"Thanks for the Care Package..."

MEDIUM ALISON: Dear Mom and Dad,

Thanks for the care package. I was running out of granola bars so it came just in the nick of time.

They sell a kind here I swear is made of paste...

Nothing else worth writing home about. Har-Har.

Al

I could draw you some posters.

JOAN: Nah, we need them tomorrow night.

MEDIUM ALISON: I could do it right now!

JOAN: Really?

MEDIUM ALLISON: Yeah, just some simple drawing, right?

JOAN: Sure.

MEDIUM ALLISON: So, you want them to say...?

JOAN: We just need some really good "No Nukes" posters.

MEDIUM ALISON: Right. Okay.

So I was thinking...maybe...maybe something like...

JOAN: Oh. That's funny. That's really good.

MEDIUM ALISON: This? No, this is just quick and stupid...

JOAN: Who's this? In the photo?

MEDIUM ALISON: My dad.

JOAN: That's your dad?

MEDIUM ALISON: Yeah!

JOAN: He looks cool. Did he teach you how to draw cartoons?

MEDIUM ALISON: Ooh, definitely not.

JOAN: Why's that funny?

MEDIUM ALISON: Oh, it's not funny; he's just more, I don't know, uh, refined?

JOAN: I think it's amazing he's cool with you being a dyke.

MEDIUM ALISON: What? Could we talk about something else?

JOAN: Sure... Why?

MEDIUM ALISON: Because I don't know how my parents feel about... I just figured it out myself.

JOAN: Oh.

MEDIUM ALISON: About two weeks ago...

JOAN: Huh... With who?

MEDIUM ALISON: "With who" what?

JOAN: Who were you with?

MEDIUM ALISON: Oh, nobody... Nobody! Oh my God. I'm so embarrassed. I was in a bookstore...

JOAN: In a bookstore?! Nice!

MEDIUM ALISON: What? No! Two weeks ago I was downtown. I just wandered into the bookstore. I was just browsing, and I picked up this book.

JOAN: Oh! Word is out.

MEDIUM ALISON: I was like, "Oh interviews, this looks interesting" then I was like, "These people are all..uh..."

JOAN: Gay?

MEDIUM ALISON: Yes, gay. And then I was like "Oh my God.

I'm a lesbian." (JOAN: A dyke.) —Yes, a dyke. Yes.

And I totally flipped out and shoved the book back on the shelf and then I left... But then I came the next day and bought the book, and then I came back the next day and bought all the other books in that section, and then I made myself go to the meeting at the Gay Union, and then, uh well...and then... it's now...

Hi.

JOAN: Hello.

That's a powerful book.

MEDIUM ALISON: It is.

JOAN: So, I should probably go.

MEDIUM ALISON: Okay.

JOAN: Will I see you at the union meeting tomorrow afternoon?

MEDIUM ALISON: Uh, yeah. I'll be at the meeting. I'll bring those posters. Finish 'em up.

JOAN: Cool. See you then. Bye, Alison.

MEDIUM ALISON: Bye, Joan.