Our Finest Dreams 3 "Little Women"

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JO: Listen everyone: I have risen to the occasion
this year and written us An Operatic Tragedy!
BETH: And we're going to perform it for Christmas! (under VAMP)
AMY: No, I can't! Not with my flat nose. AMY/BETH/MEG:
MEG: Jo, do you really think we should? All of Concord!/Oh, Jo, no!
What with this awful war--
JO: Filled with blood and guts!
JO: When have we let anything defeat us? Years from
now people will talk about us: 'One Christmas Eve Two massacres, a masked ball and
four penniless and ragged sisters put on an Operatic several heart-wrenching scenes!

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Tragedy for all of Concord! (start VAMP)

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MEG: "Jo, do I die again in this one?"

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bleed, Christ - mas will ex - ceed our fin - est dreams! Now

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JO: "Let us begin!"

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JO: "... as you all know I've been writing stories forever. With much satisfaction. And people seem to like what I write."

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BETH: "Not my daughter, you wretch!"
MEG: "You will have me or no one!"

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