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EXT. GRAVEYARD. A young girl with dark braids kneels in the dirt beside a hole she has dug. We cannot yet see what resides within the hole. The girl is weeping. Her tears drip down into the hole she is gazing into.


(medium shot)


GIRL (crying)

Goodbye, Jeff. Oh Jeff, you're gone! (sniffling) Why would you leave me, Jeff?


(close on the contents of the hole. We can now see what is in it.)


(A withered MELON is inside the hole. It is faintly glowing green.)


(We can see GIRL's hand stroke the melon.)


(Aerial shot)


(GIRL pushes dirt into the hole, still weeping.)


(medium)


(GIRL slowly curls up next to hole)


(close on her face as she falls asleep)


END OF SCENE ONE

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