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you are very naive.

Oh! Thank you.

Guess you must have really loved him.

He was very wonderful.

Hmm...yeah, I'm sure.

I will forget about it.

Yeah.

Yeah, I have to be honest...

I'm...I'm in two minds,

I feel sorry for you, but I'm also glad

you don't have a boyfriend anymore.

But by pure selfishness.

I have always known

how you felt about me,

and its been flattering.

I fell in love with you,

the first moment I laid eyes on you.

And I thought, you were a movie star.

Honestly, I don't think I will

ever fall in love again.

No! Well it will happen, you need time.

I'll get over this.

I'm not usually a fragile person,

I swear, it just that it took me by surprise.

It really did.

Ah! I guess there's always the risk,

if you get involved with a married man.

That's what my roommate said.

But he just overwhelmed me.

He's incredibly alive and...

very exciting.

Yeah! It's a very imaginative gift, you got.

For a paper letter from Rudolph Valentino.

That is very charming.

I...I thought so.

Yeah.

Maybe, next year, I'll be lucky

enough to get you a love letter

from your favorite actress,

Barbara Stanwyck.

That's sweet.

Maybe Vonnie was heart broken the way

things turned out with the affair,

but Bobby decidedly was not.

He took it upon himself with great pleasure

to try and help her forget of her former lover.

And try she did.

They spent weekends at the beach

and went to the movies almost every night.

I'll be there.

You go right ahead Bill, I trust you.

They visited all the great

movie palaces in Hollywood,

which were grand and beautiful,

and not very expensive.

And as time passed,

Vonnie did start to succumb to

Bobby's charm and loving attention.

And what began originally as

as a casual friendship

blossomed into a genuine romance.

Let's move to New York.

What?

Yeah. What I really would like to say is:

Marry me and lets move to New York.

It'll be great!

We'll get a spot in Greenwich Ville.

I will find work there and I'll spoil you.

Yeah. I think it will be great.

Look, the truth is,

I've got dis-illusioned with the

whole scene out here.

I was like you, I dreamed of a house with

a swimming pool, exiting movie stars,

but really kinda of a boring,

nasty, doggy, dog industry.

Come on, lets get married and we'll

move to New York, it will be great!

Greenwich Village, that's where all

the poets and painters lived, right?

I can't promise we would ever be rich,

but I promise, we'll have each other.

And my brother, Ben, owns a nightclub.

And he has asked me to run it.

I do not know anything about it,

but Ben's a great guy.

And I'm a quick learner.

And at a night club isn't like

working in a drab office.

And even if you had a boyfriend,

you always had feelings for me underneath.

You have.

We'd make a great team in New York.

It sounds exciting, it really does.

Yeah.

Come here.

Phil? What wrong?

You sounded so upset on the telephone.

You want a drink?

No, no thank you.

What's on your mind?

Just let me...

Yeah, sure...sure.

Are you...are you alright?

Why do you ask?

I don't know. Recently, you've been

smoking more and drinking more.

You...you have been actually crotchety at work.

I'm not alright.

I know.

Goodness, I hope...I hope you're not ill.

I need to talk, Bobby...

with somebody I trust.

Yes?

You can certainly talk to me, if you like....

You are family.

Yeah.

Yes, so whats the matter?

I've decided I'm gonna leave my wife.

Oh! Okay...

I've been back and forth about this decision

many times but the conclusion I come to:

I've fallen in love with another woman

and I can't live without her.

Oh! Wow! I'm no expert in this area.

But of course these things do happen.

Not to me, they don't.

I never cheated.

I never looked at another woman in 25 years.

Jesus! You know Karen, she's wonderful!

Yes, she is.

She's wonderful!

Yeah, she is. I agree.

And then a year ago,

this dream, the angel...

dropped outta the sky.

I became hooked.

Well, yeah...

I'm saying, these platitudes, but...

but when it's right, I think you just know it.

I can vouch for that.

Yes, this is right.

Yes.

This is right!

And this woman loves you, I'm assuming?

I believe that she does.

Although I have jerked

her around for a year

telling her that I was going to leave Karen,

then I couldn't and then I would

and then I didn't.

I can't tell her I'm gonna do it again, not...

get her hopes up.

I just have to do it.

Hope she hasn't met someone else.

No, I'm sure if she really loves you...

She is much younger than I am.

So what is age? Nothing really anything

if you are actually in love.

I am so consumed with guilt over Karen,

because she's done nothing to alienate me.

She is bright and cheerful and loyal.

Her sex was always very good.

Oh! Nice...yeah.

But with this other woman, it's fantastic!

That's good. That's fantastic good, but...

I think people go through crises and

with time they come out ok.

I'm sure she will be fine.

Yes.

Yeah.

Terribly well taken.

Terribly.

Christ! She'll have everything I'm worth! Thats...

Well listen, if there's anything

I can do for you...ever...

I just wanted to talk.

Okay.

I've been carrying this knot

around my chest for a long time.

I'm sorry that you have been burdened by that.

You can always talk to me.

Thanks.

Yeah.

So is it true?

Hmm?

Maybe getting a little homesick?

Oh! Yes, I think I needed to move away from Manhattan

to realize what a New Yorker I'm at heart.

Do you mind if I...?

No, no.

This is understandable.

People come out here all the time

decide life's not for them.

You have a girl back in New York?

I'm hoping I will, I do and if it works,

you can take 10% for it.

For what?

For introducing me to Vonnie.

I think she's gonna marry me

and move to Manhattan with me.

Phil Stern could not believe

what he was hearing.

He had worried that Vonnie

had found someone else

but never dreamed it was his nephew.

He had been taken with his secretary

from that first day.

Veronica Sybel.

I have an astroscreen English lit and drama.

And yes, I can type.

He was smitten with her face,

and, she was captivated

by his charm and take charge vitality.

And over the next months,

he over whelmed her,

took risks doing it.

I wanna send fifty roses.

That's right...yes fifty.

Fifty

fifty percent.

Yes, fifty red roses.

And I want the card to read...

Thanks for a fabulous weekend.

I told you you wouldn't get seasick,

with me there.

I love you. Philip.

Yeah, you know what? Make that a hundred.

A hundred red roses.

You are amazing.

No you are.

Oh! Thank you though.

I was in the mood.

Really?

The thought of two of us in some

great village apartments...

Who would have thought when

I first came out here...

I know.

Everybody's lives is so unpredictable.

It's funny,

my Uncle Phil, your former employer,

who is so dynamic and always full of confidence,

actually confided in me.

He's...he's so hopelessly miserable, lately.

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