Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Initial contact is tricky. Casual introductions from friends work well, but overlapping social circles may lead to embarrassing questions the morning after or unwanted future meetings...
...Make eye contact. A long gaze is enticing, flattering and plain old intriguing. Self-aware, yet not self-conscious gestures are appropriate at this point; run your fingers through your hair, light a cigarette or freestyle. Once your target knows there's something up, act casual. Although you may be impatient, it is crucial to appear disinterested for a period of time. Let them wonder, but never let them wander...
...Initial contact...
...know the drill from this point on. There's some flimsy excuse for physical contact, followed by the hideously awkward first kiss, and before you know it, someone's trying to hide their bad hair and lipstick smudges while doing the walk of shame home. Glory in your temporary triumph-just do yourself a favor and wash your sheets soon afterward...
...third and final scene, the characters unravel to the point of near abstraction. Unable to find the absent father, John and Donny are moving, and Del arrives to make amends. John has become completely dissociated from the other characters, looking straight ahead into the audience, refusing to make eye contact, asking chilling questions with an eerie lack of emotion: "Do you ever think things?" "Do you ever wish that you could die?" The mother attempts a bit longer to deal with John but is ultimately too devastated by her husband's rejection and by her strange unreachable son. Del meanwhile...