Flax is a plant which seeds produce an oil that is full of omega 3 essential fatty acid (EFA), protein and fiber. Flax and hemp seed oils are both very good...for a myriad of good functioning and also have healing properties. My kids actually don't mind these bagels (they taste like a normal bagel) so it's one way to get good stuff in them
This is a script I'm working on: Seagulls scream, as they fly over a huge old house on a wooded bluff above the ocean. A road leads to a large expanse of countryside and a town can be seen in the distance. Inside a living room with high ceilings, furniture is overtaken by scientific equipment, papers, and books. Neurosurgeon, DR. BERTRAM CALDWELL (50s), serious, driven, wears a white lab coat and headlamp and leans over to examine cell cultures. FRANCIS MEYER (18), an impetuous sexpot, is pregnant and her father has ‘loaned‘ her to provide personal care to Dr. Caldwell‘s wheelchair bound wife. A bored Francis tells Dr. Caldwell she's going for a walk and some exercise would probably do him good. He replies “I must get these cultures just right”. Francis lays her hand on his arm and tells him the coneflowers are in full bloom on the bluff this time of season. He reminds her she’s there because of her condition. “Earn your keep by cleaning and cooking and providing personal care to Mrs. Caldwell”. Francis pouts until she sees the face of MARABEL CALDWELL through a glass incubator. Marabel seemingly stares at Francis’ belly, mute and paralyzed in her wheelchair. Francis instinctively places her hands on her stomach.
Research assistant, TONY DE LUCA enters the living room and asks Francis to help him unload some boxes. She leaves with Tony but turns to see Dr. Caldwell go to his wife and tell her how beautiful she is. Caldwell moves a wisp of her hair. Marabel just stares.
Outside while unloading boxes from a van, Tony tells Francis she shouldn't smoke in her condition. “What? Does the whole town know? Why all the boxes?” Tony tells her Dr. Caldwell wants to complete his research at home since he's so close to results. Tony tells Francis he just got promoted to research assistant at the Biomedical Research Center and he'd take care of her, if she wanted. She throws her head back and laughs and teasingly says “You’re just a boy”.
Dr. Caldwell tenderly spoon feeds Marabel in the kitchen, Francis says good night but he doesn’t hear her. From her bedroom, Francis watches the shadow of Dr. Caldwell’s feet pass her door, as he carries Marabel to bed. The next day, Francis is bored and Dr. Caldwell doesn’t have time for her.
Francis goes home to town and asks her dad, GEORGE, “Can’t I please come home?” Dad’s running for mayor in a traditional constituency and doesn’t want a pregnant daughter running around. Mom suggests it’s not too late for an abortion, but Francis insists she wants the baby. Mom, a rendition of a 1950s valium-soaked housewife, agrees a baby will settle Francis down.
Back at the house on the bluff, Francis tucks Marabel into bed, tells her she wants Dr. Caldwell to want her, but he only has eyes for Marabel. “Go figure, look at you”. “This yours?” Francis takes Marabel’s ring from her night stand and places it on her own finger. “It’s mine now”.
Resigned to her sequestered fate, Francis feels caged and, against Dr. Caldwell’s strict orders, she explores the grounds around his house. She wanders into his greenhouse and Tony is waiting there, his shirt open. He sits on one of the benches and leaning his head back, he says “Ahhh, you made it, come here beautiful, and make a boy feel good”. Francis takes the bottle of wine from his hand and guzzles for a long time, slams the bottle down and straddles his lap. He opens the buttons on her dress and his mouth falls open as he looks on her fantastic breasts and body. A look of concern and he asks “Is it…?”. Francis laughs, “of course it’s okay … mmmm… if anything, I’m more horny now than ever". Francis' frenzied motion, bangs the bench against the greenhouse wall so hard the wine bottle falls to the ground and breaks. “STOP it Francis! I can’t take it, shit”. Francis laughs and climbs off an exhausted Tony. He hurriedly dresses and looks nervously out the door, while Francis sexily saunters through the greenhouse. She grabs some soil and rubs it all over her breasts and belly, the inside of her thighs, and throws a clump of dirt at the side of Tony’s head. He turns to look at her …“you’re hopeless girl” and he runs to catch her which makes her run. She finds a little back room and opens the door, but the scary gardener catches them and tells her he’s going to report this to Dr. Caldwell, to which Francis replies “And I’ll tell him I caught you copping a feel with Mrs. Caldwell”. She knows it’s not true, but she’s a quick witted survivor.
Next day, Francis overhears cellular biologist MAKSIM KOROLENKO and neurologist HUI ZHANG argue with Dr. Caldwell. Maksim Korolenko is agitated. “We’ll be the laughing stock of the community and don’t think this won’t have an impact on our funding”. They leave, but ZHANG drops his business card while flinging his suit jacket over his shoulder. Francis sees the card fall on the floor.
Francis is woken by a scream and from her window, sees a woman running from the greenhouse on the grounds. She explores the eerie greenhouse and enters the little back room where she shines her flashlight on high-tech surgical instruments, including a drill which hangs from the ceiling and a silver dome-like apparatus. All of a sudden she sees Dr. Caldwell’s face in the dark, scares the shit out of her. He tells her this greenhouse is off limits. She says "I thought I saw..." He interrupts when he notices his wife’s ring on Francis’ finger, wrenches it off her hand, and orders her back to the house. Francis retorts, “don’t tell my father, or I’ll tell what I saw in the greenhouse”.
Next night, Dr. Caldwell uncharacteristically invites Francis to have tea with him. Dr. Caldwell sadly explains Marabel sustained a skull injury in a car accident, causing her paralysis. He explains the woman who ran from the greenhouse, was a patient whose brain tumor he removed. She reacted negatively to her medication, so he admitted her to hospital. She was discharged months later but never the same and occasionally comes onto his property. The equipment in the room is old and unused but he checks it now and then to see if it’s still working. He talks about his research. Francis is uninterested and falls asleep. The next day, Francis is fatigued and Dr. Caldwell orders her to rest. Tony visits Francis and says he’s helping Dr. Caldwell with a computer problem. He tries to flirt, but Francis seems apathetic.
Later, Francis tries to strike up conversations with Dr. Caldwell, even makes a pass, but he becomes increasingly distant and involved in his research.
Scorned by her parents and ignored by Dr. Caldwell, a lonely Francis turns to Marabel for comfort. A lovely sensual scene at the beach where Francis frolics in the water and later sifts sand on Marabel’s arms and feet. Francis confesses “it was wrong for me to take your ring-I don’t know why I do stuff like that”. She confides some of her childhood secrets to the ever quiet Marabel. She tells Marabel her father was always too busy in politics to have time for her, but remembers a happy memory with her mother, on the beach, before her dad entered politics. Francis confesses she doesn’t know who the father of her baby is, since she slept with a few men in town.
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