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Description:
Aunt Em sits near Dorothy’s bedside dorothy's bed.
Aunt Em: Do you want me to paint your face?
Dorothy nods: yes.
Aunt Em: Forehead...white. Eyebrows...blue.
Cheeks...magenta...
Henery looks in though the slightly open-door. He has been
there for some moments, listening, unnoticed. He moves away,
silently.
Dorothy: What is magenta?
Aunt Em: It's a kind of pink.
Dorothy: I wish...
Aunt Em: What precious?
Dorothy nods at Toto asleep at the foot of her hed and laughs through
her tears.
Dorothy: I wish I could put my head on my paws and go to
sleep like Toto.
Em strokes the little girl's forehead and smoothes the patchwork
quilt over her.
Aunt Em: Soon you will....
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