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START: MAHALA Hello.
PRISCILLA I let myself in. I still have a key.
MAHALA It has been a long while. My English has meantime improved.
PRISCILLA Are you sleeping with him now?
MAHALA Your manner meantime has not improved. It has been difficult for me. But it is lovely here.
[... …]
END: MAHALA Your mother is a strange lady; to neglect a garden. A garden shows us what may await us in Paradise.
PRISCILLA She read instead.
MAHALA I have examined her library. Such strange books. I spend many hours. The rains are so abundant. In the garden outside, I have planted all my dead.
(As the lights fade, in the garden outside, a nightingale.)
Tony Kushner, Homebody/Kabul. Theatre Communications Group, 2004 (electronic edition). p.185-190.
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