CNA DNA

"Yea girl, I made it. I'm so glad this my last day sitting with Mr. Frank with his creepy ass! He really not a problem just nosey as hell! When I got home I thought to myself, I done told this man everything about me! Good thing he isn't a threat."

"Farrah, that muthafucka a spy!"

"Hell naw, why would he spy on me, he ain't gone see shit but me beating Lacy nem ass!"

(Laughter)

"Alright girl, I'll call u as soon as I leave tonight...u decided what u wearing?"

"No, can't make up my mind, all I know is I'm not wearing no heels!"

"Ok bitch...I don't wanna have to pick u up off the ground no way!"

"Bye, call me as soon as u leave!"

(Ends call)

"Mr. Fraaank...Im here!"

"Im back here! I just come in from the garden!"

"Mr. Frank, u a mess!"

"U ok today?" (Opens curtains)

"Yea, better than yesterday but still halfway dead..." (Laughter)

"Well let me make u your two two and two, two eggs two pieces of bacon and two raisin toast coming up!"

"Elnora couldn't stand the smell of raisin toast when she was expecting, I would make it on purpose!" (Laughing and Wheezing)

"She couldn't stand raisin toast and cigarettes! Boy, if I could just have one..."

"Here's your meds Mr. Frank, Lasix and Coumadin..."Holds out his trembling hand and puts the pills in his mouth, she holds the straw to his mouth.

"We gone get u out this bed today, its almost spring, real pretty outside!"

"Nah I just wanna lay here. What u got planned for tonight, how are u celebrating your birthday?"

I know I was high, but I musta told him everything this week I been here!

"Going to a bar, my best friend and I, that's about it. Im old now Mr. Frank. Just another day to me, growing up my foster mother didn't recognize it at all..."

"Old, 35 ain't old...I remember being 35, the best years.They had just opened the steel plant, leap year. Elnora had just given birth. I stood in line 10 hours and waited to apply. Got the job too, worked there 30 years."

"I see all of your pictures and awards hanging in the hall, no children and grandchildren, it must be hard being alone."

"Yea, Elnora said it was best we didn't try again, she couldn't handle losing another one."

"When I moved back here last year I thought I wanted another one, but everything is so expensive! Lacy and Jason keeps me broke! I have my boyfriends son also. That's why I had to get this second job..."

"It will get easier for ya, it always does, u got luck on ya side.The first three numbers of your social security number says luck... "

"Does it..." (puzzled)

How does he know my social, this shit is strange.

"Well u said u were born here...the first three has to either be 533 or 524 either way, it equals eleven!"

(Laughter)

Damn sure does, nosey muthafucka. 533.

"Ill give u your laptop Mr. Frank I know u want it for Solitaire, I'll start cooking."

"Oh, I have to reset my password, I locked myself out I can't log back in...u mind helping me?"

"Well I guess so, it should be easy...whats your email? I have to send a code."

"I can't check it without logging into the computer."

"Well do u want to use mine? I'll get it out of the car."

"Okay..."

Now all this is not in my damn job description...

(Walks off retrieves computer, comes back inside...)

"Thank u, Ill reset mine later."

Walks off toward the kitchen

"Lucinda? What's your password, I can't get in..."

"Oh, it's complicated. 9827 the last four of my social, 0229 my birthday and 6722 my house address. Got it?"

"Yes, I think so...thank u Lucinda."

No one calls me that and why would the agency give out my real first name, my application says Lucy! I know why the fuck his wife disappeared!

(Prepares breakfast)

"I couldn't find the Solitaire...I have to get the news on my computer. How'd u do this?"

"Oh, its an app."

"Shooting over in Gander Grove, a couple streets from your house on Mallard."

"Again? It's alway..."

How this muthafucka know I live on Mallard?! He is too nosey!

"Well it's gone rain looks like, this is the best app and old man can have on his computer, u know I like to know what's going on..."

"Yea, I see...well your breakfast is ready Mr. Frank."

"Ok, I'll play Solitaire later..."

"Well Ill be back Im going to call my daughter's school..."

"Lacy in trouble?"

"NO! sir... she's fine."

"Girl, I done had it up to HERE with this damn man!"

"This is your last day with him only a few more hours."

"He so damn nosey!

(Closes car door, lights blunt)

Im finna let his ass have it!!"

"Lucy he is old enough to be your daddy! Don't do nothing to him, he elderly! He don't even have no legs!"

"Aw he can't be that bad!"

"Farrah, u know how I am! If I wasn't about to get evicted I would not have took this job, I woulda told them to kiss my ass the morning they called! I had just reached over and touched Joe's dick, he was having an interesting dream...I wanted to make it reality! Then Belinda's fat ass called!

"The man is dying Lucy, have some compassion."

"Bitch it's wearing thin! He wanted to know about my childhood Monday, My children Tuesday, my ex husband's family Wednesday, My health insurance Thursday, today he gone wanna know when my next food stamp appointment is! "

"Bitch, Whet?! Aw yea, he nosey than a muthafucka! But still who else does he have to talk to! He probably drove the last sitter nuts! That's why she needed a week off!"

"Yea, u know I got respect for him though. He done seen a lot. His wife was kidnapped and he doesn't know what happened to his daughter. She was five days old. His wife returned, she had been thrown out of a car on the railroad tracks and left for dead. So he talks about it alot, he said it happened over 30 years ago..."

"Oh bitch, no wonder he looney..."

"That's the thing though...no not crazy at all, smartest person I've ever met. Well let me go back inside before he steals my credit!" (Laughing)

(Ends call, sprays on perfume and goes back inside)

"Aw, I remember that smell..."

Chloe? Old freak...

"I see u got into your laptop Mr. Frank..."

"Yea, I remembered I had put the two middle numbers of my social at the end of the password, 38."

"Oh yea, I never use 57... I have to start doing that, no one will ever guess."

(Laughing)

"Well I'm going to do your laundry, u need more bleach..."

"No, I don't need anymore..."

"Oh u have some already..."

(Walks off loads washer)

"Mr. Frank, U sleep, your nap time ain't til 12 when Young and the Restless goes off. It's just 11:05 gimme this remote. Lord u done went to sleep with it in your hand."

"U got a tight grip on this mu...Mr. Frank! Wake up!"

"OH JESUS! Mr. Frank! Lord, don't let this old man be done died on me!"

"Oh SHIT"

(Removes his teeth performs CPR)

"COME ON! MR. FRANK BREEEAAATHE!! Please breathe!!! (Crying)

(Pumps Chest)

"Yea girl, that line of work aint for me, Im sticking with my culinary skills...cleaning shit and making mousse pies don't mix no way. I picked up my last check its 336 dollars, it aint even enough to cover rent."

"Well I would let y'all come and stay with me but u know how Bruce is...."

"Yea chile, I know... Mr. Freeman gave us 48 hours, Ill pack what I can in the van and leave the rest. Start over at tax time. Fucking with Quality Care, I coulda been working for the temp service."

"Well let me fry these leg quarters before he come home, ion want no problems, I need my hair done."

"Bitch, bye."

(Ends call)

"Mama why do we have to sleep in a motel? They have BED BUGS!" (Crying)

"Only for a few days honey! I promise!"

( Sad,wiping Lacy's tears with her thumb)

"Put your seatbelt on Braylon...Can u move the air bed? It's blocking my rearview?"

"Mama we didn't check the mail! I didn't get my redemption codes!! Aww maan!"

"Nothing comes on Thursday's Jason..."

"PLEASE! CAN I CHECK IT! I JUST KNOW THEY ARE THERE!"

"Ok, but HURRY UP!"

(Slides van door gets out and checks the mail)

"My codes not in here! Just some stupid cards..."(Feeling the envelopes)

(Holding out hand) Well my new netspend and ace cards are here..."

"U-S Baaank" (Jason Reads)

(Snatches mail)

"Let me see?! Lucinda Odom...What the fuck I don't have no account with US Bank, why would they send me cards?"

(Opens envelopes looks at cards)

"Definitely my name, my address...this is strange for real forreal. Let me call Farrah. Naaah...!"

(Call 1-800-236-3838 or Visit )

Hmmmmm, Checking AND Savings?

"Your new card has now been activated, u can now begin to use your personalized debit card."

"WHAT THE FUCK! I HAVEN'T BEEN TO U.S. BANK!"

"Press one for account balance, two for...."

(Presses One)

Your Platinum account balance is seven hundred thousand five hundred dollars...press one for recent acc..."

"MAMA! MAMA! WAKE UP! MAMA!!!"

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"Cliff, times done changed I tell ya, looka there! Boy pull ya pants up!"

"Leave them chilren alone Leotis!"

"I can sit here all day long and ain't none of these young bucks got they pants pulled up on they ass!"

"Ain't that Eva's boy?"

"Yea, he bout the only one around here with some respect!"

"Yea, she raised them boys right..."

"U know she work down there at the dialysis clinic, I see her 3 times a week, look just like Frank."

"Yea, he couldn't deny that one, and if Elnora would have found out about her it woulda killed her! That was a tough winter...I remember Nathaniel come running! 'THEY DONE FOUND MS. ELNORA MITCHELL ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS! Still don't know what become of that little girl."

"Her and Eva woulda been 'round the same age."

"Elnora took it hard, and she never got her looks back to how they was. Seemed like to me Frank hated her. She'd come to the plant, brang him lunch and he'd treat her like she was some whoremonger. U could see the hurt on Liza's face when she come up there. Just felt sorry for her."

"Leotis, I wanna tell ya something...I need to get it off my chest and ain't nobody else I trust tellin. Now Ion want u to say nothing til I finish."

"Well go head Cliff, u tell me everybody business anyhow."'

"I went over to the Funeral Home last week to Frank's wake, I just wanted to look in his face one more time. Hadn't talked to him since back in 82. I vowed not to never have nothin else to do with him. Now I really don't care what happens when I tell ya this Leo, I just gotta tell somebody. I hope Leonard Charles got it off his chest too befoe' he passed. I remember that evening we was on our way out the plant, Frank called Leonard Charles and said, what yall Willis boys doing this evening? Come on lets go over to the Rabbit Den and drank some whiskey, I got a little reefer too. Shit, it was payday so he asked me I said why not, I ain't got no wife to go home to."

"82, we had a rough winter, Ill never forget, had to walk to work Ole truck wasn't runnin'. Marie was expecting."

"We got down to the Rabbit Den and we got drunk, Frank looked at Leotis and said thats a fine piece of ass right there, and pointed toward Liza. Now we knowed they was screwing round, but he wasn't shame 'bout what he was doing to Ms. Elnora!" Then he asked Leonard Charles, don't ya wanna make ya a ret smart of money? Get rid of Elnora and that baby for me, I'll pay ya everything I got over at First Citizens. 'How much ya got?' I asked...

'Well last time a checked I had close to 13 thousand dollars'. Leonard Charles said, 'shit I'll do it for half!' Nye, my mama didn't raise no monsters, we was brought up to respect women and children, not hurt em. Leonard Charles said, 'go draw it out in the morning and show it to us, we'll do it.'

'Yea, I said...we'll do it.' 6 thousand dollars was a lot of money Leotis. She had just delivered on February 29th, Liza had Eva March 1st. We took her March 4th. Some kinda demon come over Leonard Charles! I knowed he was usin' that ole crack but I didn't know what it made ya do. He laid down with that woman, she fought and fought till she couldn't fight no moe. She almost pulled off Leonard Charles Mask and he punched her upside the head, she passed out. Before he did he told her who had him kidnap her. He had her anyway. He thought she would die, he pulled her in the ditch but she woke up and crawled along them train tracks for 5 miles. Somebody found her and brought her home. I just remember how she begged, that little baby girl cried, I ain't knowed nothing else to do but take her to Nancy Ree, she had just gave birth too. She could feed her. She got her and moved off to Seattle raised her. I heard after she died she had come back. Befoe' Leonard Charles shot hisself he talked to Ms Elnora every night telling her how sorry he was, he was so fixed on seeing her, I believe he seen her for real and couldn't handle it."

"So u saying when Elnora woke up bleeding and beat up Leonard Charles did that?"

"Yea Leotis, that's what I'm saying. Frank thought we killed the baby, he kept on messin round with Liza, Elnora knowed it all along. When he neglected Eva tryna hide her from Elnora she would send them checks to Liza house."

"Never come up no moe, but Elnora knowed. I know she did, they kept puttin' her in the crazy house cause she kept hearing her baby crying."

"I know this much, Frank gone pay for what he did. I believe he knowed what we had done. He tried to run us off the road one evening leaving The Den, the next day a steel sheet fell and cut off his legs."