Article: 'The Vagina Monologues' -- It ain't easy being V-gy

Ten minutes before the first of only two dress rehearsals for Yakima Valley Community College's production of "The Vagina Monologues," I read my monologue for the first time in front of the mirror.

I'd been practicing my inflection and rhythm in my living room -- in between commercials -- and I felt pretty confident. But then, watching myself do it in the mirror, I wasn't so sure.

I didn't like the way my face scrunched, how my hair looked, or the red splotches on my neck I get when I'm nervous.

Then, on stage, in front of a handful of students who were probably assigned to come to the rehearsal so we'd have an audience, I stood up and said my first line. My second. The third.

And I got ...

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