Quotes
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Lynda : This is your workstation. Choose your wood, make the doll, dress the doll, choose some hair and make-up. And then the final step.
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : They've already come for me twice. And my family.
Lynda : You tell your story through the puppet, and in this way, you expel the trauma so you can start again. Then you take your new name and leave.
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : I've done this. I have a name.
Lynda : Start by examine the wood. Really see yourself in it. For some, this process takes weeks, months.
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : This is... I *am* the me I want to be, I'm here to do something.
Lynda : I know.
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : I have to make this doll, yeah? There's no way around it?
Lynda : If you want to tell your story.
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : I don't. I want to take Linda and go.
Lynda : The next step is to saw the wood, soften its edges for shaping.
[frustrated, Dot grabs a wood block and hacks at it with a saw]
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : Can I carve?
Lynda : I feel like you're rushing.
Dorothy 'Dot' Lyon : No shit!
