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Billy is a good friend to the Bridges. Emily Bridges was his boss for years at the construction company Bill works for and supported him when his former lover passed away. Recently, Emily has developed an unknown illness that has caused her to lose her senses of smell, taste, sight, and hearing. Her husband, John, is doing his best to take care of her, but Billy knows how tough being a caretaker can be. Here, he tries to help John by inviting him over the night of his homing pigeon’s big race,
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START: Billy: They’re gonna come from that direction. Richard goes to the movies with his cousin Valerie on race days. He thinks I get too worked up.
John: It’s exciting.
Billy: Sh*# yeah.
John: when are they going to get here?
Billy: Still not for a bit yet. Soon. Just a sec.
[... … …]
END: Billy: You gotta keep doing stuff.
John: I’m doing things.
Billy: No I mean This can be a disaster or it can be an opportunity. Somehow. You can try to shove everything back to the way it was, to try to approximate it, to almost be how you were before or you can say “Everything’s different and maybe I can be different” because it’s a chance to change stuff and stuff you might not have been able to change before.
You gotta live a little bit bigger than you think.
Somehow you gotta still see her. Because she’s still here. And life is short. F*%$! There he is!
For full scene, please refer to clip or script cited here: Bock, Adam, A Small Fire, Samuel French, 2012.
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