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It is a day like most others in Grover’s Corners. Mrs. Webb and Mrs.
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Start: MRS. GIBBS: Good morning, Myrtle. How's your cold?
MRS. WEBB: Well, I still get that tickling feeling in my throat. I told Charles I didn't know as I'd go to choir practice tonight. Wouldn't be any use.
MRS. GIBBS: Have you tried singing over your voice?
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End: MRS. WEBB: Well, if that secondhand man's really serious about buyin' it, Julia, you sell it. And then you'll get to see Paris, all right. Just keep droppin' hints from time to time. That's how I got to see the Atlantic Ocean, y'know.
MRS. GIBBS: Oh, I'm sorry I mentioned it. Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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