Anna comes in, throws her purse on the table so as to obscure the small tablet clock from the doctor’s view and flops down in a chair opposite the doctor.
DOCTOR: Yes.
ANNA: I want the gene therapy medicine.
Doctor smiles pleasantly and turns to Anna.
DOCTOR: Yes, try to relax, what’s the problem?
ANNA: I can’t go out side my house. I’m hurting deep down in my soul, – ‘I feel a desperation. I’m lonely.
DOCTOR: Are you are living alone? Have you called your mother lately?
ANNA (ignore Doctor): Since I came here to the US. I feel so lonely. You can hardly imagine how hard it is to be lonely.
Doctor moves her purse so he can see the small tablet clock.
ANNA: Take that clock away!
DOCTOR: That’s not very polite… Take your purse away…
Anna takes away her purse in such a way that the tablet clock falls on the floor.
ANNA: Doctor… I…, I…
DOCTOR: Very well, go on.
Doctor glances at his wrist watch.
ANNA: My loneliness is special. I’m like the Liberty Statue: I’m standing alone, and life is boiling around me: people fall in love, go to theaters, restaurants, and I have nobody to go out with. Because no one needs me, I feel desperate and very frightened. I think about doing something drastic actions that could end badly for me.
DOCTOR: Now, now,what do you mean?
ANNA: When I see a couple, a man and a woman, walking along the street, holding hands and showing how good they feel together, I hate them, and I don’t know what to do in order not to see them… I even stopped visiting the Zoo.
Doctor: The Zoo…
ANNA: I don’t want to see almost all animals, even the most thorough predators, sharing a cage together… Especially on holidays and Sundays I literally climb up the wall… When I get up, I immediately remember how lonely I am, and all my thoughts are oriented on how to find somebody… Sometimes I can behave unexpectedly, crazy.
DOCTOR: For example? (glancing at his magazine again).
Anna jumps up and throws the magazine away.
ANNA: Enough of your “Playboy”…
DOCTOR: (Defensively) It isn’t “Playboy”. It was…
ANNA: Especially…
Doctor smiles pleasantly and puts his magazine on the floor.
ANNA: For example, when I go out into the street, I find, it easiest to start conversations with men, and then I talk on and on…
DOCTOR: Do they answer?
ANNA: Yes, they do, and we go along together for a while, then we part…
DOCTOR: And then you part… Your behavior can be interpreted in the wrong way.
ANNA: And they interpret… in the wrong way. It happens in different ways.
