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Sam & Verna
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Sam & Verna
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Ruiz
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Alexander
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Alexander Ruiz
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Paul
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chair
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Lisa
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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Losing a parent is one of those inevitable moments for which no one is ever truly prepared. For Sam, whose relationship with his mother was never exactly easy, the news of her sudden and accidental death leaves him numb and unsure of how to mourn beyond handling her affairs and attempting to forge on with his life, hand-in-hand with his girlfriend, Arianna. Not long after he buries everything left unsaid along with his mother’s body, however, a series of comical, supernatural experiences clue him in that his mother may be dead, but is far from gone. When Verna returns from the dead as vivacious and intrusive into her son’s life as she was when she was alive, her newfound abilities as a ghost and her mysterious second chance to experience the world and spend time with Sam tear his life asunder. With good intentions and terrible execution, Sam forges onward, hell-bent on doing right by his mother while simultaneously setting her up to haunt and be happy in a way that he failed to while she lived. Sam & Verna takes every trope of every ghost story, horror movie, and mama’s boy tale and twists them into a comic farce with heart (that maybe doesn’t beat) and sass that refuses to remain silent, even in the face of death.
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Creative Writing
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M.F.A.
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by Alexander Ruiz
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ETD graduate
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2099-12-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request.
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