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Kate Walker: [answers phone] Hello, Mum.
Maggie: What are you wearing?
Kate Walker: Purple dungarees.
Maggie: Oh, you're not.
Kate Walker: No, not really. I'm wearing a miniskirt and a boob tube. They're totally back in.
Maggie: Oh, you're just being silly.
[Kate laughs]
Maggie: Now, don't be nervous. Just be yourself.
[peeks out the window watching the bizarre neighbor]
Kate Walker: Yes, thanks for the advice.
Maggie: Oh, listen. I've been thinking about Greece.
Kate Walker: Yeah. Okay. Well, can we talk about that later?
[crosses the street]
Kate Walker: All right. Bye!
Maggie: Bye.
[hangs up phone and continues to watch the neighbor. He waves]
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Kate Walker: I had a lovely time, Harvey, and I like you - I really do. But you know, I don't really do fountains at noon either. I mean, I live in - Well, I live in Wilton Greens, and you live wherever you...
Harvey Shine: I live in White Plains.
Kate Walker: Exactly. And Monday morning, life kicks in, and we're not teenagers. Got a life and our jobs and our family and everything, and I had a lovely time. I won't forget it. Thank you. But...
Harvey Shine: What?
Kate Walker: Well, it's not, you know, real life.
Harvey Shine: It is.
Kate Walker: No, it isn't, Harvey.
Harvey Shine: It is.
Kate Walker: No, it's not, Harvey.
Harvey Shine: No, it is real life. It's real life for me.
Kate Walker: No, no. I know. I know. But it's not just about you, is it? It's about me, as well. You don't know anything about me. Look at me. I mean, it's pathetic. I actually expected you not to show. In fact, I think I actually almost wanted you not to show because it's just sort of easier that way. You know, you just dive in there. You just whoosh anywhere. It's the deep end and I'm not a bloody swimming pool, Harvey, and I'm not - I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do it because it'll hurt. Sometime or other there'll be, you know, it's not working, or I need my space, or whatever it is and it will end, and it will hurt, and I won't do it. I won't do it, and I won't...
[walks away crying]
Adam Astill
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