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Start: When I think of Dad, I don’t think of that. I think of him color-chalking our fingers and the typewriter keys so even the babies were learning the touch-system, or taking movies of us washing dishes so he could analyze them and eliminate waste motions.
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End: He’d come roaring into the living room, take out his stopwatch, and whistle assembly call. That meant—come running.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Christopher Sergel, Cheaper by the Dozen, The Dramatic Publishing Company, 1950, p. 11..
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