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    The document is a conversation between a death row inmate named Matthew and a nun named Sister Helen who is visiting him. Matthew discusses his childhood and how his father took him to a bar at a young age and got him drunk. Sister Helen asks Matthew about his family and mentions that she visited his mother about a potential pardon hearing. Matthew begins to flirt with Sister Helen inappropriately, but she rebukes him and tells him to show respect.

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    The document is a conversation between a death row inmate named Matthew and a nun named Sister Helen who is visiting him. Matthew discusses his childhood and how his father took him to a bar at a young age and got him drunk. Sister Helen asks Matthew about his family and mentions that she visited his mother about a potential pardon hearing. Matthew begins to flirt with Sister Helen inappropriately, but she rebukes him and tells him to show respect.

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    The document is a conversation between a death row inmate named Matthew and a nun named Sister Helen who is visiting him. Matthew discusses his childhood and how his father took him to a bar at a young age and got him drunk. Sister Helen asks Matthew about his family and mentions that she visited his mother about a potential pardon hearing. Matthew begins to flirt with Sister Helen inappropriately, but she rebukes him and tells him to show respect.

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    INT.

    PRISON - DEATH ROW


    MATTHEW
    My daddy took me to a bar when I
    was 12......told me to pick my
    whiskey. There was all these
    bottles behind the bar and l said:
    ”l’ll take that one with the pretty
    turkey on it.”
    The guys in the bar laughed their
    butts off. We got drunk as coots
    that night.
    My daddy was a good man.
    Sharecropper, hard worker.
    That’s the one thing I got from
    him: working hands.

    SISTER HELEN
    How old were you when he died?
    MATTHEW
    14. Why’s you a nun?

    SISTER HELEN
    I was drawn to it, I guess. That’s
    a hard question to answer. lt’s
    like asking why you’re a convict.

    MATTHEW
    Bad luck.
    SISTER HELEN
    Good luck then. I had a loving
    family,a lot of support. I guess l
    felt obliged to give some of it
    back.
    MATTHEW
    Don’t you miss having a man?
    Don’t you want to get married, fall
    in love, have sex?
    BEAT.
    MATTHEW
    You don’t want to talk about it?

    SISTER HELEN
    Well, I have close friends,
    men and women. I haven’t
    experienced sexual intimacy,
    but there’s other ways of being
    close. You sharing your dreams,your
    (MORE)
    (CONTINUED)
    CONTINUED: 2.

    SISTER HELEN (cont’d)


    thoughts, your feelings. That’s
    being intimate too.
    MATTHEW
    We got intimacy right now,
    don’t we, Sister?
    SISTER HELEN
    l went to see your mother.
    She said she’d appear at the pardon
    board hearing...
    ...if you want her to.
    MATTHEW
    l like being alone with you.
    You’re looking real good to me.

    SISTER HELEN
    Look at you. Death is breathing
    down your neck...
    ...and you’re playing your
    little-man-on-the-make games. I’m
    not here for your amusement
    Matthew. Show some respect.
    MATTHEW
    Why? Because you’re a nun
    and you wear a little cross?

    SISTER HELEN
    Because I’m a human being. Every
    person deserves respect. What’s the
    answer?
    What’ll it be with your mama?
    END

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