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Scene 18: Lark’s Sisters
Mom (Present me): Hello Lark. Lark (20s me): Hi Mom. Coming to me for a change? Mom: Yup! I wanted to ask you about your sisters. Lark: What about them? Mom: Well, what do you think of them? Are you getting along? Lark: We get along okay, I guess. What do I think of them?…
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Scene 17: Feminine Qualities
Lark (20s me): Hey Mom? Mom (Present me): Yes Lark? Lark: I wanted to talk to you about our other life goal. Mom: We talked about financial independence, so I’m assuming you mean our goal to start a family? Lark: Yeah. We accomplished that goal, right? So we must have been doing something right to…
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Scene 16: First Spark
(Bloom, Libra, and Lark are sitting in a small circle. Assorted fabrics and notions are piled up in the middle.) Mom (Present Me): Hey girls! What are you up to? Bloom (High School Me): Quilting! Libra (College Me): We’re making a quilt to celebrate reaching double digits on this project. Lark (20s Me): I mean,…
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Scene 15: Like A Girl
Mom (Present Me): Hey Bloom. Bloom (High School Me): Oh hi Mom. Mom: How’s Lark settling in? Bloom (sad): I don’t know… She isn’t? It still feels like she’s wrestling with her gender. We fight sometimes. Mom: What about? Bloom: About our gender, usually. I try to explain things, like why we’re a girl and…
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Scene 14: Preemptive Failure
Lark (20s me): Hey Mom… I’ve been thinking about what you said. Mom (Present me): Oh? Lark: I think I understand how fighting the social role assigned to me has gotten in the way of my career development. I’m willing to agree with your point of view on work, but what about my personal projects?…
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Scene 13: Getting Ahead
Lark (20s me): Hey, can I talk to you? Mom (Present me): Of course, Lark. What’s on your mind? Lark: Something has been bothering me about us. I spent a lot of time trying to find ways to make money — Find a profitable venture, invent the next big thing, write a smash hit video…
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Scene 12: Hard Work
Libra (College Me): Hey Mom? Mom (Present Me): Yes Daphne? Libra (smiling): Gosh I love hearing that name. Mom (smiling back): Feels nice, doesn’t it? Libra (more serious): I wanted to talk to you about our newest sister. Mom: How is Lark doing? Is she settling in okay? Libra: Well… Not really. She’s not denying…
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Scene 11: Not My Dream
Mom (Present Me): You seem to have calmed down a bit. 20s Me: Hi. Yeah. I’ve looked around a little. I’ve seen some of our more recent memories. Mom: And? 20s Me: We’re not the person I imagined we’d become. We don’t start our own business, we aren’t wealthy, we aren’t famous in any way.…
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Scene 10: Meet Newly Independent Daphne
(Bloom, Libra, and I are reading queer books together.) Bloom (High School Me): I wish this had been written in my day! I wonder if it would have helped. Libra (College Me): Yeah, same. Oh hey, maybe we could have a long, heartfelt discussion about what would have cracked our egg earlier. Mom (Present Me):…
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Scene 9: Hide And Seek
Bloom (High School Me): You can’t catch me! (Bloom dashes through memories as the world quickly shifts around her. Through a forest, down a school hallway, across a field, up a flight of stairs. She slows and comes to a stop in a dark, crowded room.) Bloom: Hah, they’ll never find me here. (Bloom pushes…