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the store to get some more.

Wait a second.

I'm on the way out the door.

I just want to tell you

I hope today is better.

And that I love you.

Damn it Jill those are just,

those are words.

They don't mean anything.

[Door closes]

[Man] Not now Jillian.

[Jill]

I want this to be a good day.

Just leave me alone.

I love you.

I think you were right

about a lot of things.

I love you.

I want today to be peaceful.

Damn it Jill, this is worthless.

[Jill] Ben.

[Ben] Now you want to talk?

I'm way out the door Jill.

I just want to say that...

...I hope today is better.

And that I love you.

I want to believe you.

Hey, while I'm at it

I'll pick up that filter.

Is it alright that I have that there?

You going to fall down

if you don't have it there?

Yeah, maybe.

See this woman here with the knitting?

She's a, she's a former Senator, right?

Like a Nobel winner, but

her category is mittens.

So she, she rides... what?

You lost me.

Just got a little too...

Little?

[Kris Little cute, yeah.

[Jeff] I don't know.

What do you have in mind?

[Kris]

Alright, how about that guy?

[Jeff] Tell me about him.

[Kris] He's divorced.

Yeah, yep.

Because she cheated.

No?

No. Oh, he did.

He cheated.

No. What was it?

Alcoholic.

Some substance of some kind.

The illegal kind.

[Kris]

I would think that there's some marriages

that could survive

something like that maybe.

Maybe, but...

Not yours?

Not ours, no.

From her perspective.

I mean everything just flipped, you know.

The guy she thought she married

turned out to be somebody else,

a junkie, and uh...

all the savings, all

the plans, everything resets.

The lights turn on,

and I'm holed up in some hotel across town.

I have to open the store tomorrow.

Not that early, I bet.

No, I'm lucky to have that job.

The sign store job you're lucky to have it?

It's not my fault when it goes wrong.

Yes it is.

[Pigs squealing]

Why do you live in hotels?

I do the books for a group

that owns a few of them.

So it's sort of... a perk.

Right, but why do you choose...

I am starving...

Are you hungry?

You've got to be right?

[Kris] It always just reminds

me of family vacations.

Maybe because of the smell of chlorine

and bleach in the sheets,

the glasses wrapped in plastic.

Yeah...

We would go to this...

there's this place in Vermont

that we would go when we were kids.

It's like a colonial...

In Vermont?

Yeah.

It was historic and there was museums,

but the thing that stood out for

us was that they...

we would stay at this hotel

with an indoor pool,

and it was just the biggest

deal in the world for us.

Because one, it's indoor...

Two, you can swim... What's

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