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I WOULDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING
(1/6/10)
Music by Brian Lowdermilk Lyrics by Kait Kerrigan
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SAM: My name is Samantha Brown but this isn’t my autobiography.
My autobiography wouldn’t fall apart just as I was starting to make it my own. And everything fell apart. I know what I want. I want my best friend back. If I could just go back, not answer the phone, not ever know... If I could just change that one thing.
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SAM
If a yellow SUV is traveling down University Road in a
straight line at a constant velocity of 45 miles per hour and a pedestrian is crossing the road at a velocity of 2.5 miles per hour; if the frat boy driving the SUV sees the pedestrian from a distance of 200 feet and slams on the brake,
decelerating at a rate of 11.5 miles per hour, will the SUV still hit the pedestrian? Yes. But only if she hears him coming. Only if she slows down just enough to look up. It only takes two seconds. I know that. I know that if she were listening to music or if she’d just sped up she wouldn’t have died. I didn’t know that time doesn’t stop - prom still has a theme, the valedictorian still gives a speech on a future she knows nothing about. I don’t remember any of it. Nothing woke me up - nothing moved me. Except one thing... It was one week ago.
ADAM appears in the DMV waiting room.
He alternately eyes SAM and leafs through a girly magazine.
ADAM Sam.
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We were in the DMV. Adam had driven me to take my driver’s test.
ADAM Earth to Sam.
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It was my last ditch attempt before freshman orientation at Columbia.
ADAM What number are you?
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New York City: a place where it doesn’t matter if you can drive.
ADAM
34? You have a little while yet...
SAM
After Kelly died, I kept waiting for things to go back to normal.
ADAM
Look, Sam - I’ve been wanting to talk to you about something.
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But I was starting to see that normal didn’t exist anymore.
Or maybe this was normal now.
ADAM
I know it’s been a long couple months but I’ve been thinking about things.
SAM
A whole spring and summer had slipped by, but I was still seeing her everywhere.
ADAM
I’ve been thinking about things a lot, Sam.
SAM Real life was the ghost.
ADAM Sam?
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Everything was different and the real question wasn’t what I wanted or what I was planning but what did I want now?
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ADAM: Sam! (music cue) I’m trying to say something here.
SAM: (snapped back to reality) Huh?
ADAM: I have something to say.
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