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**Start:** I didn’t write them letter...

Esther

Intimate Apparel

Lynn Nottage

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two, Scene Four,
Time & Place
A Boarding house, Lower Manhattan, 1905,
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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I didn鈥檛 write them letters. I said I didn鈥檛 write them letters. All this time I was afraid that you鈥檇 find me out. This good noble man from Panama. I have all of your letters here. I look at them every day. I have one that looks as though it鈥檚 weeping, because the words fade away into nothing, and another that looks as though it鈥檚 been through a hard day, because there鈥檚 a smudge of dirt in each corner, and it smells of kerosene and burnt sugar. [...]

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Who wrote them letters, George? Tell me! YOU TELL ME! I ain鈥檛 really Mrs. Armstrong, am I? I been holding on to that, and that woman ain鈥檛 real. We more strangers now, than on the eve of our wedding. At least I knew who I was back then. But I ain鈥檛 gonna let you hurt that woman. No! She鈥檚 a good decent woman and worthy. Worthy!

Nottage, Lynn. Intimate Apparel. Dramatists Play Service, New York, NY, 2005. pp. 51-52.

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