Summary

Conversation in this scene is written as actual dialogue spoken by actual characters, but is in fact a representation of an online conversation in a chatroom between Orangutan, Chutes and Ladders, and Haikumom (Odessa), each of whom is given an icon / avatar that indicates his / her presence in the chatroom.

“Haikumom” turns on her computer and makes coffee as she carries on her conversation with “Orangutan”, that conversation revealing that it’s been some time since they connected.

“Chutes and Ladders” joins the conversation, asking Orangutan where she’s been.

Orangutan explains that as a result of her parents reading some of the blogs on her website, they bought her a one way ticket to her home country – Japan. She explains to Haikumom and Chutes and Ladders, who are both surprised to learn her country of origin, that she was born in Japan, was...