Annie: (_Runs back in with her head down...
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Annie is a hippie-ish young woman, who has always wanted to be a mom. She quit her job as a nurse to raise her son Jasper, who is now 2 years old. She has been having an increasingly hard time parenting him, and in the previous scene she grows so frustrated with him, that she ends up hitting him (offstage, we never see Jasper). After she loses it on him, she runs back onstage, with her head down, visibly upset, hitting herself. The character of Mother Nature, who serves as the voice of reason,
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Annie: (Runs back in with her head down, visibly upset, fists clenched, hitting herself) Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.
Mother Nature: (touching her shoulder as she says) Annie…
Annie: (flinching away)
Mother Nature: Annie.
Annie: Oh No. I can’t do this right now.
Mother Nature: I already know, I saw.
Annie: Oh God. Then you know everything.
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