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Buried Child

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Start: See, we were a well-established family once. Well-established. All the boys were grown. The farm was producing enough milk to fill Lake Michigan twice over.
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End: It made everything we’d accomplished look like it was nothin’. Everything was canceled out by this one mistake. This one weakness.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Shepard, Sam. Buried Child Revised Edition, Dramatists Play Service Inc. Acting Edition, pp. 66-67, 1996.

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