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9:42 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Thanks Karen. All noted.

9:43 p.m. Karen wrote:

I can bring my boyfriend down. He’s thirty-one and REALLY good-looking.

9:43 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Brilliant! We need all the men we can get.

9:43 p.m. Karen wrote:

He’s also VERY handy and will help Joel with set-building and lighting.

9:44 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Thank you, Karen. That’s exactly the level of commitment we need.

9:47 p.m. Karen wrote:

There is something, though. If he’s cast in a part and I’m not, that would be really awkward. So, he only wants to be involved if I get a part too.

9:48 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Right. Noted.

Message exchange between Kevin and Sarah-Jane MacDonald on January 4, 2025:

9:54 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Karen’s new boyfriend is a tool.

9:54 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Kevin! We don’t call people names in this family.

9:59 p.m. Kevin wrote:

A bargaining tool. She knows how badly we need male actors and keen set builders, so she’s dangling him before my eyes, saying he’ll only be involved if she gets one of the highly contested female roles.

10:00 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Tell her he either reads for a part or he doesn’t.

10:01 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Dustin won’t read, but says call him if there’s a part going spare.

10:02 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote:

Typical! He’s acting with all the local groups and just goes where the roles are. Never mucks in with backstage work. Whatever happened to commitment?

10:03 p.m. Kevin wrote:

Meanwhile, no one wants to play Gerda.

10:04 p.m. Sarah-Jane wrote: