| Snow
White: |
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It’s
about to be twelve o’clock Moma.
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| Claire: |
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We
have already discussed this a million times and
you are not going down there! |
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| Snow
White: |
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My
mom is being the cloud that she is. She doesn't
understand me. I don't understand her. I guess
we don't understand eachother. She never lets me
do what I want, what I need to do. My mother lets
Rain go down to the ground and hail, why not me?
I know that she is scared for me and just wants to protect
me but how will I learn anything if I don't experience
it on my own. Why can't she let me snow? My
one wish is to be come a snowman for a little kid.
If I can put a smile on a kids face just for a few seconds
it will mean the world to me. If I can just get
her to understand that. I know she will let me go.
But I know her, she will never understand. I ask
her the answer is still the same. |
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| Claire: |
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No! |
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| Snow
White: |
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She
doesn't even let me finnish the question. My sisters
Rain and Hale get to go out once a week. Maybe it's
because they are older. I don't know! |
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| Snow
White: |
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Moma,
why can’t I snow? I be right back. |
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| Claire: |
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I heard those words before from you father and did he
come back? |
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| Snow
White: |
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What
are you talking about? I thought that he had to be in
Asia for business. |
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| Claire: |
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Have
a seat honey.
(Snow White takes a seat next to her mother.) |
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| Claire: |
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I
never told you this before but your father left me the
first time you snowed. He said “I be right
back.” And never came back. |
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| Snow
White: |
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I can’t
believe you never told me this!
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| Claire: |
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I
didn’t want you to see your father as I did!
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| Snow
White: |
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Is
that why you won’t let me snow? |
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| Claire: |
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No. |
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| Snow
White: |
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Then
why Moma!
Why! |
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| Claire: |
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(in
a soft tone) Because I’m trying to protect you. |
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| Snow
White: |
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From
what? What do you have to protect me from? Huh! What? |
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| Claire: |
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From
your father. He seems to destroy everything he touches.
I don’t want you to be in his path when you are down
there. |
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| Snow
White: |
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Moma
you don’t have to protect me. I’m a big girl. |
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| Claire: |
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I
can’t let you go down there. |
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| Snow
White: |
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Look
Moma, you can’t protect me all you life. |
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| Claire: |
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If
the only way I can protect you is to not let you snow
then that is what I have to do. |
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| Snow
White: |
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That is
not the only way! Why can’t you understand this
is what I want! How am I ever going to learn anything
if you are the one making all the choices for me?
(There is a silence in the room.)
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| Snow
White: |
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If you won’t
let me go for 15 minutes then I go forever. I never
come back, is that what you want - me never to come
back?
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| Claire: |
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No, of course
not! I love you!
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| Snow
White: |
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There
is only 10 minutes left. |
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| Claire: |
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(Claire
takes Snow White by the hand and leads her to the clear
glass table.)
There is a whole world down there, are you ready
for it? |
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| Snow
White: |
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Of
course. I have been ready. |
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| Claire: |
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If
I let you go promise me you will come back. |
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| Snow
White: |
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I
PROMISE MOMA, I’LL COME BACK. I just want your permission. |
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| Claire: |
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OK! |
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| Snow
White: |
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Thank
you Moma. I love you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
(The countdown begins.)
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| Snow
White and Claire: |
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Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two,
one!
(Snow White snows.) |
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The
End. |
