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briefcase.
    SALLY     What if he came out and saw you looking through his briefcase?
    MARIE     You’re missing the point. I’m telling you what I found.
(beat)
He just spent $120 on a new nightgown for his wife.
(beat)
I don’t think he’s ever going to leave her.
    SALLY     No one thinks he’s ever going to leave her.
    MARIE     You’re right, you’re right. I know you’re right.
    Marie looks up for a moment for a new book, sees something
.
    MARIE     ( CONT’D )    Someone is staring at you in Personal Growth.
    Sally glances over to the Personal Growth section. There’s Harry
.
    SALLY     I know him. You’d like him. He’s married.
    MARIE     Who is he?
    SALLY     Harry Burns. He’s a political consultant.
    MARIE     He’s cute.
    SALLY     You think he’s cute?
    MARIE     How do you know he’s married?
    SALLY     Because the last time I saw him, he was getting married.
    MARIE     When was that?
    SALLY     Six years ago.
    MARIE     So he might not be married anymore.
    SALLY     Also he’s obnoxious.
    MARIE     This is just like in the movies, remember, like
The Lady Vanishes
, where she says to him, “You are the most obnoxious man I have ever met”—
    SALLY     
(correcting her)
    —“the most contemptible”—
    MARIE     And then they fall madly in love.
    SALLY     Also, he never remembers me.
    HARRY     Sally Albright—
    SALLY     Hi, Harry—
    HARRY     I thought it was you.
    SALLY     It is. This is Marie …
    Marie is exiting down the stairs. She waves goodbye
.
    SALLY     ( CONT’D )    …
was
Marie.
    Sally turns back to Harry
.
    HARRY     How are you?
    SALLY     Fine.
    HARRY     How’s Joe?
    SALLY     Fine. I hear he’s fine.
    HARRY     You’re not with Joe anymore?
    SALLY     We just broke up.
    HARRY     Oh, I’m sorry. That’s too bad.
    SALLY     Yeah, well, you know. Yeah.
(beat)
So, what about you?
    HARRY     I’m fine.
    SALLY     How’s married life?
    HARRY     Not so good. I’m getting a divorce.
    SALLY     Oh, I’m sorry. I’m really sorry.
    HARRY     Yeah. Well. What are you going to do? What happened with you guys?
    CUT TO :
    INT. RESTAURANT—DAY

Sally and Harry having a glass of wine
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    SALLY     When Joe and I started seeing each other, we wanted exactly the same thing. We wanted to live together, but we didn’t want to get married because every time anyone we knew got married, it ruined their relationship. They practically never had sex again. It’s true, it’s one of the secrets no one ever tells you. I would sit around with my girlfriends who have kids—well, actually, my one girlfriend who has kids, Alice—and she would complain about how she and Gary never did it anymore. She didn’t even complain about it, now that I think about it. She just said it matter-of-factly. She said they were up all night, they were both exhausted all the time, the kids just took every sexual impulse they had out of them. And Joe and I used to talk about it, and we’d say we were so lucky to have this wonderful relationship, we can have sex on the kitchen floor and not worry about the kids walking in, we can fly off to Rome on a moment’s notice. And then one day I was taking Alice’s little girl for the afternoon because I’dpromised to take her to the circus, and we were in a cab playing “I Spy”—I spy a mailbox, I