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         (E)  - /h7/ /en11/ TIME CODE: 27:30

         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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