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Josh shrugs. Silence.

CORNELIA:

You don’t want kids, right?

(Josh hesitates)

Because I don’t.

(they both hesitate)

I’m sorry, I feel so guilty forsaying that. I mean, I did. If we’d

had the magic sexy version and oneday suddenly had a baby... But all

those drugs and shots andmiscarriages -- I don’t want to do itagain and it not to work.

JOSH:

I know.

(beat)

And I like our life as it is.

CORNELIA:

(relieved)

Me too.

JOSH:

I don’t want things to be differentthan they are right now.

CORNELIA:

I know. I mean, if we wanted to takeoff for Paris tomorrow, we could.

JOSH:

Yeah, I mean I think it would be hardto find an affordable fare on such

short notice, but yeah...

CORNELIA:

No, I know and I couldn’t leave work.

6.

JOSH:

If we were going to do it we shouldplan it at least a month in advance.

CORNELIA:

A month is still in the realm of

spontaneity.

JOSH:

No, I know. I mean, the time wespent in Rome, what was that -

CORNELIA:

2006.

JOSH:

(can’t believe it)

It wasn’t 2006.

CORNELIA:

Yeah because I was working with mydad on his dance film.

JOSH:

Rome was eight years ago already?

Sh*t.

CORNELIA:

Yeah, I looked at the picturesrecently and we’re two younger peoplestanding at the Treve Fountain.

JOSH:

We look similar.

CORNELIA:

We look younger.

(pause)

I tried to get you to go to Mexicolast summer -

JOSH:

I needed to finish my documentary.

CORNELIA:

But you didn’t finish it!

They both take a deep breath. Pause.

JOSH:

Well, maybe the point is we have thefreedom. What we do with it isn’t

that important.

Pink (09/30/2013) 77.

CORNELIA:

Marina said they haven’t had sex innearly a year. Fletcher was too

weirded out by the pregnancy.

*

God.

JOSH:

A3 INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT A3

They eat Thai take-out at a table set for two.

B3 INT. KITCHEN. NIGHT B3

They do dishes.

3 INT. JOSH/CORNELIA APT. - BEDROOM, COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN.

NIGHT:

3

Josh, in his boxers, takes off his watch and puts it on thenight table. Cornelia undresses.

They move about in silence, finishing their nighttimeroutines. Only the sounds of footsteps, water running,

clothes coming off and going on, bed squeaks.

Josh lies on his back and shuts his eyes.

Cornelia gets in bed and clicks on her bedside lamp whichlights up nearly everything. Josh places his arm over his

eyes.

JOSH:

What is that, a seventy-five watt?

She looks under the shade.

CORNELIA:

I can’t see, it’s too bright.

JOSH:

It’s too high a wattage.

CORNELIA:

I’ll change it tomorrow.

4 INT. JOSH/CORNELIA APT. - HOME OFFICE. DAY 4

Josh paces back and forth in his home-office. His editor,

Tim, early 30’s, sits at a desk-top attached to a series ofdrives. A tousled scholar, Ira Mandelstam, 50’s, talksgravely on a TV screen.

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