MADELYN Go ahead, make jokes. See if I...

Then...

Rhet Madelyn

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MADELYN Go ahead, make jokes. See if I care. Beth said I should stop seeing you because we’re going nowhere. Are we? Are we going nowhere?

RHET No, we’re going somewhere- If you’d let me just...

MADELYN If you don’t want me...just say so.

RHET I want you.

MADELYN You don’t mean it!

RHET Remember in the barn?

MADELYN I was only seventeen then. I’m a woman now. I’m eighteen.

RHET You didn’t speak to me for three months.

MADELYN You told everyone.

RHET I didn’t. They knew by the gouges on the side of my face. Do you think I liked that?

MADELYN You were never like that before...

RHET You were so beautiful that day...

MADELYN I didn’t want our first time to be in a barn when I was smelly and dirty...

RHET Your hair stuck to the side of your neck...it smelled like rain...

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