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Torch Song Trilogy

Arnold Beckoff Laurel

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Arnold: Isn’t this civilized? Doing the dishes.

Laurel: Stuck with the dishes. I feel like we went out to lunch, you thinking that I was treating and I thinking that you were treating and here we are working off the bill.

Arnold: No, I know, we’re in-laws on one of them detergent commercials.

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Arnold: You’re pushing me alright! But I don’t think you realize toward what. Laurel … are you happy with Ed?

Laurel: The happiest I’ve been in my life.

Arnold: So what else do you want?

Harvey Fierstein, Torch Song Trilogy, in Out Plays: Landmark Gay and Lesbian Plays of the Twentieth Century, ed. Ben Hodges, 2008. pp.458-459.

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