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SABRINA: REALLY?!!!!!!!!

RORY: No, he doesn’t.

SABRINA: Tris????

TRISTAN: I don’t. But Tabi can still suck it.

JONATHAN: Who do you know in Midway?

TRISTAN: That’s where Sherilyn’s from. Jonathan, your wedding is the fifth of July?

JONATHAN: Sure is. You gonna come? Bring your lady?

TRISTAN: She’s not my lady.

SABRINA: Yet…

JONATHAN: You gonna come to the wedding?!

TRISTAN: I don’t know yet. Still trying to work out if I should take the biggest leap of my life.

TABI: Do I need to do it for you? Come on, man. Take it from a serial leaper – you don’t always end up where you think you will but it’s always better than where you started.

BEN: Quite poignant, Tabitha. And I wholeheartedly agree, being on the other side of said leap.

SABRINA: LEAP! Do it! Come to Chicago!

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FOUR MONTHS AGO

Fitzpatrick& Doyle IM service

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: You still there??

Sherilyn Boden: Good evening to you too.

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: It’s nine o’clock Friday night. What are you still doing at work?

Sherilyn Boden: It’s two a.m. Saturday morning. What are you still doing at work?

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: I’m trying to clear some loose ends before the weekend.

Sherilyn Boden: It’s the weekend already.

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: Ah, yes. Well, I’m done now. Going to take a taxi home to sleep.

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: Why aren’t you out having fun?

Sherilyn Boden: I guess I’m just a sad and lonely girl in a big city.

Sherilyn Boden: BTW That’s a song, not me.

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: So, you’re actually a happy and social girl in a small town?

Sherilyn Boden: Ha-ha. That kinda described me when I was growing up.

Tristan Fawcett-Underwood: Are your school friends still back in Midway?

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