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The the ticket booth guy at the train station tells her to wait 20 mins. Its symbolic because she wanted to leave right away back home before she regreted the decsion of leaving her son in the hospital.

Mom being single because they husband walked out on them when they were having problems which were probably coming from their mentally challenged son, the stress prehaps the frustation. So she thought her being a single mother wouldn't be able take care of Arnold

Also when she talks about getting married at an early age, she thinks that resulted her son being born mentally challenged. She was the only one trying to make her marriage work with her husband till she finally realize that it takes 2 to make it work. She talks about the struggles she had with her parents as a teen. Her parents werent accepting of her boyfriend.

Arnold old blanket that has never been washed, his mom leaves it behind at the hospital for him to use. She tells the doctor that he has used it since he was born and has never been washed.

The guys that arrive to sing at the station, they announce "If I may take 20 mins of your time." Exactly the time she has to wait for the train. They distract her from the thoght of leaving her son at the hospital.