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Everyone remarks how hard of a time it’s truly been for all of them – and Emily gets inspired. Clearly, she’s still dealing with the passing of Lavinia and now she’s questioning all of her life choices as far back as she can remember. D makes a not-so-funny joke about being a “child bride” and how getting married tore her away from her mother and sister. Dickinson and Edward reminisce about how they met, but things start to turn sour as memories drift to their wedding. Emily almost reveals that this is the same poem she sent Higginson, but catches herself, knowing that telling Sue she’s sharing her work with anyone else would devestate her. Sue even manages to steal a moment with Emily to give her notes about a poem she gave her, Safe in their Alabaster Chambers. The Dickinson women and Edward sing and dance and laugh about the living room, looking lighter than they have in quite some time. Sue is unsuccessful though, only managing to get into another heated argument with her estranged husband, before she heads over to the Dickinson house.ĭespite Austin’s absence, the sing-a-long is a success. She even offers to convince Austin to come. “I can’t breathe without you and I can’t write without you.”Īnd with that, Sue is saved by her “wife” (yes, you heard Emily right, she called herself Sue’s “wife”) and agrees that the sing-a-long sounds nice. “I love you more than anything, and anyone on Earth.” Then, we get that passionate line from the trailer, “I can’t live with you,” Emily insists. “I love you,” she says to Sue on bended knee. When Emily finds Sue at her house tired and worn out from the baby, looking so low it’s painful, Emily gets vulnerable and, just as she did to Walt Whitman in the episode before, Emily professes her love for Sue. Oh yes, this is another one of those EmiSue moments that will go down in the books.
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But Sue is easy to convince, especially after Emily professes her love for her. Apple TV+īut Emily has an idea: what if she reunites the family for a sing-a-long at the house? Her mother agrees that it will lift her father’s spirits, but the only way it will feel right is if everyone is there – and that means getting Austin and Sue to come. Apparently, writing the piece has proven him to be “out of step with the moment” from his neighbors and he’s being ostracized, even after they all find out it’s his birthday. The letter is on behalf of his brother, who happens to live in Georgia, but doesn’t agree with the politics.
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Dickinson wrote a “tone deaf” letter to the editor asking for sympathy for the confederates. Meanwhile, her parents are feeling some serious “disapproving energy from these townspeople” after Mr. While attending the town quilting bazaar, Emily learns that Vinnie has taken a vow of silence in solidarity with the troops, aka her sister’s new idea to find peace with the fact that all of her exes have died in the war.