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    Hope - Almost Maine Monologue

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    A woman arrives at a house looking for a man named Daniel Harding who she hurt years ago. She launches into her story without looking at who answers the door. When she finally looks, she realizes the man is not Daniel. She apologizes and asks if he knows Daniel, describing him. The man does not respond. The woman realizes Daniel no longer lives there and apologizes for bothering the man. She explains that when Daniel's parents passed, she thought he had stayed in the house but now realizes he, like her, left town.

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    Hope - Almost Maine Monologue

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    A woman arrives at a house looking for a man named Daniel Harding who she hurt years ago. She launches into her story without looking at who answers the door. When she finally looks, she realizes the man is not Daniel. She apologizes and asks if he knows Daniel, describing him. The man does not respond. The woman realizes Daniel no longer lives there and apologizes for bothering the man. She explains that when Daniel's parents passed, she thought he had stayed in the house but now realizes he, like her, left town.

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    A woman arrives at a house looking for a man named Daniel Harding who she hurt years ago. She launches into her story without looking at who answers the door. When she finally looks, she realizes the man is not Daniel. She apologizes and asks if he knows Daniel, describing him. The man does not respond. The woman realizes Daniel no longer lives there and apologizes for bothering the man. She explains that when Daniel's parents passed, she thought he had stayed in the house but now realizes he, like her, left town.

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    Hope - Almost Maine Monologue

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    A woman arrives at a house looking for a man named Daniel Harding who she hurt years ago. She launches into her story without looking at who answers the door. When she finally looks, she realizes the man is not Daniel. She apologizes and asks if he knows Daniel, describing him. The man does not respond. The woman realizes Daniel no longer lives there and apologizes for bothering the man. She explains that when Daniel's parents passed, she thought he had stayed in the house but now realizes he, like her, left town.

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    Almost Maine (script)

    A woman, HOPE, arrives to make amends with a man she hurt deeply years ago.

    WOMAN: (Fast and furious—so absorbed by what she has to say and by what she has come to
    do that she really doesn’t take in/look at the man she’s talking to.) I know this isn’t going to be
    very easy, but I was just out there all alone in the world, and I got so scared, because all I could
    think about was how I had no place in this world, but, then, I just—outta nowhere—realized that
    there was one place in this world that I did have, and that was with you, so I flew, and I took a
    taxi to get to you., I just had to come see you., Thank God you’re [here]—…

    The woman finally really looks at the man.


    The man is not who she thought he’d be.
    But the man knows the woman.

    Oh [I’m sorry]—… Wait—[you’re not who I thought you’d be]—…I’m sorry! You’re not [who
    I thought you’d be]—… I’m [sorry]—…

    A little beat as the woman checks to make sure she’s at the right place—and recovers from an
    unexpected turn of events.

    This is the house… I’m so sorry!… Does Daniel Harding live here?, I’m looking for Daniel
    Harding. He lives here. I thought. But… (Off the man’s confused state, the woman realizes that
    Daniel Harding doesn’t live there anymore.) …Ooooh…he doesn’t, does he? Oooh, I am so
    sorry!

    The woman gathers her bags, preparing to leave—and trying to make light.

    I am so embarrassed! “Who is this woman and what is she doing here?”

    The woman laughs.


    The man doesn’t.

    I just honestly thought he’d be here. I always thought he’d be here. Always.

    The woman is at a loss, but wonders if maybe this man can help her.

    Do you know him? Big guy, big tall guy. Played basketball, All-Maine, center? Strong. Do you
    know him?, Played hockey, too? Oh, don’t even answer that. That was [a horrible thing to ask]—
    I know that’s a horrible question to ask a person who lives in a small town, as if everybody in
    small towns knows everybody else., Argh!, I can’t believe I asked that. I don’t live here
    anymore, but when I did, I hated it when people assumed I knew everybody in town just because
    it was small. It was worse than when they’d ask if we had plumbing “way up there,” ’cause, you
    know, people in small towns really don’t know each other any better than they do in big towns,
    you know that? I mean, you know who you know, and you don’t know who you don’t know, just
    like anywhere else.

    Little beat.

    I’m so sorry to have bothered you. I was just so sure [I’d find him here]—. When his parents
    passed away, he kept the house, I heard. He lived here. He stayed here, I thought. He was one of
    the ones who stayed.

    Little beat.

    I didn’t stay. I went away. And I guess he did too.

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