MELODY

Shlomo?

DAPHNA

Yeah. Liam’s named after his Dad’s like best friend from boarding school, and I think he like killed himself or something, I forget the whole story, but since Liam’s not a Jewish name, they went in the total opposite direction for his Hebrew one: Shlomo. Keep that in your back pocket for a rainy day.

DAPHNA winks at MELODY.

MELODY

In my back—

DAPHNA

So how did you and Shlomo meet?

MELODY

I mean … we met online.

DAPHNA

Online?

MELODY

Yes.

DAPHNA

What site?

MELODY

Match.

DAPHNA

Liam Haber was on match.com?

MELODY

He doesn’t like me to tell people, he thinks it’s embarrassing but I don’t see what’s so embarrassing—

DAPHNA

What did his profile say?

MELODY

It was straightforward. It wasn’t anything weird. Which was a relief, cause, you know, there are a lot of weirdoes out there—

DAPHNA

What was his profile name?

MELODY

I don’t remember.

DAPHNA

Do you remember anything specific about his profile?

MELODY

Not re— I mean, he had a nice picture. I liked his smile.

DAPHNA

You liked his smile.

MELODY

Yes he has a very nice smile.

DAPHNA

Hm. Liam and Melody sitting in a tree. Right? Haha.

MELODY

I guess.

DAPHNA

Are you two just kinda, like, casually dating, or is this more, like, serious?

MELODY

I think … I think— yes, it’s serious.

DAPHNA

How serious?

MELODY

Pretty serious, I think.

DAPHNA

Hm.

What kind of a name is Melody?

MELODY

What?

DAPHNAA

What is its derivation?

MELODY

Oh, I don’t know. Caucasian?

DAPHNA

What’s your background?

MELODY

What do you mean?

DAPHNA

Where does your family come from?

MELODY

Oh. Delaware.

DAPHNA

Before that.

MELODY

Before what?

DAPHNA

Before Delaware.

MELODY

I mean, we’ve always been in Delaware.

DAPHNA

No you haven’t.

MELODY

Actually yes we’ve always—

DAPHNA

Actually no you haven’t always been in Delaware the only people who have always been in Delaware are Indigenous Delawareans but even they didn’t start there even they crossed over the Bering Strait land bridge during the last ice age but if you look around Delaware if you actually opened your eyes and looked you probably wouldn’t see too many of them right and why is that why is that well I’ll tell you why that is the reason why that is and the reason why families like the one you come from can even live in Delaware is because all those Native peoples were SLAUGHTERED so people who look like you and pray like you and reproduce like you could grow up in peaceful suburban housing developments with bookshelves filled with the King James Bible and Nicholas Sparks novels and Eat Pray Love which is probably your favorite book but no Howard Zinn (am I right or am I right) so if your family has always been in Delaware then actually the truth of the matter which we have to face unfortunately hard as it may be is that your family was more than likely major contributors and perhaps even leaders of the most atrocious genocide in American history which means you have the blood of genociders coursing through your veins right this very second but even if they did that they still had to come from somewhere so what I’m asking is where did your family come from before they moved to Delaware to perpetrate genocide?