CRISTINA: Thank you officer. He won't do...

CRISTINA: Thank you officer. He won't do it again. He just didn't know where he was going.

JAVIER: Why didn't you tell me this was a private road?

CRISTINA: You didn't ask.

JAVIER: Cristina!

CRISTINA: Okay, alright, get back to the main road. Then make a left. County Road 220 will be on the right, and I'm certain you know your way home that way.

JAVIER: Fine. (Begins to drive) Why are you being so difficult lately?

CRISTINA: (Sarcastic) Me? Difficult? Whatever do you mean?

JAVIER: Stop it, Cristina. Talk to me.

CRISTINA: I'm just...I don't know.

JAVIER: Please, Cristina. (Silence) Please.

CRISTINA: Raquel just had her baby.

JAVIER: That's great news.

CRISTINA: Is it?

JAVIER: Cristina, please don't be jealous of your cousin.

CRISTINA: She doesn't even want more kids...and here I am and I can't even...never mind.

JAVIER: Adoption is just around the corner. Once we finish our classes. Soon, we'll have children.

CRISTINA: It's not the same. Doesn't it bother you? Wasn't having kids one of your courses in seminary? "Fruit bearing 101."

JAVIER: Cristina.

CRISTINA: I mean teenagers get it on in the back seat of a car and get pregnant in two seconds. Me. Barren. You know what it's like in my family to not have kids. A Latina woman without a little tribe. It's just unheard of.

JAVIER: ¡Ay! Cristina.

CRISTINA: People who want kids can't have them and those that don't want them have a million. Tell me Pastor Ramirez, how does God see fit in giving people children?

JAVIER: Remember Abraham and Sarah? God promised them children in their old age and God fulfilled His promise.

CRISTINA: Really? You're going with the old man who was ejaculating dust?

JAVIER: Cristina!

CRISTINA: You couldn't think of a better story to go with.

JAVIER: Abraham was the father of nations!

CRISTINA: Nations that to this day are fighting each other.

JAVIER: Point made.

CRISTINA: Well, I don't want to be 90 when I have a baby. I want to be dead when I'm 90.

JAVIER: (Realizes something) Ah! I know. Hannah. Hannah prayed and God opened her womb and gave her Samuel and then a bunch of other kids.

CRISTINA: I've prayed. We've prayed...for years. So God is either on a long vacation or doesn't care.

JAVIER: God doesn't work that way. He's not Santa Claus.

CRISTINA: Okay then, how does he work? And if you say "in mysterious ways" I swear I'll jump out of this car right now.

JAVIER pulls the car over.

CRISTINA: What are you doing?

JAVIER: Stopping the car so you can get out. (Parks.) Cristina?

CRISTINA: What?

JAVIER: I'm sorry that life isn't going in the direction you had hoped, but we have so much to be grateful for. Trust me when I say, I love you and I plan to go through all of this with you. Do you understand?

CRISTINA: I guess.

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