Scene Detail
"It's like your first broken heart..."
| From: Heaven and Home |
| Gender |
Age |
Character Name |
| Female |
30's |
GABRIELLE (GABBY) HILLEGAS |
Setup:
Gabby is with her boyfriend Vince. They’ve just reconciled after a fight, and are intimate with one another again. She tries to help him understand how she is managing to deal with the death of their friend Byron, so that maybe she can help him to do the same.
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Monologuecopyright 1996 by Matthew A. Everett
GABBY
After my mom died, after I got through that, I thought I had it figured out. But deaths, they're all different.
It's like your first broken heart, though. You feel like crap, worse than you've ever felt before in your life and you don't know if the pain's ever going to stop. That's the scary thing. The thought that you'll have to live in pain -- heartsick -- for the rest of your life. But eventually, no matter how much you hang on to it and nurse the hurt, you get over it, in spite of yourself. The pain dulls and you go on with your life and against all reason, you fall in love and set yourself up for the whole thing all over again. And if you're unlucky and the whole thing goes south -- this time you have an advantage. You know you'll live through it. You did it once before. You'll live.
copyright 1996 by Matthew A. Everett
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