The Kissing Booth By Liffey CHARACTERS LIFFEY CELIA RAYMOND LAURA COPYRIGHT © By Liffey (thedodgy.com) (At rise we see LIFFEY, who is sitting in a chair in the back of a small theater. He is looking around curiously, as CELIA enters) CELIA Are you here for the audition? LIFFEY I was. Apparently now it’s a wake. CELIA Yes it is. That’s Ginny. She’s been part of this theater for 40 years. Co-founded it. Her wish was to die on stage or least be waked on one. LIFFEY This has to be a first. I’ve been to a few Irish wakes. Drinking and music. Those are fun. When I got my first apartment there was a second small bedroom.…
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Cards and letters, and texts and emails. I pulled some out, from former girlfriends and girl friends. Here’s a sample of some of what I found. It’s not all sweets and chocolates. Some are strange or funny, maybe. Some might not make sense to a reader. But here they are. Names are left out. You’re an empathetic mess Just wanted to drop you a letter and say hello. I will be home on the 28th and 29th. Maybe we can get together. Happy Thanksgiving. After everything it’s nice we’re still friends. Hope we stay friends. It’s a hoedown! Hi There! Maybe when you get this I’ll be on my way to Florida. I sure hope the van makes it. If not, I’ll be spending…
A Chicago Walmart closed its doors early on Saturday due to too much exposed skin by its customers. The 1 p.m. announcement was brought on by unseasonably warm December weather in which temperatures reached nearly 60. Walmart spokesman Gerard Slingman said an onslaught of weight-challenged shoppers in tank tops and sweat shorts at the North Avenue store was too much to bare this time of year. “On the bright side, all the employees who bitched about working on Thanksgiving now have some time off,” he said. Randy John, visiting from England, said the announcement caused quite the “kerfuffle” when it was made. John said he was shocked by the dodgy number of armpit rolls spilling out of tank tops, mainly from women, but in…
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