[VERONICA]
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September 1st, 1989. Dear Diary: I believe I'm a good person.
Ya know, I think there's good in everyone.
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But here we are, first day of senior year!
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I look around at all these kids I've known all my life and I ask myself: What happened?
[KIDS]
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Freak! Slut! Burnout! Bug-eyes! Poser! Lard-ass!
[VERONICA]
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We were so tiny, happy and shiny, playing tag and getting chased.
[KIDS]
Freak! Slut! Loser! Shortbus!
[VERONICA]
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Singing and clapping,
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laughing and napping,
baking cookies, eating paste.
[KIDS]
Bull-dyke! Stuck-up! Hunchback!
[VERONICA]
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Then we got bigger.
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That was the trigger,
Like the Huns invading Rome - Sorry!
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Welcome to my school,
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This ain't no high school:
This is the Thunderdome.
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Hold your breath
and count the days,
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we're graduating soon.
[KIDS]
White trash!
[VERONICA]
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College will be paradise
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If I'm not dead by June!
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But I know, I know, life can be beautiful.
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I pray, I pray for a better way.
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If we changed back then,
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we could change again.
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We can be beautiful...
[HIPSTER DORK]
Ow!
[VERONICA]
Just not today.
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Hey, are you okay?
[HIPSTER DORK]
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Get away, nerd.
[KIDS]
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Freak! Slut! Cripple! Homo! Homo! Homo!
[VERONICA]
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Things will get better
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soon as my letter
comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown.
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Wake from this coma,
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take my diploma,
N.C.
then I can blow this town.
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Dream of ivy-covered walls
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and smoky French cafes...
[RAM]
Watch it!
[VERONICA]
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Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze!
[RAM]
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Ooooops.
[VERONICA]
N.C. or (xxxx01)
Ram Sweeney. Third year as linebacker.
And eighth year of smacking lunch trays and BEING A HUGE DICK.
[RAM]
What did you say to me skank?
[VERONICA]
N.C.
... Nothing.
[VERONICA & KIDS]
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But I know, I know, life can be beautiful.
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I pray, I pray for a better way.
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We were kind before,
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we can be kind once more.
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We will be beautiful...
[VERONICA]
Agh!... Hey Martha.
[MARTHA]
Hey.
[VERONICA]
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Martha Dunnstock. My best friend since diapers.
[MARTHA]
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We on for movie night?
[VERONICA]
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Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail.
[MARTHA]
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I rented "The Princess Bride."
[VERONICA]
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Again? Don't you have it memorized by now?
[MARTHA]
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What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending.
[KURT]
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Martha Dumptruck! Wide load!
N.C.
Honnnnnk!
[VERONICA]
N.C. or (xxxx01)
Kurt Kelly. Quarterback. He is the smartest guy on the football team.
Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf.
Hey! Pick that up right now!
[KURT]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?
[VERONICA]
Yes, I am. I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. A future gas station attendant.
[KURT]
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You have a zit right there.
[VERONICA]
N.C.
Dear diary:
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Why...
[HIPSTER DORK]
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Why do they hate me?
[REPUBLICAN GIRL]
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Why don't I fight back?
[KURT]
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Why do I act like such a creep?
[VERONICA]
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Why...
[MARTHA]
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Why won't he date me?
[RAM]
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Why did I hit him?
[STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING, & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY]
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Why do I cry myself to sleep?
[VERONICA]
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Why?!...
[KIDS]
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Somebody hug me!
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Somebody fix me!
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Somebody save me!
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Send me a sign, God!
Give me some hope here!
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Something to live for!
[Interlude]
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[KIDS]
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Aah... Heather, Heather, and Heather...
[VERONICA]
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Then there's the Heathers. They float above it all.
[KIDS]
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I love Heather, Heather, and Heather...
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I hate Heather, Heather, and Heather...
[VERONICA]
Heather McNamara. Head cheerleader. Her dad's loaded - he sells engagement rings.
[KIDS]
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I want Heather, Heather, and Heather...
[VERONICA]
Heather Duke. Runs the yearbook. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants.
And Heather Chandler. The Almighty.
[KIDS]
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I need Heather, Heather-
[VERONICA]
N.C.
She is a mythic bitch.
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They are solid Teflon - never bothered, never harassed.
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I would give anything to be like that.
[HIPSTER DORK]
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I'd like to be their boyfriend.
[KIDS]
That would be beautiful.
[STONER CHICK]
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If I sat at their table, guys would notice me!
[KIDS]
So beautiful!
[MARTHA]
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I'd like them to be nicer.
[KIDS]
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That would be beautiful.
[BELEAGUERED GEEK]
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I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse
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and leave her tied up for the rats!
[HEATHER DUKE]
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(vomits)
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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Grow up, Heather. Bulimia is so '87.
[HEATHER MCNAMARA]
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Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather.
[HEATHER DUKE]
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Yeah, Heather, Maybe I should.
[MS. FLEMING]
N.C.
Ah, Heather and Heather...and Heather.
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Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting. You're late for class.
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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Heather wasn't feeling well. We're helping her.
[MS. FLEMING]
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Not without a hall pass you're not. Week's detention.
[VERONICA]
N.C.
Uh, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. Yearbook committee.
[MS. FLEMING]
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... I see you're all listed. Hurry up and get where you're going.
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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This is an excellent forgery. Who are you?
[VERONICA]
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Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon.
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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What boon?
[VERONICA]
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Um, let me sit at your table at lunch. Just once. No talking necessary.
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If people think you guys tolerate me, they'll leave me alone...
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Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes.
[HEATHER DUKE]
How about prescriptions?
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
Shut up, Heather.
[HEATHER DUKE]
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Sorry, Heather.
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure.
[HEATHER MCNAMARA]
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And a symmetrical face. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull,
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I'd have matching halves. That's very important.
[HEATHER DUKE]
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Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds.
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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And ya know, ya know, ya know?
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This could be beautiful.
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Mascara, maybe some lip gloss,
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and we're on our way.
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Get this girl some blush;
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And Heather, I need your brush.
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Let's make her beautiful.
[HEATHER MCNAMARA]
Let's make her beautiful...
[HEATHER DUKE]
Let's make her beautiful...
[HEATHER CHANDLER]
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Make her beautiful!
Okay?
[VERONICA]
Okay!
[KURT]
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Out of my way, geek!
[BELEAGUERED GEEK]
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I don't want trouble!
[RAM]
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You're gonna die at 3pm!
[REPUBLICAN GIRL & GOTH GIRL]
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Don't you dare touch me! Get away, pervert!
[BELEAGUERED GEEK]
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What'd I ever do to them?
[KIDS]
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Who could survive this?
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I can't escape this!
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I think I'm dying!
[MS. FLEMING]
N.C.
Who's that with Heather?
[KIDS]
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Whoa.
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Heather, Heather, Heather...
[GOTH GIRL]
And someone!
[KIDS]
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Heather, Heather, Heather...
[PRINCIPAL, COACH, & MS. FLEMING]
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And a babe!
[KIDS]
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Heather, Heather, Heather...
[MARTHA]
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Veronica?!
[KIDS]
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Veronica?
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Veronica!
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Veronica!!!
[VERONICA & KIDS]
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And ya know, ya know, ya know, life can be beautiful.
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You hope, you dream, you pray, and you get your way!
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Ask me how it feels
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looking like hell on wheels...
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My God, it's beautiful!
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I might be beautiful!
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And when you're beautiful...
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It's a beautiful frickin' day!
[KIDS]
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Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica!
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Heather! Heather! Heather! Veronica!
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Veronica!
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Veronica!
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Veronica!
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VERONICA!
