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Act 1, Scene 5 Flashcards

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(1) Ron: We will be divorced soon after the case.

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Linda?

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(2) Me: Linda? [Then say, with Sarah:]

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And the first meeting on Roe v. Wade took place in Columbo’s Pizza Parlor on Mockingbird lane. IN DALLAS.

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(3) Linda: kind of chilly.

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Cold enough to freeze the balls off a pool table!

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(4) Sarah: glad to meet you.

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Thanks!

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(5) Sarah: kind of nauseous?

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Like a fish on an escalator.

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(6) Sarah: I’ll bet.

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You been there, huh?

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(7) Waitress: something to drink? Beer?

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My usual.

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(8) Sarah: worn like that before.

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Oh, that just means I don’t have a girlfriend.

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(9) Linda: no girlfriends?

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No girlfriend.

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(10) Linda: Girlfriend…

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I’m a lesbian?

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(11) Sarah: uh, situation?

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I guess…

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(12) Sarah: … months pregnant are you, Norma?

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Uh, ‘bout two and a half?

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(13) Linda: … “few social graces that would not have helped her anyway.”

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Jesus fucking Christ -

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(14) Sarah: … going on about my hair.

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What she say ‘bout you?

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(15) Sarah: You were at least four months -

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Two months! Alternative facts -

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(16) Sarah: … position to have this baby?

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Ladies, I am so poor I can’t afford to pay attention!

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(17) Sarah: … Where are you living?

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At a friend’s. I was with my dad for a while, but fathers and daughters, you know how that is…

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(18) Sarah: Of course.

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Your daddy drink?

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(19) Sarah: My father is a minister.

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Yeah? My daddy does some preaching, too. Jehovah’s Witness. When he’s sober…

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(20) Sarah: And do you have other family?

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Got a mother! Comes with the deal. But we never been close.

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(21) Mary: Amen to that!

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Hell, I thought my name was “Ugly Stupid” ‘fore I knew what the words meant. I still can’t do nothing right for that woman. And I tried ‘cause she’s got my daughter -

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(22) Linda: Your daughter?

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Melissa, she’s five. She’s a great kid.

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(23) Sarah: I’ll bet! And her father… Are you still?

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Hell no. Sugar, I married Woody McCorvey when I was 16 -

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(24) Sarah: So young!

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But he beat the shit out of me when he found out I was pregnant so I came back here to have my baby.

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(25) Mary: You think I’d let that lesbian whore raise a baby?

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I say my mother stole Melissa. Told me she was gonna put my baby on her boyfriend’s health insurance, so I’d sign some papers and go up to bed… Next thing I know, she’s knocking on my door - [with Mary] “You got five minutes to pack up your shit ‘cause you just gave away your daughter.”

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(26) Mary: I’m her mother now!

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[Cry. Sarah hands me a napkin.]

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(27) Sarah: I’m so sorry. She just -

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[Stand.] Took my baby to Louisiana. [Look at Mary.] Hell, all I ever wanted was for that bitch to like me.

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(28) Linda: And, uh… this baby?

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Well, there was a carnival in the next town and they were looking for people to work with the animals, and I love animals -

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(29) Sarah: Oh, me too.

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You got a dog or something’? I love dogs.

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(30) Sarah: … But you were saying, about the carnival?

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Man, I was a natural. “Hurry, hurry, hurry! See the five legged pony. See the snake with two heads!” Course the shrunken baby in the jar of formaldehyde kinda wigged me out. [Take my time getting back to my seat. Sit.] But when the carnival was over… Well, one night I was walking home… This was in Georgia now… And… I got raped. Which is how I got pregnant with this baby.

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(31) Sarah: Oh no! Did you report the man to the police?

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Actually, it was three men.

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(32) Linda: Three?

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One white, one black, one Mexican.

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(33) Linda: And the police have a record of - ?

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Well, my experience with the police has never been too positive. Is that a problem?

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(34) Sarah: What do you mean?

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Does it hurt my chances of getting the abortion?

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(35) Sarah: … Texas only allows for abortion if the woman’s life is in danger.

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[Stand. To audience: ] Okay, she did not say that that.

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(36) Sarah: Do you want safe, legal abortion, Norma?

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Well, yeah! I’m not here for the pizza! So what I gotta do?

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(37) Linda: Roe? Like fish eggs?

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So I’m Jane Roe?

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(38) Sarah: The point is, you wouldn’t even have to appear in Court -

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And then I could get my abortion?

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Sarah: … Do you want to do this, Norma?

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Hell [smack beer on table] I never said no to a fight yet… Like you said, things gotta change!

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