Is it tidy? Are the pants crisply folded, the shirts carefully hung, the socks darned? Some? Sure, sure. And why are we surprised by this? Go into any single boy’s home or apartment or dorm room. The boys have been mostly in charge of the world for a long time now, and look at it. Everyone knows it, no one wants to say it. Or everyone pretends to want world peace. That's all human beings are! Just blind people. (she asks abruptly through her tears) Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? - every, every minute? (she sighs) I'm ready to go back. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths? and sleeping and waking up. Good-bye to clocks ticking? and Mama's sunflowers. Good-by, Grover's Corners? Mama and Papa.
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Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. (she breaks down sobbing, she looks around) I didn't realize.Īll that was going on in life and we never noticed. We don't have time to look at one another.
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She speaks in a loud voice, forcing herself to not look at her mother) I can't. (pause, looking desperate because she has received no answer. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together.
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Mama, his appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. She speaks with mounting urgency) Oh, Mama, just look at me one minute as though you really saw me. (pause, talking to her mother who does not hear her. Why did they ever have to get old? Mama, I'm here.