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    MARION
    Enough! It’s enough already. You don’t get to be part of this conversation. You don’t get to weigh in on what happens to my son. Do you understand me?
    TERESA
    His future—
    MARION
    Has nothing to do with you!
    TERESA
    I care deeply about Alex.
    MARION
    If you cared about him, you wouldn’t have—
    TERESA
    I care about him more than you know!
    Beat.
    MARION
    What does that mean?
    TERESA
    Nothing.
    MARION
    No. What the fuck does that mean?
    TERESA
    Never mind.
    TERESA walks away from her.
    MARION
    Don’t you walk away from me. What did you—
    TERESA
    My relationship with him is important.
    MARION
    And?
    TERESA
    And he’s going to be an important part of my life.
    MARION
    What are you—
    TERESA
    We’re moving in together… Curtis and I.
    MARION
    Jesus Christ!
    TERESA
    We were waiting until the end of the school year… until Alex is finished.
    MARION
    You’re moving in together?
    TERESA
    Yes.
    Beat.
    MARION buries her head in her hands.
    MARION
    Oh god.
    After a moment she looks at TERESA.
    MARION laughs again.
    Okay…
    She continues laughing.
    Okay…
    Beat.
    MARION looks at TERESA.
    So… how is this going to work? Will he be moving in with you, because you’re sure as hell not taking the house, so… where will you be living?
    TERESA
    We’re figuring that out.
    MARION
    You’re moving in together and you haven’t figured out where you’ll be living?
    TERESA
    We haven’t made any firm decisions yet.
    MARION
    Well that says something at least.
    TERESA
    It doesn’t say anything.
    MARION
    It does, actually. Curtis is usually very good with those sorts of things… those sorts of details. It’s sort of a strength of his.
    TERESA
    What is a strength of his?
    MARION
    Moving. I’ve never had the stomach for it. But he… he loves it… the looking, the search for the perfect place, the packing even. So it’s just interesting that you haven’t talked about it. I would have thought it would be the first thing he would have talked about.
    TERESA
    We’re waiting until the end of the school year to decide.
    MARION
    Of course you are. And then he’ll probably move in with you… in your little apartment… until you find something more comfortable.
    TERESA
    Probably.
    MARION
    And will the two of you be living off of your salary or will he be picking up more work… how is that going to sort itself out?
    TERESA
    We’re figuring it out.
    Beat.
    MARION
    I’m guessing you’ve never been married before?
    TERESA
    No. I haven’t.
    MARION
    How many men have
you been with?
    TERESA
    That’s not any of your business.
    MARION
    Have you ever lived with someone? A boyfriend… a partner?
    TERESA
    I know what I’m getting myself into.
    MARION
    All right. I just hope you’re prepared, that’s all. You’re going to need more than a goddamn teaching gig to keep the two of you afloat, believe me. We’d be living in the gutter if we—
    TERESA
    You wouldn’t be living in the gutter. You don’t have to be so dramatic. You’re not the only one contributing at home.
    MARION
    In our household? Oh yes I am.
    TERESA
    No, you’re not. I know how much each of you makes.
    MARION
    Oh, you do.
    TERESA
    Yes. I do. He’s told me.
    MARION
    Has he?
    Beat.
    Has he also told you how much we’ve had to borrow from my family over the past three years? How I had to take on a new position at the office with longer hours so we could finally start paying them back?
    TERESA
    I know things have been tight.
    MARION
    And how I had to beg him to take on new clients but he still couldn’t get his shit together? Did he tell you that?
    TERESA
    He did. He’s told me all of that. He also told me that you’re the one who insists on vacationing twice a year and that he’s never seen you wear the same pair of shoes twice.
    MARION
    Oh, go fuck