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I come here from North Carolina at seven...

Esther

Intimate Apparel

Lynn Nottage

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene One,
Time & Place
A boarding house, evening, Lower Manhattan, 1905,
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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I come here from North Carolina at seventeen after my mother died of influenza. God bless her loving spirit. My father died two years later, he was a slave you see and didn’t take to life as a freeman.

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It was just about the best gift anybody give me. It was as though God kissed my hands when I first pulled the fabric through the sewing machine and held up a finished garment. I discovered all I need in these fingers. I wanted you to know that about me.

Nottage, Lynn. Intimate Apparel. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, 2005. pp. 37-38.

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