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Ad executive Waverly is on a blind date with nervous bookstore manager Andrew on the evening after the 9/11 attacks. Waverly has been anxiously trying to get in touch with her twin sister Wendy, who lives in New York City. She鈥檚 just gotten a call from her great-aunt, writer Joyce Carol Oates, who is on her way over. Waverly is panicking because, although her bookshelves are lined with Oates鈥� books, she hasn鈥檛 read any of them. She desperately asks the literate Andrew to give her a
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Start: Waverly: Oh my God, you will never believe who that was. Andrew: Who? Waverly: Joyce Carol Oates.
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End: Waverly: Can you just keep hitting redial until you get through to my Mom? Ron: You got it. Waverly: Thanks. OK. Everybody try and be normal.
Citation: Craig Wright, Recent Tragic Events, Dramatists Play Service, 2004, pp. 30-36.
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