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Start: I dunno. A couple minutes, and yo...

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Lynn Nottage

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene One
Time & Place
September 2008, A parole office
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Mature Audiences (M)

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Start: I dunno. A couple minutes, and your whole life changes, that’s it. It’s gone. Everyday I think about what if I hadn’t… You know… I run it and run it, a tape over and over again. [... … …] End: And for the first time in eight years, I feel like I could go home.

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Nottage, Lynn, Sweat, Theatre Communications Group, 2017, pp. 11-12.

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