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Leticia: Alejo, how are you? (Alejo kisses Leticia’s hand.)
Orlando: Alejo is staying for dinner.
Leticia: Would you like some coffee?
Alejo: Yes, thank you.
[... … …]
End:
Leticia: Nonsense.
Alejo: It’s not nonsense. How can you say it’s nonsense? --How can one live in a world that festers the way ours does and take any pleasure in life?
Maria Irene Fornes, The Conduct of Life, in Maria Irene Fornes Plays, PAJ Publications, 1992, pp. 74-76.
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