All the Ways to Say I Love You by Neil LaBute

Author:Neil LaBute [LABUTE, NEIL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: DRA000000
ISBN: 9781468316520
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2018-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

She is worked up now, near tears but trying to hold it all together.

I was—not long ago I ran into the girl whom I mentioned before. The one from earlier … who asked that question. Back in school. (Beat.) We’re in line somewhere and as we shuffle along with the group … waiting our turns—just before I leave her side—I lean over to her and I whisper, “6 pounds, 3 ounces … that was the weight of mine” and she looks at me … this girl—now a woman, trying to place me, wondering who the hell this is, this person—she stares at me as if I am insane, and I probably am! I probably am. I mean … God knows what she’s thinking, what she understands this to mean … and after all that’s happened … yes … I may well be a crazy person, I very well may be … but this much I do know … this much I now know for sure: the weight of a lie is never the same for any of us … not ever. No, each one is unique … each one is special … each one is and always will be its very own particular burden. (Beat.) And for me the weight of that lie is: 6 pounds, 3 ounces. 6 pounds and 3 ounces … 6 pounds, 3 ounces … 6 pounds and 3 ounces … 6 pounds … 3 ounces …

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