| Kim
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| Good evening, Maam
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| Ellen
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| don’t turn the bed yet
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| Kim
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| I’m not the maid
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| Ellen
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| What do you want then?
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| Kim
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| they must have written the number wrong
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| I am looking for someone named Christofer Scott
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| three- seventeen, Oh I’m sorry… unless
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| well, you must be, of course, you’re John’s wife. |
| are you not?
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| Ellen
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| Oh God, I see
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| it had to happen
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| you must be kim
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| Chris went to find you
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| please come inside
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| no one will hurt you
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| I’m Chris’s wife
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| my name is ellen
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| (Kim doesn’t move)
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| Ellen
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| In a way, I am glad I am meeting you first
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| understand, you were only a name till tonight
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| I don’t how I’d feel if our roles were reversed
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| please won’t you sit down
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| Kim
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| Tell me you are lying
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| Ellen
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| we’ve been married a year, I am sorry, it’s true
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| Kim
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| he said he’d come to get me
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| Ellen
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| he says he tried to reach you, but what could he do?
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| Kim
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| please tell me you’re not married
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| you don’t know, you can’t know what I’ve done to be here
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| Ellen
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| you don’t know how he needed a new start
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| Kim
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| I feel walls in my heart
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| closing in
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| I can’t breath
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| I can’t win
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| Ellen
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| as for the child
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| you say i’t Chris’s
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| Kim
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| my son is Chris’s
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| I had a dream for my son to belong
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| and not live his life in the streets like a rat
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| Ellen
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| we aren’t rich, but we’ll shoulder our load
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| Chris and I are totally together on that
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| Kim
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| then you must take Tam with you
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| Ellen
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| take a child from his mother, impossible kim
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| Kim
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| you will take tam with you
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| the he’ll get what I wanted for him
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| Ellen
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| but kim, your child needs you
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| Chris is married to me, we want kids of our own
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| Kim
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| Tam’s chance lies with you now, not with me
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| Both
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| No!
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| can’t you see
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| it won’t work
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| it can’t be
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| Kim (…) then exits
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| Ellen
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| I don’t want this
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| I didn’t come here
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| to meet a girl
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| who loves my husband
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| I came here to help, but what do I do?
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| now, after this, what do I… |