Mary Page Marlowe (TCG Edition) by Tracy Letts

Author:Tracy Letts
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781559368551
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2016-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

(Mary Page laughs heartily.)

MARY PAGE: Andy. He was the best one. (Pause) I’m dying. (Pause) It’s okay. I know it. You can say it. It’s okay. I’m ready.

NURSE: That’s good.

MARY PAGE: I’ve had a good life. I’ve done a lot of the things I wanted to do. There were some places I wish I could have visited, but. I still got to go some places, see some things. I liked my work.

NURSE: What did you do?

MARY PAGE: I was a CPA.

NURSE: Oh. You liked it?

MARY PAGE: Yeah, I liked it. I never made a lot of money, and the politics in the office could get pretty . . . I struggled with a lot of that. But I liked doing taxes.

NURSE: Really? That seems like the boring part.

MARY PAGE: No, that’s the interesting part of the job. Client comes in, drops a shoebox full of paperwork on the desk, “I made this much,” feds withheld this much, and all of it seems pretty impersonal, but then you start to get into that shoebox and pick apart that paperwork—this receipt was for this dinner, this charge was for this birthday present, this was for flowers, this was for travel—like working a puzzle and putting the pieces in place—and sometimes it all comes together. All the numbers add up.

NURSE: Do the numbers always add up?

MARY PAGE: No. The numbers do not always add up. (Pause) I wasn’t a great mom. But I liked it. I liked being a mom.

NURSE: So . . . no regrets, that’s good.

MARY PAGE: I didn’t say that. Couple of doozies. But who doesn’t? Who wouldn’t do some things different if they could?

NURSE: Right.

MARY PAGE: It takes such a long time to figure some things out.

NURSE: What did you figure out?

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