Love After Love

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[rewinding beat]

[crashing wave melody]

[bell tolling]

[tolling continues]

What was the question?

[laughing]

Um..

I mean, what's happy?

Really, I mean, it's..

...so arbitrary.

I... I'm... I'm..

Look, we had a fight

so I'm not, like,

"Oh..

...I'm happy."

But I'm happy.

I like Rebecca.

She feels like family.

Sometimes I feel like

she validates

how I feel

about the world.

I think she's smart

and that makes me

feel smart.

But..

...sometimes it feels..

[sighs]

...it's all too clean.

You know?

But I'm happy.

[sighs]

Are you?

[chuckles]

Sometimes I'm happy.

Can't always be happy.

That's true.

What makes you happy?

I just love my kids,

you know.

I do.

Seeing you,

I wanna see you..

...you know, I wanna see

you happy and fulfilled.

Just love my boys.

What can I say?

And your dad's

pretty good in bed too.

[chuckles]

[instrumental music]

[indistinct chatter]

I need you to teach me this.

Nah. I've got a blanket

for you.

I could do that part.

There we go.

[indistinct chatter]

Alright, thank you.

Guys, this is Paul,

he's an old friend.

This is Alex, and Graham.

- Really old.

- I'm sorry.

- This is John.

- Hey, welcome, my friend.

[music continues]

No, check that out.

Hey.

You hiding out?

I thought I had an hour.

You had it.

[indistinct chatter]

John.

- Nice to meet you.

- Hi.

Hi. Emilie.

[Emilie laughing]

Thank you so much.

[indistinct chatter]

- You mad at me?

- No.

Are you mad at me?

- I just wanna finish this.

- Okay.

Are you mad at me?

Oh, my God,

you're intolerable.

[music continues]

I love you, old man.

Uh, I love you more than

all the other old men.

[indistinct chatter]

Can I ask you something?

Does he, um, does he do soliloquies

when he's going down on you?

What are you asking?

She's f***ing

what's-his-face

the Duke of Athens

over here.

- I did not say that! He's a freshman.

- And?

- I don't tolerate freshmen.

- Since when?

- You want wine?

- Glenn, Glenn, when do you start?

- Sorry?

- When do you actually start?

Immediately. I'll be

up there on Monday.

- Wow.

- Wow.

- Will you commute?

- If my wife has her way.

Glenn's afraid

that his marriage is over.

- I'm not laughing.

- Uh, I'm taking this.

- See, this is his thing.

- Yes!

What's my thing?

Before you do something selfish,

you, like, broadcast it.

You think

it makes it okay.

We're in love, so we're

allowed to say mean things

to each other, I guess.

You're showing me tits.

There're these pictures

I made.

- You've got tits?

- Look.

It's fine.

- You know, it's getting dark.

- Okay.

Should probably

get 'em home.

When are you going

to grow up?

Did you have any?

Have it, it's good.

[laughing]

Quit now, James.

So now he's affectionate.

[exhales]

She'd run

the other designer off.

- That's not true.

- Yes, it is.

Glenn, it's not true.

She took another job.

She went to,

I don't know where.

UT, I think.

She resigned.

Yeah, she resigned. Her

assistant was f***ing her boss

What else

is she gonna do?

- No, it's not.

- So, what, it's true?

- Oh, my God. Chris.

- It's true.

No, no, it's not.

I went out with him once.

One time.

I was an idiot.

I thought that, you know

he was being professional.

When she came along, I couldn't

sign the papers fast enough.

- Oh, how romantic.

- You..

You would've been

on marriage, what?

Your marriage number two?

Wait, wasn't that

your, uh, open marriage?

Yeah, she was a swinger!

- No, I wasn't!

- That's what she said. Is that not what she said?

Being in an open marriage is not

the same thing as being a swinger.

Close enough!

Three marriages.

[indistinct chatter]

- Pear?

- I don't like pears.

No, these are,

um, poached pears.

They're not normal.

Great.

- Do you know what poached pears are?

- Yes.

Try one.

- What?

- Nothing. Go ahead.

- I, I'm just offering them pears.

- I see that.

"All days are nights

to see..

"...till I see thee.

"And nights bright days when

dreams do show thee me.

"When most I wink, then

do mine eyes best see..

"...for all the day..

...they view things

unrespected."

- Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Beautiful, Glenn.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

One more time, dad.

[laughing]

Leave him alone.

[laughs]

[instrumental music]

Stop it.

I'll bust your butt.

- Come on, then.

- Don't think I won't.

- Okay.

- That sounds terrible, Glenn.

Yeah, he fell asleep

in the bath.

I don't feel anything.

- I just can't talk.

- Is that true?

Let's go.

- That's the only way he can get any rest.

- Stop it.

[instrumental music]

Hey. Thanks.

- Hi.

- I've been circling for half an hour.

I didn't see you.

I tried calling.

You didn't pick up.

I, I don't have my phone.

Well, you could've

just parked and come in.

Well, you said you were

gonna wait outside.

[Rebecca sighs]

It's good to see you too.

[chuckles]

- Okay.

- Lift him up.

Alright, there you go.

There you go.

- That's it, dad.

- Okay.

[groaning]

One, two, three.

Ah!

[groaning]

Glenn, this is so

you can breathe easier.

I want you to try and

breathe through your nose.

Okay, hold on.

Here you go.

It's okay, it's okay. This

is gonna help you breathe.

It's alright.

- I'll get them.

- Okay, sweetie.

Here we go.

If you can lift

after this. Just wait.

- One second.

- Alright. Hold on.

Okay, now.

Watch his head.

Okay, back.

Really gentle.

There we go.

Good job, honey.

- It's almost done.

- There you go.

We're not gonna..

There you go.

It's okay, sweetheart.

[groaning continues]

[Suzanne sighs]

[birds chirping]

Do you want me to get you

up or do you wanna sleep?

Mm..

You asked me

to get you up.

Just five more minutes.

I came here

to support you

but it feels like

you don't want me around.

[sighs]

- You can't answer me?

- I'm, I'm sleeping.

[Rebecca scoffs]

Okay, we've got him here.

Okay, just give me

a second, please.

- Alright.

- Okay.

Back him up just a bit.

Please, just a bit.

Just a bit.

There you go.

- Are you alright? Is that good?

- Yeah.

There we are. Okay.

- Alright.

- Okay, you can sit him down.

[Glenn groaning]

- There.

- We shouldn't be in here.

- It's okay.

- He's embarrassed.

He's just sitting there.

It's humiliating.

Let's just wait. Just...

- Suzanne?

- Oh, thank you.

- Wait, he's falling.

- Hang on.

There we are. It's okay.

There we go.

Hold on. There you go.

Alright.

Here we are.

I think that's it, okay?

[Nicholas groans]

- Alright. You ready?

- Come back up.

[indistinct chatter on TV]

[engines revving]

...a ride around

the back roads.

We always had stuff. They

had an ice cream place.

They hadn't had that

before they'd come home.

They liked to talk with

us, and we'd walk.

When you'd go away

and let them go away

and have a good time.

[breathing heavily]

- Oh, wait, wait.

- What?

I'm gonna, I'm gonna

cum if we keep going.

Cum. Cum. I want you to.

You don't wanna finish?

[breathing heavily]

Oh! Oh!

[breathing heavily]

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