Surrender Dorothy

After the last scene you saw, there were actually twenty more minutes. Mel, Adam's producer, comes by white Natalie is laboriously translating the diary with a dictionary, and she winds up asking him out to eat. Maddy comes back, and she and Peter reconcile; he tells her that he loves her and only ever loved her. She says it only matters that they love each other. Mel and Natalie go to a Japanese restaurant, where she asks the chef to read the diary for her. He says that it's very steamy, but he could read a less risque passage. The passage he reads, as it turns out, discusses how Sara felt smothered by her mother, and thought that she might never be able to really grow up until after her mother dies. So, Natalie rushes out of there with the diary (We never see Mel again.) and winds up walking (along a highway) to Fro-Z-Cone, where she meets Betty. Natalie explains that her daughter died after visiting the place, and Betty remembers her. Betty tells Natalie that Sara and her "boyfriend," ("No, not her boyfriend. But her best friend.") both seemed happy that night. Back at the house, Natalie gives Sara's Japanese tea service to Peter ("I think that this is what you wanted."), the book "The Land of Oz" to Maddy and Duncan ("The real bible of motherhood."), the pink Kimono to Shawn ("Just in case you do "The Mikado."), and--after everyone else goes out to the car--the diary to Adam ("I hope you can use it for you new play."). She tells him she's sorry that she wanted Sara all to herself, and that Sara hurt him by leaving. She admits that Sara was the only thing she ever loved in her whole life. "Me, too," agrees Adam. He asks her what she'll do now. She says that she thought about going to Japan for a while, but instead she decided that she should let Sara have some place all to herself. She's just going to go home. The four young friends drive off in the pickup, declaring that they'll all be back. Natalie drives off in her SUV, remembering (via voice-over) a time when Sara was seven years old and asked her mother how the lion, the tin man, and the scarecrow lived the rest of their lives knowing they'd never see Dorothy ever again. Natalie told Sara that they knew that their time with Dorothy was a gift, and that they could keep her alive in their memories and "face their futures with newly found courage." Then she sings the "you're out of the woods" song, which ends "March up to that gate and bid it open." ~fin