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I’ve played out the events of my life night after night, always searching for a new ending to my story, one where I leave this cell and return forever to my Butterfly’s arms.
Tonight I realize my search is over. That I’ve looked all along in the wrong place. And now, to you, I will prove that my love was not in vain--by returning to the world of fantasy where I first met her.
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And I have found her at last. In a prison on the outskirts of Paris. My name is Rene Gallimard--also known as Madame Butterfly
For the full monologue, see the script edition cited here: David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly, Penguin Books, 1988, pp. 91-93.
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