In this drama scene, Betsy asks her daughter Harlene if she still doesn’t like boys from the one-act eplay, ‘Pressed Against the Road’.

HARLENE: It don’t matter cause I don’t like boys.

BETSY: That’s true. I’ve forgotten. That still holding up?

HARLENE: Yes.

BETSY: You definitely don’t like boys?

HARLENE: I wouldn’t be caught dead with one, you know, dating one…no way.

BESTY: Okay, just asking.

HARLEN: You said you don’t mind it.

BETSY: I don’t.

HARLENE: So, why you asking me about it then?

BETSY: Can’t I ask?

HARLENE: You can.

BETSY: I already told you, emphatically, you can love whomever you desire in this great big world of ours.

HARLENE: Why are you so agreeable all the time?

BETSY: I’m agreeable because I know what it feels like to be met with opposition.

HARLENE: Ha! Well, it doesn’t seem like it, seems like you always do what you wanna do.

BETSY: It hasn’t always been like this. My whole life I’ve taken up arms to fend off trouble. Ever since I married and divorced your father..it was then that I realized I wouldn’t be much good to myself or you if I didn’t stand up for my own set of beliefs and live life how I needed to live it.

HARLENE: Did you always know you liked women?

BETSY: I believe I did, but those emotions got pushed far down where no one could see them and I thought by fitting in, by being part of the crowd, I’d be happy, wouldn’t have such urges and for a minute or two it worked…forgot my true self…

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In the one act eplay Pressed Against the Road, Betsy’s 18 year old daughter Harlene has met someone she likes for the very first time.  2 Women.  Drama.

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