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The best friend of Melchior Gabor, Moritz Stiefel, has committed suicide. The school has expelled Melchior for immoral behavior – specifically, in regards to an illustrated essay that Melchior wrote for Moritz to explain sexuality. Frau Gabor, Melchior’s mother, has always been fairly liberal and progressive as a parent, allowing her son to explore anything that strikes his curiosity. Herr Gabor has been permissive of his wife’s liberality, but now regrets this method of parenting and the
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FRAU GABOR: They needed a scapegoat. They did not dare meet the charge that was made everywhere against themselves. And now that my child has had the misfortune to run his head into the noose at the right moment, shall I, his own mother, help to end the work of his executioners?——God keep me from it!
HERR GABOR: For fourteen years I have looked on at your spirited
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