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Doc O’Connor is a limousine driver in Laramie who was a friend of Matthew Shepard’s. According to Doc, Matthew used to hire him for rides to gay bars in a town an hour away. Doc loves Laramie and believes that there are more gay people than there seem to be in the town. Doc hopes that Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson will not receive the death penalty, believing that it would defeat everything Matthew stood for and would leave the community without hope for healing.
Doc O’Connor Quotes in The Laramie Project
The The Laramie Project quotes below are all either spoken by Doc O’Connor or refer to Doc O’Connor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 3: Epilogue Quotes
And I remembered to myself the night he and I drove around together, he said to me, “Laramie sparkles, doesn’t it?” And where he was up there, if you sit exactly where he was, up there, Laramie sparkles from there…Matt was right there in that spot, and I can just picture in his eyes, I can just picture what he was seeing. The last thing he saw on this earth was the sparkling lights.
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In this quote, Doc, who is at the fence with members of the Tectonic Theater Company paying tribute to Matthew, remembers how Matthew once told him that Laramie sparkles while they were out driving. Doc notes that, in the spot where Matthew was tied to the fence, a good view of the Laramie lights would have been the last thing he saw. Doc’s description of how Matthew loved the sparkling Laramie lights seems, in part, to be pure sentimentality. However, the Laramie lights also represents Laramie’s beauty, both physically and in terms of the beauty of its community and the Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas
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Doc O’Connor Character Timeline in The Laramie Project
The timeline below shows where the character Doc O’Connor appears in The Laramie Project. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1: A Definition
...talking about how important it is to care for the land in and around Laramie. Doc O’Connor , a limousine driver, talks about how he prefers Laramie to the East Coast because...
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Act 1: Matthew
...shop, and Andy comments that Trish was the first person he heard call Matthew “Matt.” Doc O’Connor then jumps in, describing how, one October night, he received a phone call from Matthew...
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Act 1: Who’s getting what?
In a monologue, Doc O’Connor says that there are more gay people in Wyoming than it might initially appear, though...
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Act 2: The Gem City of the Plains
...describes how one journalist even followed the case’s judge into the bathroom to question him. Doc O’Connor talks about how, when he was interviewed by one publication, he recorded the interview himself...
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Act 2: H-O-P-E
In this moment, Stephen Belber tells Doc O’Connor that the interview team will be back for Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney’s criminal trials....
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Act 3: Epilogue
...one last time at the fence where Matthew Shepard was found to say their goodbyes. Doc O’Connor then talks about how beautiful that spot is, with a view of the sparkling lights...
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Act 3: Departure
...that she loves him as she hangs up the phone. Stephen Belber talks about how Doc O’Connor asked them to write a book about Laramie, and Matt Galloway offered them a place...
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