Start: So we were in Kansas, because--e...

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So we were in Kansas, because--even though that was way out of the way we wanted to hit the center of the country, preferably around the Fourth of July for maximum earnestness slash unacknowledged irony factor. The timing worked out so it was July 3rd and we were approaching Gypsum, our small town America of choice, one bar, one diner, 17 churches or whatever.

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So the part that everyone’s pissed at me about is that after I filled out all the paperwork at the police station and called his mom and my mom I got back on my bike and kept riding.

For the full monologue, see the script edition cited here: Amy Herzog, 4000 Miles, American Theatre Journal, April 2012, pp.73-74.