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here, I think.
    JOHN : … I want to tell him this game.
    DEL (
of photograph
): I remember the shirt.
    DONNY : … he’ll be home soon, John.
    DEL : … is this Robert’s shirt?
    DONNY : What?
    DEL : That I’m wearing.
    DONNY : In the photo …
    DEL : Yes …
    DONNY : … I … (
Pause
.)
    DEL : Do you see my problem? (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Alright.
    DEL : Because I remember neither the occasion nor the photograph.
    DONNY : … Do you have his
shirt
on …
    DEL : Yes.
    DONNY : Why
would
you?
    DEL : Well, that’s what I’m saying.
    DONNY : Can you make the pattern out?
    DEL : He’s asleep.
    DONNY :
Finally
. (
Pause
.) He thought that he tore the blanket.
    DEL : I believe that this Trip has a “meaning” for him.
    DONNY : Del, he’s always had this problem.
    DEL : No, I’ve had a “clue.”
    DONNY : No, you’re ten years too late. You know, Robert always said: we disagreed about it. From the first. And his theory was “let the child cry.”
    DEL : … let him cry …
    DONNY : To teach him to …
    DEL : No, this trip …
    DONNY : Del, He Always Has a Reason …
    DEL : He’s a sensitive kid …?
    DONNY : … whatever that means.
    DEL : I think it means … Well, in
this
case he
told
me, in effect.
    DONNY : … yes?
    DEL : In
this
case it means he’s
jealous
.
    DONNY : Jealous.
    DEL : Of my trip. Last week with Robert.
    DONNY : He was jealous?
    DEL : That’s right.
    DONNY : But why does that come out
now?
    And I’ll tell you one other thing.
    Let
him be jealous. What if he was? Yes. I think he needs to spend more time with his father; and, yes, I think that he has to learn the world does not revolve around him. (
Pause
.)
    Oh, Lord. I’ll tell you. No. You’re right. It’s guilt. It’s guilt. I’m guilty. I get to spend one weekend on my own. And I’m consumed with guilt.
    DEL (
of photo
): Who took this picture? (
Pause
. DONNY
looks at it
.)
    DONNY : I don’t know.
    DEL : Eh? Who could have taken it?
    DONNY : Huh. (
Pause
.) I don’t …
    DEL : Do you see? If we’re all in it? (
Pause
.)
That’s why I don’t remember it.
    DONNY : I … (
Pause
.) Isn’t that funny …?
    DEL : That’s why I don’t remember it. (
Pause
.) I knew there was a reason. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : Lord, I found so much
stuff
up there.
    DEL : … up …?
    DONNY : In the attic. The
stadium
blanket, the
    DEL : I recognized that.
    DONNY : The blanket. Well I hope so.
    DEL : How could he think he tore it?
    DONNY : … I …
    DEL : He’d seen it for years.
    DONNY : … so long ago …
    DEL : Isn’t it …? (
Pause
.)
    Do you know, at the Hotel. I collect things. I’m amazed. I clean my room out. Every few months. I’mamazed. I always think I’ve kept it
bare
. But when I clean it out. I find this mass of
things
I have accumulated.
    DONNY : They, what are they, mostly?
    DEL : Papers. (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : I went to the Point.
    DEL : You did?
    DONNY : I walked down there. Yes.
    DEL : Recently?
    DONNY : Yes. (
Pause
.)
    And I remembered. When the Three of us would go. Late at night. Before the war.
    DEL : I remember.
    DONNY : And
Robert
and I. Would make love under a blanket. And I wondered. After all this time, why it never occurred to me. I don’t know. But I wondered. Did you
hear
us; and, if you did. If it upset you. (
Pause
.)
    DEL : And you’ve thought about it all this time.
    DONNY : That’s right.
    DEL : Oh, Donny.
    DONNY : Did it upset you?
    DEL : Aren’t you sweet … aren’t you sweet to worry.
    DONNY : Did it?
    DEL : Well. I …
    JOHN (
waking
): What did they say? What?
    DONNY : Go to sleep, John.
    JOHN : I was going there. But you said to bring the, bring … (
Pause
.) Bring them the … (
Pause
.)
    DONNY : John:
    JOHN : … huh …
    DONNY : It’s alright.
    JOHN : What did they talk about?
    DONNY : John …
    JOHN : I don’t like it. I don’t like it. No.
    DONNY : John …
    JOHN : I … What? No. No. I don’t want to. (
Pause
.) Is my father back yet?
    DONNY :