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At the end of the play, Ross has returned to confront his friend,
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START: Ross: Do you know there are prison terms for this? Some states they kill you for it? Do you know what they’d do to you. The press? Everybody? Down it all comes--your career; your life...everything.
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END: Stevie: She loved you...you say. As much as I do.
Martin: (To Stevie; empty) I’m sorry. (To Billy; empty) I’m sorry. (Then…) I’m sorry.
Billy: (To one, then the other; no reaction from them) Dad? Mom?
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Edward Albee, “The Goat or, Who is Sylvia” in The Collected Plays of Edward Albee Vol. 3, Overlook Duckworth, 2008, pp.620-622.
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