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The Last Night of Ballyhoo Flashcards

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Lala

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how do you like the tree so far, Mama?

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Where did that star come from?

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I bought it at Rich’s.

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Take it down!

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Why?

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Take it down this minute!

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I like it.

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Jewish Christmas trees don’t have stars.

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Why not?

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A star is a symbol of the birth of the Messiah.

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Oh pooey.

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If you have a star on the tree, you might as well go back on down to Rich’s and buy a manger scene and stick it in the front yard.

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I’d like that.

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Now take down that star.

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I wish you two could see yourselves.

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Is my hair funny?

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Atlanta is the center of the world tonight and you two are going at me over a Christmas tree ornament. We ought to be celebrating.

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Celebrating what, I’d like to know

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Mama! Clark Gable is less than five miles from this house right this very second..

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Drat!

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Tonight is the most important event in the history of Atlanta.

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I did something wrong. I’m never going to get this sweater finished in time for Sunny to take back to college!

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Why certainly not for me?

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You have other things to think about.

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What?

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Ballyhoo.

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Ballyhoo is ages away.

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Less than two weeks. And nobody’s asked you.

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I don’t care!

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I do.

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Then get somebody to ask you. And leave me alone

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Phone Sylvan Weil in Lake Charles. That’s all I ask.

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Mama

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well why not

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girls don’t ask boys to Ballyhoo

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19
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Call Lake Charles

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I’ve got to get ready to go

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where are you going

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to town

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town for what

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the premiere

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you don’t have a ticket to the premiere

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I don’t care. I’ll still get to see everything.

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You mean you’re planning to go down there and stand out in the street

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yes

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24
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are you crazy

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I want to feel the excitement in the crowd. to taste it. to smell it.

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it’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of - running off downtown by yourself in the dark

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you don’t understand I have to

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have to?

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yes

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27
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why?

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well I might as well go ahead and tell you the news

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28
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what news

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I’m writing a novel

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29
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Oh my word

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it takes place in Atlanta during the Reconstruction period and the title is though your sins be scarlet

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30
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well I swan - good for you

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anyway, that’s why I have to go be at the premiere

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exactly what is why

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well mama! obviously my novel will more than likely be made into a movie. So I need to go and see what all a premiere is like

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She does not have a point. And I’ll thank you to stay out of this. Lala, for the life of me I don’t know why you waste your time with all this utter foolishness when you could easily do something so much more constructive.

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Like what?

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33
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Phone that Weil boy in Lake Charles

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Mama! Only you could manage to ruin Christmas and Gone with the Wind in one fell swoop

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34
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I told her “Relax, Ma. Whaddya think, they put conversion powder in the tap water?”

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enter

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35
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Good to see ya

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Hey

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36
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You off somewhere

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the world premiere

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37
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by yourself?

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honestly Uncle Adolph, course not! Eugene Selig and Harold Lillienthal both asked me. I couldn’t make up my mind which one to pick, so we’re all three going together.

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I see. Well it’s too bad Joe didn’t know in time. He’s a big fan of Gone with the WIND

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Really?

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39
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Your uncle is teasing. Truth is, I haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.

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I bet you’re the only person in this town who can say that.

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Sounds like you got an exciting evening ahead of you.

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yes

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41
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the premiere and everything

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I tell you what. Let’s you and I eat here with the folks and then we can go downtown together and see all the celebrities come out when the movie’s over

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42
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I wonder what your two boyfriends would say to that

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gene and harold? Fiddle de dee - they can just have a date with each other for all I care

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Supper’s served

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I never met a Farkas before

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44
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Yeah. I seem to be a rare bird down here.

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Is that a New York City name?

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45
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More or less

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Oh good - you must know all the smart supper clubs in Manhattan

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Well, truth is I

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What’s your favorite

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never been to one in my life

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I need to know. I’ll more than likely be going to New York very soon.

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48
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Stop that!

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To meet with publishers about the novel I’m writing.

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Scene 2

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Do you want to hear it?

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Uh sure

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From where she sat atop the weathered buckboard wagon, Ropa Ragsdale could see the charred and twisted remains of her beloved plantation

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good. real good.

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at first I had old family home, but I think beloved plantation has more charm don’t you think? I think I have it

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what

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Habersham Hall - isn’t that beautiful? Habersham hall

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53
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Uh huh. After your street here.

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I wasn’t thinking of it that way but yes - of course! This is just about the best address in Atlanta. Did you know that?

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Not really

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You have only to look at the mailboxes up and down this street and you;ll see half the membership of the Junior League.

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Huh

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I’ll have you know we are the only Jews on Habersham Road except for one house way on the other side of Paces Ferry where it gets tacky.

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Um you think your uncle is ok

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of course. He’s just having what we all call his pre snooze snooze. He does this all the time

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She’s away at school

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Wellesley

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58
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Really?

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she got the brains, I got the moxie

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Oh. a little bird tells me you went to college too

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what

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college

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college? Who told you about that?

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Lala attended the University of Michigan for a short time, but she missed all the social goings on her so much that home she came.

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Yes. Home I came.

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I’ll be home for Pesach though

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Pesach

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Yes ma’am March or April

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good - then you’ll be here for Ballyhoo

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What’s ballyhoo

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What’s ballyhoo? Why Joe! What a question! But of course you are a Yankee

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the young people come from all over the south

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savannah and chattanooga and charleston

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I got it, like a convention

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Oh no

67
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not at all like a convention. No name tags, or talks or business meeints of an kind

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hay rides and weenie roasts and parties, and the last night a dance

68
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Now why would he care about a stupid thing like that

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Oh I think he might care a little. Am i right Joe?

69
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Well yeah it’s very interesting

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specially if you’re planning on going this year

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going? Oh say it must be getting late. I got a train to catch at six thirty in the morning, so I better call it a night.

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but

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Well now, never you mind

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mind? Mind what? I believe I’ll go on up to my room and see what’s on the radio. Stop looking at me.

72
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Exactly the same as it was the other time

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Mama how can you say that

73
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oh I’m sorry. did Scarlett and Rhett do something different this time? I must’ve missed it

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that’s not the point. Nobody can take in a masterpiece in one viewing. I came away with so much more tonight. I could watch it a thousand times.

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for lala

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would you relax mama? You know Peachy’s coming to Atlanta

75
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I saw the lights on

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Well Well! Look what the cat drug in

76
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Oh he’s fine

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Upton who?

77
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I see you got home in one piece

Yes

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How come y’all know each other

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Uncle Adolph got Mr. Farkas to make sure I didn’t fall off the train

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What?

79
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Not bad

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seen Gone with the Wind yet Joe

80
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no not yet

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It’s a dream! Isn’t it a dream Mama?

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I’ll do it Auntie

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You don’t know how to fix coffee

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Yes I do. I make it in the dorm all the time

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I can imagine what that must taste like. I’ll do it Uncle Adolph.

83
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Ballyhoo. We made a deal remember?

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The dang coffee pot boiled over so it’s going to be awhile.

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It’s ok. I really oughta go home and get some sleep.

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You two made a deal.

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I love it!

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Well!

86
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What

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he just barged in here in the middle of the night and made me go to all that trouble in the kitchen for nothing.

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The coffee and cake was Uncle Adolph’s idea

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Anybody brought up right would have known not to accept

88
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I offered to fix it

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that’s not the point

89
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oh what is the point

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he’s a very aggressive person

90
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Fine. Whatever you say

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And I certainly wouldn’t be seen at Ballyhoo with him

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Luckily that’s a decision you won’t have to make. Lala why do you care so much about ballyhoo

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you care just as much as I do

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I do not. I think Ballyhoo is a joke

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then why are you going

93
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you want me to stay home?

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Yes. You say you don’t care about it. Stay home

94
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I will

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good

95
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fine. No I want to go

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I knew it! Hypocrite

96
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You are the biggest wet blanket in the world No wonder nobody wants to take you to ballyhoo

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yes somebody does

97
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oh really

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yes really and he happens to be a member of one of the finest families in the south

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who is he

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you’ll see - you’ll see what happens when you come crawling to Ballyhoo with a pushy New Yorker trying to such up to his boss and I sweep in with someone who belongs there. When I sweep in on the arm of a Louisiana Weil

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Good to see ya (Peachy)

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Well goodness me. They seem to be lettin all kinds of trash into decent people’s homes these days

100
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hey lala

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hey? That’s what they feed the horses

101
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she always this sassy?

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Me? You ought to hear some of the things Peachy comes out with! He’s downright terrible!q

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Don’t give it a second thought.

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Would you really? I mean, die?

102
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What do you think?

A

Why did you say that?

103
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Just came out of my mouth. I know. I’m terrible.

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You really are

104
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My sophomore roommate really did

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did what

105
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have a nut allergy. and somebody put peanut butter in a chocolate cake and didn’t tell him

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what happened?

106
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he died right at the dinner table

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oh no! really?

107
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what do you think?

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go home. Go home right this minute

108
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i can’t

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why

109
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I have to tell you something. That’s why I came over

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Tell me what?

110
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I can’t take you to Ballyhoo tomorrow night

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what?

111
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I can’t take you to Ballyhoo

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Why

112
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i have to take somebody else

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who

113
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my cousin Sally Myers - from Columbus

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oh. Are you making this up peachy

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I wish I was. I feel terrible. But there’s nothing I can do. They’re forcing me

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Forcing you?

115
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Dad, Uncle Ike, all of them. Sally doesn’t know anybody in Atlanta and she’s dying to go

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can’t somebody else take her?

116
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there aren’t any other single men in my family. Mother said she was sure you’d understand

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did she?

117
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I guess it won’t be so bad. Sally’s a nifty little dancer

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good

118
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You do understand, don’t you?

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I guess.

119
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Good girl. You all right?

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Of course, I’m fine

120
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Listen I hate to do this, but I have to ask you something, ok? I don’t know anybody else to ask

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all right

121
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should I buy her a white orchid or a purple orchid

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what color is her dress

122
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how should i know

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then I guess white

123
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white thanks

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unless she’s wearing black, then purple

124
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oh I’m pretty sure she won’t be wearing black

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WHy

125
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she’s nine years old

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what

126
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i swear my cousin Sally is nine years old

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Your family is making you take a nine year old to Ballyhoo

127
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What do you think?

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I - I

128
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HA HA

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You’re terrible

129
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Be ready at nine tomorrow night

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nine

130
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because I’ll be here at ten. What color are you wearing?

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not black

131
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then I’ll be sure to get purple

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you’re terrible

132
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Sylvan I was wondering if I could offer you a piece of - Well where is he

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He’s gone

133
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oh no what happened

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nothing. It’s all right. He’s taking me to Ballyhoo

134
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Prepare yourself bud

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enter

135
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Why sylvan, you are a devil

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I told you Mama

136
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I picked you a poesy

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oh oh look two two white orchids

137
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have fun y’all

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See you there

138
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I forgot Dorothy says hey

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Dorothy who?

139
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From Louisville, lovely people

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I can’t place her. What was her name before

140
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Beats me. Says she was in your dorm at Michigan

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Dorothy Wolf? Dotty Wolf from Shaker Heights?

141
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She’s fine. She’ll be right out. Go on. GO on now

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I’m not going

142
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Of course you are

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You don’t understand Mama! Dotty Wolf rushed sigma delta tau with me and she got in

143
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that was years ago, maybe she’s forgotten about it

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no she hasn’t

144
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how do you know that

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I know Dotty. Mama I won’t go to Ballyhoo and have people laugh at me

145
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If they’re going to laugh at you, they’ll do it whether you go or not. Now you get yourself up and go on out to that car

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I can’t

146
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You have to

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no

147
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Well I guess you’re right. Dotty Wolf probably does remember and she probably will tell. And everybody you know will be saying “Lala Levy didn’t get into Sigma Delta Tau at Michigan. What an awful pill she is

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Mama

148
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Act 2 Scene 5

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Come on

149
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Not a chance

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and you behave yourself

150
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Why whatever can you mean

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Patsy Wait! You won’t believe what just happened

151
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Thanks for nothing

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Mama mama

152
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Lala what is it

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mama oh mama

153
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Lala what happened? Was it that Wolf girl from Michigan

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No Dotty didn’t say a word

154
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THen what is it

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Peachy asked me to marry him

155
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Thank the Lord Oh sugar Are you sure?

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What do you mean am I sure of course I’m sure. She doesn’t believe me.

156
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We’ve been talking about it since Thanksgiving

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We have?

157
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And Daddy said well at least we know what we’re getting here, all the way back on both sides, and Mother said you can have her if you want I guess. She was ready to get Grandma Zacharias’s engagement ring from the safety deposit box for me to bring to Atlanta, but I said let’s wait awhile just in case somebody better turns up at Ballyhoo

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Isn’t he awful

158
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he certainly is

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tell him peachy

159
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what

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this is the best part

160
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Who do I say SHabbat SHalom after

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Peachy

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