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Pace Creagan, 17, spends her time planning to race the train on the trestle over Pope Lick Creek, a little ways outside her economically depressed town. She persuades Dalton, 15 a boy who finds her intimidating and attractive,, to make the run as well. In this scene, Pace and Dalton practice below the trestle, imagining themselves into the heat of the moment as they face the train head on, and creating a scenario in which Dalton trips, twisting his ankle -- at which point their imaginings
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Start: Pace: Let鈥檚 start here. On this tie.
Dalton: What tie? The tracks are up there.
Pace: Imagine it, stupid.
Dalton: Right.
End: Pace: No. I just wanted. To look at you.
Dalton: Once you take your clothes off. Something is supposed to happen.
Pace. It already has. (Beat.) Get dressed.
Wallace, Naomi. The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek. Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. New York, NY. pp. 22-27.
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