Saving Laura

Saving Laura (Sigh) (Janice bends down placing a single rose on a freshly covered grave) I, uh, I’m sorry I didn’t make it for the funeral, I, uh wasn’t sure that you’d want me to be there. I had some work to do anyway. Things are always busy at the social service department. Like right now, there’s this little girl, her name is Laura, she’s only five and she’…

…a bathroom in a crowd of people. So that’s why I wasn’t at your funeral mother, I was making sure that Laura, sweet little unloved Laura, didn’t have to live like that. I wanted to make sure that no one ever made her feel like she couldn’t speak or smile or become something one day. That’s why I’m adopting her. I’m saving her from a mother like you.