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Emily Webb and George Gibbs have been friends and neighbors their whole lives. And now they are getting married. But the Stage Manager who guides the audience through Grover’s Corners takes everyone back in time to when George and Emily first fell in love, one simple day after school. Emily is calling to her friends, saying goodbye, when George approaches her.
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Start: EMILY: I can't, Louise. I’ve got to go home. Good-by. Oh, Ernestine! Ernestine! Can you come over tonight and do Latin? Isn't that Cicero the worst thing I Tell your mother you have to. G’by. G’by, Helen. G’by, Fred.
George, also carrying books, catches up to her. GEORGE: Can I carry your books home for you, Emily?
EMILY: Coolly. Why ... uh ... Thank you. It isn't far. She gives them to him.
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End: EMILY: Now I can see it's not the truth at all. And I suddenly feel that it isn't important, anyway.
GEORGE: Emily would you like an ice-cream soda, or something, before you go home?
EMILY: Well, thank you. . . I would.
For the full scene, see the video clip or refer to the script cited here: Thornton Wilder, Our Town. Harper and Row, 1957. pp. 61-64.
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