[Lights up in a bedroom. Light is streaming through a window as if to say "Morning" a woman, Grace, is laying in bed. An alarm goes off and she sits up and turns it off and sits up. She sighs and dangles her feet off the side of the bed. After a minute another woman, Mandy, enters with a tray full of breakfast foods.]
Mandy:
[Setting the tray down on the bed] Hey sweetie, how are you doing today?
[Grace just shrugs and chooses not to respond.]
Mandy:
[Sighing] You can't hide in here forever, Gracie. You have to get out sometime.
[Grace once again shrugs.]
Mandy:
You know you're welcome to stay here as long as you wish. Just I wish you would come out. I'm going to make you go see him or anything... I just wish you would be somewhat human to the rest of us.
Grace:
[Softly] I'm sorry.
Mandy:
I know, sweetie. Just... don't get lost in here, yeah? I would like to see my Grace again someday.
[Mandy smiles and Grace slightly smiles back.]
Mandy:
[Sighing] Eat something, yeah? You're getting way too thin.
[Mandy exits and Grace slides off the bed. She kneels by the bed with her elbows up on the bed, her hands clasped in "prayer" style.]
Grace:
Please, Lord. Just get me out of this city.
[Grace stands and pulls a bag out from under the bed. She stares at the door for a moment, takes a long, deep breath, opens it and exits. Lights fade.]
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