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Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý What more do you want from me?

Claire:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý They don’t talk to you any more?

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý No.

Claire:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý You’re lying.

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Stop writing to me, Claire. I beg you. Please...

Claire:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý If you tell the truth to everyone...

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý I keep telling the truth...

Claire: Help me. Maybe you could write an article about us. You’ve got contacts... You would turn the entire world upside down! Help me. Help me, Simon. And then I will leave you alone. Forever. I promise.

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Claire...

Claire: Okay, let’s not drag the whole world into it. It will be quite enough for me if you could talk to Peter. Explain everything to him.

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý It was hard on me too, you know. Very hard. I was taking tons of pills during all those years. And now I’m finally okay.

Claire:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Are you going to betray me again?

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Your illness is a direct result of the shock. This state is very natural and logical after all that happened to you.

Claire:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý That happened to us!

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý That happened to us...

Claire: You’re afraid to tell the truth. Afraid they would send you to a hospital instead of America. You’re also scared that nobody would believe you.

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý The only thing that makes me sick are your neverending letters... Claire... Your husband probably wouldn’t be too happy to learn about all those letters you write to me.

(Claire starts laughing, very cordially.)

Claire: This is where they placed one electrode on me, and here they put another one. Like in a movie. Have you ever seen a film like that, Simon? Or did the adults also tell you not to stick your fingers in the power socket?

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Regular procedure... medically tested.

Claire:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Nothing helped me. Not even the piles of pills that they kept feeding me.

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Claire...

Claire: You know why nothing helped me? Because I had never been sick before. When I understood that they would not stop with the electricity, I started to lie. I played healthy. As healthy as the doctors wanted me to be. But they never stopped talking to me. It was them who talked me into writing to a boy in a red coat. I didn’t even know his name. He had done so much for me and I didn’t even know his name. So I wrote just like that, to the Mountain Service. The letter had found him and he wrote back to me. And I started writing to him. About how things were between you and me, when we came back from the Hawks Mountain Pass... About how everyone suddenly wanted to talk to us. And also how afraid you were of them and how you didn’t want to listen to them any more. And how you left me because I was the only witness who knew everything. And you had to get rid of the witnesses!

Simon:ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý