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I needed to discuss it

with you.

You make it sound like

you need my permission.

I don't need your permission.

-I just--

-Is this you quitting?

No.

I don't know.

I mean, maybe...

I can take a leave

-for part of it--

-[sighs]

or maybe we do

long distance for part.

I don't know.

Oh, my God. Right.

'Cause that's what

you guys need

is time apart from each other.

Actually...

What?

So how did

you meet her again?

In the cafeteria.

The cafeteria?

So she works

in our building?

No, her lab has an office

across the street.

She likes the food.

Huh. What do you know

about her?

What kind of question

is that?

I'm--

Are you going out?

She's made it clear

that she just wants friends

in her life right now,

so I'm being her friend,

but...

actually, she's

the first woman

that I've meet since Lisa

that I like, if you care.

No, that's great.

Don't sound so thrilled.

[Ramina]

Tom, salad dressing.

-Who's Tony?

-Don't ask.

It's a whole saga.

-Alice, red or white?

-What? Red, please.

[man]

Four hundred applied.

They accepted 12.

-Wow.

-That's awesome.

We are so thrilled

for you, Ramina.

Thank you.

Well, it's two years

of course work,

metalsmithing, gemology,

computer rendering,

it's everything.

-Wow.

-Wow, that's awesome.

I would like

to propose a toast.

-Don't touch my knobs.

-Don't touch my knobs.

Don't touch my knobs.

He gave this speech

at their wedding where--

-As I was saying.

-All right, all right.

Now, I've known Ramina

for a long time.

And I can tell you stories

of her terrorizing the boys

of our neighborhood.

But I won't.

I'll just say that she has

always been remarkable.

But I look at her now

and she is becoming herself.

She has become an artist.

Well, I like how that sounds.

Say it again.

[all laughing]

Your work is beautiful.

And it makes the people

who are wearing it beautiful.

And, Tom,

you have encouraged her

to do this.

And I am grateful.

I am overjoyed.

-So, cheers.

-Cheers.

-Cheers. Congratulations.

-Cheers.

Oh, and also,

don't touch my knobs.

-Don't touch his knobs.

-There it is.

-Guys.

-Can't help it.

[Mark]

Tom, I hear you had

a victory of your own

at work.

What? No.

It's just something I wrote.

[Clyde]

No. He's being modest.

What was it?

[clears throat] Well,

we're helping formulate

a part of this

land reform bill.

But we've been struggling

for six months

with the Cattle Growers

Association,

-they've been--

-Cattle growers?

Is that the word in English?

You grow cattle?

-That's the technical term.

-Oh.

Yeah. So, anyway,

I finally managed

to frame it in a way

where hopefully

we'll get some traction.

You should've read

this email.

[Sharon]

It was an email?

It was

a very masterful email.

Not email.

Email makes it

sound like emails.

-Correspondence.

-There you go.

It's a set of guidelines

that can be inserted

into the legislation.

I wish I could

still have red wine.

Now suddenly it gives me

a headache.

Oh, I know,

it's the tannins.

I have a friend

who has that.

-Really?

-Yeah.

I cannot drink red wine,

I am completely allergic

-to it.

-Oh, my God.

This friend of ours,

Danny--

If they don't respond,

I swear

I'm gonna dump them

-as clients.

-[Tom] No.

The work goes before

the legislative committee

for discussion

in September.

All of the sudden,

he starts sneezing.

Can't stop.

Goes to the doctor

and the doctor says

he's developing an allergy

to the cats.

-No way.

-I know.

-Developing an allergy?

-Yeah. We don't know.

-That's what he said.

-No, apparently it can happen.

Yeah, sure I'd love

to work on more.

Anybody need a cat?

Or ten? Ten?

I don't buy it.

I don't buy it.

-What don't you buy?

-That you develop allergies.

I mean, maybe

they're dormant, but--

Well, she's a scientist,

she ought to know.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

Well, it depends.

Some you're born with,

some you develop.

Yep. See?

I just hope

I don't develop

an allergy to wine.

That or chocolate.

Kill me now.

[Clyde] Can I get an allergy

to cucumbers,

I hate cucumbers.

No, you can't pick

what you're allergic to.

It was hypothetical.

What if they made us

allergic to things?

-Like cigarettes.

-Or cell phones.

[woman] Or just technology

in general.

You could

just go off the grid.

Well, I know someone

who did that.

-Yeah?

-I would love to do that.

Can you imagine just leaving

everything behind?

-You can't do that anymore.

-I bet you can.

[Ramina] Sounds like being

an immigrant.

[Clyde]

Or like life after divorce.

I bet that some people

just run off to Tasmania.

I'm sorry?

I bet some people

just run off to Tasmania.

Oh. No, not that I met.

Well, what about you?

Where would you go?

I'd go to Mexico.

Mexico is hardly

off the grid.

No. It was when I went.

I went in college

and I almost never came back.

-Like Butch Cassidy.

-That was Bolivia, baby.

And it did not end well.

That's why you

didn't finish CMU?

Yeah,

I dropped out completely.

I changed my name,

everything. Mm-hmm.

Why?

Just sort of happened.

I was on a bus

to Guatemala,

and I got into a conversation

with this girl in Spanish,

and she asked me my name

and I told her

my Spanish name.

-Your Spanish name?

-Like in Spanish class?

I was Marco.

Well, my parents

named me Jennifer,

which doesn't exist

in Spanish,

so my teacher decided

I'd be Consuelo.

That's random, Consuelo?

What was wrong

with Jennifer?

I just hated

the name Jennifer.

Anyway, after we got

off the bus

she invited me to stay

with her and her family.

And then they started

asking me

questions about myself

but by then I was Consuelo.

So, I made her up.

Fun.

-Wow.

-What lying to people

who took you in

on complete trust?

-How long were you traveling?

-Eighteen months.

You went 18 months

as Consuelo?

Mm-hmm.

I love that.

That's amazing.

Well, when I was

finally coming home, I...

I was watching the guy

stamp my passport

and I had this feeling like,

I'm not the person

in that passport anymore.

I'm Consuelo.

[man]

So, Alice is the American name

-for Consuelo?

-Your mother must have been

a little insulted, no?

We weren't exactly close.

So you got home

and told your friends

to start calling you Alice?

Actually, no,

I never went home.

I went to Portland.

You never went home?

[Ramina]

Oh, my goodness.

Wait, so you just

completely left.

Yeah, you know, listen,

I was practically a kid

when I did this.

It was a really

long time ago.

-Sure.

-[man] So I'm sorry,

but you haven't seen

your family since?

Or anyone else you knew?

[woman] Do they have any idea

what happened to you?

No.

[Ramina]

I think it sounds amazing.

[Brad]

Me, too.

That's... Yeah.

-Brave.

-[Ramina laughing]

Cheers, Alice.

[dishes clattering]

[Ramina giggles]

I mean, really, Clyde,

I am impressed.

She is wonderful.

Yeah, I can't say

I exactly knew.

But, yeah.

[Tom]

How is she wonderful?

What do you mean how?

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