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It had to be Richard. The child we loved...

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Sunset

Martin Foreman

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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult, Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One
Time & Place
A home in Northern California, late 1990s
Length
Short
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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It had to be Richard. The child we loved most. Who drifted from school to college, to politics, to protest, to drugs and despair. The boy with no friends who saw injustice everywhere. The young man who was always alone. I knew about the drugs long before you did. “They’re like alcohol or tobacco, Mom; they’re ok if you know what you’re doing.” The most passionate I ever heard him speak. What do you say? How do you reach out to a twenty-three year old when you’re over fifty and you have no idea the life he leads? How could I have stopped him? What could I have done? I saw the hurt. I never understood where it came from, I could never put it right, but I could see it, I could feel it. And he died from it, David, he died, he died!

Foreman, Martin. Sunset, Arbery Publications, 2013, pp. 50-51.

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