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    Why can’t you find someone single? When I was single, I knew lots of nice, single men. There must be someone. Sally found someone.
    MARIE     Sally got the last good one.
    SALLY     
(matter-of-factly)
    Joe and I broke up.
    ALICE     What?
    MARIE     When?
    SALLY     Monday.
    ALICE     You waited three days to tell us?
    MARIE     You mean Joe’s available?
    ALICE     For God’s sake, Marie—don’t you have any feelings about this? She’s obviously upset.
    SALLY     I’m not that upset. We’ve been growing apart for quite a while.
    MARIE     
(horrified)
    But you guys were a couple. You had someone to go places with. You had a date on national holidays.
    SALLY     I said to myself, you deserve more than this, you’re thirty-one years old—
    MARIE     —and the clock is ticking.
    SALLY     No, the clock doesn’t really start to tick until you’re thirty-six.
    ALICE     God. You’re in such great shape.
    SALLY     Well, I’ve had a few days to get used to it, and I feel okay.
    MARIE     Good. Then you’re ready.
    Marie takes her Rolodex out of her satchel and starts to look through it
.
    ALICE     
(aghast)
    Really, Marie.
    MARIE     Well, how else do you think you do it?
    She flips through the Rolodex and pulls out a card
.
    MARIE     ( CONT’D )    I’ve got the perfect guy. I don’t happen to find him attractive, but you might.
(to Alice, indicating Sally)
She doesn’t have a problem with chins.
    SALLY     Marie, I’m not ready yet.
    MARIE     But you just said you were over him.
    SALLY     I am over him. But I am in a mourning period.
(beat)
Who is it?
    MARIE     Alex Anderson.
    SALLY     You fixed me up with him six years ago.
    MARIE     Sorry …
    SALLY     God.
    MARIE     
(pulls another card)
    All right, wait. Here—here we go. Ken Darman.
    SALLY     He’s been married for over a year.
    MARIE     Really? Married.
    Marie takes Ken Darman’s Rolodex card and dog-ears a corner of it
and places it in a section at the back of the box. Then she pulls out another card
.
    MARIE     ( CONT’D )    Oh wait, wait, wait, I got one.
    SALLY     Look, there is no point in my going out with someone I might really like if I met him at the right time but who right now has no chance of being anything to me but a transitional man.
    MARIE     Okay. But don’t wait too long. Remember what happened to David Warsaw? His wife left him, and everyone said, give him some time, don’t move in too fast.
Six months later he was dead
.
    SALLY     What are you saying? I should get married to someone right away in case he’s about to die?
    ALICE     At least you can say you were married.
    MARIE     I’m saying that the right man for you might be out there right now and if you don’t grab him, someone else will, and you’ll have to spend the rest of your life knowing that someone else is married to your husband.
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    EXT. GIANTS STADIUM—DAY

A wave is in progress. It sweeps around the stadium and passes by Harry and his friend JESS, sitting in the second deck surrounded by Giants fans. It’s fall, they’re both wearing jeans and windbreakers
.
    Harry is very despondent
.
    JESS     When did this happen?
    HARRY     Friday, Helen comes home from work, and she says, “I don’t know if I want to be married anymore.” Like it’s the institution, you know, like