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11th Jan 2025

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Question: When Baby visits Penny in her room, she says, "I'm sorry, I didn't realise-" and Penny replies, "You couldn't have. It's OK." What are they talking about? Baby knew that Penny was pregnant by Robbie and needed an abortion; she knew it was illegal. What did she not know?

Answer: Billy says the night before that the doctor had a dirty knife and a folding table. Baby was saying to Penny that she didn't realise that the guy probably wasn't really a doctor or, at the very least, an unethical doctor.

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Answer: The circumstances, the morality of that era. Having premarital sex, having casual sex, getting pregnant, having an abortion, and the guy refusing to acknowledge or even admit it was his. Baby didn't understand all that until it was explained to her.