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A week earlier, Bella left home, She told her family that she wanted to marry a man she met at the movies, and that conversation went terribly. Now she’s back, and wants to talk with her mother about what happened. Bella has always been slow, and she worries that she’s stupid or crazy. However, Grandma Kurnitz tells her that she is a child--prompting Bella to break down about being a child stuck in a woman’s body.
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BELLA: Would you like some tea? It’s chilly in here … I bought a coffee cake at Grossman’s. It’s still warm … It’s alright if you don’t want to talk to me, Momma. I know you must be very angry with me.
GRANDMA: (Looks away from Bella.) You’re home for goot or is dis a visit?
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End:
BELLA: We have to learn how to deal with each other somehow, you and me … And it can never be the same anymore … I’ll put my things away ... I think we’ve said enough for today ...
For full extended monologue, refer to the script edition cited here: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers, in The Collected Plays of Neil Simon, Volume IV. Simon & Schuster, 1998, pp. 148-152.
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