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Brazil is digging the replica of the Great Hole of History while his mother Lucy circulates. As the son of a digger, Brazil is learning to dig graves. Lucy was a Confidence--someone who heard people’s last whispered secrets before they died. Together, they are searching for memories of the Foundling Father at the replica. As they talk, Lucy teaches Brazil what it means to be a Confidence, to hear and hold people’s secrets. The inserted rests and alternative spellings and punctuation are
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Brazil: (rest) Ff Pa was here weud find his bones.
Lucy: Not always.
Brazil: Thereud be his bones and thereud be thuh Wonders surrounding his bones.
Lucy: Ive heard of different.
[... … …]
End:
Lucy: Thuh original Mr. Washingtonssbeen long dead.
Brazil: O.
Lucy: That Hole back East was uh theme park son. Keep your story to scale.
Brazil: K.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play, Dramatists Play Service, 1995,
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