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Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Mature Adult, Elderly
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene One
Time & Place
The Gianelli home, New Jersey, summertime
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: Shush! Nicky, I think you expect too much. You go looking for the perfect girl, so you find no one. You spend so much time worrying about so much -- your job, where you live, what it means -- you just expect too much.

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End: So did we make a better life for you? It’s not a worse life. But better? Just different, maybe.

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: DiPietro, Joe. Over the River and Through the Woods. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY. 1999, p. 37.

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