He told me he had some of his own money...

Six Degrees of Separation

Rick

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He told me he had some of his own money and he wanted to treat me. We went to a store that rented tuxedos and we dressed to the nines. We went to the Rainbow Room. We danced. High over New York City. I swear. He stood up and held out my chair and we danced and there was a stir. Nothing like this ever happened in Utah. And we danced. And I’ll tell you nothing like that must have ever happened at the Rainbow Room because we were asked to leave. I tell you. It was so funny.

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How am I going to face Elizabeth? What have I done? What did I let him do to me? I wanted experience. I came here to have experience. But I didn’t come here to do this or lose that or be this or do this to Elizabeth. I didn’t come here to be this. My father said I was a fool and I can’t have him be right. What have I done?

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Guare, John, Six Degrees of Separation, Vintage Books, 1994, pp 90-91

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