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It is a day like most others in Grover’s Corners. Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs, longtime neighbors and friends, sit together outside after sending their children off to school. They talk about everyday, mundane things, but Mrs. Gibbs has a secret she can’t wait to share.
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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.
For the full scene, see the video clip or refer to the script cited here: Thornton Wilder, Our Town. Harper and Row, 1957. pp. 17-20.
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