The Diamond

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OFFICIAL SESSION TRANSCRIPT
JUDITH LILLIAN MONROE #2
DATED 11/30/83


[TIMESTAMP: 5 MINUTES 39 SECONDS]


JUDE:    Sometimes, when you take an ordinary substance, like coal, and you put it under enough pressure, you get something extraordinary—you know, like a diamond.

MS. KELLEY:   And in this case, you feel like you're the coal? Under extreme pressure?

JUDE:    Yeah. I mean, I hope I am.

MS. KELLEY:    You hope you are? What makes you say that?

JUDE:    I just... I don't know, I really hope that all of this isn't for nothing... I hope that all of this... this pressure I've been under... I hope that it'll all pay off, eventually.

MS. KELLEY:    You mean you hope you become the diamond?

JUDE:    I hope I become something extraordinary.

MS. KELLEY:    So you think of yourself as just ordinary?

JUDE:   Yeah. I mean, no. I just mean... I don't know what I am. I know what I'm not, though, and I know that I'm not extraordinary.

MS. KELLEY:   Why do you think that? Why do you think you're not already extraordinary?

JUDE:    Why? I... I don't know. I just know it's how I feel, but I don't know why that's how I feel.

MS. KELLEY:   Okay, let me ask you a different question, then. Why does it mean to you to be extraordinary?

JUDE: To me?

MS. KELLEY: Mhm.

JUDE: Oh... Well, I guess to me... It's kind of like being a diamond. Strong, doesn't break under pressure... Not just valuable, but priceless... And... I also think that it's being remembered after you're gone; a lasting impression.

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