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I can’t leave him, Chris. ... I almost d...

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A Very Modern Marriage

Arthur M. Jolly

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Comedic
Act/Scene
Act 2
Time & Place
A Manhattan Apartment, Present Day
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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I can’t leave him, Chris. ... I almost did - before we even got married. The night before our wedding, you know where I was? The Greyhound Bus station, ticket in hand. Orlando - furthest distance they had that night. I never told Matt about it. I was holding that ticket - curled up in curve of one of those blue plastic chairs. I sat there, thinking: is this - is this what I... Is this forever, I mean whatever. Growing up, hearing my parents - I’d lie awake and listen to them... you were at the reception, you remember them? A hall for three hundred people, not big enough for the two of them at the same time…
(beat)
Okay, he’s Matt. He will have his grand whatevers, his moments of... he may even have a - I don’t know what you guys have. A fling? A... an experiment? But the thing is - a marriage... it’s not about when it’s easy.
(beat)
I decided that night, that this would be forever. ‘Til death do us part.
(beat)
Then I shot him.

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