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A Writer's Wonderland [PDF] - University of Portsmouth

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SKY:<br />

BRUCE:<br />

SKY:<br />

BRUCE:<br />

SKY:<br />

You don’t even know. You can’t even answer me. You’re<br />

such a hypocrite! You stand there, telling me you<br />

know the best thing to do. But you’re just as bad.<br />

You’re just as bad!<br />

You ran away. You didn’t confront it. You ran away.<br />

Tell me why else you would leave your beloved surfing<br />

town for East London? You’re a fucking pussy, that’s<br />

why. And that makes you just as bad as me.<br />

I didn’t run away from anything.<br />

You fucking did!<br />

My uncle is in Scotland! So how exactly was I running<br />

away from him?<br />

Memories.<br />

I got fired, OK? I got fired because I was so<br />

distracted that all I could do to take my mind <strong>of</strong>f it<br />

was surf. It’s the only time that I have no worries.<br />

Teaching those kids every day in school killed me,<br />

knowing some <strong>of</strong> them would experience what I’d felt.<br />

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