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Six Degrees of Separation

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A substitute teacher out on Long Island was dropped from his job for fighting with a student. A few weeks later, the teacher returned to the classroom, shot the student unsuccessfully, held the class hostage, and then shot himself.

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And it’s the worst kind of yellowness to be so scared of yourself you put blindfolds on rather than deal with yourself…�

To face ourselves.

That’s the hard thing

The imagination, That’s God’s gift to make the act of self-examination bearable.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Guare, John, Six Degrees of Separation, Vintage Books, 1994, pp 31-34.

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