A Mini-Play: What happened?

3-Act Play in 12 Lines

Jill: “Did you know there was a time when people actually revered their leaders?”

Jack: “ … Huh? No. … Really?”

Jill nods. “My Gramps was reminiscing about FDR and Eisenhower, and Kennedy.”

Jack: “Forgive me, pal, but is your gramps … senile?”

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Jill: “No, quite the opposite. He’s as sharp as a tack.”

Jack: “What the hell happened, I wonder?”

Jill: “Vietnam, Watergate, Iran-Contra, Bill‘n Monica, the IraqWar, Trump.”

Jack: “Not to mention camera phones, social media and YouTube.”

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Jill gazes wistfully: “I wish I were living in times like my Gramps’s.”

Jack: “Me too … except for that stuff you see in old black’n white documentaries.”

Jill nods: “Yeah, McCarthyism, the KKK, the Cuban Missle Crisis, the Cold War.”

 They pause. “ … OMG, we are,” they whisper in unison.

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