A nostalgic, vivacious, slightly delusional Amanda Wingfield's monologue from "The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams.
Possess your soul in patience – you will see!
Something I’ve resurrected from that old trunk! Styles haven’t changed so terribly much after all.
(She parts the portières.)
Now just look at your mother !
(She wears a girlish frock of yellowed voile with a blue silk sash. She carries a bunch of jonqui
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