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STEPH Funny. What happened to his face? HALE Some crazed barber pulled out a razor and mugged him. A tragedy really. May he rest in peace. STEPH Or in pieces, if you keep cutting him. HALE Piggs wanted a shave. STEPH (Takes the razor) And you? HALE No, I don’t need a shave (takes it back). I need the obituary. STEPH You’re dead if the viewing’s tomorrow. HALE But if I die, who’ll embalm me? STEPH I’d much rather scorch that grin <strong>of</strong>f and stuff you into a pretty vase. Hale chuckles and leans in to kiss her. She lets him, wrapping her arms around his neck, enjoying it for a brief moment before suddenly pulling back—feeling someone’s presence. She looks down at Mr. Piggy’s barren skin and his receding hair. 32
STEPH Is this what’ll happen to me? HALE Of course, but thank goodness you’re not alone, like him. Hurry up with that obituary. STEPH Why don’t you find it yourself? HALE Time is money, honey. HALE You got it? STEPH No, um—what’s his name again? He leans in to kiss her again, but she breaks away, half-assedly kicking the paper into a pile. Hale continues shaving Mr. Piggy. Steph sits on the floor to restack the newspaper according to date. She holds up the next page to read it. Her eyes zig-zag through the lines but stop abruptly. She stands still with her mouth slightly open. While Hale leans over to the table to look at a prayer card, Steph rolls up the page in her hand and stuffs it in her back pocket. HALE Pygmalion . . . But I like to call him Mr. Piggy. I think he was a musician or artist <strong>of</strong> some kind. 33
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Page 44 and 45: Not even a kiss? Hale stands by the
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