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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 120795" data-attributes="member: 22">Zoe Slater: Remember that holiday we had in Brighton?Kat: Yeah. It was all right except for poor Lynne meeting [Garry].Garry, speaking to Lynne in 2001: I'm still that big kid you met six years ago.Sharon Watts: Where'd you meet Garry?Lynne: Brighton Pier. He came up to me and said I was the hundredth person to ride the waltzers that day and I'd won a prize — him for the night and I could do what I wanted with him. So I did.Sharon: It would have been rude not to!Garry on Lynne: That was the luckiest night of her life.Lynne to Garry: When I first met you, I liked you, fancied the pants off you. No-one ever made me laugh as much as you.Lynne: Do you remember the jetty?Garry: Oh yeah.Lynne: It's the old stone jetty [on Brighton seafront] that pokes into the sea. It's called the Banjo Groyne. I used to come here a lot when I was younger. This spot was always a bit special to me.Lynne on the Banjo Groyne: I wonder if it's still there?Garry: Of course, and it's got this little blue plaque — "This is where Garry Hobbs and Lynne Slater first ..."Lynne: Oi!Garry: 12th of August, 1995.Garry: My Lynne had a gorgeous set of heels. One of the first things I noticed about her were her heels. You know, when we were first courting, I used to hold the door open for her. She thought I was a real proper gentleman. She hardly knew me then. She thought I was trying to woo her while all I was trying to do was hold the door open so I could get a look at her heels as she walked in the room.Garry to Lynne: Do you remember when we first got together, all them weekends in Brighton? You used to love it — chips on the pier, spin on the waltzers and a little B&B off the main drag.Garry: We hardly talked the first few months — at it like teenagers every chance we could.Lynne: Do you remember the time we did it in the park?Garry: Oh, by the crazy golf, yes. Put that old couple right off their game, didn't we?Garry to Lynne: That time in the back of my nan's three-wheeler — that was pretty memorable.Lynne to Garry: I wasn't expecting to fall in love with you. I thought that had all been used up by Jason. And then when I realised I did love you, it was like getting my life back. That's why I wanted you, because you made me feel things I didn't think I'd ever feel again.Big Mo: [Lynne] loved you. When she brought you home to meet Charlie, it was written all over her face. And that's when I knew.Garry: Knew what?Big Mo: That there was no going back.Garry on Big Mo: First time I met her, she tried to flog me a watch with no hands.Garry on Zoe: The first time I ever met this one, she must have been about eleven. I walks through the door and there she is, screaming her head off at her [mother], calling her all the names under the sun.Zoe: So? We probably had a row.Garry: Like you did most weeks? The names you lot used to call her! I was there, I heard it. I mean I'm not saying she necessarily deserved it. That's what families are like.Garry: When I first met that family, do you know what I thought [Kat's] name was? Dirty Stop Out.Lynne on her old wedding dress: After I met Garry, [keeping] it just seemed like bad luck. So me and Kat, we put it in a bin liner, took it to the canal, weighed it down with stones and chucked it in. And we watched it sink. After that, I felt free again.Zoe to Kat: You always get off with the waiters [on holiday].Spencer Moon on Newquay: I did surfing there once.Lynne on Kat: As far back as I can remember, when anything nice happens to me, she has to go out and pull some bloke.Kat: Garry, you've been trying to get a hold of me since Day One.Little Mo to Kat: We used to down a whole bottle of fizzy wine just getting ready — me, you and Lynne, Bel sometimes. And all them halves of snake and black once we was out. Big earrings, big hair, big shoulder pads. Oh and you had your little squeezy bottle of gin for going home on the bus.Kat: And one packet of chewing gum each and don't dare breathe on Mum.Little Mo: Yeah, and throw up in the bathroom without making no noise.Kat: And you going on about the latest bloke that you hadn't spoke to.Little Mo: You used to gel my hair back so the sick didn't hit it.Big Mo: You [were] sick in your handbag.Kat: Once, that's all it was.Little Mo: It was horrible though, Kat. My lippy was in there and all.Roxy Mitchell, drinking: Me and my sister used to do this before we went out.Mandy Salter: What — get tanked up before you hit the clubs?Roxy: It was kind of like a way of kicking off the evening, not the highlight of the night, but ...Audrey Trueman: I take it you've never been confirmed?Kat: I've been confirmed as many things in my time.Garry on Kat: She was never exactly a one man kind of girl.Kat: I was a bad girl. Always have been, always will be.Kat: All my life, if I ain’t got a man, I ain’t Kat.Kat: I've kissed enough losers to fill a football stadium.Little Mo to Kat: You never wanted [to settle down].Kat to Stacey: I've been dumping blokes since you were knee-high.Glenda Mitchell: My mate Shelley always swore by Jewish blokes.Lynne: You get keen on someone, they get keen on you — you run a mile.Kat: Maybe I'm not as keen as I thought I was.Lynne: Every time with every single bloke? Have any of them passed the two month barrier?Kat: All my life, I've given up too soon. Always expecting things to fail and never give them a chance.Kat: I've heard it a million times, "I love you, Kat," but usually it's at the end of a night on the backseat of a car or in some grotty old flat. It means nothing. They're just words.Kat on being abused by Harry: After something like that happens, you grow up hating yourself. Only you know what you're really like and how filthy you really are, so if someone tells you they love you, you can't help thinking they're after something or they're just an idiot for not realising.Ronnie on being abused by Archie: I thought that if I didn't talk about it, if I ignored it, it would go away, but it didn't. It didn't go away. It never goes away. I spent years blaming myself for everything that he did to me. I hated myself, but in spite of all of those things that he did to me, I loved him. I loved him and that made me feel even more sick. How could I love a man who had done those things?Charlie Slater: Viv used to say that we should let the kids go when they're ready, make their own mistakes, but we should be there to pick up the pieces if it all went wrong.Garry on Kat's promiscuity: Lynne reckons it was all your mum's fault, her never taking her in hand when she was a teenager.Zoe: That's not true.Garry: How do you know? You weren't there.Zoe: I know what my mum was like and she was brilliant.Lynne: Bread and butter pudding, I've never known anyone make it as good as Mum.Adam Best to Chelsea Fox: [Libby] told me your mum used to make [rice pudding] whenever you was ill or upset.Charlie: Viv always made a fuss on birthdays, didn't she? Like we were still kids.Big Mo: There was always a part of her that never grew up.Charlie: That's what I think I was looking forward to, I reckon — growing old together, her laughing about it and keeping us both young.Lynne: Mum used to say, "Never make too many plans. Your whole life can turn on a sixpence."Kat: What was that thing Mum used to say? "You got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince." She was great at the art of understatement was my mum.Lynne: Mum always used to say, "Never eat cheese before you go to bed. It gives you nightmares."Kat: "One hot meal a day," that's what my mum always used to say to me. "One hot meal a day, a glass of milk before you go to bed, and wash your hands before you eat or you get worms."Bradley Branning: You've always got to wash a cut, no matter how small. That's why my mum always told me.Tina Stewart: [An] ice cold [cloth] and a tiny drop of witch hazel to take the swelling down. My mum used to swear by it [for puffy eyes]Chelsea: Something my mother told me a long time ago — you got to be honest with a guy from the very beginning. Otherwise the relationship's doomed.Heather: Mummy's always said, "If men don't like something, they're like grease stains — stubborn."Heather on Queenie: She always said, "It's going to be hard enough for you to find a husband. The least you can do is put some dosh away for your bottom drawer."Sonia Jackson: My nan used to say, "What's for you can't go past you."Kat: Mum had a saying — "Whatever's for you won't go by you."Charlie Slater to Little Mo: Your mum always looked on the bright side.Charlie: The silly laughing at nothing — my Viv, she could always set me off. She could always make me laugh. She wasn't always right but she was always interesting.Charlie on Viv: I loved her to death, but she wasn't perfect.Big Mo: Viv never had it easy.Charlie: I'm not saying she did.Zoe on Charlie: He was always trying to keep Mum happy.Charlie on Viv: She loved me and I loved her. No matter what mistakes we made between us, nothing ever changed that.Belinda Peacock: Maybe you just got used to her.Charlie: No. I remember it well, how miserable I used to be whenever she wasn't around. Always a tell tale sign. We had our rough times, don't get me wrong, but then everyone has those and it don't mean it ain't worth fighting for. I can't imagine my life without her. Every last memory of my Viv, good or bad, they're all part of the same really. They're all Viv.Jean Slater: You're a lovely man, Charlie. Viv was very lucky.Charlie: No, I was the lucky one.Charlie on Viv: She used to hold this family together.Charlie to Little Mo: Your mum, always smoothing out the bumps, making things better.Kat on Viv: She’s the one that taught me you do anything for the people you love.Zoe on Viv: It was her who brought me up, her who loved me when Kat went through half the blokes in London.Trevor Morgan on Viv: She wasn't the saint you all make her out to be.Little Mo: She was to me.Zoe on Viv: Of course we slagged her off. Everyone slags off their mums. You don't mean it. All right — she got on my nerves, she used to drive me mad with all her fussing, but it was just her way of showing that she cared. She didn't mean no harm by it. She was always there for me. If I ever got myself into a mess, I could talk to her.Zoe on Viv: Sometimes, if I did something wrong, I remember she'd give me one of her dirty looks.Little Mo: She didn't have to say anything, did she?Kat: Just stare.Kat on Viv: I always thought she had something over me, like if I put one foot wrong, she'd throw the past back in me face.Lynne: Mum weren't like that, Kat.Kat to Lynne: Mum loved you.Charlie to Kat: Your Mum loved you. She was proud of you.Kat: No, she weren't.Kat: My mum was proud of me when I rugby-tackled a flasher in the park and got me picture in the paper.Sean Slater: My dad used to be proud of me.Jean to Sean: I used to be so proud of you.Masood Ahmed, speaking in 2009: I'm proud of you. Syed: You've never said that to me before, Dad. Ever.Sam James on his jukebox: That was my dad’s pride and joy.Glenda: I've never done anything to be proud of.Alfie: I've never had nothing special in my life, nothing to be proud of.Alfie: I have never, ever begged for anything in my life.Andy Hunter: I've never grassed in me life.Kevin Wicks to Carly: I've never lied to you in my life.Mick Carter on his son Lee: He’s never lied to us, has he?Zoe: Garry's a prat. He always has been. He's been sacked more times than he's changed his socks.Billy Mitchell: You ever had a run in with the social?Garry: That's a slur on my character.Billy: What — you mean you haven't?Garry: Yeah, of course I have.Big Mo on Ollie Walters, policeman: Big Bobby Ollie. The number of times I’ve been in the back of his van. Not like that. Not that I’d have minded. He can handcuff me any day.Big Mo: I've been up before a few judges.Charlie to Big Mo: I've bailed you out so many times I'm surprised they haven't given me me own parking space.Big Mo: At my trial, I [was so nervous] I convinced myself I was guilty.Kat: But you were.Big Mo: It passed as soon as I got in the [witness] box.Kat to Big Mo: You've pulled some strokes in your time, Nan.Little Mo: I remember once Nan saved all our old newspapers. Tried to flog them to the chippy.Little Mo to Trevor: You were so lovely and I was so proud to be your wife. You had me one hundred percent. I loved you with all my heart.Garry on Trevor: I don't like the bloke. I never have done.Lynne on Trevor: He's no good for [Little Mo]. He never was.Big Mo on Trevor: Little Mo bought him that suit for their wedding.Little Mo: He always did look lovely in that.Lynne to Little Mo: Your [wedding] dress was gorgeous, weren't it?Shirley Carter to Heather: You used to love a good wedding.Lynne: You used to hate [weddings]. Remember how much you moaned about those big puffy sleeves at Mo's? And when she threw the bouquet, you ran a mile.Zoe: I was just a kid then.Trevor: There was red roses in the wedding bouquet.Little Mo on a teapot: That was a wedding present for me and Trevor.Kat: You never used it.Lynne on the ornamental angel Trevor bought for Little Mo: You used to have it on your mantlepiece.Little Mo: That's right.Zainab Masood on two ornamental lions: My mother gave them to me on her deathbed.Trevor: It was exciting getting married and we were happy.Little Mo: You make them vows and you've got to make it work whatever. Otherwise, what's the point?Trevor: Do you remember what you said on our wedding day?Little Mo: I said I felt like Cinderella. And that's the way it was — that day and every day after that, until you first raised your hand to me.Charlie: And who was there on Little Mo's wedding day, giving her away to that wife-beating animal, blessing their marriage, making a speech and toasting the vicious swine?Kat to Little Mo: You should have knifed him on your wedding night.Little Mo: Trevor was nice to me for the first couple of months [of marriage].Trevor: And then I just went and blew it.Little Mo on her marriage: Everything was fine to begin with, for the first year or so.Trevor: You were everything to me. I just wanted you to be mine.Little Mo: I was.Trevor: No, you weren't. I had to share you with everybody else. You always chose [your family] over me.Little Mo: We were really happy, but then he lost his job. Said I nagged him, said I made him feel small.Little Mo: Trevor said I wasn't allowed to have a baby. He said I wouldn't be able to look after it properly.Lynne on Trevor and Little Mo: He hit her.Charlie: Why didn't you say?Lynne: Because it was just a feeling. I couldn't prove it.Chelsea on Owen: He used to hit you.Denise Fox: That wasn't him. It's the booze. It wasn't all bad, Chels. We wind each other up, that was how it worked. Maybe if things had been different, if I'd been different ...Owen Turner: I just met the wrong person. That was me finished. It could have happened to any man out there. If I'd have met someone else, I could have been happy, settled — normal life.Little Mo on Trevor: It was just slaps to begin with, you know, nothing serious. I tried to leave loads of times, but he'd never let me walk away.Denise: When I was with Owen, I changed. Everyone said, but no-one knew why — because I was too proud to tell them.Denise on Owen: He's been a cancer in my life. I always flowed where he took me. He's a drifter. He gets things in his head, emotions. It's never hisfault so he goes looking for someone to soak it up. And I've always bent for him because if I get too stiff, he'll snap me. I've always told myself this situation wasn't straightforward, that I liked winding him up, I liked seeing his face knit up.Chelsea: It's what we always used to do — mend things, get rid of the mess, pretend like nothing ever happened.Denise to Owen: All the lies I've told [to cover] the bare, embarrassing truth of what I've been tolerating all these years.Denise: I remember lying in bed with Owen wondering, “Why am I still here — why am I lying in this house, still here?” He’d hurt me and then he’d beg for forgiveness and I promised myself I wouldn’t put up with it again.Owen to Denise: How are you trying to portray yourself there — as some sort of heroic battered woman cliché? You're not a battered woman. That's just me and you, isn't it? A victim of the drink — that's what we've always ... we've always ... You even said that yourself.Owen: What I used to say to myself was, it wasn't me that did all them bad things. I'd say to myself it was the drink done it or she wound me up or I was in a lousy mood and she should have known.Denise to Owen: I could have had you banged up years ago, but I chose not to.Denise: Not knowing when to move on — always been my trouble.Liz Turner to Owen: You've been beating [Denise] up for years.Kat, speaking about Trevor in 2002: For six years, I watched him get away with it. For six years, he battered our sister.Kat on Little Mo and Trevor: It's all down to me. She wouldn't have married him if she never felt shut out in the first place — because of me, because of what happened to me.Lynne: You mean Harry? That was not your fault.Kat: But that's when it all went wrong. I'm the bad penny, Lynne. I'm the curse on this family.Owen: Everything that I have ever done is all down to me. There was always a decent bloke in there somewhere. It's just that he wasn't in control.Dean Wicks: How long have you lived [in Tring]? Bradley Branning: Since I was little. I remember because the night we arrived, I had me mum take me to Aylesbury so I could see "Goldeneye" — James Bond.Roxy: Mum, come on, you've been around enough casinos to know how the odds work.Glenda: Yeah, but that was sipping vodka martinis with movie stars in tuxedos.Roxy: Mum, nobody believes you snogged Pierce Brosnan, OK?Kat: I have never slept with a celebrity.Danielle Jones: I haven't ever seen a Bond film.Bradley: Thunderbirds Fan Club Card — I've had it ever since I was a kid.Bradley: I can't lie — I must get that from Mum.Max: So she [Rachel] hasn't sheltered you from all the horrible truth [Max's infidelities]?Bradley: She ain't hidden a thing from me. She's honest.Max: What — burdening a kid because you ain't got anyone else to talk to? That ain't honesty, Bradley.Bradley: You ruined her life.Max: Other people move on, they find someone new. It ain't all my fault, Bradley.Bradley: Whose was it then, mine?Jack Branning to Max: Bradley — you really messed him up good and proper, didn't you?Jack to Max: You turned out to be such a lousy dad.Cora: All your life, Max, you’ve let your children down.Jim Branning on Bradley: He's been brought up in a house without a man about the place. Enough to turn a young lad off the straight and narrow.Bradley: I've never had a dad to stand up for me. All I've ever had is Mum and yeah, that may have made me a bit more sensitive, but I'm no pushover either.Bradley: Time was I didn't even feel like a Branning. I never had him [Max] in my life. I didn't want him, I didn't need him.Bradley to Max: There's no pictures of you at the house. Mum got rid of them.Stacey: Bradley thought about his dad. He didn't dare say anything to his mum though. He wasn't even allowed to mention Max's name when he was growing up, but he still thought about him though, every birthday, Christmas. He felt like something was missing, something was wrong, no matter  how much he smiled.Bradley on Max: It's like I've been angry with him my whole life. No dad on holiday, no dad to play with. Birthdays, Christmas — no photos, no memories, nothing. And that's on him because he could have come to see me at any time.Max: I've been paying for years. What you didn't get in cash, you got in tears — missed Christmases, missed childhood — all that stuff I missed out on.Rachel: All that was your fault. You walked away.Max: You shut the door. You didn't give me no way back in. I did offer to help.Rachel: Yeah, yeah, you did.Bradley: When I was a kid, I used to look at these couples and think to myself, "How do they stay together? They must have some special secret" — something my parents didn't know.Max: It's got to have been lonely, holding everything together on your own.Rachel: Yeah. There's not a lot of space to think about yourself when they're little and you're being mum and dad and working. Occupies your time, you know. I was so tired, I fell asleep at the sink once.Max: You changed.Rachel: I didn't have a choice.Bradley on Max: All those years he was gone and I didn't really miss him at all. Well, at least I didn't think I did.Bradley to Max: I imagined you saying sorry to me all the time when I was growing up — "Sorry I couldn't make your football match", "Sorry I missed your speech day."Chelsea: I didn't really want you come to sports day or anything like that, I just wanted you to get in touch.Lucas Johnson: And say what? Chelsea, I was so high on drugs and booze, I didn't know who I was. I was sleeping in crack dens with needles sticking out of me arms. I was in Hell. I was face to face with the Devil. I did things that destroyed people around me.Chelsea: You could have come back.Lucas: I couldn't. If I did, I would have ruined the one beautiful thing I knew I had in the world.Lucas: I used to be lowlife scum.Lucas: I was a nasty piece of work.Max: Took me a while, learning to be a parent.Cora to Lauren: I didn’t see much of you growing up.Lauren to her half-brother Bradley: I didn't even know you existed.Joey Branning, speaking in 2012: I never met another Branning before. Never fancied it, to tell you the truth.Max, speaking in 2012: Not quite as fit as I used to be.Joey: Never were, from what I remember!Max: You’re still as mouthy.Joey: I take after Mum. Everyone’s always said it.Joey: Everyone’s always said to me, “You’re your father’s son.”Joey: I always thought it was going to be me that ended up in trouble.Tamwar showing Zainab an old photograph: There's me, you, Shabnam, Syed on the beach. Dad's probably taking the photo. Syed's holding your hand.Tamwar: I’ve always been a good son, haven’t I?Masood: Yes, of course you have.Tamwar: I’ve only ever tried to please you, Dad. I’ve only ever done the right thing.Syed on a picture of Tamwar in his school uniform: How skinny were you?! Look at your little shorts, look at that shirt and tie!Tamwar: I look like a four year old accountant.Big Mo: You done woodwork at school.Zoe Slater: Science and technology, actually.Big Mo: Same difference. You made a little table. It was very nice.Zoe: It fell apart.Big Mo: I liked it.Charlie to Zoe: When you was a kid, home sick from school, you and me used to watch [films] all afternoon.Zoe: My maths was never that good at school.Stacey on Jean: She has never ever lied to me.Jean: Stacey Slater, you always were a terrible liar.Heather: I always was useless at lying.Mick to Linda: You never were any good at lying.Kevin Carter on Dean: He’s a good liar. He always has been.Masood to Tamwar: Ever since you were little I could tell when you're trying to hide something.Denise on Libby: I can still see her, three years old - "What you done with the chocolate bar?" "Nothing" - and it's smeared all over her face.Denise: You haven't been able to hide anything from me since you were in knee-high socks.Chelsea: I never wore knee-highs.</blockquote>

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