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W: Feel free to step in any time, John, before we end up hitting each other.

J: I’m just listening to you, observing the way you function. It’s actually very interesting.

W: Great. Well, good for you. I’m so glad we’re interesting for you.

J: So I’m hearing what’s been pushing you apart. What, if anything, is still pulling you together?

W: If anything?

J: Yes. I mean, how, for example, is your sex life?

W: Oh… I’ll let you field that one, Harry.

H: Um, it’s pretty non-existent. I mean, it is non-existent. We tried, though, didn’t we?

W: Yeah, we did.

H: But it didn’t really work.

W: No, it was awful.

J: When you say it didn’t work?

W: It felt embarrassing, really. Like we don’t fit together.

J: I see. Those are quite profound words, don’t you think?

H: Are they?

J: I think so. Don’t you?

H: I think she’s just saying we were all elbows and knees because it had been so long.

W: Exactly. That’s exactly what I was saying.

J: Yes, but that’s not what you said, is it, Wendy? Those aren’t the words you used.

W: No. But it was the image I was trying to describe.

J: OK. So we’ve established that sex isn’t pulling you together, right now. What else is?

W: If anything!

J: If anything.

H: Well, our… um… shared history, I suppose you could call it.

W: Yes. Yes! Twenty-odd years of marriage. That’s not nothing.

J: Odd? Why do you say odd?

W: Oh, no… No, I didn’t mean… I meant ‘about’. Twenty-odd years. About twenty years.

J: OK. If you’re sure that’s what you meant. And is that a reason, do you think?

H: I’m sorry?

J: Just because you’ve been doing something for twenty-oddyears. Would you say that’s a reason to carry on doing it?

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