Breakable You Page #4

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Gotta love Uncle Paul.

Still out there, slugging away

for the working man.

Do you have that cute dress

that you got in Spain

with the red flowers?

Yeah.

Oh, nice.

ELEANOR:
It sounds like you're

the one with the hot date.

Not with the professor,

I hope.

No, I got out

of that mess.

Yeah. I've, uh, moved on

to greener pastures.

- Great.

- Yeah.

Who's the lucky guy?

I don't know.

He never speaks,

and he doesn't smile.

And he might

not show up tonight.

But you can't

have everything.

[LAUGHS]

[]

Look out, mama

Better get yourself

Over that hill

Come on, lace 'em up...

Thank you.

Thank you.

You got no insurance...

Oh. Manhattan clam chowder.

It's my favorite.

[SIGHS]

I'm sorry, Maud.

I don't mean

to be so unfriendly.

But I shouldn't be here.

I don't think I'd be

a suitable partner

for anyone right now.

Who said anything

about partners?

I think it would be nice if

we could just get through soup.

[SCOFFS]

That's a fine ambition.

- Let's try to get through soup.

- Great.

How was the rest

of your day, Samuel?

Well, it's... It isn't "Samuel,"

actually. It's Samir.

Samir. That's...

Wow, that's beautiful.

Yeah, my parents

are from Lebanon.

I was born

and raised in Seattle.

So why is it

that a fetching,

young Lebaneser like yourself

doesn't wanna partner up?

You a lonesome cowboy type?

Or did some psycho

ex-girlfriend

burn your house down?

What's the...?

I was married

for eight years.

No sh*t. Wow.

Ooh, the plot thickens.

Why didn't it work out?

Things don't always

work out in life.

Was it a horrible secret?

It's not a secret.

But it is horrible.

I'm sorry. I should not

have been so glib.

I'm very sorry. I'm sorry.

It's all right.

There's still

a lot of soup left. Ha.

I had no idea.

No idea.

[EASY-LISTENING

MUSIC PLAYING]

I'm stunned.

No, we-we acted as

if everything was fine

until Maggie

went to college.

And after I settled her

into her dorm,

the last thing

she said to me:

"Dad, thanks for

bringing me to school.

Now you and Mom can stop

pretending you're married."

[BOTH CHUCKLING]

They don't miss a thing.

They don't.

But, honestly, the marriage

had been dying for years.

The passion just...

Just drifted away.

That's so sad.

You know, the truth...

The truth, it set us both free.

You guys seemed

so indestructible.

- Like the teamsters.

- [BOTH CHUCKLING]

Well, that's exactly what

I thought about you and Adam.

Now I'm moving on to my exciting

future as a single old woman.

Oh, don't say that.

Don't say that.

You are an extraordinary

woman, Eleanor.

The world is gonna

open up for you

in ways that

you can't even imagine.

I don't know that I agree

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