A monologue from the play "Approximating Mother" by Kathleen Tolan
About this Monologue
- Character: Fran????
- Gender: Female
- Age Range(s): Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50)
- Type of monologue / Character is: Descriptive, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story
- Type: Serio-comic
- Year: 1992
- Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
- Description: Fran tells her friend Molly how she lost her virginity and got pregnant
- Location: Scene 9
Summary
Fran and Molly are good friends. Molly is married to Jack but their marriage is on the rocks as Jack feels Molly doesn't love him anymore and is using him to have kids. They already have a daughter and she is soon to deliver another baby. Throughout the play Fran, who is having trouble finding a stable partner, tells Molly about her disastrous dates with various men. In this scene Fran tells Molly about her first boyfriend she lost her virginity to and how she got pregnant and decided to do an abortion.
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FRAN: "His father had a furniture shop. They fixed antique furniture. And he'd have the truck and we'd go...