Here's a bit cut from the script at the last moment - from the first scene in the classroom where the girl is critiquing James' story while Grady/Douglas is going into his voiceover....
A GIRL with jet-black hair turns to a PALE YOUNG MAN
sitting at a desk in the back of the classroom. He is JAMES
LEER, 19. Like GRADY a moment before, he is staring out the
window.
CARRIE MCWHIRTY
Let me get this straight. The girl with the
big lips is depressed because, each night, when
her father goes off to work at the bakery, her
mother sneaks some mysterious lover into the
house. Not only does this girl have to listen
to her mother working this guy in the next
room, she has to wash the sheets each morning
before Daddy gets home. After a few weeks of
this, she starts to go a little nutty/ so Daddy
takes her to confession--only, once she gets in
the box, she gets a whiff of the priest and
realizes he's the mother's secret lover. Is
that it?
James Leer says nothing, huddling lower in the PATTY
OVERCOAT he wears.
CARRIE MCWHIRTY
I mean, Jesus. What is it with you Catholics?
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