" This city has changed so much, hasn't it?" " Yeah I hardly recognize it, all these hotels and condos." "And it's become so touristy." " Nashville is the new L.A." " Yeah, except people actually want to live here." "Oh god, there's Doris's hush fund baby." "He always buys at these things." " He's put on a little weight." " What's a hush fund baby?" " Gerald's father pays him and his mother to keep a low profile." " Long story short?" "He's a gay bastard." "His existence soils the family name." "So daddy writes a check to mommy's account every month." " As a way to compensate for the fact that Gerald's got a shitty absent father how'd rather bleed money then acknowledge his own son." " Do I look like Oliver platt in this suit?" "Because I feel like I do." " Okay, you're insane, and you look very handsome." " I don't know, i just feel swollen." "And my back is killing me." " And he's not a bastard in the sense that he's an asshole, but he's a literal bastard." "And a semi-alcoholic." "I mean, we all went to school together." "He used to get drunk and talk about it." " Yeah, and I think that the dad got Doris pregnant when they were really young." "I mean, he might have been engaged at the time." "But he left Doris, and now, he pays her and Gerald for there cooperation." " Do you think I have leukemia?" "I've had two lymph nodes pop up in the last month, and my body is just, it's responding to something." "Like..." "Like cancer, it's responding-  yeah, and last month when you were having what I'm going to call indigestion, your response was, "it's clearly my heart."" "Coupled with, "i can't go to the hospital."" " My heart was beating-  okay, wait, tell me when your birthday is again?" " And his uncle's a U.S. senator?" " Yep." "Daddy underwrites everything as long as Gerald behaves." " Wow, talk about having to pay for your parents' sins." " But true, but i mean, he has a choice." "He doesn't have to take the money." " But, I mean would you?" "I will kill if my parents would pay me to stay away from them." "I can't believe I'd do it for free." " Either way, he's all too happy top accept it, and remain Charles's little house frau." "He has, nor needs a job." " I've even tried acupuncture." " And reflexology." " Have you tried energy work?" " You mean like aura cleansing?" " No, it's your chakras." "And if they're out of balance, maybe it's just stress." " It's not stress, but." " No, you just think that you're battling leukemia." " Now which one's Charles?" " His husband." " Oh right, the engineer." " I didn't think they where married." " For all intents and purposes." " I know somebody who's supposed to be really good at that, and i leased her her space," "I know a bunch of people that see her, so, that's an option." " Jim, Jeremy!" " Charles, what a treat!" "Hi Gerald." " Do you know our friend Monica?" " No, I don't think we do." " Nice to meet you." " Pleasure." " Jim, can I talk to you for a second?" " Hey, do you have any more of that bruschetta?" " Yeah, I'm working on them now." "I'm sorry, they're going fast." " They're great." " Thank you." " Do you mind if I turn this up?" " Please." " I love miniature viennese waltz." "It's somehow both calm and chaotic." " I know the feeling." "Kreisler was a genius." " Hey, I'm leaving." " Already?" " Yeah, I have an early morning." "But I have that information for you if you want." " I'll walk you out." " I don't know why you insisted on taking that number from Monica." " Well." "I don't know, I'm kind of at the end of my rope, here." "And besides," "Monica says the woman has great reviews on yelp." " Yes, Monica." "The woman who once at a country club, drank champagne out of a bud vase." "Who diagnosed you tonight based on your astrological sign." " Well, I mean." "It's better than me just sitting around, self-diagnosing on the Internet." " Well I don't believe in any of it." "You might as well go to a psychic or a numerologist." "It's all quackery and humbug and charlatanism." "They take your money, and tell you that you'll feel better." "It's silly nonsense." "I don't see anything right about taking advantage of people when they're vulnerable." " Who says I'm vulnerable?" "I'm a grown man, and I'm making a mature decision." "Besides, what you're talking about sounds a lot like the republican party." " It's a pseudoscience." " Conservative values." " Energy healing." " Yeah, I know, there's not enough proof for energy healing, and yet," ""in god we trust" is printed on basically everything of value." "How about I just give the pseudoscience a shot, how about that?" " It is a low fat mozzarella, does that change anything?" " No, fat doesn't make any difference." "Lactose, since the sugar." "You don't have the enzyme in your intestine to break it down." " Gotta go, I'm late." " You're not gonna have breakfast?" "Hilda made breakfast." " No, I've gotta go." "How's your back?" " It's okay." "Well now, my head hurts and my vision's sort of blurry." " You're hungover." " I don't think it's a hangover." " Just take it easy today." "Look, we don't have any plans tonight, do we?" " No, I don't think so." " Good, I've gotta pack." " Hey Charles, you have two messages." "Did you want those now, or when you get back?" " Anything pressing?" " No." " When I get back." " Alright." "Ah, Dana, I have some suits still at the dry cleaners." "Would you get bill to grab those?" "I want those first, Dana." " Sure." "Alright, see you later." " What?" " That pendulum swing isn't right." " What does that mean?" " I don't think the problem is your neck or your back, per se." "Other than the discomfort, how have you been feeling lately?" "In general." " Fine." "I woke up with a headache this morning." " Sit up, I'd like to try something." " Okay." "Sorry." "I'm sorry, I just, i just need to," "I'm sorry." "Hello?" " Hello dear, I was wondering if you might want to come over and say hello." "Maybe have a little coffee with your mother?" " Uh, yeah, sure." "What time?" " Oh, whenever you get a moment, I'm not really doing anything, just sitting down after a long day." "Uh, that little vietnamese thing at the salon didn't seem to know what she was doing." "I had to keep reminding her that she was snipping my cuticles, not neutering a yorkie." " Okay, well um..." "I'm doing something right now." "But I'll try and be there in an hour." " Oh, how nice." "See you then." " Okay, bye." "Sorry." " Most of us react to unpleasant experiences by blocking our feelings." "It stops the flow of energy, and that blocking can lead to pain or discomfort." "Or both." " What?" " I can see that this isn't going to be a quick fix." "Frankly, I think you might need to go to someone who's more skilled than I." " Okay, so do you have any recommendations, or?" " The woman I go to is a real miracle worker." "She's sort of a hidden in plain sight type, hardly anyone knows about her." "She's a jeweler." "She deals in gemstones." "She doesn't charge for her services." "Rather, she listens to what's going on in your life, and based on what she thinks you need, she recommends a very specific piece of jewelry." " Okay, so how is jewelry gonna help me?" " Crystals and gemstones are amazing." "Well their electrical vibrations, stimulate and harmonize our energies." "I think you'd be amazed at the wonders they can do." " Okay." "So..." "Did anything happen today?" " Something, I'm sure." "Something positive, and gentle." " Well thanks so much for coming." "I wondered if you might help me." " What do you need help with?" " Well I wanted to plant some mums in the garden, now that the forsythia are inside." " Don't you have a gardener?" " Well yes, but his daughter turned three today." "So I gave him the day off, so he could throw her a party." " Well that was nice of you." " Oh, he has the sweetest little girl." "Her name is katerina, and she adores sesame street." "So, I gave her a giant stuffed big bird, and tickets to sesame street on ice for the whole family." " Wow." " Well tell me, did you like sesame street as a child?" " Yeah, remember?" " Well it's been a long time ago now, hasn't it, dear?" " Yeah, I guess." "So, mums." " Oh yes, mums." "Well, it's important that I plant them myself." "But, my carpal tunnel has been acting up." "So, if you'd not mind, that would be wonderful." " I didn't know you had carpal tunnel." " Well yes, and it's just been awful lately." "Dean and I got back from Bermuda, and I could hardly hold my carry on." " It certainly sounds difficult." " Well, it would have been." "But, that's what they make bellmen for, I suppose." " Yeah." "Um..." "I really wish you had told me that you want me digging out in the backyard all day," "I'm not dressed for it, at all, and" "I've got a lot of stuff i need to get done today, so." " Hmm." "Oh, well." "I just thought, since the accountant had your check ready, that you'd not mind doing your mother a favor." " Gerald." " Claire!" " Hey!" " Hey!" "Hey, it is you, I almost didn't recognize you." " Yeah, no, uh..." "Yeah, gosh, I'm..." "Sorry I look like this right now," "I was helping my mother with some stuff in her garden, that's why I look like such a mess." " Whatever, you look great." " Oh, thank you." " Sorry, I'm so fat." " We should all be as fat as you are, Claire." "My god, you look fantastic!" "You know," "I wanted to call and catch up and see how you were doing, but..." "If you want to go get a drink, or something like that?" "Do you have time?" " I would love to, but I just got out of court and maps is right there is right there and so I gotta go back." "We had a trial and I lost, so." " Oh, I'm so sorry, is that?" " It's fine, I mean, he was guilty, so." " Oh." " How long has it been since you've seen each other?" "I don't you remember ever mentioning a Claire." " Gosh." "I don't know, seven, eight..." "Nine years?" "I had just graduated, and she was working as a public defender, but was moonlighting at whole foods just to make ends meet." "She has had a complete reversal of fortune, it's amazing." " What was the connection?" " We met at a mutual friend's birthday party, and we didn't really have much in common with her, and not with anyone else there, but, when we met each other, we just thought that" "we were the most interesting people there and spent all night talking." " Then why'd you drift apart?" " I don't know, the way you do with some people, I guess." " Have you seen my golf shoes?" " No, are you going golfing in Savannah?" " I might as well do something for myself while I'm there." " I'll look downstairs." "I couldn't find them." " Oh, I found them." " Oh." "I uh, saw my mother today." " And how is Doris?" " Still dating Dean, apparently." "Has carpal tunnel, allegedly, and had me plant flowers." "You're taking your tennis racket?" " Yeah." " We never play tennis." " How am I supposed to introduce you to tennis?" "I have the damnedest time pressuring you to learn golf." "How'd you sleep?" " Fine, I guess." "I don't know, the Melatonin knocks me out, but then my back wakes me up again." " So?" "The big anniversary's coming up." " It is." " Well what are you gonna get him?" " I don't know, what do you get for someone that you've been seeing for 10 years?" " Their own place." "Or I guess you could just go with dinner and..." "You know, a nice set of cufflinks." " Are we really that dull?" " Duller." " Cufflinks." " I really, really like these bracelets." "But you know?" "I don't know, I just seem to can't ever get one to fit me!" " Oh, of course you can't." "You're big." " I'm done!" " You come back." " No!" " Take a look around, let me know if" "I can help you with anything." "Or not." "I really don't give a fuck." "Um, and if you're hungry, there's a chicken." " Uh..." "I was actually just coming in here," "I've got an anniversary coming up and I thought jewelry might be appropriate." " How long, and what's he do?" " 10 years." "And how'd you know?" " Oh, please." " Um..." "I'll just look around, see if anything pops out at me." "Actually, uh..." "I was sent here by a healer." "She seems to think that I'm a mess, and you could help me." " Do you think you're a mess?" " I don't know..." "I don't think so." " Why go to an energy healer, are you bored?" " No, it's not that, I just, um..." "I don't know, i guess I haven't been feeling myself lately and thought it couldn't hurt." " Well, men don't mature until they're at least 50, and even then, it's questionable." "You're all a little autistic." "And you don't know how to commit to anything, so..." "Sorry, you've been fucked since day one, honey." " Well I mean, you know, I think I'm pretty mature for my age." "And you know, I don't have a problem with commitment." "Like I said, 10 year relationship, so." " The only thing you know how to commit to is comfort." "Congratulations for finding somebody that'll put up with you." " Okay." "Well, um." "Considering that I'm not even gonna become a real person for another 20 years, and taking into account my place on the autism spectrum, what would you recommend?" " Sex change?" " I just, I'm not feeling it." " Tell me what the problem is." " Well you know, I haven't gotten a good night's rest in I don't know how long." "My back has been, um, really hurting me." "I've gained weight, I think." "My chest is sort of like," "I feel like, a spreading, right here." " Alright, okay, I get it." "Here, take these." " What are they?" " Turquoise, tiger's eye, amethyst." "People say not to let amethyst in the bedroom." "That's bullshit." "Put it under your pillow and you'll sleep better." "These other two are just for general healing." "And we'll know more about your problems after you've had them a while." " Should I put them under my pillow as well?" " I don't give a fuck what you do with them." "Stick them in your pocket, put them up your nose or up your ass." "But the best thing for maximum results, is to put them in a glass of water or herbal tea." " Really?" " And no artificial sweeteners." "And then you're gonna need a list on how to clear the stones for future use." " Do I have to do all this tonight?" " No, they're already ready to go." "I charge everything that I sell." "But after they start absorbing some of your fucked up shit, you're gonna have to clean them and cleanse them yourself." " Okay." "Do you have any cedar or Sage?" " Do I look like a fucking home depot?" " My gosh." "What is that food?" "It smells so good." " I not cook nothing." " Oh no, but I smell something, I smell like a pasta, or pizza, or something." " You might be having stroke, 'cause I not cook nothing." " True?" " Da." "Sometimes when people have stroke, they smell burning." " Oh my god." " Gerald, you're not having a stroke." "Come on, hilda." " Gerald." " Does this stuff ever cause like, new problems?" "Because I feel like..." "I feel like I'm going insane." " Everything has side effects." " So like what, what, what kind, have you, do you, like, what kind of side effects?" " Well, amethyst opens spiritual channels." " In sorry, what?" " This isn't a science, it's an art." "I could live to be 100, and it's still gonna surprise me." "But, the upside of it, it's a great hangover cure." "I can drink as much as I want and I haven't had a hangover since the fourth season of friends." "Oh, do you want a glass?" " No, so am I just gonna keep..." "Hearing things and smelling things, or?" " Not if you're open to exploring it." "Do you believe in ghosts?" " Cannot say I've given it much thought." " Okay, look." "I've got some stones here." "This blue-green one is apophyllite." "And because of it, I finally got an apology from shel." " Shel who?" " Silverstein." "I fucked him for a summer." "I knew he was gonna be famous." " You fucked beloved childhood author shel silverstein?" " I was the light in his attic." "He was my giving tree." "But instead of giving me hope, he gave me crabs." " Lizzle?" " What are you doing?" "It's so creepy." " Come have a drink with me." " I can't, I've got things to do." " Oh no!" "Papers!" "Come have a drink with me." " Charles will kill me, I can't." " Come have a drink with me." "I'm a fun drunk." " Okay, let's go!" " Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" "Okay." "She's a 5'2 white woman, who smokes in her shop constantly." "She just has rotisserie chicken just out." " Chicken?" " Yeah." "Not doing anything, just chicken." "She slept with shel silverstein." "She got crabs from shel silverstein, and attributes a posthumous apology she got from said shel silverstein to a blue stone that she drinks with." "What would you call that person?" " I'm gonna go with psycho." "But that's crazy." " That's fair." " I mean, you actually trust this woman with your wellbeing?" " Yeah, you know?" "I mean it's weird, it's dumb." " It is weird, yeah." " She's obviously insane, but she has a certain je ne sais quoi about her." "I don't know, I like it." " Oh my god." " God, I can barely taste this." "Here, what do you need help with?" " Well, everything!" " Sweetie, you have everything!" " Sorry." " You're fine!" "Woah, hey baby." " Here, well, get my coat on me!" " Okay." "You got this." "You're doing a great job." " I know." " I'm very, i don't know why." "You got it?" " Is it on?" "Ow, pull it down!" " I'm pulling it down!" "Hold on, hold on." "Turn to me." "Turn to me." "You look gorgeous, you always look gorgeous." "You've got such a pretty face!" "Now you go." "Alright, okay." " Ouch." " Alright." "It's to the left." "You got it?" " Are you gonna call the witch?" " I might!" "Holy shit!" "Be careful." "Alright." " Oh god, there's stairs." " Alright, you got it?" " I don't know." " Alright." " Okay." "I got it." " Hi." " Scott?" "Scotty?" "Is..." "Is that really you?" " It's me." " Oh my god." "What are you doing here?" "How did you get here?" "Are you okay?" " I'm fine." "I..." "Got bored and just missed you." "I've stopped by a couple of times." "You weren't here, or too busy, so read." " That was you?" " It was me." "Anyway, you're here now, it's good to see you." " It's good to see you too." "You look great." "Oh yeah, well." "This is how you remember me." "You should have seen me after the car accident, it was fucking gross!" " Oh, would really have, i would, I don't want to." " What the fuck are you doing?" " What?" " What the fuck are you doing?" "I mean, I know it's been a while, but." "Gerald, I must say, i hardly recognize you." " Listen, I know I've gained a few pounds, but I really think that it's rude to just-  no." "I mean, what happened to the guy who would spend hours listening to brahms and schumann and kreisler." "You loved them." "And whoever invented the violin, and all its family members." "And the piano." "And all the music from the entire romantic period and whatever it influenced." "I only know that stuff because of you." "I think I give a shit about it?" " Well." "I guess I just don't have time for it anymore." " For music, or for yourself?" " What do you mean?" " This, all this, this..." "This isn't you." "I mean..." "You used to be feisty and passionate." "You used to start little arguments just for the makeup sex." "You used to drag me on day trips from Memphis, to Atlanta, just 'cause the doldrums would get to you and you needed a change of scenery." "Now it's art openings, and digging holes on your mother's yard and not ever caring that your husband is never arou..." "It's not you." " Well maybe it's me now." "I grew up." " You didn't grow up." "You grew comfortable." "And unfortunately, you grew comfortable with a whole lot of..." "Nothing." " What do you mean "a whole lot of nothing?"" "I mean look around." "I've got a house, I have friends, I have help." "I have a good life." " You were always so good at that." " What?" "Tell me." " Rationalization." "Gerald, people who have good lives don't see chiropractors and masseuses and energy healers, or stick these tight little balls of tension and stress." "You think the problem is your head, you neck, your back, your chest?" "The problem is you." "Not to mention that the person you share a bed with watches fox fucking news." "No wonder you have trouble sleeping." " Oh." "I just got a flashback to us being together." "Remember Sunday night at the movies?" "We saw I'auberge espagnole three times." " What about this reminds you of that?" " Do you not remember?" "The first time?" "We got into a huge fight in front of the theater because I had just gone to see my mother." "And she was of course, telling me that I was wasting my life, and it..." "Really hurt my feelings." "It just ruined my day, and you were telling me to let it go, because she's a monster, and then I called you insensitive, and..." "We were off to the races." " Oh." "See, you remember that as the evening we got into a fight over your bitch mother." "I remember that as the night we had sex for an hour and a half and fell asleep hugging." " You know, I never..." "I never believed in bisexuality," "I always thought is was a crock of shit, but you proved me wrong." "I heard you dated Elaine Owens after we broke up." " Yeah." "Jealous?" " She was box-shaped." " Very jealous." " I would have given my left ear for you." " Aren't you glad you didn't?" " You know, Charles isn't so bad." " No?" "What was it that attracted you to him?" " He was just so sure of himself." "And that's sexy." "For our first date, we had met at a party and after that, he waited a few days to call me, and we went to this little Italian bistro, which is gone now, developers." "And..." "He ordered for me, which is great, because new menus can be really intimidating." "And after that, we went to the liquor store, and then he took me out on his boat on the cumberland." " And then you slept together?" " No, I mean, I stayed over, but we didn't sleep together." " No?" "Are you sure he didn't drunkenly ask to stick the tip in, and you didn't drunkenly beg for it?" " Where you there?" " His grandmother was, too." " Scott!" " It was so romantic." "And you forgot to mention that obnoxious pair of weimaraners he had." "Always jumping on and off the bed." " That's so weird!" " I'm so glad you called me." "I didn't think I'd hear from you this soon." " Well, after not seeing each other for the better part of a decade, I just knew that if we didn't talk soon, then we probably wouldn't end up talking, and" "I didn't want that to happen." " I know." "It was so weird, and so great running into you the other day." "It just really made me realize how much I've missed you." " Ditto." " Can we drink now, please?" " Yeah." " Okay good, I need one." "Defending guilty people's hard." " So what, are you seeing anyone?" " Um, no I'm not, but" "I really couldn't be happier about it, because" "I mean, just imagine where I'd be if I was still with what's his face?" " Mark." " Yes, mark." " Mark, ugh." " But, I mean..." "I mean I guess it's just not that much better, you know?" "Now, like, I'm 33 and single, and," "I mean I might want to have a kid one day, so, it's just kind of hard knowing that..." "That possibility is dwindling into oblivion with every passing day, so." "I go on the dates." " The dates?" "What are the dates like?" "Tell me about the dates." " I went on three dates last week." "One was a blind date, one was a tinder date and one was a date with a guy that..." "It's an ex-boyfriend of a friend that" "I always found to be somewhat interesting, so I thought," ""why not?"" "So, we went downtown, which was cool, since you know, I live here and I never go downtown, so that was good." "Um, but he..." "Literally just talked at me the whole entire time and I couldn't get a word in edgewise." "And by midnight," "I just started crying." "You know, I just felt like" "I'm here with this reasonably, seemingly normal guy." "And he just had no interest in getting to know me." "At all." "And it just made me feel really insignificant." "So I, started crying." "And the best part is, that" "I actually had tears rolling down my face and like, he was looking at me talking, and I'm wiping the tears, and he didn't even notice." "He didn't even stop his story." "To notice, and just kept on talking." " What a monster." " But you're in a good place, right?" " Yeah, yeah, I..." "You know." "I mean, I don't know, I guess i just always assumed that things would turn out fine, you know?" "Charles is away a lot, but..." "Even when we're in the same bed, it still feels like he's a million miles away." "I don't know." "It's just these..." "Opportunities that pass you by, that you can never get back again." " Well, don't think like that, I mean, we're both young enough and cute enough that we have plenty of time to fix the things we need to fix, so that by the time we get to middle age," "we won't look back and think, "what the fuck?"" " Do you remember Scott?" " Yeah, of course I do." "Your bisexual ex-boyfriend that exploded in the car crash?" " Okay." "He didn't explode." "His car exploded." " Died peacefully in the fire, in the flaming car." " Well he was at least, he was in less than four pieces, which I think is what defines an explosion." " Hey." " Hey, you're still here." " Of course." "You have hbo." "Oh, um..." "I've got a few friends over." " Like, dead friends?" " Well, yeah, I mean." "I would have called, but they're in the living room." "We're binge-watching a show on netflix." " Do they have to do that here?" " I guess not." "I'll send them away." " No, no, it's fine." " I'd forgotten you can sometimes be like this." " Like what?" " It doesn't matter." " No, like what?" "I said it's fine." " Difficult." "You can be difficult." " I'm not difficult." " Maybe not anymore." "I'll send them away." " No." "It's fine." " Are you sure?" " Yeah." " Alright titty sprinkles, let's go." "Gerald, everyone, and everyone, Gerald." " Can I get you guys anything?" "No?" "So." "How'd everyone die?" " Cancer." " Gunshot." " I broke my neck on a dismount." " Boy, I bet you lived a life." " I'm probably gonna head out with the guys, here." "You know how to reach me now, if you need to." " You're going?" " I can't hang around here forever, Gerald." "Besides, Charles is on his way back, and" "I don't think you want to hear what I have to say about his every move." " He's a decent, hard-working guy, and..." "He's been good to me." " Sure." "Charles has had you on boats and at parties, jumping into swimming pools, but he's wasted your talents." " Well, that's not all on him," "I could have put in more effort." " He also could have encouraged you." "I always encouraged you." " Yes, you did, you were..." "Something else, Scott." " And I died doing what I loved." " Being reckless?" " Being free." "Making music, making art, making love." "Look, eventually, you'll die too." "And the sun will burn out, and the earth will be gone." "And all the stars and the planets, the entire universe will disappear, nothing will be left." "No socrates, no Shakespeare, no" "Beethoven or Michelangelo, no" "United States, middle east, no presidents, bank robbers, all gone." " Pretty grim enterprise, isn't it?" " Just a bit." " So I mean, what's the point?" "Why not just..." "Jump out of this window right now?" " Well." "Given the terrible facts of life, what you're here to do, is live." "More importantly, live authentically." "It's what makes it worthwhile." "Please don't forget that." "Gerald." "I've seen your soul." "I knew you, and I knew you well." "You're an incredible, generous, kind, giving person." "Don't lose touch with that." "Because the time is coming." "If nothing happens, then all that will completely fade away." "And you'll be something else." "Something entirely different, and you won't enjoy it." "You won't enjoy anything." " Hey!" " Hey." " How was your trip?" " It was alright." "What did you do?" " Oh nothing, i just got a drink with Claire." " Great." "How's your back?" " Pretty good, actually." " You saw a pain specialist?" "I'll get that, Dana." "Jim and Jeremy want to have dinner tonight." " But-  hello?" "Yeah, no I've got the paperwork right here." "Yeah, the numbers look good." "Yeah." "No, I'll review them tonight, and I'll get them back to you." "Okay, bye." " I mean, you can't just force someone to violate their conscience like that, you know?" " That's what I've been saying!" "And that's what's wrong with this country." "There's absolutely no freedom anymore." "Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, just do not exist." " I'm sorry, I don't understand." " What's there to understand?" "The government stepped in and told this woman she was going to jail if she didn't do something against her religion." "She didn't budge so they put her in jail." " You can't be serious?" " We are." " We're gay." "We are, all of us, gay." "She works for the government, the supreme court made a ruling that said you can no longer discriminate against gays trying to marry, she continued to discriminate against gays trying to marry, she was sent to jail." "That makes total sense to me." "If you explain it like that, like the way that it happened, then I completely understand it." "You guys aren't even religious." " Of course we are." " Charles, you haven't been to church in years, and you guys are swingers." " Gerald, we are not swingers." "We had an open relationship at one time, yes, but no longer." " Whatever, I just," "I don't understand how you guys can come to the conclusion that is frankly, pretty fucked up, that paints this hypocrite bigot as a victim." "I mean, not even as democrats, as gay men." " Gerald, you're an atheist." "You couldn't possilby understand where we're coming from." " I'm not an atheist." "I've never said that i was an atheist." "I'm nine years and 11 months of a relationship," "I've never said that." "I'm an agnostic, an open-minded one." " Fine, just drop it, alright?" " Let's change the subject." " Yeah, sure." "Jeremy, what else is wrong with our country?" " Did you have to push everyone's buttons tonight?" " I'm sorry, I just don't think that they're as charming as you think they are." "I think that Jim is stuffy and Jeremy's pompous and immature." " Jeremy is a successful, self-made man." " Yeah, of course he is." "He's a good looking, straight acting tennis instructor with an accent." "Every lonely housewife in Nashville wants a lesson on her backhand." " If you were going to act so contemptuous, you shouldn't have come." " Missed 10 games last year with a pair." " Spot on the bandwagon." " I've been thinking about writing." " Why?" " It's something I've always been interested in." " Since when?" " Since always." " The world is full of people who dream of writing the great American novel." "Why bother?" "Like I said, they're a threat to the gene pool." "Anybody that says stuff like that." " Is this about Jeremy?" "'Cause of what I said?" " No." "I just found one of my notebooks recently, and" "I don't know, it's been on my mind." " Alright." "And let's not forget," "Chris Matthews." " Do you believe in ghosts?" " No." " What if I told you that I saw one?" "Or, several." "Would you believe then?" " No." " But you believe in heaven with harps and hell with fire." " Goodnight, Gerald." " Hi, this is may." "I think I have an appointment tomorrow." "Well, I had an appointment last week, and came in, and i was sent away." "Because I didn't have a referral." "I just wondered if you had the referral yet." "Well if you don't, I'm going to buy a gun." "Yes, I'll hold." " Don't have a stone for that?" " Not for old age." " Just no Wagner please." "This is a Jewish wedding, we can't have" "Hitler's bestie playing her down the isle." "No, I absolutely do not want to hear the ride of the valkeries!" " Hey, this isn't a goddamn phone booth!" "Either buy something or get the hell out!" " Hang on a second." "Fuck you!" " You too, sweetie." "So my doctor wants me to see an ophthalmologist." "And I go, and I waited, and waited, and waited." "And waited." "And the girl at the desk calls me up, and asked if I had a referral." "And I said, "my doctor made my appointment."" "She said, "but do you have a referral?"" "So, they sent me home." "And uh, what I've learned is, if you are old and sick, you're going to stay old and sick." " That's why I'm here, right?" "I had a visit from an ex-boyfriend." " You little slut." " Not that kind of visit, like a ouija board kind of visit." " Oh." " Yeah." " Damn." " I know." "It was good to see him, I guess." "I don't know, it was weird, he was..." "Harsh, he was saying a lot of stuff that I didn't want to hear, which..." "I didn't want to hear it, because it's all true, or course." " And what were you left with?" " I don't know." "I, um..." "When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a teacher." "You know, so much so, like I would even make my babysitters play school with me." "I was particularly fond of making the old ones take spelling tests." "I had one, Mary." "The day that she was hired, I said to her that tomorrow, she was going to need to bring a spiral of loose leaf paper." "Didn't even tell her why, and she showed up the next day, and I made her spell 30 words." "Anyway, this is sort of a long story short way of saying that," "when I figured out that I didn't want to be a teacher, because I hated kids, all of that..." "Love of language kind of transferred into being a writer." "Which, you know, I did in college for a while, and I think I was good, I got published." "I think I want to want to be a writer again." " Has your neck been bothering you?" " I mean yeah, off and on." " Well, creativity comes from the base of your neck." "So, you've got a pinched nerve back there." "Here, take these." "These are for creativity and inspiration." "And, a little unpredictability." " I don't know what I'm doing." " Sure you do, you've done this before." " Guys, quiet." " Do you believe this?" "Being made to sit in the classroom at my age, and take some ridiculous tests?" " I don't know what I'm doing." " I told you to be quiet." "You've never understood the value of silence." "Pen to paper." "Everything else is noise." " Isn't that reductive?" " It's not reductive, it's true." "Look around." "Do you notice the emptiness?" "The quiet?" "It's where ideas, grand and small, incubate." "It's where values and notions of who we are and what we believe are bred." "Everything else is a distraction, manufactured, if we don't have the opportunity to create these things, and then to express them." " Do you know?" "He's right." "You were always so obsessed with right and wrong." "Spelling test, geography tests, social studies tests." "And I was your babysitter, and you tested me on everything." "Oh, you took such pride in knowing all the answers." "All that..." "That flag you carried from the truth is..." "Torn." "You're living in this bubble that you've taken such pains to create and you're suffocating under the weight of it." "You had such respect for the truth, even as a child." "I remember once, I went into his mother's living room, and her favorite vase was lying on the floor in pieces in a puddle." "And I went and knocked on the door and came in and said, "Gerald, did you break your mother's vase?"" "And without hesitation, you looked me dead in the eye, and you said," ""yes, I did, and I'm sorry, i didn't know how to fix it."" "It was incredible." "And all my life, i never had a child that was so quick to accept responsibility." " Everything that keeps you from being in touch with that boy, everything that suffocates and diminishes that little boy, it's noise, it's all noise." "Be quiet." " I don't know how." " You do." "Let's say the television's on, and you want it off." "What do you do?" "You turn it off." "Same with the radio, the car, the oven, the microwave." "If they're on, and needn't be, you turn them off." "Life works the same way, it's no more complicated than that." "Relationship not working out?" "Turn it off." "Hate your job?" "Leave it and find a new one." "A friendship that's so one-sided, where all they want is something from you and never asked to return the favor?" "Move on and let them go." "Your attachment to these things, are not needs." "They're a want." "They are the same want." ""I don't want to be uncomfortable."" ""I don't want to hurt."" ""I don't want anyone to be mad at me."" "They're all the same want, when you boil them down." ""I don't want to be afraid."" " Well nobody wants to be afraid, but it's a part of life." "Fear is not the absence of courage, Gerald." "Fear is the reason for courage." " Yes are momma's big girl!" "Momma loves you!" " Hello?" "Hey." "No, I'm just about to meet with a client, what's going on?" "What?" "Um, just drop a pin to my cell, and I'll get there as soon as I can." "No, I'll just reschedule, it's fine." "I'll see you soon." "Okay, bye." " Hey, are you okay?" " Yeah, um, I'm fine." " You sure?" "It looks painful." " Yeah, yeah it's killing me." " Looks pretty swollen." "If you can move it, it's not broken." "My guess is you sprained it." " Are you a doctor?" " Unlicensed." "No, I used to play soccer in college, so." "I saw my team mates take some nasty spills." "May I?" " Yeah." "You never fell?" " No." "Let's see if we can get you over to that bench." " Okay." "Okay, okay." "Thank you." " Yeah." "Do you run here often?" " No I don't, um..." "I don't really run, I just really picked it back up, I um..." "Do you ever get stir crazy?" " All the time, yeah." " I got, I am, I get stir crazy." "Frequently." "And, I don't know, it's just nice to see something else." " Well, today, certainly turned out to be an adventure, didn't it?" " Yeah, absolutely, more like an adventure in babysitting for you." " So..." "Is your girlfriend going to come and get you?" " Uh, a girlfriend, she's not my girlfriend." " Gotcha." " Yeah I called my partner first, and I guess he's in a meeting or something, because he didn't pick up." "So." "What about you?" "Where are you from?" "Are you from around here, Nashville?" " I was born in Milwaukee." " Oh, okay." " I moved here to study history at Vanderbilt." "And I..." "You don't want to hear this." " No, I do." " Well, I moved here to study history, and I fell in love with Nashville." "And with a tall, blue-green eyed" "Italian classics major." "But, you know." "Nashville's changed and, so has he, so..." "We just parted ways after a six year relationship." "He was married to his job and," "I spent more time alone than I liked." " Sounds familiar." " You too?" " Me too." "Hey." "We're over here by the bench." " Look, I really don't want to discuss that right now." "No, it's not, it's not a good time." "Okay." "You too." "Bye." " Hey." " Hey." " "You too" what?" " What?" " You just said, "you too" when you got off the phone." ""You too" what?" " Oh, it was a client." "He said, "I'll talk to you soon," and I guess I absent-mindedly said, "you too" back." " Ah." " How was your day?" " Fine." "I went to the park." " Great." "I just had two conference calls." "Hopefully, each one of them turns into a couple grand in new business." " That's great." " Yeah, you know, I'm really excited about the way business is going." "That last trip to Savannah was great for networking." "I met both of these potential clients there, exchanged cards, followed up after a couple of days, and everything's looking up." "Maybe after the dust has settled, we'll take a trip." "I don't know, maybe go to New York or something for a couple of days." "Shit." "I forgot, you hate New York." "Maybe something a little more rustic." "I don't know, maybe rent a house in the poconos for a couple of days or something." " That'd be nice." " You got it, it's a date." "Okay, sweetie." "I'm gonna jump in the shower." "You think about what you want to do for dinner tonight." " You're fucking kidding." " Not kidding." "He didn't answer the phone when I called him." "When I got home, he barely even looked at me." "And then..." "When he was talking to me..." "I started crying..." "And he didn't even notice, he just, said some stuff about a trip that we will never take, because we never take them, and..." "He said so casually, "I'm gonna go take a shower." ""Figure out dinner,"" "and that was it." "I felt..." "Invisible." "And then, whenever he was done with his shower," "I was so over it at that point, that I just didn't even bring it up." "It's not worth mentioning that shit to him he just, he doesn't respond to reason." " Of course he doesn't, he's a gay republican." " But." "Something did come out alright with my little spill in the park." " What's his name?" " How the fuck do you do that?" " Ah, come on." "What's his name?" " I don't know." " Well what do you know about him?" " Um," "I know he jogs everyday." "I know he just got out of a long-term relationship, and he is kind enough to stop" "and help a complete stranger." " How is your ankle?" " You know." "It wasn't a particularly bad sprain, it hurts to walk on, but I can walk." " Well take a quartz elixir again tonight, and it'll feel better in the morning." "And when you talk about feeling invisible with Charles, is that a common occurrence with y'all?" " I'm like furniture." " Here, I want you to take this." " What is it?" " It's chalcedony." " What does it do?" " Well, writers observe." "And, maybe you should take a closer at Charles." "Or, possibly the jogger." " Hello." "Ah, shit." "Okay." "That's way too fast." "It's way too fast." "Dammit!" "What are you doing?" "Huh." " Uh, hi." " Shit." " What?" " Nothing." "Hi." " How long have you been standing there?" " Uh..." "I just came in, and..." "Saw that you were here." "And decided that I wanted to breach the boundaries of our 15 minute friendship." " No, that's okay, I'm glad you did." "You're more than welcome to." "I just didn't see you come in." "I'm just surprised, that's all." " Yeah." "Me too." " I, uh..." "I like the look." " Thanks, you know." "Um..." "Yeah, I..." "Sort of came down to headquarters, I was wanting to get a cup of coffee, and guess I didn't pay attention to what I was wearing." "So, do you come here often?" "This whole like..." "Just give me a stone and not tell me what the side effects are until later bullshit, has really got to stop." " Come on, don't kill what little fun I have left." " And you know?" "About the jogger, the thing is," "I'm not even sure that I'm really interested in him." "You know?" "I don't even know his name yet, but." "But the fact that I'm wondering if I'm interested in him..." "That makes me wonder whether or not my relationship is still any good." " Maybe that's something to think about." " Yeah." "You know, the thing is, when Charles and i first got together," "I never questioned that, ever." "You know, he and I, were so great, and I was happy," "I was happy where I was, i was happy with him." "And he would tell me about guys like, flirting with me, he would say," ""blah blah blah was really getting fresh" ""with you tonight."" "And..." "It didn't even register with me, it wasn't on my radar." "That's just not the case now." "It makes me wonder whether or not, whether I'm bored or just unhappy." " When I first met you, you said you felt out of sorts, you didn't feel like yourself, something was off." "That's not boredom, honey." "That's something else." "And you're the only one that can answer that question." " I know, I know." "What are you doing for Thanksgiving?" " Beats me." " You don't have family in the area?" " My parents are dead, I'm an only child, never had children." " Well what do you normally do?" " Normally?" "Stay at home, drink a couple bottles of wine." "And then go eat." "With whatever customer invites me over." "Are you getting ready to invite me over?" " Oh god, no." " Thanks a lot, bitch." " No, that's not..." "That doesn't have anything to do with you, that's..." "I wouldn't subjugate anyone to, uh..." "Thanksgiving with my mom." "Not even you." " Oh, dining with mommy dearest, huh?" " Yeah." "You know, that's another thing, too." "Charles and I, we've been together for 10 years, and we've never spent a single holiday together." "You know, his family doesn't support him." "My family doesn't support me." "And yet, we still decide to go to our families for holidays, because it would just feel like, weird to not be there." "I don't know, Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only two times of year, when it is basically mandated that you feel like shit." " That's how it always was with me." "Ah, fuck it." "I've got something for you." " A present?" " Not a present, you're gonna buy it." "Planning on seeing the jogger again?" " I don't know, maybe." " Well, if you do." "That'll loosen you up a little bit." " This is moonstone?" " Mm hm, and..." "Perhaps, rose quartz." "Not only is it calming, but it also opens you up to new things." " What kind of new things?" "For fuck's sake, just tell me!" " Okay, new love." "But whether you decide to use it or not is up to you." "You can buy all this shit, put it in the trash, for all I care, but if you do decide to use it, you have to be open to whatever happens, and open to any of the consequences." " Hey." " Hey." "Fancy seeing you here, I was just taking a little break." "I am exhausted." " Mind if I take a seat?" "I could use a rest." " No please, absolutely," "I was just sitting here reading the aeneid on my phone." " God." "You do know it's total propaganda, right?" " Now, I didn't." " Yeah, totally." "Augustus needed an origin story, so he basically commission Virgil to write the aeneid." "And inside of it, it's full of." " One of my favorite things about the aeneid is how destiny, or fate, really, is sort of its own character in and of itself." " Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, the events of one's own mind, or of history, for that matter, seem a lot more important, carry a lot more gravitas if the universe, or in this case, the gods," "had some hand in fanning them." "Don't they?" "Yeah, and I had to read it in Latin." " Oh, wow." " In front of the entire class, in perfect meter." "I haven't read it since." "That class scarred me." " God, I can't believe you had to do all that." " Yeah." "Huge dork, right?" " I mean, i don't think it's that dorky, I actually think it's pretty hot." " It was the only class I routinely skipped." "The anxiety was huge." " That's crazy, i can't imagine you being someone who has anxiety." " Yeah, huge anxiety." "Coupled with the fact that I was 60 pounds overweight, and i had a great big ball of stress." "Told you." " Wow, you know, i actually don't think that we have officially been introduced to each other." "Jeff, I am Gerald." " Hi, Gerald." "What about you?" "What are you doing later on?" " I don't know, the ball in chain is going to be leaving town soon, so I guess I should spend some time with him." " Yeah, nice." "Well, I should probably get back to it, before I lose anymore stamina." " Sure." " It was good to see you, Gerald." " It was good to see you, Jeff." "Hey, we should get together sometime." " Sure, yeah." " What about dinner?" "Like, day after Thanksgiving, 5:00?" " Yeah, where?" " Uh, let's just meet here and play it by ear." " Yeah, sounds good." " Yeah." "Alright." " Hey." "I was just about to go upstairs and start packing." " What time's your flight?" " Early." " This is so not me." " Of course it is." " It's been a long time since I've been with someone new." "I've gotten so..." "Fat!" "Do you think he'll mind if I want to sleep with him with the lights off?" "Maybe I should bring a 10 watt bulb just in case." " Gerald, are you sure this is what you're so tense about?" "You only used to get like this before having to see your mother." " Hello, dear." " Hi mom." " Come on in, we were just watching the game." " We?" " Yes, I invited tom." " Who's tom?" " The man I've been seeing." "And he invited a couple of friends." " What happened to Dean?" " You see that, that's bullshit!" "He didn't step out!" "Oh, fuck you ref!" "You piece of shit!" "This is bullshit!" " Tom." " Hey, good to see you, yeah." " This is my son, Gerald." "Gerald, this is tom." " Great to meet you, son." "Oh come on!" " This is Paul and David." " Good to see you." " Shit!" "Hey, you wanna sit down and watch the game?" "There's still a few minutes left." " No, uh, I'm not a big fan of football." " Oh that's right, yeah, your mom said, uh, oh goddammit that's fucking horseshit right there!" "Could you believe that catch earlier?" "That throw was so sloppy, it was like a dying quail." "I can't believe the colored guy caught it!" " Then they have to show it again." " I'm sorry, what?" " The game, we're just talking about the game." " So dear, how are you doing?" " I'm fine, I guess." "It's actually been kind of a weird week for me, I..." "Fell when I was on a run in the park, and hurt my ankle, that's why I called you." " Oh, that's right." "You did call." " Don't worry, Claire was able to come by and pick me up and actually, this really nice guy sat and waited with me while, while I was waiting on Claire." " Well, that's good." " It feels a lot better, by the way." " Oh, I'm glad." "Just at the right time like they did last year, and they where-  and then, tomorrow, while my partner of 10 years is away," "I am going to take this really nice guy out on a date..." "And fuck him!" " What did you say?" " I mean, it doesn't have to be him." "What are you guys doing later?" " What..." "Is the matter with you?" "You're making everyone uncomfortable." " I'm making everyone uncomfortable?" "You're new boyfriend is the one who just used the term "colored."" " But he comes from another time, dear." " He's five years younger than you, mom." "And he called me "son."" " Oh, well he's just being paternal." " Well he's new." "So I don't need him to be paternal." " You're just being overly sensitive." " No, I'm not, I'm not being overly sensitive mom, do you have any idea how that makes me feel?" " Dear." "I have neither the time, nor the emotional energy to cater to your demanding hypersensitivity today." " I am not being demandingly hypersensitive, and if I was, in most cultures around the world, that would just be called being a mother, so." " Oh, here we go again." "Is this where i have to endure the" ""I'm a terrible mother" speech yet again?" " No." "No, you don't have to." "Tell tom, dick and Harry that I got sick and needed to excuse myself." "Happy Thanksgiving!" "Hey hilda." " Oh, Mr. Gerald!" "Oh, I'm so sorry!" " Oh my god, what's wrong, what's the matter?" " Oh, Mr. Gerald." "I thought that you were going to spend the weekend with your mama." " Yeah, yeah, I thought so too, what's wrong?" " Oh, oh, I wouldn't normally touch bottle." " Hilda, it doesn't matter." "What's wrong?" " My husband will leave me." " What?" " My husband will leave me." "He trade me in for Internet bride." "He said, "mail order bride all old and fat."" "And I got all dressed up for anniversary!" "And now I lose my job, too!" " No, no, hilda, you haven't lost your job." "Everything's fine!" " I don't know that I will," "I don't think I can work for Mr. Charles no more." " Hilda." "Here." " What's this?" " You know how there's the worm at the bottom of mezcal?" " Da." " It's kind of like that." " Okay." " But what's wrong with Charles?" "I mean, did he say something to make you upset, or?" " He cheating on you." " Oh." "I feel so badly that I not tell you." "I know I should have told you, but." "I saw that nasty tennis boy he play with, Jeremy." " So, now you know." " How long have you known?" " Always." " And you didn't think that maybe it would be a good idea to tell me?" " Listen, I made myself a promise that as soon as I got adjusted to all this," "I was not going to interfere in the path of people's lives." "It just gets too complicated." "And you found out, didn't you?" "What does it matter if it was from me or from her?" " I know, I know, I'm just venting." " Anyway, what do you care?" "You have a date tomorrow, right?" " Look I know all about auctions." "I don't have time for this chit chat." "Just get to the second part." "Ugh!" "Oh, come on!" "Call me when you get your shit together." "I don't have time for this." "Bye." "Jesus." " Girl, get it." " Ugh." " It didn't work, by the way." "I think I'm a hopeless case." " Told you the first time I met you, you were a hopeless case." "What didn't work?" " The rose quartz." "I ran into the jogger." "Well, I didn't run into, I went to a place where I knew he would be, and we sat and talked, i mean we chatted, and" "I was uncharacteristically flirtatious." "And we set a date." "And he stood me up." " Did you happen to mention the partner?" " My partner?" " Yes." " I mean, yeah, i think it, it came up." " Well, and I guess you thought he'd be all too happy to break up a home and be there to pick up the pieces." " Why do you gotta put it like that?" " You mean the truth?" "Look, a few little pearls of wisdom." "First, you don't wanna be with somebody that's going to break up a home." "What's that saying about their conscience?" "That's a little bit of a problem." "And, second, you have to be open to all possibilities." "And, I sold the shop." " You what?" " Developers have been after me for a long time." "They offered me a ton of money." "I took it." " What are you gonna do?" " I'm moving to Italy." " Really?" " The greeks have Hades, christians have heaven," "I've got venice." "It's my life after life." "And I've got something for you." "This is lapis lazuli, and it's for truth." " I think I've had about all the truth I can handle." " Well, it's also good for menstrual cramps." " Thank you." " And I have something else for you." "This has been very good to me." "And you're starting a new chapter, yes?" "This'll help ground you." "Oh, but." "I mean, I can't take this, you're about to go on a, like-  no, I want you to have this." "It's been good to me, and I know where my next chapter is." "That one's for you." "And this chapter, is on me." " Gerald!" " Hey." " Hey." "So this is you, huh?" " Uh, yeah, yeah." " I pass by it every morning." "Hey, um, so..." "I'm sorry I bailed on you the other night." "It's nothing personal." "The truth is, I just go some unresolved feelings for my ex." "And I think there's a chance we might get back together, you know?" "And you've got a lot to think about, too." "Huh?" " Yeah, yeah, I do." "Hey listen, I need to get back inside, but" "I'll see you around?" " Yeah." " Alright." " Hi." " Hi." " The flight was awful." "You know, we got delayed on the runway for eons after landing." "Are you ready for dinner?" "I just want to change clothes first." " I didn't know what to get you." " What?" " For our anniversary." " You didn't have to get me anything." " Tell me about the first night we spent together." " What?" " Tell me about the first night we spent together." " We talked." "Talking was the main component." " What did we talk about?" " What is this?" " Is it too much to ask that you romanticize our first night together?" " How about we leave and go to dinner and romanticize there, we have a reservation." " Have you been listening to anything I've said?" " Yes, I'm listening." "I think you're a little drunk." " No, I am 100% sober, I assure you." " What is that?" "What's in your glass?" " Something I don't need for this conversation." " Wait, is that a rock?" " It's lapis lazuli." "It promotes truth and wisdom." "I've been seeing this jeweler, and she has-  right, because modern medicine isn't good enough for you." "You'd rather go some place where they don't take insurance." " We're not a good fit, Charles." " Excuse me?" " We are not a good fit." " I'm sorry, is this what we're doing?" "Or are we going to dinner?" " We're just..." "We are so different." "We have different goals, different things that we want out of life." "You are..." "Engulfed by your career, your job is the most important thing." "You back a political party that espouses faith, but really is entirely about hate." "Bibles in one hand, assault rifles in the other." "And I don't know what I am." "But I do know that..." "This is the sorriest excuse for a relationship that I have ever seen." "And if I had had a little bit of perception," "I would have seen that." "We're not a team." "We never have been." "And I wish I could have realized sooner." "Because now I know that you're cheating on me." " That's insane." "Actually, you're insane." "Did one of your little rocks tell you that?" " I know what love is." "I've felt it." "I've seen it, and it's not here." " So what, are you seeing someone else?" " No." "I..." "Nearly, but that's not the point." "These gemstones have taught me so much." "They've taught me that I don't need all of this stuff." "I don't need you." "And I don't need my family, and i don't need my dad's money." "I just want to feel this life." "I want to stop subscribing to things that I don't actually need." " Gerald." "You better listen to yourself." "You're talking crazy, you don't know what you're saying." "What are you going to do?" "You're an unemployed 30 something." "You're not qualified for any real job." "You believe in magic pebbles, and ghosts, and mumbo-jumbo." "You're unwell." "And frankly, all of this trust fund privilege, has done a real number on you." "Living off a father who's never wanted you." " So I think you'll be okay without me." " Yeah." "And I guess I'll be better off without the hush money daddy's been sending me, too." " I think you should leave." " What?" " I think you should leave." " Are you kidding me?" " I own the house, Charles." " And I pay half the mortgage!" "I work here!" " Yes." "And I will be happy to rent downstairs to you at a..." "Greatly increased rate." "Surely you can accept the fact that property values have increased dramatically over the last few years, but." "For tonight, or maybe until we get some papers drawn up," "I think that you should go somewhere else." "Find a hotel." "Maybe check in with Jeremy." "See if you can stay there." "Hey..." "Take him out to dinner." " Well, I'm really glad that you did it." " Me too." " When you were telling me about you and Charles, it was really depressing, and it just really made me sad." "To see you so defeated, and..." "Seemed like, you felt you had no way out, so." "I'm really happy for you, Gerald." " Thank you." "Thank you, I'm happy for me, too." "You know, it's been a weird, sort of whirlwind holiday season, and," "and this is gonna sound really strange, but," "I feel like I owe so much of it to this little bat shit jeweler off of west end, and" "I wish that I could tell her all of this news, but I have no idea where she is, because she sold her shop, packed up all of her stuff, and she just like, vanished." " Are you talking about may?" " Yeah." "Yeah, do you know her?" " Yeah, I do." "I did." " You're kidding." " Mm mm." "No, I'm really sad to hear that she closed up her shop, because going to her was the best retail therapy ever." "She really changed my life." " Hey, did you hear about Gerald?" " What, no." " He took a job in an art gallery." " No!" " Yes, he was working retail, and apparently, he gave up the trust fund, and then broke up with Charles." " Well I bet Charles is happy about that." " Yeah, you think so?" " You know what?" "Come to think of it, i saw Gerald recently." "He was jogging, he looked great." " Yeah, he does look really good." "But he's just always been such a mess." "Always dissatisfied, chronic illnesses." "Whatever." " Hello." " Hey." " Did you just move in?" " Yeah, yeah, I did." " Don't I know you from somewhere?" " Yeah, I don't know, you look familiar to me too." " The art opening." "I was working the art opening that you were at just a couple months ago." "You were crazy about the bruschetta that I made." "Yeah, you came back to the kitchen, and turned up the radio?" " Yeah, yeah, i recognize you now too." "I was so surprised that you'd heard of kreisler." " Heard of him?" "He's the reason that I play piano." "Uh, I guess I'm your new neighbor." "I'm just right up there, so." " Oh." " If I'm ever playing kreisler too loudly, just come knock on my door." " Yeah, I will." " It was nice to see you again." " Yeah, you too."