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| Snowbound and Outbound - PAGE 2 CLAIRE. The first year of marriage is always hard. Don�t worry, things�ll get better. You to have a lot to be thankful for. You have each other, for one thing. There�s still time to build your marriage into something that will last. That�s very important. Believe me. MARK. Did you have a bad marriage? CINDY. (Surprised at his tactlessness) Mark. MARK. Well, we�re all being so open about our lives here� CLAIRE. It�s okay. I didn�t have a bad marriage, it was a very good one. At least I didn�t think there was anything wrong with it. Then one day my husband turned thirty-nine and spent all our savings on a red sports car and drove away. I haven�t seen him since. MARK. (Laughing a little) I�m sorry. That�s not funny. It�s kind of sad. He must�ve had some kind of serious mid-life crisis. CLAIRE. Well, Herb never was a strong man. He was an artist. He was very creative, but he was never very strong. I guess, when I think back, he was always running away from things. CINDY. Typical male. (Mark looks at her) Generally speaking. WILL. Why do girls always say that? AMY. Not all girls say that. Just the ones that are mad. CINDY. I�m not mad. I�m realistic. CLAIRE. I guess I�m a little mad. He left me high and dry, really. I never went to college, I had no idea how to get a job, the bills were stacking up, and our son was turning twelve, so I had to brace myself for that. It�s just been a terrible time getting my life in order. AMY. Are you thankful for anything? CLAIRE. I guess I�d be thankful if I could catch up on my bills. I�d be thankful if I knew where my son was half the time. WILL. How come you said it was bad that your son was turning twelve? CLAIRE. Oh, it� wasn�t a bad thing. It just meant more work. Kids tend to get rebellious at that age. AMY. (To Will ) What�s your name? WILL. Will. AMY. What are you thankful for, Will? WILL. I don�t know. I�m not very thankful about the way grown-ups treat me. And girls. AMY. What do you mean? WILL. Well, they talk about me like I�m the same as everybody else. Like, all kids my age are rebellious, so I must be rebellious. Or girls are always saying that all guys are immature so I�m immature because I�m a guy. It just seems like everyone puts me in a group, like I�m exactly the same as every other twelve-year old guy in the world. I just wish I was a grown-up. It�s not easy being a kid (Claire, Cindy and Mark laugh). CLAIRE. You�ll change your mind when you get older. MARK. When you get older, you�ll wish you could have stayed twelve for the rest of your life. WILL. I don�t think so. What�s so great about it? When you�re a grown-up, you can do whatever you want. You don�t have to go to school you don�t have to take classes about stuff that you�re never going to need to know about. Like a predicate nominative. And you can buy whatever you want, and live by yourself and do whatever you want to your room. And you can go anywhere you want without a whatchamacallit, a chaperone. When you�re twelve, nobody takes you seriously; you can�t do anything without getting yelled at... MARK. We�ve all been there. AMY. Yeah, I think a lot of things aren�t as bad when you look back at them. I used to hate school, now I really miss it. CINDY. (To Amy) You don�t go to school? AMY. No, I don�t go to school any more. CINDY. Oh, you must be older than you look |