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Maxine joins the Matre'd at the bar.
YIN MAXINE (to bartender)
Something non-alcoholic, please.
MATRE'D
No champagne to celebrate?
YIN MAXINE
I'm drinking for two.
MATRE'D
Really? Does that mean what I think it does?
YIN MAXINE
Of course.
MATRE'D
Who's the lucky man?
YIN MAXINE
It's not mine. I'm surrogating. You look
surprised.
MATRE'D
I'm sorry -- been an evening full of
surprises. I've never met a surrogate mother
before.
YIN MAXINE
I've never been one before.
MATRE'D
Is the father a church-member?
YIN MAXINE
Oh, no. I don't think so.
MATRE'D
You don't know?
YIN MAXINE
I'm not told the identity of the father.
MATRE'D
I thought you were. I mean, in the Baby-M
case, that was very clear.
YIN MAXINE
This is not like that at all. In the church,
it's business, guaranteeing spiritual as well
as biological health, but we don't want to
personalize or romanticize the
biological/spiritual process by getting the
ego involved.
MATRE'D
I'm not sure I understand.
YIN MAXINE
Cyndi's the one you should talk to.
MATRE'D
Let me get this straight -- you are doing this
as part of church business? Like having a
church bizarre or playing bingo? You raise
money this way?
YIN MAXINE
It sounds a little crude to put it so bluntly
-- but yes, that's pretty much it.
MATRE'D
Well, like I said, the evening's been full of
surprises.
YIN MAXINE
Are you shocked?
MATRE'D
I wouldn't say shocked exactly.
YIN MAXINE
I often shock people. Genius does, you know.
MATRE'D
Then maybe I should apologize . . .
YIN MAXINE
Oh, no. No need for that, captain.
Trudy comes to the bar. /en3/ TIME CODE: 28:30
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