41. Little Flower Girl

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AT THE RISE

Center stage: A young flower girl, wearing near-rags and an apron, selling tulips out of a brown wicker basket which she holds on her arm.
From early day to nighttime, a change in scenery upstage takes her from:

Buenos Aires to

Rio de Janeiro to

Moscow to

Saint Petersburg to

Stockholm, and finally to

Copenhagen.

Every stop along the way from Moscow to Copenhagen gets colder and terribly colder. And darker.
Bareheaded, and barefooted, she calls out in each place:

FLOWER GIRL

Tulips…. Tulips for sale.

But she gets no love.

A shooting star falls from the sky, forming a long line of fire. She remembers what her grandmother used to tell her.

FLOWER GIRL

A falling star, ‘tis falling bright,
Another soul to God tonight.



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