The Last Goodbye

Dramatic Monologue originally from 20/20 Action
Originally performed by Andy Wang

Dramatic / Male (Open Gender) 

The speaker is overcome with emotion as they return to their hometown and realize it's no longer the place they grew up in. 

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This place is thick with memories. I haven’t been here in years and yet I know these streets,
and this town, and these buildings so deep in my bones that my entire being bathes in the
gentle comfort of its familiarity. There is so much that has changed, but in this town, nothing
truly changes. It’s still the same old place, with the same old people with the same old drama
that there has always been and will always be.

There’s something comforting about knowing that this place never changes. You can come
back a decade, two decades later, and it will still be frozen in time. Just like you left it. But
nothing ever remains completely untouched by time’s cruel hands. You can try to pretend like
everything is the same, but just because the streets are still there, and the buildings remain,
doesn’t mean it’s the same.