 00:45:25.024
I said yes.

831
00:45:25.024 --> 00:45:26.112
"What were they like?"

832
00:45:26.112 --> 00:45:27.775
And I didn't know quite what to say

833
00:45:27.775 --> 00:45:29.448
because they're romantic voices

834
00:45:29.448 --> 00:45:31.150
and it's a conversation I've been having

835
00:45:31.150 --> 00:45:33.317
for 20 years with someone.

836
00:45:35.558 --> 00:45:36.891
And it was over.

837
00:45:38.780 --> 00:45:40.030
Just like that.

838
00:45:42.126 --> 00:45:44.969
And he wasn't interested in

839
00:45:44.969 --> 00:45:47.009
anything other than
the questions he asked,

840
00:45:47.009 --> 00:45:49.395
which he asks everyone, I guess.

841
00:45:49.395 --> 00:45:50.332
I don't think there was any difference

842
00:45:50.332 --> 00:45:51.795
in the questions he asked me

843
00:45:51.795 --> 00:45:55.087
from the questions he
asked 15 or 20 other people

844
00:45:55.087 --> 00:45:58.801
before lunch. (giggles)

845
00:45:58.801 --> 00:46:00.384
And 30 or 40 after.

846
00:46:04.243 --> 00:46:05.076
- Stretch.

847
00:46:05.076 --> 00:46:07.647
You let go of the buttocks. Stretch!

848
00:46:07.647 --> 00:46:09.397
And bend from the leg

849
00:46:10.700 --> 00:46:11.533
to your feet.

850
00:46:11.533 --> 00:46:13.707
Stretch your arms in back of your head.

851
00:46:13.707 --> 00:46:16.174
In back of your head.

852
00:46:16.174 --> 00:46:17.841
There and slide down

853
00:46:18.735 --> 00:46:21.296
till you're flat on your back.

854
00:46:21.296 --> 00:46:24.355
Keep the legs, keep the legs down.

855
00:46:24.355 --> 00:46:26.125
Alright, and open up.

856
00:46:26.125 --> 00:46:27.737
Stretch, stretch.

857
00:46:27.737 --> 00:46:30.006
Don't hold your toes.

858
00:46:30.006 --> 00:46:34.265
(counts in foreign language)

859
00:46:34.265 --> 00:46:35.098
Head up!

860
00:46:35.098 --> 00:46:36.450
- [Voiceover] I'm continually surprised

861
00:46:36.450 --> 00:46:40.417
by the extent of Maggie's social network.

862
00:46:40.417 --> 00:46:43.818
Ednisval, whom she also
met in Central Park,

863
00:46:43.818 --> 00:46:47.985
has enrolled Maggie in her
Times Square gymnastic workshop.

864
00:46:58.750 --> 00:47:01.433
- [Maggie] The tension of sleeping in a

865
00:47:01.433 --> 00:47:03.166
dangerous environment

866
00:47:03.166 --> 00:47:06.249
had me sleeping in such positions and

867
00:47:07.270 --> 00:47:09.630
with such tension that

868
00:47:09.630 --> 00:47:11.172
I knocked my posture way off.

869
00:47:11.172 --> 00:47:13.924
And also carrying a pack,

870
00:47:13.924 --> 00:47:15.342
which wasn't always weighted right

871
00:47:15.342 --> 00:47:17.759
and it was always overloaded,

872
00:47:19.611 --> 00:47:22.194
threw my balance off.

873
00:47:24.192 --> 00:47:26.200
- [Ednisval] And open.

874
00:47:26.200 --> 00:47:28.753
- This Olympic workout

875
00:47:28.753 --> 00:47:30.909
throws everything back in line.

876
00:47:30.909 --> 00:47:32.076
And while it's

877
00:47:34.583 --> 00:47:36.474
getting me back in shape,

878
00:47:36.474 --> 00:47:39.474
back in getting my posture worked on

879
00:47:40.689 --> 00:47:42.726
so that it's more like it should be

880
00:47:42.726 --> 00:47:44.678
rather than this twisted thing I had,

881
00:47:44.678 --> 00:47:46.672
I was all twisted.

882
00:47:46.672 --> 00:47:50.339
My sciatic nerve became
jarred or something.

883
00:47:52.361 --> 00:47:53.797
I can't figure out what happened,

884
00:47:53.797 --> 00:47:55.333
but boy, hell on Earth.

885
00:47:55.333 --> 00:47:57.916
There's this thick band of fire

886
00:47:58.947 --> 00:47:59.947
down my leg.

887
00:48:01.964 --> 00:48:04.964
(dog plays noisily)

888
00:48:09.241 --> 00:48:12.343
- [Voiceover] Maggie
has moved from 843 acres

889
00:48:12.343 --> 00:48:14.010
to four small rooms.

890
00:48:15.033 --> 00:48:16.691
To receive SSI,

891
00:48:16.691 --> 00:48:20.858
she's agreed to leave Eris,
Hemera, and Jupiter behind.

892
00:48:22.356 --> 00:48:24.078
Now to please her landlady,

893
00:48:24.078 --> 00:48:26.536
Maggie must make her family even smaller.

894
00:48:26.536 --> 00:48:31.214
- And you're gonna wow 'em
with your long black nails.

895
00:48:31.214 --> 00:48:33.714
"I'm gonna be lonely." I know.

896
00:48:34.642 --> 00:48:36.601
- It's gonna be fine, yes.

897
00:48:36.601 --> 00:48:37.934
It's gonna be fine, yeah.

898
00:48:37.934 --> 00:48:39.040
- [Maggie] Boy, he's a happy one.

899
00:48:39.040 --> 00:48:40.561
- It's gonna be fun, yeah.

900
00:48:40.561 --> 00:48:43.900
- [Maggie] He behaved himself
into the best situation!

901
00:48:43.900 --> 00:48:45.733
- It's gonna be great.

902
00:48:46.646 --> 00:48:50.275
- E-yo! Buster, get that off of me!

903
00:48:50.275 --> 00:48:51.108
- Yo!

904
00:48:52.262 --> 00:48:54.526
- Will you get this thing off of me?

905
00:48:54.526 --> 00:48:57.098
- [Catina] (laughs) She's
not gonna be an actress,

906
00:48:57.098 --> 00:48:57.931
God knows.

907
00:48:57.931 --> 00:48:58.764
- Jesus!

908
00:48:59.697 --> 00:49:00.823
- [Catina] Audrey, listen at,

909
00:49:00.823 --> 00:49:02.597
Audrey, did you hear what Maggie said?

910
00:49:02.597 --> 00:49:03.991
- Opertune is not mine.

911
00:49:03.991 --> 00:49:04.949
- [Catina] He is.

912
00:49:04.949 --> 00:49:05.782
- You sure?

913
00:49:05.782 --> 00:49:09.340
- [Catina] Yes! That's the surprise!

914
00:49:09.340 --> 00:49:10.891
Audrey, you happy about this?

915
00:49:10.891 --> 00:49:11.772
- [Audrey] Yes!

916
00:49:11.772 --> 00:49:12.605
- Are you really happy?

917
00:49:12.605 --> 00:49:13.438
- [Audrey] Yes!

918
00:49:13.438 --> 00:49:15.207
- [Little Girl] Hug your mom more!

919
00:49:15.207 --> 00:49:16.382
- Oh! No, it's okay.

920
00:49:16.382 --> 00:49:18.050
- Get that thing off of us!

921
00:49:18.050 --> 00:49:19.209
- I'm gonna hug your mom

922
00:49:19.209 --> 00:49:21.217
'cause now I know my baby's safe.

923
00:49:21.217 --> 00:49:24.993
I spent all that time
making sure he's perfect,

924
00:49:24.993 --> 00:49:26.076
he's perfect.

925
00:49:29.915 --> 00:49:31.389
- [Voiceover] Two days later,

926
00:49:31.389 --> 00:49:33.306
Mika Little goes south.

927
00:49:34.144 --> 00:49:36.624
Maggie's friends, Charles and Lynn,

928
00:49:36.624 --> 00:49:40.426
send Mika Little to New Orleans on a jet.

929
00:49:40.426 --> 00:49:43.774
Charles's parents have
agreed to adopt her.

930
00:49:43.774 --> 00:49:47.278
Maggie sends along a
letter of introduction.

931
00:49:47.278 --> 00:49:50.405
- [Maggie] Dear new parents
of Mika Little pups,

932
00:49:50.405 --> 00:49:51.918
congratulations!

933
00:49:51.918 --> 00:49:54.290
Mika Little is a fine and spunky,

934
00:49:54.290 --> 00:49:56.647
charismatic, funny dog.

935
00:49:56.647 --> 00:49:59.881
Lynn understands her better
than I do in some respects

936
00:49:59.881 --> 00:50:03.049
and I'm confident she'll
be happy with y'all.

937
00:50:03.049 --> 00:50:05.086
On December 7th, 1988,

938
00:50:05.086 --> 00:50:06.744
there was an earthquake in Armenia

939
00:50:06.744 --> 00:50:09.380
while Gorbachev was in New York City

940
00:50:09.380 --> 00:50:12.917
and friends and I were at
Rockefeller Plaza seeing him.

941
00:50:12.917 --> 00:50:16.264
The next afternoon, Maya
gave birth to eight puppies,

942
00:50:16.264 --> 00:50:18.827
the fifth of which had
to be hand delivered.

943
00:50:18.827 --> 00:50:20.892
She was the only light colored one

944
00:50:20.892 --> 00:50:24.281
and I named her after Mikhail Gorbachev.

945
00:50:24.281 --> 00:50:26.570
This little piece of history
will help you see into

946
00:50:26.570 --> 00:50:28.517
Mika Little a little,

947
00:50:28.517 --> 00:50:32.099
and we hope you will keep us
informed of her silliness,

948
00:50:32.099 --> 00:50:35.517
for whose first birthday we
received a one month vacation

949
00:50:35.517 --> 00:50:38.201
in the shanty at Central Park.

950
00:50:38.201 --> 00:50:39.453
For her next birthday,

951
00:50:39.453 --> 00:50:42.817
she may even take the cake. Who knows?

952
00:50:42.817 --> 00:50:44.484
Yours truly, Maggie.

953
00:51:02.484 --> 00:51:04.168
- [Voiceover] A few days later,

954
00:51:04.168 --> 00:51:07.717
Maggie's reservations about
having parted with two dogs

955
00:51:07.717 --> 00:51:09.134
began to surface.

956
00:51:10.078 --> 00:51:11.730
She mourns Mika Little's departure

957
00:51:11.730 --> 00:51:14.726
on the bank of the East River.

958
00:51:14.726 --> 00:51:16.226
Maggie seems edgy.

959
00:51:19.241 --> 00:51:21.240
Tension mounts when I finally tell Maggie

960
00:51:21.240 --> 00:51:24.231
that I've spoken with Mrs. Cogen.

961
00:51:24.231 --> 00:51:25.999
Although Maggie admits having wanted me

962
00:51:25.999 --> 00:51:29.035
to contact Mrs. Cogen at Christmas,

963
00:51:29.035 --> 00:51:31.554
she now is upset that I
actually consulted the woman

964
00:51:31.554 --> 00:51:34.804
she calls Eris, the goddess of discord.

965
00:51:36.605 --> 00:51:38.938
- And what am I upset about?

966
00:51:41.012 --> 00:51:42.429
I'm upset because

967
00:51:47.583 --> 00:51:50.964
when I tell you the truth about,

968
00:51:50.964 --> 00:51:52.325
that I was born in Scotland

969
00:51:52.325 --> 00:51:55.400
and I'm the daughter of
these two particular people

970
00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:59.567
and, uh, a cross of these
three particular people,

971
00:52:00.561 --> 00:52:02.803
two fellows and a woman,

972
00:52:02.803 --> 00:52:04.389
and they had shipped me.

973
00:52:04.389 --> 00:52:06.904
One of them or some of
them had shipped me from

974
00:52:06.904 --> 00:52:08.237
where I was born

975
00:52:09.816 --> 00:52:13.233
to where I was claimed to be the child of

976
00:52:14.438 --> 00:52:15.855
two other people.

977
00:52:16.860 --> 00:52:20.130
You doubt that this really happened.

978
00:52:20.130 --> 00:52:23.463
(fast paced drum music)

979
00:52:25.230 --> 00:52:26.549
- [Voiceover] I agree never to contact

980
00:52:26.549 --> 00:52:27.966
Mrs. Cogen again,

981
00:52:29.084 --> 00:52:31.871
yet Maggie gives me a
lot of new information,

982
00:52:31.871 --> 00:52:34.311
including the name of
a high school classmate

983
00:52:34.311 --> 00:52:36.728
from New Hyde Park, New York.

984
00:52:37.672 --> 00:52:41.339
Despite her anger, she
wants me to continue.

985
00:52:48.924 --> 00:52:51.284
Maggie tells me that she was raised here,

986
00:52:51.284 --> 00:52:53.469
in the suburb of New York City,

987
00:52:53.469 --> 00:52:56.755
with two brothers and a sister.

988
00:52:56.755 --> 00:53:00.111
While Mr. Cogen worked in
wholesale food distribution,

989
00:53:00.111 --> 00:53:03.194
Maggie went to the local high school.

990
00:53:04.941 --> 00:53:07.831
Joanne Burgbalm was a
friend and classmate.

991
00:53:07.831 --> 00:53:09.990
- She did stand out as looking

992
00:53:09.990 --> 00:53:12.563
just a little bit different
and yet very mainstream also,

993
00:53:12.563 --> 00:53:15.275
which is really what my sense of Maggie

994
00:53:15.275 --> 00:53:16.455
is in regard to everything.

995
00:53:16.455 --> 00:53:17.597
She was very much part of everything

996
00:53:17.597 --> 00:53:19.638
that everybody else was part of,

997
00:53:19.638 --> 00:53:22.252
and yet there was something that was just

998
00:53:22.252 --> 00:53:25.493
a little bit, I was going to
use the word "off centered",

999
00:53:25.493 --> 00:53:27.519
but I really don't mean off centered.

1000
00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:29.317
Just a little bit different
from the mainstream,

1001
00:53:29.317 --> 00:53:31.101
something that made us take notice of her.

1002
00:53:31.101 --> 00:53:33.435
I guess that that's a
better way to put it.

1003
00:53:33.435 --> 00:53:37.378
She was outstanding in
her own right, always.

1004
00:53:37.378 --> 00:53:38.929
And I think that's why I was surprised

1005
00:53:38.929 --> 00:53:42.405
when I went back and started
looking in the yearbook

1006
00:53:42.405 --> 00:53:45.175
to find out that she
was part of the kickline

1007
00:53:45.175 --> 00:53:47.912
and that she was wearing a
kickline uniform frequently,

1008
00:53:47.912 --> 00:53:50.044
with all the other girls who
were wearing a kickline uniform

1009
00:53:50.044 --> 00:53:52.117
because I guess I had forgotten

1010
00:53:52.117 --> 00:53:53.629
that part of Maggie.

1011
00:53:53.629 --> 00:53:56.333
I remember the middle
of a club involvement,

1012
00:53:56.333 --> 00:53:58.109
middle of the service organizations,

1013
00:53:58.109 --> 00:54:00.650
and I'd really forgotten that she was

1014
00:54:00.650 --> 00:54:02.061
up over on the net,

1015
00:54:02.061 --> 00:54:02.941
somebody on the kickline,

1016
00:54:02.941 --> 00:54:04.810
somebody who was a real "rah rah" person

1017
00:54:04.810 --> 00:54:06.869
out there at the football games.

1018
00:54:06.869 --> 00:54:11.282
And I think that I respected
Maggie's mind so much

1019
00:54:11.282 --> 00:54:14.019
that I probably didn't
remember that part of her

1020
00:54:14.019 --> 00:54:16.945
that was such a typical high school girl

1021
00:54:16.945 --> 00:54:19.283
in the early 1960s.

1022
00:54:19.283 --> 00:54:21.783
(bongo music)

1023
00:54:23.830 --> 00:54:26.598
- [Voiceover] Combining the
evidence from Joanne Burgbalm,

1024
00:54:26.598 --> 00:54:28.728
Mrs. Cogen, and Maggie,

1025
00:54:28.728 --> 00:54:32.619
I managed to unravel
more of her crinology.

1026
00:54:32.619 --> 00:54:35.980
After graduating from high school in 1961,

1027
00:54:35.980 --> 00:54:38.595
Maggie attended half a dozen colleges

1028
00:54:38.595 --> 00:54:41.267
over a four year period.

1029
00:54:41.267 --> 00:54:43.062
- [Maggie] I had been told repeatedly

1030
00:54:43.062 --> 00:54:45.457
that I couldn't do anything,

1031
00:54:45.457 --> 00:54:49.661
so I thought "Well, I can't
do anything but go to college"

1032
00:54:49.661 --> 00:54:51.936
so I just went to one college,

1033
00:54:51.936 --> 00:54:54.396
and then I went to another college.

1034
00:54:54.396 --> 00:54:57.969
And I kept going to colleges,
having nervous breakdowns,

1035
00:54:57.969 --> 00:55:02.869
being anxious, being upset,
trying to find myself,

1036
00:55:02.869 --> 00:55:03.702
but, uh,

1037
00:55:05.476 --> 00:55:07.729
Life magazine was saying that

1038
00:55:07.729 --> 00:55:09.726
the whole generation
was doing the same thing

1039
00:55:09.726 --> 00:55:13.011
that I was doing so I
figured I was in step

1040
00:55:13.011 --> 00:55:14.261
with the times.

1041
00:55:22.436 --> 00:55:23.991
- [Voiceover] In the mid 60s,

1042
00:55:23.991 --> 00:55:25.676
Maggie abandoned college

1043
00:55:25.676 --> 00:55:29.426
and found her rare
vocation in New York City.

1044
00:55:39.615 --> 00:55:40.448
By 1968,

1045
00:55:41.328 --> 00:55:42.963
Maggie was driving sightseers through the

1046
00:55:42.963 --> 00:55:45.463
cultural profusion of the 60s.

1047
00:55:54.574 --> 00:55:59.308
For five years, Maggie
prospered as a carriage driver.

1048
00:55:59.308 --> 00:56:01.878
- [Maggie] Then I started
buying my own carriage.

1049
00:56:01.878 --> 00:56:03.894
Gee, it was a beautiful outfit.

1050
00:56:03.894 --> 00:56:04.974
It was a little shaky,

1051
00:56:04.974 --> 00:56:07.974
the shafts weren't the right shafts.

1052
00:56:09.339 --> 00:56:12.663
But it was mine

1053
00:56:12.663 --> 00:56:13.496
and it was

1054
00:56:15.271 --> 00:56:19.438
wonderful to have a horse
who talked. (laughs)

1055
00:56:21.611 --> 00:56:23.313
Well, in 1969,

1056
00:56:23.313 --> 00:56:25.395
if you weren't fighting in a war

1057
00:56:25.395 --> 00:56:28.553
on the other side of the world,

1058
00:56:28.553 --> 00:56:31.386
you had this obligation to explore

1059
00:56:34.128 --> 00:56:35.378
the other world

1060
00:56:37.500 --> 00:56:38.500
way up high.

1061
00:56:42.132 --> 00:56:42.965
So after

1062
00:56:46.632 --> 00:56:48.715
LSD told me to relinquish

1063
00:56:49.709 --> 00:56:51.483
all material goods

1064
00:56:51.483 --> 00:56:53.983
to the common wheel somewhere,

1065
00:56:56.198 --> 00:56:59.895
I let it all slip through my fingers.

1066
00:56:59.895 --> 00:57:02.395
The important thing seem to be

1067
00:57:03.263 --> 00:57:06.439
to continue this marriage with Jupiter,

1068
00:57:06.439 --> 00:57:09.436
which was billions of years old

1069
00:57:09.436 --> 00:57:12.603
and I hadn't seen him in 700 years so.

1070
00:57:16.108 --> 00:57:19.335
So we caught on with the business

1071
00:57:19.335 --> 00:57:21.502
of continuing the dynasty.

1072
00:57:23.292 --> 00:57:26.292
(brassy jazz music)

1073
00:57:38.450 --> 00:57:39.924
- [Voiceover] Who is this Jupiter who

1074
00:57:39.924 --> 00:57:42.734
lifted Maggie from her
Central Park carriage

1075
00:57:42.734 --> 00:57:46.000
and exiled her to the airways?

1076
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:49.552
What man deserves this powerful name?

1077
00:57:49.552 --> 00:57:50.756
Worshiping him,

1078
00:57:50.756 --> 00:57:53.515
Maggie was stripped at
some point of her children

1079
00:57:53.515 --> 00:57:55.098
and her livelihood.

1080
00:57:56.360 --> 00:57:57.780
15 years later,

1081
00:57:57.780 --> 00:58:00.020
she's still engaged in what she calls

1082
00:58:00.020 --> 00:58:02.937
a "romantic conversation" with him.

1083
00:58:04.648 --> 00:58:06.440
As I wander through the park,

1084
00:58:06.440 --> 00:58:09.107
I sense Jupiter's presence here.

1085
00:58:19.614 --> 00:58:22.616
Herculisa, the runt of
Mika Little's litter,

1086
00:58:22.616 --> 00:58:24.589
proved to be deaf.

1087
00:58:24.589 --> 00:58:27.197
So her disappointed
owner has returned her,

1088
00:58:27.197 --> 00:58:28.416
much to Maggie's delight.

1089
00:58:28.416 --> 00:58:33.085
- Course like that I just get (kisses).

1090
00:58:33.085 --> 00:58:34.673
(dog growls angrily)

1091
00:58:34.673 --> 00:58:37.173
Oh Boris, go eat your Tylenol.

1092
00:58:39.411 --> 00:58:40.653
(dog growls)

1093
00:58:40.653 --> 00:58:42.153
Get away from him.

1094
00:58:43.315 --> 00:58:44.148
Oh.

1095
00:58:53.051 --> 00:58:54.196
I got a spoon.

1096
00:58:54.196 --> 00:58:56.501
- [Voiceover] Watching
Maggie dote on her dogs,

1097
00:58:56.501 --> 00:59:00.853
I am more and more curious
about her actual children.

1098
00:59:00.853 --> 00:59:02.197
Back in December,

1099
00:59:02.197 --> 00:59:06.189
Mrs. Cogen told me that
Maggie had been married twice.

1100
00:59:06.189 --> 00:59:08.801
Though Maggie claims
to have five children,

1101
00:59:08.801 --> 00:59:11.181
Mrs. Cogen only knows of two,

1102
00:59:11.181 --> 00:59:12.764
Michael and Justin.

1103
00:59:14.425 --> 00:59:17.572
Maggie says that she met
Michael's father, Richard,

1104
00:59:17.572 --> 00:59:18.815
when he rode in her carriage

1105
00:59:18.815 --> 00:59:20.648
in the spring of 1968.

1106
00:59:21.989 --> 00:59:23.406
He was a tourist.

1107
00:59:24.392 --> 00:59:25.935
They had a brief affair

1108
00:59:25.935 --> 00:59:27.685
and Michael was born.

1109
00:59:28.525 --> 00:59:32.634
Richard gave Maggie child
support and disappeared.

1110
00:59:32.634 --> 00:59:35.256
Mrs. Cogen remembers him fondly.

1111
00:59:35.256 --> 00:59:37.006
He was a Harvard MBA.

1112
00:59:38.735 --> 00:59:41.821
Justin's paternity is more vague.

1113
00:59:41.821 --> 00:59:45.988
Maggie says he was conceived
in the summer of 1970.

1114
00:59:47.490 --> 00:59:49.727
- Well, the summer of 70.

1115
00:59:49.727 --> 00:59:52.227
And the music started to sound

1116
00:59:54.151 --> 00:59:56.065
familiar because I used to hear it

1117
00:59:56.065 --> 00:59:58.687
coming out of Jupiter's head

1118
00:59:58.687 --> 01:00:01.845
before it ever got down
to vinyl or anything.

1119
01:00:01.845 --> 01:00:05.561
So I was hearing all this
Led Zeppelin stuff in my life

1120
01:00:05.561 --> 01:00:08.228
before it was actually recorded.

1121
01:00:09.113 --> 01:00:11.525
- [Voiceover] Who is Jupiter?

1122
01:00:11.525 --> 01:00:12.625
- Yeah, that's a good question.

1123
01:00:12.625 --> 01:00:16.375
He's very tall and he
said his name was John.

1124
01:00:17.300 --> 01:00:20.973
Maybe he's a drummer? He's a musician.

1125
01:00:20.973 --> 01:00:23.806
And later on he was a disc jockey.

1126
01:00:24.752 --> 01:00:26.186
He still is a disk jockey,

1127
01:00:26.186 --> 01:00:29.103
he just can't figure out which one.

1128
01:00:30.814 --> 01:00:34.213
Because if they told me
that John wasn't the father

1129
01:00:34.213 --> 01:00:35.463
of Justin Case,

1130
01:00:36.315 --> 01:00:38.398
I probably would've died.

1131
01:00:40.608 --> 01:00:42.951
Because I was so in love with John

1132
01:00:42.951 --> 01:00:45.515
and one of the Johns, or two of the Johns,

1133
01:00:45.515 --> 01:00:46.563
or three of the Johns,

1134
01:00:46.563 --> 01:00:48.555
or four of the Johns had said

1135
01:00:48.555 --> 01:00:51.159
"I don't love you, Maggie".

1136
01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:54.539
So I was in a heartbroken condition

1137
01:00:54.539 --> 01:00:56.872
through the first trimester.

1138
01:01:04.107 --> 01:01:05.247
- [Voiceover] At last,

1139
01:01:05.247 --> 01:01:09.169
Maggie's revealed
Jupiter's Christian name.

1140
01:01:09.169 --> 01:01:10.790
This man, John,

1141
01:01:10.790 --> 01:01:14.372
seems to have abandoned
Maggie before Justin's birth

1142
01:01:14.372 --> 01:01:16.789
with very harsh consequences.

1143
01:01:22.567 --> 01:01:24.321
- [Maggie] The first voices I heard

1144
01:01:24.321 --> 01:01:26.488
were in September of 1970,

1145
01:01:28.831 --> 01:01:31.962
when this fellow, John,

1146
01:01:31.962 --> 01:01:34.045
was becoming real scarce.

1147
01:01:35.283 --> 01:01:36.719
I had nothing to do!

1148
01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:40.636
My husband was off in
the airwaves somewhere so

1149
01:01:41.582 --> 01:01:45.665
I didn't have him, so I
had these games I'd play.

1150
01:01:46.685 --> 01:01:49.935
I had to do something, I was desperate.

1151
01:01:50.783 --> 01:01:53.784
And I first, first thing I ever,

1152
01:01:53.784 --> 01:01:56.153
well, that wasn't the first,

1153
01:01:56.153 --> 01:01:57.997
one of the first things
I ever heard them say was

1154
01:01:57.997 --> 01:01:59.308
"Don't wash your hair"

1155
01:01:59.308 --> 01:02:03.211
'cause I used to wash
my hair all the time and

1156
01:02:03.211 --> 01:02:05.729
I felt very comforted by the fact that

1157
01:02:05.729 --> 01:02:08.001
even though he wasn't there physically,

1158
01:02:08.001 --> 01:02:09.418
I could hear him.

1159
01:02:10.841 --> 01:02:13.449
And then there was that wonderful record,

1160
01:02:13.449 --> 01:02:15.866
Radar Love by Golden Earring,

1161
01:02:16.855 --> 01:02:21.022
'cause the voices I could
hear were of Golden Earring.

1162
01:02:22.711 --> 01:02:26.878
And Radar Love was how we
kept our marriage together.

1163
01:02:33.967 --> 01:02:36.202
- [Ednisval] Ven, vena. Up, that's right!

1164
01:02:36.202 --> 01:02:37.960
You see how much smoother it is?

1165
01:02:37.960 --> 01:02:38.802
- Mmm-hmm.

1166
01:02:38.802 --> 01:02:39.955
- [Ednisval] Yeah. Get up.

1167
01:02:39.955 --> 01:02:42.669
- [Voiceover] Not only is
Jupiter proved to be real,

1168
01:02:42.669 --> 01:02:45.384
but I received a letter
from Robert Ryan's daughter,

1169
01:02:45.384 --> 01:02:49.705
Lisa, confirming that
they knew Maggie well.

1170
01:02:49.705 --> 01:02:52.069
Back in the classless
society of Central Park

1171
01:02:52.069 --> 01:02:55.236
in the 1960's, Maggie befriended Lisa.

1172
01:02:56.369 --> 01:02:58.607
They influenced one another.

1173
01:02:58.607 --> 01:03:01.003
Lisa took up carriage driving,

1174
01:03:01.003 --> 01:03:05.168
Maggie became a frequent
guest at the Dakota.

1175
01:03:05.168 --> 01:03:08.081
- Robert Ryan and I passed
each other in the hall

1176
01:03:08.081 --> 01:03:11.737
and my bone marrow began to sizzle

1177
01:03:11.737 --> 01:03:15.814
in a way that I understood that he and I,

1178
01:03:15.814 --> 01:03:17.625
somewhere out there,

1179
01:03:17.625 --> 01:03:21.042
had once upon a time been the same thing.

1180
01:03:22.347 --> 01:03:25.940
So therefore, we're doing the same thing.

1181
01:03:25.940 --> 01:03:28.964
Even if he's taking the longest road

1182
01:03:28.964 --> 01:03:31.956
and I'm taking the crookedest road,

1183
01:03:31.956 --> 01:03:33.604
we're the same thing.

1184
01:03:33.604 --> 01:03:36.972
So it turns out he's Saturn
and I'm his daughter, Juno.

1185
01:03:36.972 --> 01:03:38.758
So it's the same thing.

1186
01:03:38.758 --> 01:03:41.591
(soft drum music)

1187
01:03:47.488 --> 01:03:49.849
- [Voiceover] It is Lisa
Ryan who completes for me

1188
01:03:49.849 --> 01:03:53.821
the picture of Maggie's
celebrity as a carriage driver.

1189
01:03:53.821 --> 01:03:57.810
She leads me to a rare
piece of video tape.

1190
01:03:57.810 --> 01:04:00.770
- Well I'm gonna try and
establish the means of propulsion.

1191
01:04:00.770 --> 01:04:05.704
Is it propelled by an internal
combustion gasoline engine?

1192
01:04:05.704 --> 01:04:08.133
- [Announcer] An internal
combustion gasoline engine?

1193
01:04:08.133 --> 01:04:09.208
- [Man In Plaid] Right, good.
- No.

1194
01:04:09.208 --> 01:04:10.205
- Absolutely not.

1195
01:04:10.205 --> 01:04:11.244
That's three down, we go to Mariner.

1196
01:04:11.244 --> 01:04:13.884
- Is there a live animal connected to it?

1197
01:04:13.884 --> 01:04:14.717
- [Maggie] Yes.

1198
01:04:14.717 --> 01:04:15.791
- [Blonde Lady] Yes,
that's what I thought.

1199
01:04:15.791 --> 01:04:16.802
Is it a horse?

1200
01:04:16.802 --> 01:04:17.717
- [Maggie] Yes.

1201
01:04:17.717 --> 01:04:18.550
- Alright,

1202
01:04:18.550 --> 01:04:21.501
I'm gonna say is it one of
the carriages in Central Park?

1203
01:04:21.501 --> 01:04:22.334
- [Announcer] Yes!

1204
01:04:22.334 --> 01:04:24.946
(audience claps)

1205
01:04:24.946 --> 01:04:25.779
- I'm sorry.

1206
01:04:25.779 --> 01:04:26.779
- Thank you.

1207
01:04:29.818 --> 01:04:31.612
- What do you charge?

1208
01:04:31.612 --> 01:04:34.776
What do you charge for one
trip through Central Park?

1209
01:04:34.776 --> 01:04:37.208
- I charge seven dollars.

1210
01:04:37.208 --> 01:04:39.544
- [Announcer] And why
would a lovely young lady

1211
01:04:39.544 --> 01:04:41.893
choose this particular type of profession?

1212
01:04:41.893 --> 01:04:44.226
What made you get into this?

1213
01:04:44.226 --> 01:04:48.178
- Well, I type 18 words a
minute with three mistakes,

1214
01:04:48.178 --> 01:04:49.520
so that's.

1215
01:04:49.520 --> 01:04:52.074
- [Announcer] (laughs) That's out.

1216
01:04:52.074 --> 01:04:54.144
- I don't like to be indoors,

1217
01:04:54.144 --> 01:04:57.638
I love horses, and I'm
interested in antiques.

1218
01:04:57.638 --> 01:04:59.246
Everything went together. And that's,

1219
01:04:59.246 --> 01:05:01.477
- So you have an antique buggy and a horse

1220
01:05:01.477 --> 01:05:04.034
and you're outside in Central Park

1221
01:05:04.034 --> 01:05:05.838
making seven dollars
an hour. And now it's--

1222
01:05:05.838 --> 01:05:06.986
- No, I'm not doing that!

1223
01:05:06.986 --> 01:05:08.967
It doesn't average out to seven an hour.

1224
01:05:08.967 --> 01:05:10.133
- But it's pretty good.

1225
01:05:10.133 --> 01:05:10.991
- Well alright. Make my mother feel good.

1226
01:05:10.991 --> 01:05:12.581
- Let's show them exactly
what she looks like

1227
01:05:12.581 --> 01:05:13.958
when she's doing this in Central Park.

1228
01:05:13.958 --> 01:05:15.308
We have a picture here,

1229
01:05:15.308 --> 01:05:17.123
and lets one of our audience show you

1230
01:05:17.123 --> 01:05:19.871
exactly what she looks like.

1231
01:05:19.871 --> 01:05:20.704
There you are,

1232
01:05:20.704 --> 01:05:21.791
all decked out in your garb

1233
01:05:21.791 --> 01:05:23.963
and atop of your buggy.

1234
01:05:23.963 --> 01:05:26.963
(audience applauds)

1235
01:05:31.473 --> 01:05:32.306
And you've been doing this now

1236
01:05:32.306 --> 01:05:33.139
for about two years?

1237
01:05:33.139 --> 01:05:34.077
- Mmm-hmm! Two and a half.

1238
01:05:34.077 --> 01:05:35.180
- Two and a half years?
- [Maggie] Mmm-hmm.

1239
01:05:35.180 --> 01:05:36.973
- And your future is
in central park, right?

1240
01:05:36.973 --> 01:05:38.434
- Um, it could be.

1241
01:05:38.434 --> 01:05:39.267
- Could be. Alright.

1242
01:05:39.267 --> 01:05:40.779
Maggie thank you so much for being with us

1243
01:05:40.779 --> 01:05:41.832
on "What's My Line".

1244
01:05:41.832 --> 01:05:44.832
(audience applauds)

1245
01:05:47.223 --> 01:05:48.648
- [Voiceover] I'm struck by the contrast

1246
01:05:48.648 --> 01:05:52.815
between Maggie's poise in her
1968 television appearance

1247
01:05:53.714 --> 01:05:57.757
and her predicament
only a few years later.

1248
01:05:57.757 --> 01:06:00.168
By the spring of 1972,

1249
01:06:00.168 --> 01:06:03.038
she was an unemployed single mother of two

1250
01:06:03.038 --> 01:06:05.111
living in Harlem.

1251
01:06:05.111 --> 01:06:07.266
Robert, Ryan, and her lover, John,

1252
01:06:07.266 --> 01:06:09.340
were now absent.

1253
01:06:09.340 --> 01:06:12.732
Saturn and Jupiter was larger than ever.

1254
01:06:12.732 --> 01:06:15.292
Comforted only by Radar Love,

1255
01:06:15.292 --> 01:06:19.451
she found raising her children
an increasingly awesome task,

1256
01:06:19.451 --> 01:06:21.034
especially Michael.

1257
01:06:22.260 --> 01:06:24.093
- He was the child who

1258
01:06:26.549 --> 01:06:29.632
pulled the heavy psychic stuff on me.

1259
01:06:31.612 --> 01:06:32.779
So when he was

1260
01:06:35.145 --> 01:06:36.395
two and a half,

1261
01:06:37.813 --> 01:06:39.829
he was a little two and
a half year old baby

1262
01:06:39.829 --> 01:06:40.829
behind me on

1263
01:06:41.848 --> 01:06:42.931
105th Street.

1264
01:06:44.085 --> 01:06:45.294
And I looked around,

1265
01:06:45.294 --> 01:06:47.500
but look at this little cute two year old.

1266
01:06:47.500 --> 01:06:49.139
And all of a sudden,

1267
01:06:49.139 --> 01:06:52.207
he was Saint Michael, the archangel,

1268
01:06:52.207 --> 01:06:55.374
in full regalia.

1269
01:06:56.641 --> 01:07:00.468
He had a sword, he had
wings, he had a crown,

1270
01:07:00.468 --> 01:07:04.635
he had a long golden, white
robe with gold edging,

1271
01:07:05.811 --> 01:07:08.069
epilepse. (giggles)

1272
01:07:08.069 --> 01:07:09.819
What else did he have?

1273
01:07:09.819 --> 01:07:10.652
Well, he,

1274
01:07:13.129 --> 01:07:15.472
was over six feet tall,

1275
01:07:15.472 --> 01:07:18.992
maybe he was about six feet tall.

1276
01:07:18.992 --> 01:07:19.825
And, uh,

1277
01:07:24.445 --> 01:07:28.261
his eyes were so cold and so greenish gray

1278
01:07:28.261 --> 01:07:29.934
just looking at me saying

1279
01:07:29.934 --> 01:07:32.351
"When I leave, don't follow".

1280
01:07:33.879 --> 01:07:35.772
And then it was over.

1281
01:07:35.772 --> 01:07:37.689
A month later, he left.

1282
01:07:39.610 --> 01:07:42.308
I had been raped, I had been robbed,

1283
01:07:42.308 --> 01:07:44.089
I had been the whole, you know,

1284
01:07:44.089 --> 01:07:46.073
holy macaroni thing.

1285
01:07:46.073 --> 01:07:46.906
And, uh,

1286
01:07:48.373 --> 01:07:50.093
the Cogens came to take him to

1287
01:07:50.093 --> 01:07:53.266
New Hyde Park with Justin Case.

1288
01:07:53.266 --> 01:07:56.002
And he just casually waved "Goodbye"

1289
01:07:56.002 --> 01:07:58.094
and right out the door.

1290
01:07:58.094 --> 01:07:58.927
And, uh,

1291
01:08:00.556 --> 01:08:03.639
that was the end of his being my son.

1292
01:08:09.919 --> 01:08:12.501
I wasn't able to hold the seam together

1293
01:08:12.501 --> 01:08:15.789
and it was obvious to
me I wasn't supposed to.

1294
01:08:15.789 --> 01:08:17.886
And I went bouncing around the city

1295
01:08:17.886 --> 01:08:20.200
trying to find another place to live,

1296
01:08:20.200 --> 01:08:21.700
but the cards were

1297
01:08:23.181 --> 01:08:24.554
stacked in such a way

1298
01:08:24.554 --> 01:08:28.258
that Elizabeth from
Houston came up to see me

1299
01:08:28.258 --> 01:08:32.175
and said "Hey girl! Let's
hitch back to Texas!"

1300
01:08:33.663 --> 01:08:37.246
And so I went for a
two week jaunt to Texas

1301
01:08:38.213 --> 01:08:41.963
and didn't come back
for three or four years.

1302
01:08:47.252 --> 01:08:48.085
- [Voiceover] What drove Maggie

1303
01:08:48.085 --> 01:08:49.948
to make the fateful decision

1304
01:08:49.948 --> 01:08:52.770
to leave her very own
children with the Cogens

1305
01:08:52.770 --> 01:08:55.702
and stay away for so long?

1306
01:08:55.702 --> 01:08:57.627
She cites many reasons,

1307
01:08:57.627 --> 01:09:00.146
among them, Jupiter's absence,

1308
01:09:00.146 --> 01:09:03.958
Saint Michael's commands,
tension with the Cogens,

1309
01:09:03.958 --> 01:09:06.284
and a broken heart.

1310
01:09:06.284 --> 01:09:09.074
But whatever forces
were working on Maggie,

1311
01:09:09.074 --> 01:09:11.736
one thing remains certain.

1312
01:09:11.736 --> 01:09:16.478
By staying in Texas, she
was losing her children.

1313
01:09:16.478 --> 01:09:19.002
The Cogens returned Michael to his father

1314
01:09:19.002 --> 01:09:22.245
and put Justin up for adoption.

1315
01:09:22.245 --> 01:09:26.412
When Maggie returned to
New York on July 7th, 1975,

1316
01:09:27.352 --> 01:09:30.340
both her children were gone.

1317
01:09:30.340 --> 01:09:31.212
Twelve days later,

1318
01:09:31.212 --> 01:09:33.530
she was institutionalized
at Hillside Hospital

1319
01:09:33.530 --> 01:09:35.610
on Long Island.

1320
01:09:35.610 --> 01:09:38.555
She remained there for four months.

1321
01:09:38.555 --> 01:09:41.388
Maggie was on Jupiter's frequency.

1322
01:09:42.584 --> 01:09:45.084
(soft static)

1323
01:10:02.081 --> 01:10:04.998
(soft piano music)

1324
01:10:20.327 --> 01:10:22.244
I know that many things happen to Maggie

1325
01:10:22.244 --> 01:10:25.863
after her discharge
from Hillside Hospital.

1326
01:10:25.863 --> 01:10:28.169
She was a roommate of Lisa Ryan's

1327
01:10:28.169 --> 01:10:32.264
and returned briefly to carriage driving.

1328
01:10:32.264 --> 01:10:35.397
She left New York and
then lived with the Cogens

1329
01:10:35.397 --> 01:10:36.647
for four years.

1330
01:10:39.429 --> 01:10:43.596
But all these arrangements
were fragile and doomed.

1331
01:10:46.847 --> 01:10:50.406
When Maggie returned to Texas
to find her children gone,

1332
01:10:50.406 --> 01:10:52.914
she began her descent to that region

1333
01:10:52.914 --> 01:10:55.414
where I first encountered her.

1334
01:10:56.624 --> 01:11:00.478
- She's the daughter of a tricky one.

1335
01:11:00.478 --> 01:11:04.468
We're in the shadow of the living room.

1336
01:11:04.468 --> 01:11:05.679
- [Voiceover] That region in the shadow of

1337
01:11:05.679 --> 01:11:07.867
Robery Ryans's Dakota,

1338
01:11:07.867 --> 01:11:10.542
where Maggie could keep
in contact with Jupiter,

1339
01:11:10.542 --> 01:11:14.042
Saturn, Hemera, Saint Michael, and Justin.

1340
01:11:15.881 --> 01:11:18.455
Maggie had taken all the necessary steps

1341
01:11:18.455 --> 01:11:21.372
to reassemble her family in Erebus.

1342
01:11:35.770 --> 01:11:36.680
With Maggie,

1343
01:11:36.680 --> 01:11:38.978
I'd entered a secret world
that was as intricate

1344
01:11:38.978 --> 01:11:42.040
as anything I'd ever encountered.

1345
01:11:42.040 --> 01:11:44.502
But why did she create
such a complicated language

1346
01:11:44.502 --> 01:11:46.085
to express herself?

1347
01:11:47.601 --> 01:11:50.064
It occurs to me that Maggie's mythology

1348
01:11:50.064 --> 01:11:51.814
is her self portrait.

1349
01:11:52.706 --> 01:11:53.921
On the canvas,

1350
01:11:53.921 --> 01:11:56.118
the figures of Jupiter, Hera,

1351
01:11:56.118 --> 01:11:59.440
and Saturn looms larger than life.

1352
01:11:59.440 --> 01:12:00.632
From a distance,

1353
01:12:00.632 --> 01:12:04.799
Maggie can see herself framed
in this timeless drama.

1354
01:12:05.954 --> 01:12:08.609
I wonder if the distance
also allows Maggie

1355
01:12:08.609 --> 01:12:10.968
to survive the pain and drama

1356
01:12:10.968 --> 01:12:12.484
of losing her children.

1357
01:12:12.484 --> 01:12:15.901
(psychedelic rock music)

1358
01:12:32.746 --> 01:12:34.708
Events in Maggie's life keep hinting

1359
01:12:34.708 --> 01:12:37.552
that it needs cinematic solution,

1360
01:12:37.552 --> 01:12:39.880
but don't count on it.

1361
01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:42.539
Maggie enrolls in a mental health clinic,

1362
01:12:42.539 --> 01:12:45.701
but drops out after several weeks.

1363
01:12:45.701 --> 01:12:47.867
She says she wants to get a job,

1364
01:12:47.867 --> 01:12:51.755
but she can't unleash
herself from all her dogs.

1365
01:12:51.755 --> 01:12:52.887
A year ago,

1366
01:12:52.887 --> 01:12:54.926
the adoption of Mika Little's puppies

1367
01:12:54.926 --> 01:12:57.557
filled me with optimism.

1368
01:12:57.557 --> 01:13:00.223
But Maggie has collected more strays,

1369
01:13:00.223 --> 01:13:02.130
one of them has a litter.

1370
01:13:02.130 --> 01:13:03.630
The cycle repeats.

1371
01:13:13.610 --> 01:13:15.524
I'm busy too.

1372
01:13:15.524 --> 01:13:16.624
I don't know what to make of it,

1373
01:13:16.624 --> 01:13:20.288
but Maggie predicted
that my daughter, Ramona,

1374
01:13:20.288 --> 01:13:23.754
would be born on the same
day as her son, Michael,

1375
01:13:23.754 --> 01:13:25.004
September 13th.

1376
01:13:26.254 --> 01:13:28.570
She was even more specific.

1377
01:13:28.570 --> 01:13:29.987
She said at 4:30.

1378
01:13:32.074 --> 01:13:34.657
Astoundingly, Maggie was right.

1379
01:13:36.566 --> 01:13:38.597
Had I taken her more seriously,

1380
01:13:38.597 --> 01:13:40.761
I would not have had
to deliver my daughter

1381
01:13:40.761 --> 01:13:44.049
in the back seat of a taxi cab.

1382
01:13:44.049 --> 01:13:46.466
(baby cries)

1383
01:13:50.603 --> 01:13:54.041
Maggie tell me a little
more about Jupiter.

1384
01:13:54.041 --> 01:13:57.381
He also drove a carriage in Central Park.

1385
01:13:57.381 --> 01:13:59.378
He stood over six feet tall

1386
01:13:59.378 --> 01:14:03.128
and weighed 210 pounds
in the summer of 1970.

1387
01:14:04.395 --> 01:14:07.035
I considered trying to
find Maggie's Jupiter

1388
01:14:07.035 --> 01:14:08.868
and Maggie's children,

1389
01:14:09.929 --> 01:14:11.851
but they've been living
separately from her

1390
01:14:11.851 --> 01:14:14.451
for more than 20 years.

1391
01:14:14.451 --> 01:14:16.124
What do they know about her,

1392
01:14:16.124 --> 01:14:18.879
and how would they react to meeting her?

1393
01:14:18.879 --> 01:14:22.523
How would Maggie react to meeting them?

1394
01:14:22.523 --> 01:14:25.622
Maybe fate can orchestrate
a family reunion,

1395
01:14:25.622 --> 01:14:26.622
but I can't.

1396
01:14:27.509 --> 01:14:29.676
I decide to go no further.

1397
01:14:31.989 --> 01:14:34.639
- [Maggie] I met some
kids in Long Island City.

1398
01:14:34.639 --> 01:14:36.793
Shamala's in kindergarten
from eight something

1399
01:14:36.793 --> 01:14:38.722
to nearly three p.m.

1400
01:14:38.722 --> 01:14:39.794
He loves it

1401
01:14:39.794 --> 01:14:41.826
and his favorite thing
to do is draw and play

1402
01:14:41.826 --> 01:14:44.014
with words and numbers.

1403
01:14:44.014 --> 01:14:46.258
Last night I gazed at
him sitting beside me

1404
01:14:46.258 --> 01:14:49.131
and became aware of a
brimming intelligence.

1405
01:14:49.131 --> 01:14:51.694
I could nearly hear the sound of his brain

1406
01:14:51.694 --> 01:14:55.592
and his brother, Mahlique,
is so indescribably darling.

1407
01:14:55.592 --> 01:14:58.690
Maybe he can save the world with his charm

1408
01:14:58.690 --> 01:15:01.402
and Jamal can devise the scheme.

1409
01:15:01.402 --> 01:15:02.534
They're all coming with us

1410
01:15:02.534 --> 01:15:04.501
to a big horse farm.

1411
01:15:04.501 --> 01:15:07.015
Let's keep it practical
so we can afford to give

1412
01:15:07.015 --> 01:15:08.432
every kid a pony.

1413
01:15:13.622 --> 01:15:15.343
- [Voiceover] Dear Maggie,

1414
01:15:15.343 --> 01:15:18.000
it's two years since we met.

1415
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:20.971
When I met you, you had four dogs.

1416
01:15:20.971 --> 01:15:23.121
Now you have eight.

1417
01:15:23.121 --> 01:15:26.336
When I met you, you lived outdoors.

1418
01:15:26.336 --> 01:15:28.875
Now you have an address.

1419
01:15:28.875 --> 01:15:30.283
In Central Park,

1420
01:15:30.283 --> 01:15:32.721
you used to say that
Jupiter would someday arrive

1421
01:15:32.721 --> 01:15:34.917
on a white horse.

1422
01:15:34.917 --> 01:15:38.037
Now you're not sure he'll ever come.

1423
01:15:38.037 --> 01:15:42.845
You once told me that Robert
Ryan was a hundred feet tall.

1424
01:15:42.845 --> 01:15:46.061
More recently, you saw him on 80th Street.

1425
01:15:46.061 --> 01:15:47.978
And he was human sized.

1426
01:15:48.825 --> 01:15:52.953
Like the rest of us, you
examine your assumptions.

1427
01:15:52.953 --> 01:15:56.333
You part with some of them, modify some,

1428
01:15:56.333 --> 01:15:58.000
and cling to others.

1429
01:15:58.904 --> 01:16:03.715
When I met you, you dreamed
of living on a horse farm.

1430
01:16:03.715 --> 01:16:04.798
You still do.

1431
01:16:06.831 --> 01:16:10.331
(happy psychedelic music)