| and sharksare each on their own side of the hall.
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| At the climax of the dance, Tony and Bernardo’s sister,
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| Maria, see one another: as a delicate cha-cha-cha,
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| they slowly walk forward to meeteach other.)
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| Meeting Scene
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| TONY:
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| You’re not thinking I’m someone else?
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| MARIA:
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| I know you are not.
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| TONY:
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| Or that we have met before?
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| MARIA:
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| I know we have not.
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| TONY:
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| I felt I knew something-never-before was going to happen,
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| had to happen. |
| But this is …
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| MARIA (interrupting):
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| My hands are so cold. |
| (He takes them in his) Yours too.
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| (He moves her hands to his face.) So warm.
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| (She moves his hands to herface.)
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| TONY:
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| Yours, too…
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| MARIA:
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| But of course. |
| They are the same.
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| TONY:
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| It’s so much to believe.
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| You’re not joking me?
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| MARIA:
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| I have not yet learned how to joke that way.
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| I think how I never will.
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| JUMP (Bernardo is upon them in an icy rage.
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| Chino, whom Bernardo has brought Maria from Puerto Rico
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| tomarry, takes her home. |
| Riff wants Bernardo
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| for"War Council"they agree to meet in hall an hour at
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| Doc’s drugstore.) |