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DocuSign Envelope ID: CAC728CC-F65E-41D2-9580-34E62F51AC3D <br /> Madeleine: They're dead, Dawn. <br /> Luna: Dawn, let it go, please. Madeleine knows- <br /> Dawn (mockingly): "Madeleine knows, Madeleine knows." Screw Madeleine, screw you! <br /> (Dawn throws her Twinkie in Madeleine's face, storms offi <br /> Socrates: There's a joke in there somewhere.. gimme a minute... (Fade it, drank) <br /> Scene 2 - Questions <br /> (Thirty minutes later. Stage is split in two, Socrates and Frank on one side at the campfire, Dawn <br /> alone on other in a deserted street) <br /> Socrates: Tell me about the way it used to be. <br /> Frank: It was beautiful. Nothing but lights and people... everywhere was gold, frankincense and <br /> myrrh. The towering buildings were all lit up at night, and the streets so packed with people that <br /> you couldn't be alone even if you wanted to. And the music... music everywhere. People were <br /> just happy to be alive. <br /> Socrates: I wonder what that's like. Y'know, happiness. <br /> (Switch. Luna enters on Dawn's side, hesitantly). <br /> Luna: Dawn... I'm sad. I'm scared. Madeleine never tells me anything. She doesn't do <br /> questions. <br /> Dawn: Beat it, squirt, or I'll beat you. In the face. <br /> Luna: Dawn.. come on. I deserve to know. <br /> Dawn: Why? (Beat) You were too young to remember. At the time, we all thought you'd <br /> remember. But you don't. <br /> Luna: What are you talking about? <br /> (Switch) <br /> Frank: I'm talking about recd happiness. The kind that doesn't come in a cardboard box. (Pause) <br /> Reference to the Twinkies. <br /> Socrates: So the other kind of treat? The people? <br />