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prodigals

n. (plural of prodigal English)

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Prodigals (play)

Prodigals is a play (2011) by Sean Minogue about a group of twenty-somethings in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario who spend their days drinking in a bar while awaiting the results of a friend's murder trial.

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I knew that for her, as for all us prodigals, those pieces of gold were not true-ringing specie marked with the head of a Caesar, but a magic substance, a personal currency stamped with the effigy of a chimera and the likeness of the dancer Bathyllus.

For many then it became a question of “right about, face” as the homeward shuffle of shamefaced prodigals began.