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    Yes.
    HARRY     Would you like to have dinner?
    Sally looks at him suspiciously
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    HARRY     ( CONT’D )    Just friends.
    SALLY     I thought you didn’t believe men and women could be friends.
    HARRY     When did I say that?
    SALLY     On the ride to New York.
    HARRY     No, no, no, no. I never said that.
(reconsiders)
Yes, that’s right. They can’t be friends …
(figuring this out)
… unless both of them are involved with other people. Then they can. This is an amendment to the earlier rule. If the two people are in relationships, the pressure of possible involvement is lifted.
(thinking this over)
That doesn’t work either. Because what happens then, the person you’re involved withdoesn’t understand why you need to be friends with the person you’re just friends with, like it means something is missing from the relationship and you have to go outside to get it. Then when you say, “No, no, no, it’s not true, nothing is missing from the relationship,” the person you’re involved with then accuses you of being secretly attracted to the person you’re just friends with, which you probably are—I mean, come on, who the hell are we kidding, let’s face it—which brings us back to the earlier rule before the amendment, that men and women can’t be friends. So where does that leave us?
    SALLY     Harry—
    HARRY     What?
    SALLY     Goodbye.
    HARRY     Okay.
    They look at each other. Though they have said goodbye, they are now in that awkward place of still going in the same direction next to each other on the moving sidewalk. After a beat:
    HARRY     ( CONT’D )    I’ll just stop walking, I’ll let you go ahead.
    FADE OUT .
    FADE IN:
    DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE
    Another OLDER COUPLE sitting on a love seat, looking at the CAMERA
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    THIRD MAN     We were married forty years ago. We were married three years. We got a divorce. Then I married Marjorie.
    THIRD WOMAN     But first you lived with Barbara.
    THIRD MAN     Right. Barbara. But I didn’t marry Barbara. I married Marjorie.
    THIRD WOMAN     Then you got a divorce.
    THIRD MAN     Right. Then I married Katie.
    THIRD WOMAN     Another divorce.
    THIRD MAN     Then, a couple of years later at Eddie Callichio’s funeral, I ran into her. I was with some girl I don’t even remember.
    THIRD WOMAN     Roberta.
    THIRD MAN     Right, Roberta. But I couldn’t take my eyes off you.
(beat)
I remember, I snuck over to her and I said—what did I say?
    THIRD WOMAN     You said, “What are you doing after?”
    THIRD MAN     Right. So I ditched Roberta, we go for coffee, a month later we’re married.
    THIRD WOMAN     Thirty-five years to the day after our first marriage.
    FADE OUT .
    EXT. NEW YORK RESTAURANT WITH VIEW—DAY
    IT’S FIVE YEARS LATER .

Sally is sitting at a table with two other women, MARIE and ALICE. Marie is a dark-haired, dark-eyed beauty. Alice is cute and plump, a married lady
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    MARIE     So, I go through his pockets, okay?
    ALICE     Marie, why do you go through his pockets?
    MARIE     You know what I found?
    ALICE     No, what?
    MARIE     They just bought a dining-room table. He andhis wife just went out and spent
$1,600
on a dining-room table.
    ALICE     Where?
    MARIE     The point isn’t where, Alice. The point is, he’s never going to leave her.
    ALICE     So what else is new? You’ve known this for two years.
    MARIE     
(glumly)
    You’re right, you’re right. I know you’re right.
    ALICE