EARLY EVENING. YONGE AND EGLINTON.
two friends sit down in the empty restaurant. she asks about his book. it's a thesis about firedancers in Thailand. it's about the eroticiziation of male dancers and the intersection of art and labor in tourist economies. how are you? / yes, i'm moving back to the east coast / but what about the New York status game? / everyone is too busy going dancing and on unsuccessful first dates all the time / ah, like the rest of the east coast / yes / i've been seeing someone and it's easy. with her i don't have to play any games / my heart / falling in love is a temporary delusion—if you had a clear-eyed view on the statistics you'd never do it / but that's how any relationship starts, including the ones which last / sometimes i forget that there's another 50% to the 50% divorce rate / do you think that we're running out of time? / yes / i've been reading Public Universal Friend—here, read this story, right here, it's about modern love, i promise it's worth it / it was / are you even a dog person? / no, i didn't know that i wanted a big idiot dog until i read this and now i've been thinking about it for a week straight / what's it like to be religious? / i think it staves off the existential dread / remember how we were both religious? / all of our friends are now making irreversible life decisions and all you can do is stand by and love them and hope it works out / you met my ex—we all went to a poetry slam together? / oh, him. yeah, he was ... / wait, why doesn't anyone tell you that your exes suck? / because when you're happy, we're happy for you / oh. / you had too much personality for him / yeah, he's going to end up dating a cute bay area product manager and they're going to live happily ever after / my friend is twenty-six and has a baby / my friend is getting married and moving across the country to buy a house in a small town in New Brunswick he's never visited / this is now an episode of Normal Gossip / i've been at this startup for four years now / i like how you stay / my teammate used to ghost me and then i corrected him in a meeting and he asks my opinion now / i wrote a speech for my best friend's wedding and it's the best speech i'm ever going to write. i could only do this for her / i was crying in front of my computer this week / do you go to therapy? / no, but sometimes i sit down and write 10,000 words on a weeknight, does that count, it's the same thing / this is all incredibly relatable / i know / we were so bright-eyed at 22 / remember when we sat in the Chatime and i was telling you about my obsession with divorce / i hate that there are no guarantees in life; you can do everything right and still be heartbroken at 45 / do you have life insurance? / perfect memory has a lot of downsides; when you send texts they stay forever / my friend deletes all of her texting history every seven days / hello, this is last call, would you two like to order anything else? / let me know if you ever figure out how to be a well-adjusted human being / you can be safe or you can take every risk / we're examples of what happen to kids who grow up without safety nets / but we ended up here, and it is perfect
EXT. ON THE STREET, CLOSING TIME. (WINDY)
this was so good / it was / i adore you / don't give into the existential dread
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