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All I Want Is Everything – Kit
Jenny looks over at Shane and Dana.
Jenny: Maybe some of us still are.
Alice: Gabby… look at me.
Gabby looks over at Alice with as apologetic an expression as possible.
Alice: Before you can ever learn to love anybody else, you need to learn how to love yourself a little better.
Gabby nods.
Gabby: I know.
Alice: And you’ve got friends here. I may even count myself as one of them again.
Tim: We get so complacent sometimes, we wind up hurting each other without even meaning to. I know Jenny didn’t want to hurt me. She knew she was going to anyway. Sometimes there’s just no escaping it. I liked it better when we were able to solve these problems as a group. Speaking from my own experience… I don’t think brooding does much good.
Shane: You’re still an idiot, Gabby. …Welcome back.
Dana: Man, it sounds loud across the street.
Kit: Dana…
Dana: Oh? Oh, yeah. Welcome back, Gab. Next time Nadia comes around trying to work her charms on you again, just call one of us. We’ll be happy to slap you.
Shane: Except for Tim. Sorry, Tim.
Tim shrugs.
Marina: Kit, I thank you for letting this all be settled now. Bette and Tina deserve to have that happiness when we all get together.
Bette and Tina. It is always about Bette and Tina here.
Gabby lets that thought flow through her momentarily before letting it go.
Kit: We all deserve that happiness. All of us. We put up with each other’s mess all the time. And we all screw up. Think of the times I ruined a party, because I couldn’t stay sober. Yall remember that? I do. I almost lost yall. And let me tell ya, that would have sucked. But the friendship and that feeling of family? That’s what kept me goin’. That’s what helped get me on the straight and narrow. For good, this time. Bette and I came out here and we’ve pretty much been separated from the kin back in Philly. Everybody at this table and some of our friends over across the street have been separated from the kin. From that flesh and blood. But you know what? I’ll call this my family any damn day before I would the one I was raised in. Yall my family. And that family includes Gabby and Tim. It includes Bette and Tina, of course and we got little Angelica Porter-Kennard now that’s part of this family. Marina, Jenny. Alice, Shane, Dana. And I’ll even say Lara and Carmen over across the street. And Lacey when she’s feelin’ up to it. We’re family, we’re extended family and this family’s growin’. And we’re gonna keep growin’ and we’re gonna stay together, no matter where life takes us. So… Are we good now?
Alice nods.
Alice: We good, Kit.
Kit: Good. Now Marina, we’ve got some people across the street over there waitin’ on you… and I’m sure the rest of us to go over there and congratulate them on their opening night.
Marina: Well, if everything is in order here then let’s go.
Everyone begins to stand from the table with Dana and Shane offering welcome back hugs to Tim while Jenny does the same for Gabby. Kit looks at everyone once more.
Kit: Remember… Family. That’s what we are.
Family.
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Wow! Family is the most important thing in this world! If you ain’t got family you ain’t got shit!