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INT. HARLEM BROWNSTONE—BEDROOM—CLOSE ON. DAY.

HAROLD reading the postcard.

DOTTIE (V.O.)
…Look out Purple Gang—those notorious  
Dandridge Sisters are rolling into  
the Motor City with Tommy Guns blazing!

HAROLD laughs.

INT. JDL EXPRESS TRAIN—OBSERVATION CAR—ROLLING—CLOSE ON. DAY.

DOTTIE as she finishes writing the postcard.

DOTTIE (V.O.)
See you in the Big Apple in two  
weeks.  Toodles…Dottie.

CLOSE SHOT OF DOTTIE’s HAND as she draws two heart-shaped o’s in the word “Toodles.”

INT. HARLEM BROWNSTONE—BEDROOM WALL. DAY.

A GIGANTIC MAP of the U.S.A. covers a wall of the bedroom.

CLOSE SHOTS OF a stream of COLORFUL POSTCARDS (from the late 1930s) pinned to the map tracking DOTTIE’s road itinerary: CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA; CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA; ATLANTA, GEORGIA; JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA; BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA; NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA; SUGAR LAND, TEXAS; LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS; KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.