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Poppa died. I didn’t cry. My movie was a...

Ned Weeks

The Destiny of Me

Larry Kramer

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Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Three
Time & Place
The National Institute for Health, 1992
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Poppa died. I didn’t cry. My movie was a success. I made another. I realized how little pleasure achievement gave me. Slowly I became a writer. It suited me. I’d finally found a way to make myself heard. And “useful”--that word Rena so reveled in trumpeting.
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Ben has made all of the Weeks family, including Rena and his children, rich. That’s what he wanted to do--indeed I believe that’s been his mission in life--to give us all what he and I never had as children--and he’s accomplished it. Larry Kramer. The Destiny of Me. Plume, 1993. pp.109-110

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