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MA: Something…

BOB: What?

MA: I wrote him a letter saying how much I liked him… and he told everybody that he was my “Heart Throb”.

BOB: And then?

MA: The whole class laughed at me.

BOB: And you?

MA: I cried.

BOB (sympathizing): All saw you cry?

MA: I cried at home… But I went to school after that… And learned all my lessons…

BOB: What happened after that?

MA: I graduated that spring and went to work…

BOB: And? Where did you meet my father?

MA: We worked in the same place.

(Ma laughs to herself)

BOB: Why are you laughing?

MA: I just remembered how we met.

BOB: How?

MA: We all ate lunch in the same cafeteria. When I saw him the first time I thought, “He’s for me”, but he walked right by. He didn’t notice me. So I set out to try. I jumped in back of him in line. He put a bowl of soup on his tray. I quickly hit his tray with mine. His soup spilled all over his tray. He glanced at me and wanted to swear, but then I took the exact same soup as his. We sat at the same table and traded soups. That’s how our friendship started.

BOB (laughing admiringly): You were quick! And then?

MA: He asked me to a movie…

BOB: Afterwards?

MA: He asked me to walk in the park… We sat on a bench and kissed…

BOB: Then?

MA: After a couple of months I moved into his apartment.

BOB: Why?

MA: I was pregnant with you.

BOB: Why did you split up? I want to know why I don’t have a father now. What happened? He cheated you?

(Pause)

MA: Firstly he сheated you…

(Pause)

BOB: How?

MA: The cad had no interest in you and… me… You were born in a Maternity Hospital. All the fathers waited at a big window to see their babies. I waited with you in my arms all week, but he never came to see you… It turned out that he had met another woman!

BOB: What did you do?

MA: When I was let out of the hospital I went right home to my parents not to his apartment.

BOB: You saw him?

MA: Soon he got a job in another factory. I never saw him again…

(Pause)

BOB: Ma how did you live through it?

MA: You helped me…

BOB: How?

MA: You were always with me…

BOB: And what was happened then?

MA: And then… I grab you in my arms and went to America…

(Pause)

BOB: Ma, did my father ever give you flowers?

MA: Yes! I remember once we walked past a fence in front of beautiful lilacs. He climbed over the fence and pickled me a bouquet. Bowing, he gave them to me. I put them on my bedside table. Oh how wonderful the lilacs smelled.

BOB: That’s why you love lilacs?

(Pause)

MA: Probably… then…

BOB: Ma! Look out the window!

(Ma pulls back the curtains)

MA: Oh! What beautiful stars!

BOB: I was afraid so.

(Peter sits almost crying)

MA (sympathizing): BOB, call Emma and find out what happened…

(Peter dials and waits)

Peter: Hello! Hello Emma. Why didn’t you call me? We agreed to see “Spiderman” tonight…

(Peter listens. Then slowly puts the receiver down. He sadly sits down)

MA (sympathizing): What’d she say?

(Pause)

BOB (almost crying): She forgot…

MA (indignant): She forgot! When I was a little girl I never forgot to go to a movie…

(Looked at BOB)

BOB, I’m sorry!

BOB: Oh Ma! I feel hollow! Like there is nothing left in the world for me? Nothing seems real although you are acting like nothing happened.

(Pause)

MA: OK! Give me the phone I’ll call Aunt Gail.

(Pause)

BOB: Don’t call Aunt Gail.

MA: I still can’t use the phone?

BOB: Ma, I took $10 from you.

MA: How could you… after I gave you $30 for the movies and popcorn?

BOB: I’ll give you all the money back.

MA (angrily): You know what that’s called? Why did you take $10 more?

BOB: I wanted to buy Emma a bouquet of flowers on the way home from the movies…

(Pause)

Here… I don’t need it now.

(BOB hands 4 ten-dollar bills to Ma. She doesn’t take the money. With eyes full of tears she hugs BOB)

MA: Give me 10 dollars and the last money leave yourself… You would go to a movie with another girl…

BOB (teary): I would like to go with Emma…

MA: Don’t be so sad… There are a lot of girls around you… I believe you will find another…

(Pause)

BOB (very sadly): Ma, why does no one loves us?

(Pause)

MA (crying): BOB, I love you… We love each other… Come closer… I’m so happy that you are my son, that I have you…

(BOB hugs Ma. They are sitting close on the sofa. BOB switches on music. They quietly listen to music)

THE END

ANNA— wife. Middle aged Woman, brunet.