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And as soon as the curtain goes up, she feels that she is moving away at breakneck speed from her sister Ismene, who's chatting and laughing with a young man, from all of us, who are sitting here safely watching her, from all of us who don't have to die this evening. 🔊

Not beautiful like us, but in another way. You know it's you that makes the little punks turn their heads when you walk by them; and the girls watch you and suddenly they don't have a thing to say, they just stare until you've gone round the corner. 🔊

(She watches her leave with a sad little smile, then suddenly slumps exhausted on a chair.)

So we were on watch. We had the two a.m. shift, the worst one. You know what it's like, just when the night's almost up. 🔊

The daughter of Oedipus, right! Those hookers they bring in at night, they always say you watch it, my boyfriend is a police inspector! 🔊

We figured like, right in the middle of the day, what could happen? But anyway we decided, let's be double sure, one of us is always gonna be watching it. 🔊

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