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yourself.
    TERESA
    I know that work has been slow for him. He’s looking at his options… maybe changing careers paths.
    MARION
    You don’t just change career paths at his age.
    TERESA
    He’s looking at his options.
    MARION
    You are so naive it is unbelievable!
    TERESA
    We will figure it out. Neither of us are concerned about that right now.
    MARION
    Well of course you’re not. Why would you be? Everything is so easy for the two of you, isn’t it? You have no obligations, no responsibilities.
    You don’t have to worry about carpools, or a new refrigerator, or who’s taking whose parent to the doctor. You don’t have to worry about anything. Right now it’s just you and your future. You’ve got the rest of your lives to figure everything out.
    Beat.
    That’s all going to change… you know that, don’t you? This honeymoon of yours will end and eventually you’ll
be dealing with life… just like the rest of us.
    Eventually you’ll be left with the dishes and the mortgage and the passing of the newspaper back and forth in the morning without uttering a single fucking word.
    MARION looks at TERESA.
    If you’re actually going to do this… if the two of you are actually going to insist on breaking this family apart, then you deserve each other… and whatever miserable existence you find yourselves living with.
    TERESA
    I’m not trying to break your family apart.
    MARION
    Well that’s what’s going to happen, isn’t it? You’re going to rip us apart with your bare hands.
    TERESA
    That’s not true—
    MARION
    And if Curtis thinks for one fucking second that he’ll have custody of any kind—
    TERESA
    Curtis is a wonderful father.
    MARION
    Yeah, well, he’s a shitty husband.
    TERESA
    You don’t need to punish him by—
    MARION
    Trust me… if I wanted to punish him I would do a lot worse. This is for Alex.
    TERESA
    Alex loves his father.
    MARION
    And have either of you stopped to consider how he’s going to react to this… how he’s going to react when he learns that his father is leaving… and not just leaving but leaving to be with his teacher?
    TERESA
    Alex and I are close.
    MARION
    You don’t think that will change?
    TERESA
    I know… in time, I think that he’ll… I hope that he’ll come to…
    MARION
    This will destroy Alex.
    TERESA
    I’m prepared to do whatever it takes to make this easy for him.
    MARION
    He isn’t good with other kids.
    TERESA
    Kids?
    MARION
    He’ll be replaced.
    TERESA
    No one is replacing anyone.
    MARION
    And I’m going to be the one who’s going to be picking him up off the floor while the two of you start a new life together.
    TERESA
    He will be a part of that. Alex will be the centre of our lives.
    MARION
    You say that now.
    TERESA
    I promise you.
    MARION
    Curtis always wanted a bigger family.
    TERESA
    Well… he doesn’t. We’ve talked about it.
    MARION
    And now that he’ll have this young trophy wife.
    TERESA
    Stop.
    MARION
    He’ll be so thrilled to start over again with you. You’ll give him everything he always wanted.
    TERESA
    That’s not true.
    MARION
    It is. It is true.
    TERESA
    No. It’s not. He knows I can’t—
    MARION
    You’ll give him the perfect fucking—
    TERESA
    I can’t have children.
    Beat.
    MARION
    What do you mean you can’t? Have you tried or—
    TERESA
    No. I haven’t tried.
    MARION
    So you’ve chosen not to—
    TERESA
    No.
    MARION
    Then how would you—
    TERESA
    Because when my uterus was removed it became pretty fucking clear that I wasn’t going to be having children.
    Beat.
    MARION
    When did—
    TERESA
    You know, I don’t actually want to talk about this with you.
    Beat.
    TERESA walks to her desk, puts on her sweater, and sits.
    MARION watches her.
    Beat.
    MARION
    I wasn’t even thinking about children at your