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Anna: Nope! Ooh, how about that one time when you were at a coffee shop before a job

interview...
Tailor: Please stop.

Anna: ...and you accidentally spilled coffee all over that one guy in the suit...
Tailor: (angrier and more serious now) Seriously.

Anna: ...and it turned out to be the guy who you were interviewing for! Man, you definitely

didn’t deserve the job after that disaster. Did you get the job, doc?
Tailor: No...

Anna: And whose fault was that?
(A pause)

Tailor: Mine...

Anna: Great job! You’re certainly catching on well.
(Anna shuffles through more papers. They pull out another one.)

Anna: Ah, here’s a good one. Guess what it’s about?
Tailor: I really don’t want to.

Anna: Oh come one! Just guess.
Tailor: I don’t know. When I ran off-stage crying during the kindergarten play and the kids

called me sobbing Tailor for the rest of the year?

Anna: Mmmmm, nope! Guess again.
Tailor: When I walked in on grandma changing? And saw... everything.

(Tailor shudders at the thought of her naked grandma.)
Anna: Still nope!

Tailor: Okay, I’m not going to keep playing these games. Either tell me or leave.

Anna: Too bad I won’t be going anywhere.
(A knock on the door. Tailor looks at the door, startled.)

Anna: Ooh, a visitor! I wonder how you’ll mess this one up.
Tailor: Shut up.

(Tailor frantically wipes her eyes.)

Tailor: Come in!
(Tailor’s husband, Mike, enters. He is carrying two lunch bags.)

Mike: Hey hun, I brought you lunch.
(Tailor is disinterested, focusing only on her thoughts.)

Tailor: Oh, okay.
(Mike sets the lunch bags on the table. He doesn’t appear to notice Anna.)

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