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Getting Out

Arlene Horsclaw Mother

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Arlene: I didn’t know if you’d come.

Mother Ain’t I always?

Arlene: How are you? (Moves as if to hug her. Mother stands still, Arlene back off.)

[... … …]

End:

Arlene: How do you know that? (Furious.)

Mother: Now don’t you go gettin’ het up. I’m tellin’ you …

Arlene: But …

Mother: Kids need rules to go by ad he’ll get ‘em over there.

For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 18-21.

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