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Start: Tell me-- your skin oughtn’t to curl--ought it-- when he comes near you-- ought it? That’s wrong, ain’t it? You don’t get over that, do you-- ever, do you or do you?

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End: Sometimes in the subway I think I’m going to die-- sometimes even in the office if something don’t happen-- I got to do something-- I don’t know-- It’s like I’m all tight inside.

For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Treadwell, Sophie, Plays by American Women: 1900-1930, Applause, 1981, pp. 192-193.

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