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....oh, shrock....

No, don't go. It's terrible. Everyone dies. Your kid will end
up traumatized. The surgeon general issued a report advising against
it. Whole communities have outlawed it. I...I....

I was a much younger fellow when I wrote that. I was, I think,
about 18 or 19; I'd written a number of produced one-act plays at 16
and 17, but this was my first commissioned play, and one of my first
long-term produced full-length plays, running summer stock in the San
Diego area for 16 weeks. You can't hold what I wrote at 18 against me
now.

I don't remember anything about it. I've flensed it from
memory. I can't...I....awk....

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