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A. Did you hear –?
B. Did you know –?
About the girl
A. Michael –
John
B. Do you know –?
That girl
B. She brought all these boys with her –
Strange boys
B. With strange names –
Toodles?
B. Curly?
Slightly
B. One night I heard him crying when he thought I was
asleep.
I never asked why
DETECTIVE. What were you running to?
A fairy dance
B. There wasn’t a mermaid lagoon.
Was there?
WENDY. Because of the magic.
Because it was everywhere.
Because of him.
I had never felt those kinds of feelings
A. Those who shine with a holy light,
And those who notice
B. And I don’t live on the ground floor.
It was around the time candy started hurting my stomach
DETECTIVE. Wendy Darling.
How old is she now
DOCTOR. They say she hardly leaves the house.
Still
NINA. They say she doesn’t have any friends.
Besides those boys
BOY. She needs to not think about him so much.
Didn’t she leave him?
A. The room where she met him.
I feel sorry for her
WENDY. Nice to meet you.
Twenty
B. That’s what they say.
I hate when they say that
B. Sometimes it’s true.
How do you know when it’s a lasting connection
WENDY. Are they blue?
Or is that someone else?
The first time I saw him, I saw his shadow first
B. His lips were chapped.
His eyes were blue
B. I gave him a kiss before I knew what it felt like.
Now it feels different
A. Now it means different things.
He shone
WENDY. What if I spend the rest of my life without being felt?
I want to be felt.
I want to feel.
I have to find him.
I thought I saw him yesterday morning
A. His eyes were brown.
His eyes were green
A. The way that gives you butterflies.
It was around the time I stopped caring if my shoes were comfortable
B. All those feelings inside.
Just from hands
A. Do you remember –?
B. Those girls.
The others
A. Instead of them?
Because of those boys
BOY. Because she never got past it.
But wait
WENDY. Of course it matters.
Everything matters.
Everything sounded so new then
B. So I thought it might be nice for him to get one now.
Did he get it?
B. I’ll send another one.
Print the return address very clearly
A. So he can find me.
So he can find me
B. Everyone leaves her.
Why?
A. Maybe it’s her fault.
Poor thing
B. Running was my favorite.
We tore through the forest like we were being chased
A. But sometimes we were being chased.
It was so scary
WENDY. But I pretended like it didn’t.
My favorite was pretending
B. Nobody knew how to get the splinter out.
It hurt to walk
B. I started to forget the way my mother smelled.
And I was afraid of what else I was capable of forgetting
