| rdfs:comment | - While at a drugstore, Charlie, Alan and Jake run into Dolores Pasternak, Jake's 5th Grade teacher Charlie had a brief relationship with. Charlie finds out that after he dumped her, she had a nervous breakdown, was fired and blackballed from teaching, disowned by her parents, lost her house, is now living in a cheap motel, and her new job is at a strip club. She yells at Charlie saying that he ruined her life. Alan and Jack, who got baptized, come to find that Charlie has decided to live with his guilt for Ms. Pasternak. She is seen climbing the deck, like Rose.
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| abstract | - While at a drugstore, Charlie, Alan and Jake run into Dolores Pasternak, Jake's 5th Grade teacher Charlie had a brief relationship with. Charlie finds out that after he dumped her, she had a nervous breakdown, was fired and blackballed from teaching, disowned by her parents, lost her house, is now living in a cheap motel, and her new job is at a strip club. She yells at Charlie saying that he ruined her life. Back at the house, Charlie asks Alan if he thinks Charlie is a horrible, evil person, to which he replies "Yes". Charlie is pondering the fact that she said he ruined her life, and decides to try and make amends. Charlie and Alan go to the strip club where she works and try to find her. When they do, she doesn't want to see them, but Charlie asks if he can help her get her life back on track, and offers her a teaching job for a "special needs" child. She accepts. After a long session of teaching Jake, she is finished for the day, and tells Charlie that they are done. She is about to go back to the motel, when Charlie offers that she could stay with him, no strings attached, just until she gets back on track. Charlie insists she take the guest room, which forces Alan onto the couch. During the night, she sneaks into his room, and says that she had an epiphany, and that it was God who brought her back to Charlie, she invites him to pray with her. In the morning, she tells everyone to get dressed and ready because they are going to church. At church, she says that God doesn't want them to separate, and that God speaks through her. When it's time for the blessing, they all get up, and Charlie runs out the door, jumping over the collection plate on his way. Alan and Jack, who got baptized, come to find that Charlie has decided to live with his guilt for Ms. Pasternak. She is seen climbing the deck, like Rose.
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