RUTH You know what you should do, Miss Lena? You should take yourself a trip somewhere. To Europe or South America or someplace— MAMA (Throwing up her hands at the thought) Oh, child! RUTH I’m serious. Just pack up and leave! Go on away and enjoy yourself some. Forget about the family and have yourself a ball for once in your life— MAMA (Drily) You sound like I’m just about ready to die. Who’d go with me? What I look like wandering ’round Europe by myself? RUTH Shoot—these here rich white women do it all the time. They don’t think nothing of packing up they suitcases and piling on one of them
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