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Context
The nation is in the midst of a pandemic and Person 1 and Person 2 are separated, with Person 2 unable to travel home. While Person 2 is stuck at the airport, the couple chat online. Person 1's store has been recently looted, aside from a box of hand sanitizer and a bag of flour.
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PERSON 2
One thing.
PERSON 1
What?
PERSON 2
One thing. What one thing would you do now if you could?
PERSON 1
Like before?
PERSON 2
Like after. When this is over.
PERSON 1
Make you use the hand sanitizer.
PERSON 2
One thing!
PERSON 1
I don’t know.
PERSON 2
What do you miss?
PERSON 1
You.
PERSON 2
I miss you, too.
PERSON 1
What about you? What’s your one thing?
PERSON 2
Cooking. You can only eat airport food for so long.
PERSON 1
That’s a tired comedic bit.
PERSON 2
Well, I’m tired.
PERSON 1
Hold on.
PERSON 2
What?
PERSON 1 brings out a small sack of flour.
PERSON 2
Something else you ferreted away?
PERSON 1
No… they just didn’t want it. Nobody wants to make things from scratch right now, I guess.
PERSON 2
Do we still have eggs at home?
PERSON 1
And a little vanilla.
PERSON 2
We’ll bake. That’s what we’ll do. First thing when I come home.
PERSON 1
And dance, like we used to.
PERSON 2
Dance through the mess! Yes! Maybe I’ll find a new apron here before—
PERSON 1
It’s torn.
PERSON 2
What?
PERSON 1
The flour. There’s a tear in the bag.
PERSON 2
Well, that’s all right, we can—
PERSON 1
It could be contaminated.
PERSON 2
I’m sure it’s fine. We can—
PERSON 1
We can’t do anything!
PERSON 1 throws the bag onto the ground. It explodes, and there is flour everywhere. The two of them hold for a moment, and then look to one another. They begin to smile, which builds into laughter. They begin to laugh out of control, a cathartic if not hysterical release.
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