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Something To Decide Early On

“Saturday Night Fever” was a 1977 film starring a disco-dancing John Travolta. You know the one.

Back in the late 1990s, theater producers morphed the movie into a stage musical. I saw it when the show came through the town I lived in ten years ago.

In one scene during the show, protagonist Tony Manero (the Travolta character in the movie) asks Annette (the Donna Pescow character in the movie), “You a nice girl or a slut?”

She replies, “I dunno. Both.”

Tony tells her, “You can’t be both. You’re either a nice girl or a slut. That’s something a girl’s got to decide early on.”
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