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The Old Man has been married to the Old Woman for 75 years. He
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START: OLD WOMAN: Come my darling, close the window. There’s a bad smell from the stagnant water, and besides the mosquitoes are coming in.
OLD MAN: Leave me alone!
OLD WOMAN: Come, come, my darling, come sit down. You shouldn’t lean out, you might fall into the water. You know what happened to Fracois I. You must be careful.
[... …]
END: OLD MAN: We lau…Ah!...aughed…Ah!...arrived…Ah!...arrived…aughed…aughed.
OLD WOMAN: So that’s the way it was, your wonderful Paris
OLD MAN: Who could put it better?
Euegene Ionesco, Plays: Volume 1. Calder and Boyars, pp..113-117
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