Start: I wish I didn’t like you, I wish...

The Christians

Wife

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Start: I wish I didn’t like you, I wish I didn’t find you so attractive, I wish I didn’t want you here in bed beside me, I wish I didn’t think that you're so smart and kind and good, and I wish I didn’t find you so magnificent because if I didn’t feel all those ways it would be so easy to—

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End: By staying with you, I am making it easier. Aren’t I? It would be harder if I weren’t here.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Lucas Hnath, The Christians, Dramatists Play Service, 2015, pp. 78-79.

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