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(Heidi Holland, who has just adopted a baby girl, Judy, is talking to Scoop Rosenbaum, an ex-boyfriend, in the last scene of the play.)
SCOOP:
All people deserve to fulfill their potential. Judy, that’s what your
mother told me in 1968 on the first snowy night
in Manchester, New Hampshire. America needs heroes.
Scoop, you are many things, but . . .
(Scoop takes Heidi’s hand.)
SCOOP:
What do you think, Judy? A mother for the nineties
and a hero for the nineties. ’Bye, Heidella.
(He kisses her on the cheek. He exits . . . Heidi takes Judy
out of the stroller and lifts her up.)
HEIDI:
A heroine for the twenty-first!
(She sits in the rocker and begins to sing softly, adding her
own spirited high and low harmonies.)
HEIDI:
“Darling, you send me.
You send me.
Honest you do, honest you do, honest you do.”
(Lights fade as Heidi rocks.)
CURTAIN
By Wendy Wasserstein
(1950–2006)
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