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girls ask the boys. He explains to Ephram the tradition behind it and tells him to check his locker. He does and there were plants hanging from it, and a card. Ephram reads it and it says from Amy. Meanwhile at Mama Joy's Edna is upset to learn that the Kissing Bridge is being teared down. Irv doesn't understand why she's get so upset, and she leaves the restaurant. Dr. Brown stops Dr. Abbott outside and tells him of the 2 patients with Gonorrhea of the throat and says they should track down the source. Dr. Abbott doesn't agree and says it's just fluke think. That's when Dr. Abbott goes to his office and learns his next patient doesn't have Strep throat, she has Gonorrhea of the throat. Ephram walks into the cafe where he sees Amy with Kayla.He walks to her holding the plants. She asks who gave it to him, and finds out it was one of Bright's jokes again. Amy catches up to him where she apologizes for her brother and he ends up saying mean things to her and walking off. The next morning Delia runs into the pantry screaming that Andy shrunk her favourite hat. That's when the phone rings and it's Dr.Abbott wanting to talk about the STD. Off to city council they go where we find out that Dr. Abbott's wife is city mayor. They want permissiom to run an assembly at the high school to talk about sex and STD's so kids will be informed. Permission is granted. Next scene is just of Amy walking by Ephram, and he doesn't make eye contact. At the elementary school, Delia trys to play with Magilla but he won't let her. She doesn't understand why he wanted to be friends, and now he doesn't. Edna is outside fixing her motorbike when Irv walks up with lunch. She is in a bad mood about the Kissing Bridge being torn down and she won't tell him way and walks off to the video store. At supper time, Amy yells at Bright for what he did to Ephram, when the subject of Dr. Abbott and Dr. Brown coming to the high school to teach sex comes up, and they are both embarrassed. That's when Amy mentions that Bright went out with Susie Clark. At the Brown house, Ephram is raging mad that Andy is coming to talk about sex. But he is coming and there's nothing Ephram can do about it. The next morning at school, Amy and Ephram make up. She says she wishes she could ask Colin to the dance and Ephram says you still can and says let's go to Denver right now to ask him, and i'll go with you too. At Delia's school, Magilla asks if she wants to come over later and play. She is really confused that he's nice to her when there alone but with other people around he's not. But she says sure and Magilla walks away with a smile. It's the moment of truth, the Dr's show up at the high school. Andy makes fun of Dr. Abbott for bringing visual aids. In Denver, Ephram watches Amy as she is at Colin's side asking him to go to the dance and to open his eyes. Around dinner time Andy asks Delia what's wrong and she explains about the Magilla thing. The phone rings and he finds out Ephram skipped school all day. In Denver, Amy and Ephram are eating dinner and he explaining the story of the winter formal in NY that he asked a girl to go and she said yes. But she couldn't go because she had mono. Amy makes a compliment and then relizes that they missed there bus. Andy is worried about Ephram when Harold shows up at the door and says that both Amy and Ephram are in Denver. They begin to drive to Denver taking about the STD again. They finally get to Denver and Amy and Ephram both don't seem to get in trouble. Meanwhile at Mama Joy's, Enda finally tells Irv why the Kissing Bridge bothers her. That's where she kissed her 1st husband for the 1st time, where he proposed, and where she toke him to tell him she was pregnant with Harold Jr. He says it's alright, he just wants to comfort his wife. At the Abbott home, Harold confronts Bright about the STD. Bright says he's a virgin and hasn't done anything bad with other girls before. Magilla and Delia are playing a video game at his house when he says "I'm bored. Wanna play something better?" They both pull a trunk out of his closet that is full of....barbies. They both begin to play. Later on at home, Ephram apologizes for skipping school to go to Denver. His father says he's grounded and if he does it again it will be longer. Then he says it's time for "the talk." He explains the story of a patient in NY named Alfie, who they didn't know what was wrong with him. One day he walked into his room to see how he was and he was died. They finally found out what was wrong with him. He had AIDS. He didn't want to lose anyone else that way. That's why finding out the source of the STD was so important to him. Last scene is Edna taking Harold down to the Kissing Bridge, and explaining the story of the bridge. She then pulls out a lever and blows up the bridge. He asks why she did that. And she just says "grieving." |
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