Lights come up on a warm living room scene.
Mother holds a very young girl close to her on the sofa. Father reads a book laying flat at the other end of the sofa. A dog is curled at their feet and there are toys scattered around on the floor. Mother: (
cooing) Are you my little snuggle girl?
Girl: Mm-hm. (
She snuggles closer into her mother, they nuzzle. )
(Pause) I wanna be tall like you and Daddy.
Mother: What?
Girl: I wanna be tall like you and Daddy. (
sweetly, genuinely) I wanna be big like you and Daddy. I wanna be bigger like you and Daddy.
(
Mother and Father's hearts break audibly.)
Lights dim.
1 comment:
Grammy's heart too...except, of course, that what Violet wants is simply the way things are.
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