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The Shealy clan's bonds are tenuous when the story opens. Shelly (Jacqueline Thompson) has been essentially on her own in taking care of Dotty (Thomasina Clarke) for the past year, and the situation has taken on toll on both of them. Even Dotty's smallest lapses in memory — getting up to get salt and returning instead with Oreos — enrage Shelly to the point that she screams out loud. Thompson and Clarke play beautifully off each other, as Dotty circles back to the beginning of conversations to repeat all the questions of five minutes ago while Shelly stews, clearly tired of hearing the same stories and physically tired as well.

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