Ray: Please stop talking!
Marie: No, I will not. As if you've forgotten... October 9th, 1974.
Ray: I have to forget everything now.
Marie: Did you forget what you wrote on October 9th?
Ray: I don't know! What? You still have that? Gimme it!
Marie: No, no, no. No.
Ray: No, gimme it, gimme it, Ma!
Marie: "October 9th, 1974." A single entry on this particular day. "Not much to report, except I e-hat my Mom."
Ray: That's it?
Marie: There's nothing else on the page. No reason for it before or after. Just here between "I dropped a pencil to look up Mrs. Hustwick's dress," and "Today Mrs. Hustwick caught me doing the pencil thing." Just this sentence. No exclamation point after, like you were having some sort of a tantrum. It's just written like a fact. "I e-hat my Mom."