专四晨读美文：The Bridges of Madison County

The Bridges of Madison County
Robert: You're not coming with me, are you?
Francesca: No matter how many times
I turn it over and over in my mind,
it doesn't seem like the right thing.
Robert: For whom?
Francesca: For anyone.
They'll never be able to live through the talk.
And Richard,
Richard will never be able to get his arms around this.
It will break his heart.
He doesn't deserve that.
He's never hurt anyone in his whole life.
Robert: He can move on, people move.
Francesca: His family has owned this farm
for over a hundred years.
Richard doesn't know how to live anywhere else,
and my kids…
Robert: They're practically grown.
You said yourself, they hardly talk to you.
Francesca: Yeah, they don't say much,
but Carolyn is only sixteen,
but she's about to find out all of this for herself.
She's going to fall in love,
she's going to try to build a life with someone.
If I leave, what does that say to her?
Robert: What about us?
Francesca: You have to know, deep down,
the minute we leave here, everything will change.
Robert: Yeah, it could get better.
Francesca: No matter how much distance we put
between ourselves and this house.
I carry it with me, I feel it every minute, we're together.
I will start to blame loving you for how much it hurts,
and then, even these, even these, four beautiful days
will seem just like something sordid and mistake.
Robert: Francesca,
do you think what happened with us just happens to anyone?
What we feel, what we feel for each other?
We're hardly, hardly two separate people now.
You know some people search all their life for this,
and never find it.
Others don't even think it exists.
You're gonna tell me,
you're going to tell me that this is the right thing to do,
giving it up?
Francesca: We are the choices that we have made Robert.
You don't understand.
Don't you see, nobody understands
when a woman makes the choice to marry and have children.
In one way her life begins, but in another way, it stops.
You build a life of details and you just stop and stay steady
so that your children can move.
And when they leave,
they take your life, and details with them,
you're expected to move on again.
But you don't even remember what it was that moved you
because nobody said just walk, not even yourself.