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Arlene is just paroled from prison, and it hasn鈥檛 been a day before
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Carl: What鈥檚 happenin鈥�, Mama? You havin鈥� lunch with the bugs?
Arlene: (Quietly.) F--- off.
Carl: (Threatening.) What鈥檇 you say?
[... 鈥� ... ]
End:
Carl: 鈥� Take him out on that boat they got goes roun鈥� the island. Take him up to the Empire State Building, let him play King Kong. (Rubs her hair, unstudied tenderness.) He be talkin鈥� about that trip his whole life.
Arlene: (Smoothing his hair.) I don鈥檛 want to go back to prison, Carl.
For full extended scene, please refer to the script edition cited here: Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Dramatists Play Service, pp. 54-57.
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